Tomorrow, on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, thousands of students across the country are once again expected to rally against violence in an event called the National School Walkout, the third student-led protest since the Feb. 14 deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

The walkout is intended to commemorate the events on April 20, 1999, when two armed teenagers entered the Columbine school and in a shooting spree killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 20 others. The shooters then killed themselves.

The teenage organizers of tomorrow’s National School Walkout hope to continue the current groundswell of students demanding common-sense gun reform. According to the organizers’ website, the walkout begins at 10 a.m. in each time zone, when students will head outside, observe 13 seconds of silence to honor the 13 people killed at Columbine High School, and then leave school property. 

“This is a problem that needs to be addressed longer than 17 minutes,” Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut, one of tomorrow’s organizers, recently told ABC News. She was referring to the first school walkout, on March 14, when students observed 17 minutes of silence in memory of the 17 victims of Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. 

“Leaving and breaking up that schedule that all American students have every day is how you get people to pay attention,” Lane said.

In what some said was a surprise, however, Columbine High School administrators have pushed back against tomorrow’s walkout, reminding students in Colorado and across the country that the Columbine community has turned April 20 into a day of service, not protest.

At East Hampton High School, Adam Fine, the principal, said yesterday that students had not mentioned a protest and were expected in classes all day. At the Ross School in East Hampton, a survey generated by a student was emailed to students asking them to weigh in on participation, and requesting that those participating wear orange to show support for this particular walkout. 

In Montauk, a community event organized by the Montauk Community Church and St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church is planned for after-school hours, with Montauk residents encouraged to meet at 4:30 p.m. and walk to the hamlet’s gazebo. “Let’s come together for this important conversation,” a poster says.

More than 2,000 schools are registered to participate, with at least one in every state and several globally, according to the National School Walkout organizers.

“I am [name redacted], one more immigrant in this great nation. Do you want to know my story? Okay, I’ll tell you.”

It is a harrowing story of a young boy who must say goodbye to his father as he leaves his country with his mother to make a covert crossing into the United States. 

“Son, and What If I Don’t See You Again?” and 14 other equally wrenching stories, all written anonymously by students at Central Islip and Patchogue-Medford High Schools, form “Brave Journeys,” an anthology of first-person narratives of teenagers leaving home — usually a country in Central America — and crossing mountains and rivers, by bus, train, car, and on foot, often alone and always scared. 

Herstory, a writers workshop and publisher dedicated to bringing unheard voices to the public’s attention, released “Brave Journeys” last month.

Erika Duncan, an essayist, novelist, and Sag Harbor resident, founded Herstory in 1996 as a weekly workshop at the Southampton Cultural Center to help women turn their private stories into gripping ones. Two decades later, the organization has grown into an Islandwide endeavor that, through grants from various foundations as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, has published a library of books and a prototype manual and DVD tutorial that details the workshop techniques. 

The stories in “Brave Journeys” originated during an English language learners class in Central Islip High School, where Dafny Irizarry, an E.L.L. teacher in the district for 24 years, first met all but two of the students featured in the book. It was December 2016, and the group of young people had recently made their harrowing crossings into the U.S. Their pain was acutely visible, the teacher said.

“Since it was almost Christmas, I asked them to write about something that they were grateful for,” said Ms. Irizarry, who is the founder and director of the Long Island Latino Teachers Association and previously served on the Herstory board of directors. Unanimously, the students wrote about the joy of being reunited in America with a parent or loved one, she said. 

“We needed to give them a voice,” Ms. Irizarry told Ms. Duncan, although they recognized that anonymity would be necessary to protect either the children’s undocumented status or that of their families. With Helen Dorado Alessi, a Herstory-trained facilitator and translator, a weekly workshop was formed during Ms. Irizarry’s lunch period for those students whose schedules facilitated participation. During a dozen or so sessions, the stories took shape.

“Without doubt,” Ms. Irizarry writes in the epilogue of “Brave Journeys,” which will soon be available at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, “this was my most meaningful project of the year.”

