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Family Storytime
Sat, February 8, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Overbrook Park Library
Join Miss Alicia every other Saturday at 10:30am for Family Storytime, where we'll share stories, songs, and more! Intended for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers, but all are welcome.
Music and Movement Storytime
Sat, February 8, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Join us for stories, songs, rhymes and movement that celebrates all things music! For ages 7 and under and their caregivers.
Music Special Collections Showcase
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Fleisher Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Join Special Collections staff for a pop-up event highlighting materials from the Music Special Collections including the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music , the Drinker Collection of Choral Music, and Sheet Music. You will explore and learn…
Preparing with Proper Protection
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
What You Will Learn: The X-Curve Concept Why Proper Protection is the Foundation The Value of Properly Protecting Your Assets and Liabilities How This Benefits Your Overall Financial Strategy Most Common Questions and Mistakes
Music with Ry
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Charles Santore Library
Ry will be at the library to present a music program designed to get even the smallest kiddo clapping along! Kiddos and their caregivers are invited to join in.
Family Playgroup
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Charles L. Durham Library
Have some family fun at the library! From coloring to card games to building lego towers, join us on Saturdays for tons of family fun. This program is for all families.
English Conversation Group - Intermediate+
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Independence Library
Build your confidence in speaking English while meeting other adults in a casual learning environment. No registration is required. This group is for intermediate/advanced English speakers and is led by Free Library volunteer Gail. Questions? Email adultlearning@freelibrary.org or call…
Queer Comics Club
Sat, February 8, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
Join our book club where we explore graphic novels and manga centering queer stories and voices. Open to all ages! Meeting dates: February 8 & 22, March 8 & 22, April 5 & 19, and May 3 & 17.
Black Hair Care 101
Sat, February 8, 2025
12:00 P.M.
Charles L. Durham Library
This first program will focus on the impact of society on black hair culture and how black hair culture has impacted the world. Michelle Prince will highlight how some of these practices have negatively impacted black hair including alopecia (hair loss) and scalp related issues in the black…
Images of Philadelphia's Chinatown
Sat, February 8, 2025
12:00 P.M.
Print and Picture Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Free Library! See historic images of Philadelphia's Chinatown in the Print and Picture Collection. Drop by anytime between 12 PM and 2 PM on Saturday, February 8. The Print and Picture Collection is located on the 2nd floor of Parkway Central…
Lunar New Year Celebration!
Sat, February 8, 2025
12:15 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Snake at this joyful cultural exchange event with the Asian communities, students, and families! Enjoy an afternoon of fascinating Asian music and dance performances. Event program: bit.ly/FLPLunarNY25 RSVP Now:…
Storytime with Kala Jojo: The Tall Story Teller
Sat, February 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
Kala Jojo, known as “The Tall Storyteller”, performs his songs, chants and stories with authentic African instruments, evoking African, African-American and Caribbean oral traditions. With his engaging voice, and personality. Kala weaves songs and ditty’s born of African…
Black History Month Film: Nationtime-A Film by William Graves
Sat, February 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Katharine Drexel Library
A documentary that reports on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H.…
Night Side Songs a musical
Sat, February 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Lillian Marrero Library
Come one and all to Lillian Marrero on Saturday Feburary 8th, 2025 at 1 P.M for a Black History Program; Night Side Songs a musical presented by the Philadelphia Theatre Company at the Signture Roberts Theatre. Experience a musical about exploring the intimacy of illness, mortality and the…
Construction Zone
Sat, February 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
South Philadelphia Library
Grab your hard hats and get ready for an afternoon of building at the South Philadelphia Branch! We have plenty of LEGOs, Keva Planks, and Lincoln Logs to share so all you need is your imagination!
Camping Exploration!
Sat, February 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Andorra Library
We will open our backpack of camping-themed activities and games for themed free-play. This program is best for preschool and school-aged kids.
Board Game Café
Sat, February 8, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Enjoy board games? Looking to socialize? Meet up with Neighbors? Have fun? Bring your favorite board games or enjoy one of the many owned by the library, including familiar favorites.Our co-hostesses will be Penny Scott and La Sripanawongsa. This program will take place in the…
Canticuentos Storytelling Series
Sat, February 8, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
Join local storyteller Ana Atach for Canticuentos! We'll explore songs & stories in Spanish. Each session introduces kids to a word of the day, an animal and a color.
Book Talk: Building Ghosts - Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
Sat, February 8, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or party-wall adjacencies, they can reveal remarkable things, such as an old staircase…
Headshot Photos
Sat, February 8, 2025
2:30 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Get a free headshot photo taken at the library! Headshots are great for enhancing your professional portfolio or LinkdIn profile. No appointments are needed. The last person will be taken 10 minutes before the program's end (today that's by 4:20 p.m.). …