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Adult Take-and-Make Program: Rose Bath Bombs

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

We will make rose bath bombs. A fun way to treat yourself or others!    

Full
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

We will make rose bath bombs. A fun way to treat yourself or others!

 

 

Art Exhibit: I did it MY WAY

All Day 5/8 - 6/13
Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library
Program Type:
Exhibits & Art Shows
Age Group:
Adults
Library Branch: Barney Library
Room: Hoppin Gallery
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Exhibits & Art Shows
On the town

Afternoons at Bijou

Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Bijou Film
Age Group:
Adults
Bijou:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Event Details:

On the Town (1949) Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City. Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Betty Garrett. 1hr ...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Bijou Film
Event Details:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

On the Town (1949)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City. Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Betty Garrett. 1hr 38min.

the silhouette of a person's head with many small icons where the brain would be located with the text near the mouth "The Stigma of Mental Health"

Mental Health Stigma

Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Board Room 1 at Main Library
Program Type:
Health, Wellness, & Lifestyle
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! What better way than to learn how to overcome the stigma of mental health from medical professionals? Abigail Litrenta, LCSW, the Supervisor o...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Board Room 1
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health, Wellness, & Lifestyle
Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! What better way than to learn how to overcome the stigma of mental health from medical professionals?

happy mother's day written underneath teapot, teacup, and flowers

Mother's Day Tea Party

Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Adults, Children
Event Details:

In honor of Mother's Day our Mother's Day Tea is a chance for a child (ages 3-12) to celebrate someone special in their life.  They will hear a story, make something special, ...

Full
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Children
Program Type: Special Event
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

In honor of Mother's Day our Mother's Day Tea is a chance for a child (ages 3-12) to celebrate someone special in their life.  They will hear a story, make something special, help set the table, and enjoy tea and lots of goodies.  PLEASE

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Main Character Energy Book Club

Monday, May 13, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Board Room 1 at Main Library
Program Type:
Book Group
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us for book-themed crafts and discussions of an array of "New Adult" titles, from contemporary to romantasy and everything in between.    The first book is goi...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Board Room 1
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Group
Required
Seats Remaining: 4
Event Details:

Join us for book-themed crafts and discussions of an array of "New Adult" titles, from contemporary to romantasy and everything in between. 

 

Mini pressed flower lantern

Adult Take-and-Make Program: Mini Pressed Flower Lantern

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

We will make mini pressed flower lantern. A great way to view spring flowers!    

Full
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

We will make mini pressed flower lantern. A great way to view spring flowers!

 

 

Emerging Entrepreneurship

Emerging Entrepreneurship: Keeping the Doors Open

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 5:45pm - 6:45pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Business & Personal Finance
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us Tuesday, May 14 at 5:45 PM at the Farmington Library for a panel discussion of new local businesses right here in town. Learn from the new owners themselves as they talk ab...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Business & Personal Finance
Required
Seats Remaining: 42
Event Details:

Join us Tuesday, May 14 at 5:45 PM at the Farmington Library for a panel discussion of new local businesses right here in town. Learn from the new owners themselves as they talk about the who, what, why, and how to keep the doors open!

paintbrushes in a mason jar in front of a blurred background with a red, green, and white lights.

Pop Up Paint Along

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:45pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Enjoy an afternoon of painting and listening to music. A unique acrylic painting will be ready for you to copy - or you can paint what you like!  All supplies provided. ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

Enjoy an afternoon of painting and listening to music. A unique acrylic painting will be ready for you to copy - or you can paint what you like! 

All supplies provided.

Creativebug's 12th birthday!

Creativebug Live with Courtney Cerruti & Twinkie Chan

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Virtual at Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Courtney Cerruti and Twinkie Chan in celebrating Creativebug's 12th birthday! Courtney and Twinkie will be making faux celebration cakes full of fun colors, "frosted" bows, ro...

Virtual Event
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Event Details:

Join Courtney Cerruti and Twinkie Chan in celebrating Creativebug's 12th birthday! Courtney and Twinkie will be making faux celebration cakes full of fun colors, "frosted" bows, rosettes, and topped with faux fruit and sprinkles.

Unsinkable molly brown

Afternoons at Bijou

Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Bijou Film
Age Group:
Adults
Bijou:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Event Details:

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Marg...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Bijou Film
Event Details:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

The No Book Book Club

THE NO BOOK BOOK CLUB

Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library
Program Type:
Book Group
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join the No Book Book Club where there's no assigned reading. This book club gives you the opportunity to make new friends and learn about many books in a one-hour meetup.  ...

Library Branch: Barney Library
Room: Hoppin Gallery
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Group
Event Details:

Join the No Book Book Club where there's no assigned reading. This book club gives you the opportunity to make new friends and learn about many books in a one-hour meetup. 