According to the International Organization for Migration, the number of migrants who died near the U.S. and Mexico border rose in 2017, as 412 migrant deaths were recorded, up from 398 a year earlier. Sixteen migrant deaths have already been recorded in the area so far in 2018.

“These are stories that moved and troubled us,” Ms. Duncan said of the 15 young authors featured in the book, “told by brave heroes who are being villainized today.” 

Their modern-day odysseys, printed in English and Spanish, serve as stark reminders of the astonishing courage and strength of many immigrant children and the exploitation of the business of border crossings, and as an indictment of immigration policy.

Here is an excerpt from “I Had to Do It,” written by a girl who left her country to be reunited with her mother, whom she had not seen in 12 years: 

“When I was 15 years old, I decided to come to the United States, because of the problems in my country and because I wished to have a better life. On the way, I suffered a lot. I never imagined it would be so hard. I walked a lot, barely ate, and suffered cold. I slept in the mountains, drank water from a puddle, which disgusted me, but if I wanted to quench my thirst, I had to do it. The only thing that gave me strength was the thought that soon I’d be with my mother.”

Many of the stories highlight painful partings with grandparents who are often the only parents these young children have known while their mothers and fathers live and work in America. Here, in “A Longed-For Reunion,” a young girl contemplates crossing the Rio Grande, which she must do the next day:

“When I’d think about having to cross the river, I’d get very scared because I’d heard that in that river many people have died. . . . ‘Run! The soldiers are coming!’ We ran out to hide. At the time, I had on sandals and couldn’t run well, so I took them off and kept running. But I felt stinging because there were thorns, but I continued until we found a place where we could hide. . . . When we got back, I began to pull out the thorns but there were so many and they hurt. A while later, the time to cross the river had come.”

Central Islip High School has been an ardent supporter and promoter of the “Brave Journeys” book, Ms. Duncan said, and Patchogue-Medford recently ordered 60 copies to use in its pre-Advanced Placement classes. But her dream, she said, “is to have the book in every high school in Long Island.” Maybe even colleges, and nationwide. 

“These children are living heroes,” Ms. Duncan said, and as such she believes that American students should be reading these stories alongside those about heroes from the Civil War and other historical events.

Indeed, in an era of hardened immigration policies, which sparked Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, to say that “the Statue of Liberty must have tears in her eyes,” these stories can serve as a reminder to young people of a country’s shared heritage as a nation of immigrants. 

From “When the Heart and the Mind Don’t Agree,” story number 13 in the book: “That’s how I came to say ‘goodbye’ to great parts of my life. The day I left my country I realized our souls are made of glass — as I looked at my country’s streets one last time, I could hear inside how my soul and heart shattered to pieces.”

With some students in nearby schools choosing to sit out Friday's National School Walkout against gun violence, those at the Ross School in East Hampton decided it was necessary to keep the momentum going and make renewed demands for gun safety in schools. This was the second nationally organized school walkout in about five weeks, and over 2,500 schools nationwide were said to have participated on Friday, which marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.

"Having a space where people can feel protected and not in danger is important in order for a community to function well," said Caleb Wright, a ninth grader at the Ross High School, who was one of the main organizers of the event. "And seeing that school is where children spend most of their time, it should be a priority to make that space as secure and comfortable as possible."

Assisting him were his fellow students Caly Stewart, Ellie Damiecki, Greer Costello, Emma Tiedemann, Isabella Hosey, and Evvy Rattray. Together, they created an event for 7th through 12th graders on the Goodfriend Drive campus that was part walkout and part consciousness-building.

It began at 8:30 a.m. with schoolwide, hourlong relevant discussions led by each grade's cultural history teacher, after which students were given the option to participate in the march or return to their regular classes. Those marching met back in the main building, where they signed petitions and made posters. A voter registration table was set up for eligible students.

