Wiggle Worms Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Babies & Toddlers
Central Library
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Library Location: Central Library
Room: Children's Program Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytimes & Playgroups
Event Details:

Join us each week for a quiet and sensory friendly storytime for babies and toddlers who are not yet walking. Siblings welcome!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Tiny Tots Sensory Fun

10:30am - 11:15am
Babies & Toddlers
East Forest Park Branch
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Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytimes & Playgroups
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Bring your little ones for some sensory fun and let us worry about cleaning up the mess!

Every other Thursday we will offer an array of toddler friendly sensory activities to work on motor skills. Aimed at toddlers, but siblings welcome.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Circle Time Fun

10:30am - 11:30am
Babies & Toddlers
Sixteen Acres Branch
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Library Location: Sixteen Acres Branch
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytimes & Playgroups
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Join us for songs, rhymes and a story or two at Circle Time Fun.

Come join us for education fun and learning at a librarian facilitated playgroup!  An adult must accompany and consistently supervise children.  No registration required, just drop in. Birth to 5 years, siblings welcome. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Tom Knight Musical Puppet Show "Library Boogie"

11:00am - 12:00pm
Babies & Toddlers, Children
Sixteen Acres Branch
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Library Location: Sixteen Acres Branch
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Children
Program Type: Performances
Event Details:

Move and groove with Tom Knight, in this fun, interactive puppet show about all things library! Tom will have you out of your seat and rockin' away, and humming tunes long after you've gone home. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Black Authors Book Club

12:00pm - 1:30pm
Adults
Online
At Capacity
Registration
Virtual Event
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Library Location: Online
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups & Reading
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Please join us online via Zoom once a month to discuss a book of your choice by any Black author in the assigned genre for that month. Reading is a powerful tool - this virtual reading club is an opportunity for understanding and unity.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Optional

Registration for this event is encouraged, but optional.

Reservation

Tech a Break

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Brightwood Branch
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Location: Brightwood Branch
Room: BW Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

The purpose of this meeting is to provide basic computer skills training to learners who have taken our digital literacy skills classes.

Job Corps Information Table

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Teens, Adults
East Springfield Branch
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Library Location: East Springfield Branch
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Work & Careers
Event Details:

Stop by to learn about Job Corps. Job Corps is a free residential and job training program that helps both young adults as well as adults 25 years and older who have a disability to gain employment.

Not Your Ordinary Coloring Club

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Indian Orchard Branch
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Library Location: Indian Orchard Branch
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
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Want to hang out with other artists? Join our Not Your Ordinary Coloring Club. 

We supply the artist-quality crayons, pencils and pens and coloring pages, to spark your creativity. Just drop by The Homework Center and color your stress away. For tweens and teens. 

STCC Information Table

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults
Central Library
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Library Location: Central Library
Room: Rotunda
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Work & Careers
Event Details:

Stop by to learn about free job training and adult education classes offered by Springfield Technical Community College. 

Free classes include 

Sew Fun! Drop-In

2:00pm - 5:00pm
Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
East Forest Park Branch
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Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: Makerspace
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Drop-in for our weekly studio session. From sewing a button or hemming pants, to following a pattern to construct a garment using a sewing machine, our sewing volunteer can help you get started!

Discover Domino Makers Club!

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Children, Tweens, Teens
Forest Park Branch
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Library Location: Forest Park Branch
Room: FP Community Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Join us to build and create with Dominoes! This program is open to kids in grades 2nd-8th and will teach kids some basic domino-building skills, as well as give them an opportunity to build on their own!

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Optional

Registration for this event is encouraged, but optional.

Recycle Mania in the Library

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Teens
Central Library
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Library Location: Central Library
Room: Teen Area
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Come to the Central Branch Teen Room for an afternoon of recycling art! We'll provide the old books, and the instructions to make crafts and blackout poetry from their pages! For Teens 12-18.

Ice Cream Social: Adult Summer Reading Club Kickoff

5:30pm - 7:00pm
Adults
Mason Square Branch
At Capacity
Registration
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Library Location: Mason Square Branch
Room: Mason Square Branch
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Events, Book Groups & Reading
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Join us for an Ice Cream Social for Adults to kick off the 2024 Summer Reading Club! Have a sundae from Friendly's, and enjoy a librarian performing a storytime for grown folks.