Manatee Library May Newsletter 🌺

FREE Small Business Resources at the Library
May 1-7 is Small Business Week, and your local Manatee Library has essential services that can help aspiring entrepreneurs and small businesses grow to their highest potential. We provide meeting rooms that are equipped with whiteboards and screens for collaboration or presentations. We provide you access to databases that can help you write business plans, run reports on the local demographics, and read articles on success stories. On our Small Business Resource page, you can find ways to connect with local entities that can assist you such as SCORE that offers business mentoring and workshops.

Teen AnimeCon
Sat., May 28 from 14 pm
Calling all anime fans! Join us for an afternoon of anime events, including origami classes, cosplay, fan art, prizes, and a manga-style drawing class.
Event Link »

More Teen Programs

Anime Club |May 7, 11am-1pm
Rocky Bluff Branch
Make Your Own Comic Book
May 7, 11am-1pm
Palmetto Branch

Podcast Club | May 3, 5-7pm
Palmetto Branch

The CanTEENa | May 10, 6-7pm
South Manatee Branch
Stretch & Destress | May 21, 1pm
Palmetto Library

Visit our program calendar for more Tween & Teen programming.

American Seoul - Virtual Author Event with Helena Rho
Wed., June 29, 2-3pm
To celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Month, we are excited to (virtually) host author Helena Rho at our Island Branch to discuss her debut memoir, American Seoul.

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path.

Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery.

In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.