A guided meditation followed, led by Cathy Yun, the dean of wellness. Joe Kugelmass, an English teacher, then offered a short workshop intended to create a roadmap for successful conversations about gun control, instead of simply taking sides and talking past each other, the teacher said.

At around 10 a.m. about 60 middle and high schoolers then marched for 17 minutes through the wooded pathways that cut through the sprawling campus.

Every single seventh grader, the youngest class on the upper campus, had signed up to march, Caleb wrote in an email. "I was shocked and moved," he said.

The Ross middle and high school student body is made up of day students and boarders from more than 25 countries. With many dressed in orange -- the color that is now synonymous with gun protests -- they marched through the woods chanting "Stop gun violence!" and "Ban guns now!" A moment of silence was observed.

One Chinese 10th grader carried a sign with the name Peter Wang on it, in remembrance of the 15-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, a Chinese-American, who was shot while helping classmates escape the gunman who attacked their school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. In recognition of his heroic act, Peter was posthumously accepted to his dream school, the United States Military Academy at West Point.

In contrast to the March 14 national walkout, in which students generally walked out and observed 17 minutes of silence -- one minute for each person killed at the Florida school -- many students were urged by the organizers of yesterday's National School Walkout to leave for the rest of the day's classes. Breaking up the school schedule, they believe, is necessary to get people's attention.

In Washington Square Park in Manhattan, students gathered and held a "die in" -- a protest in which participants lie down as if they were dead -- to demand action on gun reform.

Students across the country were not exactly unified on this walkout, especially since Columbine teachers and officials have pushed back against the protest, asking students to treat the day as one of service and not just a day to walk out.

At Marjory Stoneman Douglas, some of the students worked on acts of assistance on campus instead of actually walking out, the school's principal tweeted yesterday.

But at the Ross School, it was a single-minded show of solidarity with the national movement. According to Bill O'Hearn, the head of the high school, many of the student organizers were middle schoolers, and as several educators have pointed out in the current wave of teenage activism, organizing a walkout such as this is also helping to build the skills students will need to continue grassroots advocacy.

Unlike many schools that had warned students that they would be cited with an unexcused absence on their records for participating in yesterday's walkout, Ross students were granted excused absences. 

Stages Actors Stage “13”

Stages, a Children’s Theatre Workshop, will present three performances of “13,” a musical about being 13, at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor this weekend. 

The musical premiered on Broadway in 2008 and was the first Broadway show performed by an all-teenage cast. Stages’ production, directed by Helene Leonard, features 22 young actors in a high-energy, coming-of-age musical for anyone who is 13, has been 13, or will be 13.

Performances will be on Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.

STEAM, Tween, and Teen 

Children ages 5 to 8 can participate in a STEAM-based project on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Amagansett Library. Using science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics, kids will learn how to create a wall hanging with paint on fabric, and using vegetables and fruits as stamps. 

The tween book club for third through sixth graders will meet on Tuesday from 4 to 4:45 p.m. to read their first book, “Wish Tree,” by Katherine Applegate. Each month a new book will be selected.

The teen advisory group’s monthly brainstorming session will be held on Friday, April 20, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Pizza will be served.

Spring Planting at CMEE

Families with kids of all ages can join educators from the Children’s Museum of the East End and representatives from Amber Waves Farm between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday to plant seeds that will later be transplanted in the museum’s outdoor classroom and garden. There’s a mural growing in the museum’s lobby and families with kids have been invited to stop by on Saturday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to use mixed materials and create beautiful paper flowers that will be added to the mural. Both programs are free with museum admission.

Workshops and Crafts in East Hampton

Kids ages 5 and up will learn how to make colorful play dough at home on Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

On Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m., children ages 4 and up can take part in a hands-on class to create a sculpture made entirely from fabric. 

Sixth through eighth graders can stop by next Thursday at 4 p.m. to transform an ordinary pen into a blossoming flower.

Advance registration is requested for all programs. 

Dog Tales, Trivia, and Monet 

Wally, a dog who loves listening to kids read, will be back at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon. The session is intended for kids ages 4 and older.

