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Image: Blue background with an angular human head graphic and a web of binary numbers. A image of Karen Hao sits in the foreground to the right side of the image. Text reads: Inside the Empire of AI with Karen Hao. Thursday, September 17th at 7 pm via Zoom. Join a timely conversation with Karen Hao, award-winning journalist and author of Inside the Empire of AI. In this virtual event, Hao will explore the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the social, political, and ethical questions surrounding AI development today, and the questions posed in her work – Will AI produce broad-based societal benefit for all? Or return us to an age of empire? The path forward is in our hands. Whether you’re excited about AI, cautious about it, or just trying to understand the hype, this event offers an accessible look at one of today’s biggest technological shifts. There will NOT be an in-person viewing of the stream at the Jacksonville Public Library. To register to view via Zoom at home, please contact the Jacksonville Public Library at 217-243-5435. 201 W College Ave | www.jaxpl.org | 217-243-5435. This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events.

Inside the Empire of AI with Karen Hao (Zoom Event)

Join a timely conversation with Karen Hao, award-winning journalist and author of Inside the Empire of AI. In this virtual event, Hao will explore the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the social, political, and ethical questions surrounding AI development today, and the questions posed in her work – Will AI produce broad-based societal benefit for all? Or return us to an age of empire? The path forward is in our hands.

Thursday, September 17th at 7 pm via Zoom. Please call the Jacksonville Public Library at 217-243-5435 to register!

Image: yellow to green background with an image of the "A Minecraft Movie" poster. Text reads: Interactive Movie - Saturday, September 19 at 2 PM. Join in the adventure by following along with our script as you watch! Props and popcorn provided! Rated PG.

Interactive Movie: A Minecraft Movie

Not your typical movie! Don’t just sit and watch; sing, dance, and scream along with our interactive script. Props and popcorn provided.

Rated PG for violence/action, language, suggestive/rude humor and some scary images.

Image: bright green background with a black filigree boarder and a photograph of Two Fiddles in the center of the flyer. Text reads: Music Under the Dome. Two Fiddles. Sunday, September 20th at 4 pm at the Jacksonville Public Library under the rotunda.

Music Under the Dome – Two Fiddles

Join us in Sunday, September 20th at 4 pm to kick off the new season of Music Under the Dome at the Jacksonville Public Library! Our first performers are Two Fiddles!

Two Fiddles is a duo of classically trained musicians inspired by a mix of Celtic, jazz, and American folk traditions. Their music blends strong melodies, rich harmonies, and a little improvisation into their variety of arrangements using a combination of piano and fiddle, two fiddles, and four-hand piano.

Image: gray background with black and white butterflies and dragonflies, black drawings of flowers in the lower left and upper right corners. A drawing of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret to the left of the image and a drawing of three dimensional scrolling sculpture in the center of the image. Text reads: How Do I Love Thee? An Evening with Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. September 23rd @ 7:00pm. Admission is free! A bedridden invalid for much of her life, forbidden to marry by her Victorian father, already past the age at which a woman was considered a spinster, Elizabeth Barrett would have had little hope or prospects of marriage. But when some of her poetry caught the eye of her younger fellow-poet Robert Browning, he was immediately smitten. Never one to shrink in the face of impossible odds, Robert not only met and wooed Elizabeth but eventually convinced her to elope with him to Italy. The story of this fascinating courtship is the subject of this evening's two-person presentation, featuring Sherri Mitchell and Robert Seufert.

How Do I Love Thee? An evening with Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

A bedridden invalid for much of her life, forbidden to marry by her Victorian father, already past the age at which a woman was considered a spinster, Elizabeth Barrett would have had little hope or prospects of marriage. But when some of her poetry caught the eye of her younger fellow-poet Robert Browning, he was immediately smitten. Never one to shrink in the face of impossible odds, Robert not only met and wooed Elizabeth but eventually convinced her to elope with him to Italy. The story of this fascinating courtship is the subject of this evening’s two-person presentation, featuring Sherri Mitchell and Robert Seufert.

Image: the cover for "Over in a River Flowing Out to the Sea" by Marianne Berkes and Illustrated by Jill Durbin. Text reads: Over in a River Flowing Out to the Sea by Marianne Berkes and Illustrated by Jill Durbin

The Jacksonville Story Walk

Visit the Bob Freesen YMCA to read a story while walking along a 1 mile trail.

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