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Chess Club for Kids!
Mon, January 27, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us each Monday from 3:30-4:30pm for Chess Club! Kids 12 and under are welcome to play and learn with support from a skilled chess player. All supplies provided. No experience is necessary; all skill levels welcome! This event will be held in the Story Hour Room, within the Central…
Kids’ Bird Bonanza!
Mon, January 27, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Cecil B. Moore Library
Join the Audubon Mid-Atlantic from the Discovery Center at our branch for hand-on activities to learn about bird artifacts, bird adaptations, migration, watersheds and pollution, seeds and seed dispersal, garden work, and bird walks.
Queer Film Club: Bit
Mon, January 27, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
LGBTQIA+ Movies with ACTUAL happy endings! Join us for a screening of Bit, a sink-your-teeth-in horror/comedy. A transgender teenage girl on summer vacation in LA fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city’s streets of predatory…
Read To a Therapy Dog
Mon, January 27, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Readers of all ages can read to Cene, Fig and Huey, our certified therapy dogs! Both independent readers and those still learning can practice reading skills to gain confidence in reading and interacting with animals. Yes, you can pet them too!
Film Screening: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Mon, January 27, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us for a screening of Barry Jenkins' 2018 film, If Beale Street Could Talk , an adaptation James Baldwin's 1974 novel by the same name. Set in Harlem, the film follows Tish, a young, pregnant woman, as she seeks to clear the name of her lover, Lonny, charged for a…
Chair Yoga with Lindsey
Mon, January 27, 2025
5:45 P.M.
Charles Santore Library
Chair Yoga is a form of yoga that uses a chair as the main prop versus a traditional mat. This makes the practice more accessible to those that have trouble putting pressure on the knees and wrists, and is suitable for all levels and ages. The program will be taught by Lindsey Gill, a certified…
Horror Book Club
Mon, January 27, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Richmond Library
Looking for folks who share a passion for quality literature that give you the creeps? Richmond Library is happy to offer our HORROR BOOK CLUB the last Monday of every month. 18+ only!
Teen Slide Show and Tell
Tue, January 28, 2025
3:30 P.M.
Field Teen Center
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Parkway Central Library
Got a topic you're dying to yap about? Make a presentation and share it at the Teen Center! Email us your presentations in advance at TeenCenter@freelibrary.org , then present on Tuesday 1/28 at 3:30 p.m. Anyone without a presentation is welcome to stop by and listen! (Topics and…
Free Library Chess Club
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Heim Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement
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Parkway Central Library
Are you looking for a place to play chess, or are you interested in learning how to play? Join us on Tuesdays from 4:00-7:00 pm in the Heim Center on the First Floor. We have 20 chess sets and a limited amount of clocks available for use, or feel free to bring your own. RSVP at Facebook…
Dungeons & Dragons
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Fox Chase Library
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop role-playing game which relies on imagination and teamwork. Players gather together at a table, using dice, miniature figurines, maps, game rules and their imaginations to tell an exciting story together. For ages 11 - 17, weekly on Tuesdays at 4 pm…
Face Painting
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Eastwick Library
Join us for face painting . For children & teens. Ages 6+
Teen Tuesdays: Friends, Food, Fun.
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Calling all 7th through 12th graders! Dive into new worlds with our exciting new video game collection, unleash your creativity in our DIY craft sessions, and connect with friends over anime/manga, movies, and snacks. Bring a friend and make some new ones too!
James Baldwin Reading Group
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional…
Teen Anime Club
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Northeast Regional Library
Watch your favorite Anime Series @ your library! Contact us on Instagram @northeastlibraryteens/# to make suggestions.
Photo club: Featuring Jano Cohen
Tue, January 28, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
All photographers and photography fans are invited to drop in in on Photo Club meetings that typically take place every other month in the Art Department. Our featured local photographer this month will be Jano Cohen who will present her work, particularly her recent book, Grace &…
Falls Writing Group
Tue, January 28, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Connect with other writers for motivation, accountability, and inspiration via free writing, prompts and writing games, group sharing, feedback sessions and more. This will be a positive and non-judgmental community open to writers of all genres and skill levels. Meets most…
Celebrity Memoir Book Club | If You Ask Me (and of course you won’t) by Betty White
Tue, January 28, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Fumo Family Library
Join us for a casual book discussion held the fourth Tuesday of every month. This month’s memoir is “If You Ask Me (and of course you won’t)” by Betty White. Place a hold online or at any Free Library location for a print or audio copy. No registration is required.…
Tuesday night yoga
Tue, January 28, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Whitman Library
Join us for a free weekly yoga class taught by Anne-Marie Mulgrew, All levels welcome! Bring your own mat or use one of ours. Cleaning wipes for mats are also available. No need to register, just show up! This weekly class series will begin on October 1, 2024 and end on June 24, 2025.
Sew What?! Afternoon Sewcial-Needle Crafts
Wed, January 29, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Science and Wellness
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Parkway Central Library
Sew What?! Is a clever and creative get together for crafters who do crochet, knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting, felting, and more. Want to share what you're making with other fabric crafters? Join us to collaborate and learn. In-person, Wednesdays from 2-4:30 pm in the…
Sew What?! Afternoon Sewcial-Needle Crafts
Wed, January 29, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Art Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Sew What?! Is a clever and creative get together for crafters who do crochet, knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting, felting, and more. Want to share what you're making with other fabric crafters? Join us to collaborate and learn. In-person, Wednesdays from 2-4:30 pm in the…