High school trivia night is Saturday at 6. Teens can compete in teams of three to five players. The winning team will receive prizes and everyone gets free pizza. 

On Sunday, children ages 5 to 9 will create garden-inspired paintings from 2 to 3 p.m. using the famous “Garden at Giverny” by Claude Monet as a template. All events are free but advance registration is required.

Books and Poetry in Bridgehampton

A special story time on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will wrap up national library week and kick off the library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. Poetry month will be celebrated next Thursday from 4 to 5 p.m. for kids ages 7 to 12. On Friday, April 20, children 4 and older can make butterfly feeders in a workshop at 4 p.m. 

Shark Tauk

Kids ages 8 and up can join Greg Metzger Saturday from 2 to 3:15 p.m. at the Montauk Library for an interactive program about the white shark research he conducts along the South Shore of Long Island. Children will learn basic shark biology, as well as have an opportunity to fill out research data sheets, and experience what it feels like to reel in a shark. Registration is required as the program is limited to 15 children. 

Seahorse, Amphibians, and Birds at SoFo

On Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, children ages 3 to 5 can stop by for a reading of Eric Carle’s “Mister Seahorse.” After the story, children will make a colorful craft and get to feed the museum’s seahorses. There is a $3 materials fee per child.

Families with children of all ages will be introduced to some of SoFo’s native amphibians, such as the endangered eastern tiger salamander, the gray tree frog, the red-spotted newt, and Fowler’s toad, on Saturday between 1 and 2 p.m. 

On Sunday at 10:30 a.m., kids ages 8 and up will learn about birds including the special features that allow them to fly and survive. Participants will receive a fill-in booklet to take home with all information covered during the program. There will be a materials fee of $3 per child.

Advance registration with the museum is required for all programs, as space is limited.

East Hampton

E.H.H.S.

East Hampton High School’s annual job fair will be held next Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The middle school’s sixth-grade dance, with sixth graders from Amagansett, is scheduled for Friday, April 20, from 7 to 9 p.m.

There will be a school board meeting on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

Sag Harbor

Pierson

The work of seven young artists enrolled in Pierson High School’s International Baccalaureate program will be showcased today in an exhibition in the Pierson lobby from 6 to 7 p.m.

On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. the Sag Harbor School Board will meet in the Pierson library. 

The Notebook

Amagansett School

An Amagansett School Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

Hayground

Bruce Wolosoff, an acclaimed composer and pianist, will commence his music residency at the Hayground School on April 27. Mr. Wolosoff, whose has been called “an authentic American voice,” has been composing music in response to visual art. During his music residency at Hayground he plans to work with paintings by a local artists, including Eric Fischl, April Gornik, and Margaret Garrett, all of whom have agreed to attend working rehearsals with the students.

Hayground’s artists-in-residence program invites professional artists, writers, and musicians to share their craft in immersive workshops that challenge the students to think, create, and perform as working artists.

Ross School

All parent-teacher conferences will be held tomorrow between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Child care will be available in the Field House on the lower campus in Bridgehampton. Upper school conferences will be held in the Center for Well-Being on Goodfriend Drive in East Hampton.

Springs

Springs sixth graders in Katherine Farmer’s and Raymond Wojtusiak’s social studies classes celebrated the completion of their unit on Greece by holding a Greek celebration. Students immersed themselves in Greek culture by using Greek terms, dressing in traditional attire, and learning how to dance the Zorba. In addition, students tasted traditional foods such as Greek salad, grapes, pita bread with tzatziki sauce, and Greek yogurt with honey and cinnamon.

Dylan Scalia, a fourth grader, was a finalist in the Create a Character contest, organized by StoryWorks magazine and judged by Nora Raleigh Baskin, an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Dylan was one of 75 finalists selected out of 2,000 entrants.

The PTA-sponsored spring book fair will be held Monday through next Thursday. Throughout the week, students will visit the book fair with their classes. Parents and caregivers can attend during a family night next Thursday from 6:30 to 8.