D. WALSH GILBERT & Marilyn Johnston

Poetry Reading with D. Walsh Gilbert and Marilyn Johnston

Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Two local poets will launch their newest books of poetry: Downward Dreaming by Marilyn Johnston and Finches in Kilmainham by D. Walsh Gilbert. Downward Dreaming: The poems in th...

Library Branch: Barney Library
Room: Hoppin Gallery
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Special Event
Event Details:

Two local poets will launch their newest books of poetry: Downward Dreaming by Marilyn Johnston and Finches in Kilmainham by D. Walsh Gilbert.

a hand holding a microphone that has been opened at the top with six mini lighting bolts on the side with small line around the image to indicate light

Open Mic Night

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 5:45pm - 7:15pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Music, Dance, & Film
Age Group:
Adults, Teens
Event Details:

Singers, Songwriters, and Musicians, we welcome you to our first Open Mic here at the Farmington Libraries. Artists, please register for the event to save your spot for the show...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Teens
Program Type: Music, Dance, & Film
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

Singers, Songwriters, and Musicians, we welcome you to our first Open Mic here at the Farmington Libraries.

bye bye birdie

Afternoons at Bijou

Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Bijou Film
Age Group:
Adults
Bijou:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Event Details:

Bye Bye Birdie (1963) A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. Starring Ann-Margaret...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Bijou Film
Event Details:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

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Main Library, Barney Library, Off Site
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Novel Ideas

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 1:15pm - 2:00pm
Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library
Program Type:
Book Group
Age Group:
Adults
Novel Ideas Book Group:

Join us for a lively discussion on the last Tuesday of the month at 1:15. Pick up a copy of the current book at the Barney library service desk. All are welcome!

Event Details:

In May we will discuss "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer. PROBLEM: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past...

Library Branch: Barney Library
Room: Hoppin Gallery
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Group
Event Details:
Join us for a lively discussion on the last Tuesday of the month at 1:15. Pick up a copy of the current book at the Barney library service desk. All are welcome!

In May we will discuss "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer.

War for Planet of the Apes

Movie Night @The Main: War for the Planet of the Apes

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Music, Dance, & Film
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Please join us for a movie showing! Popcorn and lemonade will be served! War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Music, Dance, & Film
Required
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

Please join us for a movie showing! Popcorn and lemonade will be served!

Creativebug

Crafting Conversation: A Live Event with Rebecca Ringquist

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Virtual at Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Rebecca as she chats about her new Spring Fling Embroidered Sampler Class. 

Virtual Event
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Event Details:

Join Rebecca as she chats about her new Spring Fling Embroidered Sampler Class. 

Brigadoon

Afternoons at Bijou

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Bijou Film
Age Group:
Adults
Bijou:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Event Details:

Brigadoon (1954) Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious sec...

Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Bijou Film
Event Details:

Classic films and popcorn, every Thursday afternoon!

Brigadoon (1954)

a woman in a mauve shirt against a greenery background holding onto her hat. She is looking into the camera from a 45 degree angle.

Sound Meditation with CT State Troubadour: Kala Farnham

Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 5:45pm - 7:15pm
Jay Johnston Community Room at Main Library
Program Type:
Health, Wellness, & Lifestyle
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us to end Musically May with a special program offered by the CT State Troubadour, Kala Farnam! She will be introducing us to Nada Yoga which helps patrons to explore the powe...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Jay Johnston Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health, Wellness, & Lifestyle
Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Join us to end Musically May with a special program offered by the CT State Troubadour, Kala Farnam! She will be introducing us to Nada Yoga which helps patrons to explore the power of sound vibrations for inner harmony.

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Monthly Makers

Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Hoppin Gallery at Barney Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Monthly Makers:

Monthly Makers is a low stakes arts and crafts program for Adults.  You don’t need to be crafty to enjoy this program, it’s about the process NOT the product.  Each ...

Event Details:

This month's project is: Fruit Stamped Tea Towels

Open
Required
Library Branch: Barney Library
Room: Hoppin Gallery
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

Monthly Makers is a low stakes arts and crafts program for Adults.  You don’t need to be crafty to enjoy this program, it’s about the process NOT the product.  Each month we will try different crafts, mediums, and styles, without the pressure of perfection.  Join us for this one hour of ADULT arts and crafts time each month at the Barney Library.

This month's project is: Fruit Stamped Tea Towels

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Adult Take-and-Make Program: Summer Decoupage Plate

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Main Library
Program Type:
Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

We will make a decorative plate with spring fabric. Great to bring to that summer barbeque!    

Required
Library Branch: Main Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & Gaming
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Event Details:

We will make a decorative plate with spring fabric. Great to bring to that summer barbeque!