Monday Essentials: Garden Club Gathers; See 'Wizard'; Hear History of Lace

Here are some things to know about this week, Nov. 18-24, in and around Barrington:

Relive the ultimate survival of the fittest movie of 2012, The Hunger Games, shown in the Barrington library auditorium at 6 pm.  You can prepare yourself for the next movie installment of Suzanne Collin's trilogy, Catching Fire, which debuts in theaters on Friday. There is a door prize: Two movie passes for the Showcase Cinema.

The Barrington Garden Club meets at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 19,  in the Barrington library with a session on Seasonal Flower Arranging. Semia Dunne, owner of Flowers by Seminia in Providence, will show how easy it is to create seasonal floral arrangements of any size by making one small-scale design in a compote and one large arrangement. She often harvests flower from her own 20-acre family farm in Lincoln, RI.

Also on Tuesday, the Barrington library will offer a free two-hour writing workshop that explores our relationship with food. From 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Dorothy Abram, a playwright and professor at Johnson and Wales University, and playwright Kate Lohman will present “Food, as in Freedom! Writing From the Source of Our Humanity.” Register at the Reference Desk or online. It’s sponsored by the Friends of Barrington Public Library.

Barrington High School theater club students present "The Wizard of Oz" starting on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 pm in the John Gray Auditorium at the high school. The Stagemasters production continues on Friday, Nov. 22, at 7 pm and on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 2 pm. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for adults.

The Barrington Preservation Society brings curator Madelyn Shaw to the Barrington library auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 pm to tell the fashion history of lace. Barrington was the home of the RI Lace Works factory. Shaw is an independent curator and author who was the curator of costumes and textiles at the RISD Museum. She is the author of several publications, and her work has won numerous awards.

The Barrington Baptist Church, 25 Old County Road, hosts a fundraiser for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 2 pm. Enjoy Authentic Philippine food and dessert. Monetary donations of any amount will be accepted, with all donations going directly to The Children’s Shelter of Cebu in Cebu City, the Philippines.