Amy Van Scoyoc, the daughter of Peter Van Scoyoc, the East Hampton Town supervisor, and Marilyn Van Scoyoc, a retired band director at East Hampton High School, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to further her research into the effects of land use and development on Lyme disease. 

She will receive three years of financial support with a $34,000 annual stipend and a yearly $12,000 cost-of-education allowance that will be awarded to the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a Ph.D. student at the Brashares Laboratory of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. 

According to the National Science Foundation’s website, the financial award is granted “for graduate study that leads to a research-based master’s or doctoral degree in a STEM field.”

Ms. Van Scoyoc graduated from East Hampton High School in 2009 as the class valedictorian and attended Dartmouth College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in ecology. She then worked in the environmental nonprofit sector for about five years before returning to academia last year, joining the five-to-six-year doctoral program at Berkeley.

“I guess my family has always had close ties to our community, and my research interests have developed out of the issues our town grapples with and the interconnectedness of human and ecological systems,” she said of the research the fellowship grant will allow her to conduct over the next three years.

“I am proposing to quantify tick success and Lyme prevalence by looking at fine-scale host animal movement and interaction with fences, buildings, and other infrastructure,” she wrote in an email to The Star. “Basically, areas with infrastructure that concentrates host movement could be increasing local tick success, increasing Lyme prevalence; conversely, infrastructure could be lowering tick density due to increased animal transport of ticks out of constricted areas and depositing them into resting regions.”

Deepening this knowledge of how infrastructure influences the movement of animals that are tick hosts and the subsequent spread of disease will help scientists anticipate the effects of changing land use on Lyme disease dynamics and, in turn, how that affects people, she said.

Ms. Van Scoyoc was one of 2,000 awardees of this year’s fellowship, selected from more than 12,000 applicants from across the United States and its territories.

Administrators at the Ross School announced on Friday that the school will move its pre-nursery-through-sixth-grade program to its East Hampton campus on Goodfriend Drive for the 2018-19 school year, closing its lower school campus in Bridgehampton. 

“We are about to embark on the next exciting phase of our history as we fully embrace the original intent of our visionary founder Courtney Ross to be ‘one school,’ ” said an email to parents on Friday from Andi O’Hearn, Ross’s chief of student advancement, Bill O’Hearn, the head of high school, and Jeanette Tyndall, head of the lower and middle school.

Ross took over the Butter Lane, Bridgehampton, campus — once home to the Hampton Day School and later to the Morriss Center School — at the start of the 2006-7 school year after the smaller Morriss Center merged with Ross. The merger allowed Ross to expand down, adding kindergarten through third grade. Prekindergarten and early childhood programs followed. 

In 2008, the school began enrolling boarding students; by 2013, they made up 40 percent of the student population. 

In the letter to parents, the administrators outlined the benefits of the move, saying it will allow younger students to interact with the school’s international boarding students without the transportation costs now involved, make for smoother drop-offs and pickups for parents with students in the upper and lower grades, and “allow us to leverage our resources and better plan for the long-term sustainability of Ross School.”

What will become of the Bridgehampton campus is unclear, and administrators had not returned calls as of press time.

The school was founded in 1991 for a single class of just three fifth-graders, including Ms. Ross’s daughter, Nicole. Each year it added a new grade to accommodate its initial students. It became coed in 1997. According to the school’s website, Ross now has 420 students, including boarding students from 20 countries. 

The transition to a single campus will take place over the summer. Next year, Ross’s pre-nursery, nursery, and prekindergarten will be housed in the lower level of the Ross Tennis Center. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade will have classes in the same building as the middle school students. 

Ms. Tyndall will offer lower school parents tours of the upper school campus and the middle school building tomorrow at 9 and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and will meet with and answer questions from eighth-grade and high school parents that day at 4 p.m. along with Mr. O’Hearn.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton will hold an open house on Monday at 6 p.m. to discuss its prekindergarten programs for 3 and 4-year-olds and its toddler programs. 

