Teen Zone Blog!

End of summer fun!! Bring your friends, and come and get your “Rock Band” on with an afternoon of fun and food!
        
Hang out, eat some food, and challenge other teens (and PPLD Teen Services staff!) on Rock Band, Guitar Hero and DDR! The event runs from 12-5:30pm on Saturday, August1 in the Carnegie Reading Room at the Penrose Library.

Come anytime and stay as long as you want. No sign-ups required.

The Missoula Children’s Theatre, the nation’s largest touring children’s theatre, will offer these free workshops for children this summer at Pikes Peak Library District. They are funded by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. Registration is required; call 684-9342 or register online through the links below. July 21, 4:30 p.m. at Ute Pass Branch, 8010 Severy Road in Cascade Chameleon Improv (Children entering grades 3-12) Learn to act without a script. This workshop is for young actors of all levels. Registration is limited to 60 participants. Register by clicking here. July 22, 4 p.m. at Sand Creek Branch, 1821 S. Academy Blvd.
Mime Your Own Business (Children entering grades 9-12)
Learn the art of mime by exploring mime techniques and performance. Registration is limited to 30 participants. Register by clicking here. July 23, 4:30 p.m. at Ute Pass Branch, 8010 Severy Road in Cascade
Let’s Make Up (Children entering grades 1-12)
This participatory workshop teaches students of all ages corrective, old age, and fantasy make-up. Registration is limited to 60 participants. Register by clicking here.

David Lubar, popular author of The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies and many other books, will be making two appearances in the area. No registration is required for these free programs, which are sponsored by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund.

• Monday, June 29, 5 – 7 p.m. Lubar will participate in a meet and great mixer at Ute Pass Branch (8010 Severy Ave. in Cascade). The Ute Pass Friends of the Library will provide a picnic dinner.
• Tuesday, June 30, 2 p.m. Lubar will speak, followed by a book signing and discussion in the East Teen Center at East Library (5550 N. Union Blvd.).

Here’s a few more sites to check out:

YOUR FUTURE
Student Jobs
Summer Job Hunt
What Do You Like

BOREDOM RELIEF
Bicycle Tutor
Ian’s Shoelace Site

ISSUES
SafeTeens

Middle and high school musicians, want to get out of the garage and rock in front of a crowd? Would you like your performance to be broadcast on The Library Channel (Comcast 17)? Then PPLD’s End of Summer Blowout Concert is for you. Submit two songs on CD or tape, along with a completed application, by 5 p.m. on June 17 to Sandy Hancock at Penrose Library (20 N. Cascade Ave.). You may be one of six bands selected by the Penrose Teen Advisory Committee to play on August 1 at Chapel Hills Mall. The concert will run from 3 – 7 p.m. Check out the application for more details.

Check out the new links scattered throughout the Teen Zone!

BOREDOM RELIEF
Game FAQs
Gamespot
Anime Cafe

ISSUES
How Tattoos Work
Tattoos and Permanant Makeup

HOMEWORK
Gradesaver
Mathway
New York Times Learning Network
Infoplease Homework Help
The Best Notes

May 2 is National Free Comic Book Day. Pikes Peak Library Distrcit will partner with Bargain Comics to hand out free special edition comic books at the library.

Pick up a free book, and explore careers in the arts. A local comic book artist will also join us for a drawing workshop. The following events will be held at East Library (5550 N. Union Blvd.) in the community meeting room.

11 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Pick up free comic books.

Noon – 2 p.m.: Art Career Fair with the Bemis School of Art, a web designer, architects, landscape architects, civil engineers, art teachers, a cartoonist, an interior designer, and a web designer.

2 – 3 p.m.: A manga and graphic novel drawing workshop with local published author and illustrator E. Winfield (work at right), author of If You Want to be a Pirate.

On Friday the 13th of March, from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., the Old Colorado City Branch Library (2418 W. Pikes Peak Ave.) will host a Technophobic Teen Lock-In.

Enter at your own risk! The doors are locked when the branch closes at 6 p.m. sharp, beginning a lock-in that will feature:

• Online gaming
• Playstation/Wii
• Techo jewelry making
• Online video posting/production/editing
• Texting contest (Bring your own phone)
• Movie: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
• Enter to win an MP3 player by completing Five Freaky Things
  (Entry forms available at Old Colorado City Library)
• Food and door prizes!

Teens in grades 6 – 12 must have a parent or guardian complete a signed permission slip, which is available at the Old Colorado City Branch. The form must be received by Wednesday, March 11 to attend. There is limited space available, so please register ASAP. Call 634-1698 for more information.

Born too late? Want to hear what you missed? You’ll find a treasure trove of live performances at Wolfgang’s Vault! There are literally hundreds of digitally remastered, commercial-free, live concerts – all streaming for free! From AC/DC to ZZ Top, if you love classic rock, you’ll find shows here that you can’t find anywhere else!