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10:30am - 11:30am
Babies & Toddlers
Mason Square Branch
Library Location: Mason Square Branch
Room: Mason Square Branch
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytimes & Playgroups
Event Details:

Join Miss Brandi in the children's area for a fun, guitar-led music playgroup with singing, dancing, musical games, and instrument exploration. Through October 23rd in place of Gross motor playgroup.

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.

Job Corps Information Table

11:00am - 2:00pm
Teens, Adults
Mason Square Branch
Library Location: Mason Square 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.

Knot Just Knitters

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Sixteen Acres Branch
Library Location: Sixteen Acres Branch
Room: SA Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Whether you knit, crochet, cross-stitch, or crewel, these groups are the place for you.

New members are welcome, and current members are often willing to share their skills. Some yarn and needles can be provided, but donations are always welcome.

Makerspace Collaboratory Drop-In

2:00pm - 4:30pm
Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
East Forest Park Branch
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: Makerspace
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Technology
Event Details:

From traditional crafts to digital tinkering, the East Forest Park Makerspace is your place to create, invent, and learn. 

Each week we will have a drop-in project or two based on a theme.

Outdoor Shower Curtain Painting

2:00pm - 4:30pm
Children, Tweens
East Forest Park Branch
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Come join us at the East Forest Park Library for an afternoon full of fun.
We are hosting a Shower Curtain Painting Party. All messy art enthusiast welcomed!

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.

Wow Wednesdays!

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Tweens, Teens
Forest Park Branch
Library Location: Forest Park Branch
Room: Program Den
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Join us every other Wednesday in September, October, and November at the Forest Park Library for Wow Wednesdays! We will be doing a variety of crafts and activities, but all of it will be fun! For tweens and teens, ages 11-18. 

Girl Scout Troop 65166 Meeting

3:30pm - 5:15pm
Children
East Forest Park Branch
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: EFP Community Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

Weekly Meeting of Girl Scout Troop 65166

Disclaimer(s)

Non-Library Event

This is a non-library-sponsored event.

Choose Your Own Adventure Read Aloud Club

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Children, Tweens
Indian Orchard Branch
Library Location: Indian Orchard Branch
Room: IO Community Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Book Groups & Reading, Technology
Event Details:

Join Ms. Meg as we go on an adventure of a lifetime. What path will we choose? Where will we go? Will we make the right choice to stay alive?

We'll read together a Choose Your Own Adventure and decide as a group our fate. We will have science projects that accompany the book.  As we meet over the year you can fill up your CYOA passport.

Wednesday Crafternoons for All Ages

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Indian Orchard Branch
Library Location: Indian Orchard Branch
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Get crafty! Let's make something together.

Join Meg as we do a different craft every week on Wednesday afternoons. Tissue Paper Painting, Watercolor painting, finger painting, and floral book marks are some of the crafts we will be exploring.

Teen Night

4:00pm - 7:30pm
Teens
East Forest Park Branch
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Games
Event Details:

Come hang out in our big comfy chairs and wind down with a friend. 

Join us every Wednesday evening for games, crafts, snacks, and conversation. For teens 13+

Tea Talks

4:30pm - 6:00pm
Teens, Adults
East Springfield Branch
Library Location: East Springfield Branch
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Food & Cooking, Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Sample different types of teas and relax with us, and learn about tea cultures around the world! All ages welcome.

Sourdough Starter Workshop with Sourdough Brandon

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Teens, Adults
East Forest Park Branch
Registration Open
Registration
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Room: EFP Community Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Food & Cooking
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Learn how to make, maintain, and store a sourdough starter from an expert sourdough baker and food blogger Sourdough Brandon.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration for this event is required due to space constraints. 

Banned Book Tasting

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Teens, Adults
East Forest Park Branch
Library Location: East Forest Park Branch
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Book Groups & Reading
Event Details:

Celebrate Banned Books Week with us by discovering why these books are banned!

Reservation

Center for New Americans

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Central Library
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Location: Central Library
Room: Computer Lab
Purpose of Meeting

ESOL class for refugees

Computer Basics: Part 3

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Adults
East Springfield Branch
Registration Open
Registration
Library Location: East Springfield Branch
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Classes & Workshops, Technology
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 5
Event Details:

Hands-on workshops to build basic computer skills.

This is the final part of "Computer Basics," a 3-week series designed to teach everything you need to start exploring on your own.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Optional

Registration for this event is encouraged, but optional.

Tacky Craft Club

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Central Library
Registration Open
Registration
Library Location: Central Library
Room: CL Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 14
Event Details:

Calling all imperfectionists! Join Tacky Craft Club, where we come together to create things (good or bad) and make friends. 

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration for this event is required due to space constraints. 

Painted Rocks

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Teens
Central Library
Library Location: Central Library
Room: Teen Area
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Join us as we turn river rocks into works of art. You can keep what you create, or donate it to the library to be used at outreach events and let the whole world see your masterpiece!