<div><strong>Date:</strong> 03/07/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 10:00am - 7:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> <br> <strong>Library:</strong> Medford Library<br> <p>Each STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) kit includes supplies to make a different wooden mechanical model. Kits can be fun for adults, or for kids and adults to do together. STEM kits are available while supplies last.</p> <p> </p></div>
Date: 11/11/2023 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Presenter: April Bozada-Armstrong Location: Community Meeting Room Library: Prospect Library To celebrate a season of thanksgiving, start a gratitude journal. We will discuss the practice of gratitude journaling and attendees will be given time to write their first entries. Journals, writing implements, and writing prompts will be provided. Coffee, water, and tea and light snacks will also be provided.
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 12/10/2023<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 1:00pm - 4:00pm<br> <strong>Presenter:</strong> Ari Shaneyfelt<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Storytime Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Medford Library<br> <p>This holiday season, let's make gingerbread houses! Construct your own with tasty treats and graham crackers!</p> <p> </p></div>
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 12/11/2023<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 3:00pm - 4:00pm<br> <strong>Presenter:</strong> Sadie Barr<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Rogue River Library<br> <p>Join Yoga & Meditation teacher Sadie Barr for practices that will help quiet your mind and develop a stronger connection to your body through guided movement. Wear comfortable clothes; no yoga mat is required.</p></div>
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 07/02/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 12:00pm - 1:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Gold Hill Library<br> <p>Open knitting hour. Bring you knitting, crocheting, or other craft for an hour of knitting camaraderie at the library. Tea provided. This group meets the first and third Tuesday of each month.</p></div>
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 12/06/2023<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 10:00am - 11:30am<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Gold Hill Library<br> <p>Meet your neighbors, share coffee or tea, conversation, crosswords, boards games, puzzles and crafts. Coffee with Friends meets the first and third Wednesday at each month.</p></div>
Date: 12/06/2023 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Community Room Library: Central Point Library Come and enjoy building your imagination's creations! Don't know what to build? There will be a cool prompts to spark your creative gears into motion. Builds will be displayed in the library to allow the community to admire your awesome skills! Every first and third Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise indicated.
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 12/06/2023<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 2:00pm - 3:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Gold Hill Library<br> <p>Learn how to make an origami ornament for the Gold Hill Library tree or to take home with you.</p></div>
Date: 01/04/2024 Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm Presenter: Southern Oregon Early Learning Hub Location: Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A+B Side) Library: Ruch Library Discover how children learn through play and daily activities: singing songs, telling stories, creating art, and having fun! Kaleidoscope Play and Learn is open to everyone — young children (ages 0-5) and their family, caregivers, and parents. No pre-registration required. Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups are offered in collaboration w
Date: 01/04/2024 Time: 3:30pm - 6:00pm Presenter: Megan Pinder and Dana Kline Location: Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A+B Side) Library: Ruch Library Stop by the Ruch Library after school every 1st and 3rd Thursday to enjoy a movie with other tweens and teens! There will be time to discuss a few movie options and vote for a favorite before the showtime at 4:00 PM. Popcorn provided!
Date: 01/04/2024 Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm Location: Library: Butte Falls Library Come build your imagination’s creations! Builds will be displayed for a week to allow the community to admire your awesome skills. Children 5+ are invited to join us in the Butte Falls Library to build and display their own LEGO creations on the first Thursday of each month.
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 06/09/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 1:00pm - 2:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Storytime Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Medford Library<br> <p>Join us for weekly themed Lego building challenges, or make whatever you like! Let your creativity soar on your own or in collaboration with others!</p> <hr> <p> </p></div>
Date: 11/04/2023 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Library: Ashland Library Is this the year you'll complete your NaNoWriMo challenge? Whether you're writing a novel for NaNo, working on some poetry, or finishing up an essay for English class, we're carving space in the library specifically for teen writers each Sunday in November. We'll provide snacks, drinks and writing supplies, and you bring the creativity! This event will take place upstairs in the Ashland Library's Teen Department.
Date: 07/15/2024 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Jamie Leach Location: Storytime Room Library: Medford Library Book Buddies is not your typical Book Club. In our group you bring whatever book you’d like to read and enjoy some time to read and chat with other readers. There’s no assigned reading. All readers 12 and under are welcome. Bring your own book, from the library or from home, e-book, graphic novels too. We will gather at the set time to share what we are reading and then settle in for
Date: 11/04/2023 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Presenter: Katie Johnson, Archaeologist Location: Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A+B Side) Library: Ruch Library This presentation will introduce kids to the science of archaeology and what it can tell us about the past using artifacts and tools of the trade. Archaeologist Katie Johnson of Southern Oregon University will lead participants in some fun, hands-on activities!
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 08/30/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 3:30pm - 4:30pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> White City Library<br> <p>Come and play games with the White City Staff!</p> <p> </p></div>
Date: 12/02/2023 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Location: Library: Butte Falls Library Join us at the Butte Falls Library as we embark on artistic adventures! Youth and adults are invited to come and participate in creative projects, work with paints, clay, beads, etc. This activity will continue every other Saturday through the school year.
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 09/11/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 12:00pm - 1:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> <br> <strong>Library:</strong> Gold Hill Library<br> <p>Join us at the library for a weekly neighborhood walk every Wednesday. We will begin at the Gold Hill Library and take the path to the Gold Hill Sports Park and back. It's a wonderful opportunity to exercise outdoors and socialize. The club meets rain or shine.</p> <p> </p></div>
Date: 07/29/2024 Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Location: Guanajuato Room Library: Ashland Library Have you been waiting for the right time to get back to work on that novel or short story that’s started collecting dust? Or maybe you just need some inspiration to kickstart a new writing project? Join us at the Ashland library for our biweekly peer support creative writing workshop! Each participant will choose an excerpt from their project to read aloud and receive feedback from the rest of the group t
Date: 12/12/2023 Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Location: Online You’re invited to an afternoon chat with New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Land as she talks to us about her new memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education. When Stephanie Land set out to write her first book, a memoir titled Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was later adapted into the hit Netflix series Mai