The center offers a full-day pre-K program, available to children who will turn 4 by Dec. 1. Registration and tours for prospective families will be offered by appointment from Tuesday through Friday, April 20, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Meanwhile, the East Hampton School District, which has sent its pre-K students to the Whitmore Center for many years, is gearing up to register prekindergartners for its own full-day program at the John M. Marshall Elementary School. Registration for that program will begin May 14 and run through May 25. 

Only children who turn 4 by Dec. 1 and who are East Hampton School District residents will be eligible.To schedule an appointment, parents have been asked to call the John M. Marshall Elementary School or visit the district office on Long Lane, before Friday, April 20.

Registration will be exclusively by appointment and available during weekdays only.

The second in an East Hampton Star series on school budgets for 2018-19 focuses on the Amagansett School District, which has classes from prekindergarten through sixth grade.

The Amagansett budget, adopted by the school board last week, is about $10.7 million and reflects a $73,421 increase over this year’s. Of that, $72,000 is earmarked for anticipated security measures and improvements at the school, according to Eleanor Tritt, the district superintendent, who will retire as of June 30.

“We worked hard to hold the line and maintain all our services and programs for the kids without any increases,” she said in her office on Friday, adding that the school will maintain the tax levy below the cap. “The only real increase for something new in our budget is the $72,000 for security,” she said.

The specifics of those measures are not known yet, she continued. “We are reviewing what we want and might need. We are meeting with technology experts, other superintendents and districts, security companies, looking at upgrades to our existing system and installing new technology.” 

Ms. Tritt stressed that security is “pretty good” right now, but she felt that it was incumbent upon the school to explore ways to improve it and have the money ready to do so. “To ensure the safety of our children is our number-one concern,” she said.

One of the biggest decreases in the budget is about $250,000 less allocated for tuition students, that is, for students who graduate from Amagansett and attend East Hampton or other schools, as well as children with special education needs. Every year those numbers change, Ms. Tritt said, and this year they were able to budget for fewer children. Those savings, however, are almost entirely negated by a $240,000 increase in employee health benefits and insurance, a sharp rise that many school districts are having to absorb. The exact insurance rates will not be finalized until January of next year.

Staffing changes, with employees retiring and leaving, also allowed the school to allocate just under $31,000 less toward administrative salaries next year. No jobs were cut, Ms. Tritt emphasized.

Although the projected enrollment for next year is 90, which is four fewer students than this year, she pointed out that those numbers often change during the late summer, when families make a final decision about relocating and whether to join the school district.

Some noteworthy additions to curricular programs include “more creativity” in the arts offerings, Ms. Tritt said. Students will also see the return of Shakespeare to the curriculum, something that has been absent for the last few years. The study of a Shakespearean play will culminate in a schoolwide production. A hydroponic garden will also be instituted, enabling children to learn how to grow herbs and vegetables, which will be donated to the St. Michael’s senior citizens housing complex in the hamlet.

When district voters head to the polls on May 15, they will be asked to consider two additional items. The first involves dipping into a 2007 technology reserve fund for approximately $100,000 to cover the cost for upgrades of smartboards, laptops, and the phone system. Some of that money will also go toward updating the technology of the school’s security system. The other item requiring voter approval is the use of approximately $100,000 from a 2015 capital reserve fund for the purchase of a new school bus.

“I hope people will look at the budget and see that we keep providing all the services even as times change,” said Ms. Tritt, “and that we have been very responsible. The proof is in the pudding, as our kids do very well in the world after a strong foundation here.”

As for finding a new superintendent to take the helm before the beginning of the next school year, the search is underway. On Tuesday, a consultant spent the day at the school, from 8:15 a.m. to 8 p.m., conducting a focus group with parents, community members, teachers, administrators, and members of the police and fire departments. 

The superintendent has urged parents and residents to contact her should they need a detailed explanation of the budget. “It can be very confusing, and I’m always here to sit down with anyone and go over it,” she said.

