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Cultivating Companions: Growing Connections Through Plants, 50+YRS

Date: 07/12/2024 Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm Location: Library: Shady Cove Library Cultivating Companions is a free seven week program to bring rural older adults together. Learn how to grow indoor plants, use them for art and cooking, and make new friends. Join the Jackson County Master Gardeners in your local library branch to learn new skills and meet new faces. Space for the program is limited. Please fill out the attached flier and return to Grace Florjancic, the Master Gardener Coordinator

Trebuchet vs Catapult, 9+ YRS

Date: 03/08/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Location: Community Meeting Room Library: Prospect Library In this program, kids will learn the difference between a catapult and a trebuchet and will be given supplies to make one of them and given opportunities for some friendly competition.

Color Like A Kid Again! 18+ YRS

<div>Date: 03/08/2024 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Community Room Library: Central Point Library Join us for some creative down time. Coloring provides a number of different health benefits for adults such as promoting mindfulness, reducing stress, and calming anxiety. Coloring sheets and art supplies will be provided, or bring your own. <hr> </div>

Yarnia!

<div>Date: 01/03/2024 Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm Presenter: Barbara Young Location: Meeting Room Library: Eagle Point Library Learn to knit or crochet. Supplies provided. For all levels.</div>

Paws to Read: K9 Reading Buddies

<div>Date: 01/04/2024 Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Library: Eagle Point Library Children are invited to share a story with a trained and registered therapy dog. Paws to Read at the Library provides a non-intimidating environment for budding readers to explore reading out loud. The dogs welcome a scratch on the head and the turn of the page from young readers.</div>

Central Point Friends of the Library Book Sale

<div>Date: 12/22/2023 Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm Presenter: Central Point Friends of the Library Location: Library: Central Point Library Shop for new and gently used items including books, CDs & movies. All proceeds benefit the Central Point Library. </div>

Make Your Own No Sew Cat & Dog Toy, 13+ YRS

Date: 02/08/2024 Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Meeting Room Library: Applegate Library Adoption and identity is a main thread in Julia Alverez’s book Finding Miracles. Although we recognize that pet adoption does not carry the same weight as child adoption – helping animals in shelters is a lot more accessible for a broad range of people. In this program you will be given the supplies to create a no sew required cat or dog toy. Keep the toy for your furry family member – or leave it at the l

Gold Hill Book Club 18+

<div>Date: 12/21/2023 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Community Meeting Room Library: Gold Hill Library The Gold Hill Library Book Club discusses thought-provoking books with other book lovers. December 21: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid January 18: Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner February 15: There There by Tommy Orange </div>

Art Play For Your Journal, 18+ YRS

Date: 02/15/2024 Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm Presenter: Linda Barnes, MS Location: Community Meeting Room Library: Jacksonville Library Linda Barnes, Certified Journal and Poetry Facilitator, will guide you through this 3-week series to learn creative and colorful ways to enliven your journal pages. SESSION 1: February 1, 2024 Collage Three Ways SESSION 2: February 8, 2024 Artful Writing Techniques SESSION 3: February 15 Visual Prompts & Embellishments

I Liq Chuan Tai Chi, 18+ YRS

Date: 02/23/2024 Time: 10:00am - 11:00am Presenter: Sonjue Koltsov, L.Ac. Location: Meeting Room Library: Applegate Library Learn how to move mindfully bringing the mind and body together in balance of yin and yang. Slowly moving your body with awareness is a form of moving meditation that will help you calm the mind and train the body to flow effortlessly in a relaxed manner. For beginners as well as for those with prior experience.

Sue DeMarinis Author Talk: Station Master's Wife, 15+ YRS

Date: 02/24/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Location: Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A+B Side) Library: Ruch Library Join local author Sue DeMarinis for a presentation and discussion of her second novel, The Station Master's Wife. Set in turn of the 20th century Ashland, Oregon, the novel follows Alice, the daughter of a prominent Jacksonville, Oregon pioneer family, who witnessed the historic completion of the transcontinental railroad. The rails changed everything for this previously isolated hamle

CANCELED - DART Mobile Tech Van @ Lilac Meadows

Date: 02/27/2024 Time: 3:00pm - 5:30pm Presenter: Leah Finney Location: Lilac Meadows Apts. - 3009 Cummings Lane, Medford Library: DART Mobile Tech Van DART is a mobile tech van, library outreach vehicle, Wi-Fi hotspot, and computer lab all rolled into one! Visit DART at Lilac Meadows: 3009 Cummings Ln, Medford, OR 97501 DATE AND TIME: 2/27/24 from 3:00pm to 5:30pm DART's location will change regularly. Check this calendar or call your branch library for updates! The van is staffed by a Mo

Eagle Point Friends of the Library Open Cupboards Book Sale

<div>Date: 02/29/2024 Time: 12:30pm - 3:00pm Location: Meeting Room Library: Eagle Point Library Shop for new and gently used items including books, CDs & movies. All proceeds benefit the Eagle Point Library.</div>

Immigrant Stories Movie Series: A Better Life (2011) - PG-13, 18+ YRS

Date: 02/29/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 2:40pm Location: Large Meeting Room Library: Medford Library This movie is about a mexican-american immigrant and hardworking single dad who faces challenges as he tries to provide a better life for his son. Starring Demián Bichir and José Julián. Rated PG-13 for some violence, language and brief drug use. Join us for all of the movies in our Immigrant Stories Movie Series: Thursday, January 4th, - Brooklyn (2015) - PG-13 Thursday, January 18th - Everything

Duct Tape Crafts, Ages 11+

<div>Date: 03/03/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Library: Medford Library Duct Tape isn't just for go-to repairing. In the right hands, and with our best imaginations, the possibilities are endless! Join us in the Medford Teen Library as we build and play and make something fun out of an every day item!</div>

Take & Learn: Bookmark This! Robins, 7+ YRS

<div>Date: 03/04/2024 Time: All Day Event Location: Each month's worksheet will feature a new topic themed around our natural world. Get fun facts, a list of books and resources, plus a special bookmark to color! Available at all branches while supplies last.</div>

Holiday Closure

<div>Date: 01/01/2024 Time: All Day Event Location: All branches of Jackson County Library Services will be closed today. You can always find great content 24/7 through our <a href="https://jcls.org/downloads">Digital Content</a>.</div>

CANCELED - Ukulele Practice/Play Together, 18+ YRS

<div>Date: 07/22/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Presenter: Viki Brown Location: Meeting Room Library: Eagle Point Library Come practice and play your ukulele with others. All are welcome. Some ukulele experience is required; this is not a class. If you do not have a ukulele you can borrow one from the JCLS Library of Things.</div>

Science and Math Extravaganza! 6+ YRS

<div>Date: 03/06/2024 Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm Presenter: Natalie Kelly and Jamie Leach Location: Storytime Room Library: Medford Library Come to the Medford Library Childrens Department for some after school Science and Math fun! </div>

Homework Help

Date: 03/15/2024 Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Presenter: Kai Lee Location: Storytime Room Library: Medford Library Medford Library is excited to offere a homework help program intended to support students K-6th with homework on Friday afternoons. Students will work in small groups with tutors from SOU, and will be provided a small snack. Pre-registration is advised as there are limited spaces available. Registration can be done in person at the childrens desk, or by emailing [email protected].

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