For Budding Biologists

A book talk for future biologists ages 6 and up will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Sarah B. Pomeroy, a professor of classics, will share her illustrated book about Meria Sibylla Merian, a natural historian and artist who found and painted the flora and fauna of Indonesia in the 17th century. A Spanish translation of the reading will also be included, as well as an exhibition of reproductions of Ms. Merian’s work, and a book signing. The event is co-sponsored by the South Fork Natural History Museum and will include coffee and refreshments.

Movies, Duct Tape, Seeds

A screening of Disney Pixar’s “Brave” is scheduled for tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Amagansett Library. Free snacks and family togetherness are in store while children watch this exciting adventure of heroism and true bravery.

Children ages 9 to 12 can stop by on Saturday at 4 p.m. to make their own duct tape zipper pouch.

A special story time for 3 and 4-year-olds is planned for Wednesday from 3 to 4 p.m. Youngsters will get to plant seeds and sing songs after listening to a story.

Toes, Reptiles, Butterflies, Oh My!

Tomorrow from 2 to 3 p.m. at the East Hampton Library, kids ages 4 and up will have the chance to learn about being environmentally conscious and make their own reusable tote bag decorated with recycled items such as beads, buttons, and bottle caps.

Kindergartners through sixth graders can stop by Tuesday at 4 p.m. to meet some of the East End’s native reptiles and amphibians. Kids will learn about their habitats and how the creatures find food to survive the winter.

High schoolers can earn community service hours on Tuesday between 4 and 5 p.m. by designing a do-it-yourself project for the library’s young adult room.

A butterfly-theme story time and craft activity will be held Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for kids 4 to 6.

Sixth through eighth graders can design colorful braided bracelets made from old T-shirts next Thursday from 4 to 5 p.m. Materials will be provided.

Compiling the ideal college list will be the subject of a discussion for high school students and their parents or guardians next Thursday at 6 p.m. Julie Raynor Gross, a college admissions expert, will lead the presentation and a question-and-answer session will follow on topics such as college visits, identifying which colleges are realistic and those which might be a stretch, and how to make a decision on choosing which college to attend. Registration is required.

Tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., kids ages 7 and up can construct circuits that will light up, sound off, and power an accessory. This program incorporates science, technology, engineering, and math, making the science behind electronics easy and fun to learn.

Advance registration is requested for all programs. 

Makers in Sag 

A middle school makers club will kick off Saturday at 2 p.m. at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Every Saturday in April, students in sixth through eighth grades can engage in hands-on creative art and technology projects. This month, the library says, kids will use Makey Makey invention kits to “build a keyboard out of bananas and connect other everyday objects to computer programs.” 

Advance registration is required.

Still Life in Montauk

Children in kindergarten and up can stop by the Montauk Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. to learn about a time when women were not supposed to be artists. Participants will celebrate the bold women who broke that barrier and became some of the most famous artists today. Then, they can create their own colorful still-life painting to take home. Registration is required as space is limited.

SoFo’s Shark Story

Children ages 6 and up will get an introduction to South Fork Natural History Museum’s shark research and education program on Saturday at 1 p.m. 

Greg Metzger, the chief field coordinator of the program, and Tobey Curtis, the lead scientist and fisheries manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will educate children and adults about SoFo’s new shark science endeavor, launched in January, a collaboration of scientists, educators, and fishermen for the conservation and sustainability of several shark species that inhabit nearby waters.

Kids Community Peace Chorus

Third to sixth graders who would like to get together, sing, talk, write songs, and eat pizza are invited to join a new kids community peace chorus beginning Thursday, April 19, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

The peace chorus will be led by Nancy Remkus, a retired teacher from the Sag Harbor Elementary School and a registered music therapist, in an effort to help kids express their feelings through music and for them to spread peaceful messages through song.

Parents of children interested in participating have been asked to contact Ms. Remkus at 631-725-3938 or by email at [email protected]. The first meeting will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse of the South Fork, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. The event is nondenominational.