Week Calendar

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build
skills that will help your child grow up ready to read. Siblings are

Medicare health and drug plans change every year. As open enrollment approaches (Oct. 15 – Dec. 7), join us to review your coverage options. A counselor from the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program

Open to all adults.  Free program.  Bring your prose writing.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthRebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

To schedule an appointment, please call:(740) 592.9454.
Questions? Contact the OhioHealth mobile mammography technicians at (740)
541.4522 or

Mindy King, professional craftswoman and prop designer, teaches us to make a theater-quality costume accoutrement: a Victorian geologist's pickax!

It's time to get out the cold-weather clothes again... Before you give up on ever wearing them again, join us for three sessions of Radical
Mending. You'll learn practical sewing skills--including how to hem,

Take your picture with a vision of lost underground worlds from different ages, explored by a mechanical subterrene vehicle. Art by local illustrator Stephen Richter, with design work by Heather Johnson, ACPL’s graphic designer.Sponsored

This year we take our inspiration from Jules Verne's novel on underground
exploration. Stop in throughout the day to enjoy this free community

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities!

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Wednesday at 11 a.m.!Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Join a circle of gardeners who meet to discuss the triumphs and tackle the problems of gardening.

Meet other parents / grandparents / caregivers and encourage your little ones to love the library...

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Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Join librarians Taryn and Jenny for a steampunk-themed storybook and companion creative craft for preschool and early elementary school children and their families.Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Make a fashion statement for your wrist using real lava rock. Born of geologic fire, these beads are both intrepidly masculine and mother-earth feminist, reflecting the steampunk spirit!

Hosts librarian Amy and volunteers from Airship Athena, the local steampunk club, invite you to dine upon gourmet French desserts by local chef Bryan Carlson of Heaven Scent Bakery, tea,  + kegs of homemade sarsaparilla.

THIS EVENT MUST BE RESCHEDULED. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATESJoin us for hands-on workshops focusedon supporting and promoting healthy aging through low impact fitness, group

A book club for the entire community focused on including adults with developmental disabilities. We enjoy reading together and discussing every week.

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Meet some new friends and come join us every

Bring your needlework project and enjoy work and conversation with a group of wonderful ladies.

Share stories, songs and dancing at this physical and interactive storytime! 

Enjoy needlework? Join us and bring your knitting, embroidery, crochet, or hand sewing.

Join master puppeteer Heidi Pendergast and her weird and wonderful friends for a 40-minute performance, composed of three pieces that journey back to the center: the forgotten heart. Recommended for children ages 8 and up.

Saturday Afternoon is a great time to meet your friends at the Library for Snack and MovieMovie Rated PGSnacks ProvidedFree and Open to the Public

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthInstructor Linda Cochran teaches simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

A monthly community gathering to share stories of life as it used to be.Bring your childhood, school, family or other memories. We may decide on a theme or just reminisce.
All welcome!
4th Fridays at 2pm.

Join librarians Taryn and Jenny as we race to decipher a scrambled word-square message by a long-ago explorer that will help solve the mystery of how to reach a hidden world beneath the earth.

The Journey to the Center of the Earth was the first novel to feature the then-futuristic concept of a mobile light source powered by electricity.

Join our festival recreation director Patrick Quackenbush for some punk-booted fun on the greensward!  Competitive sport for gear-mad ladies and gentlemen.

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing
game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is

Need homework help?  Please join Angel on the main floor from 3-4 on Wednesdays for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

Need homework help?  Please join Angel from 3-4 on the main floor for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

From his encyclopedic "all in his head" repertoire, pianist Bob Montalto
will play songs steampunks can really relate to! Join us for live music

Join librarians Jenny and Sue as we learn to play the very best diversions of strategy and luck a club- drawing room can offer.  No registration required – all competitors of the table-top welcome!

Join librarian Mary to learn about the science of the compass (and make one of your own!), then explore library grounds using four sets of directions.

Share stories and recipes from home, and learn about food from other places as well.  There will be hands-on cooking (and eating!) each week.  This fun program is led by a small group of Ohio University students.

Need homework help?  Mondays please join Angel on our main floor for any help you may need.Free and open to the public.

All invited, whether you are just learning Spanish or wishing to preserve your command of Spanish. Practice and improve your Spanish speaking skills and grammatical correctness.

Join us Tuesdays at 4pm for school-aged programming, with a rotating schedule of cooking, arts, science, and games.  This week, make your own mozzarella ball.

Build a tower taller than yourself!Use a variety of stacking strategies to build with wooden Kapla planks.

For girls in grades 3-5. A club interested in helping to close the gender gap for girls in computer science fields,

Dust your boots off and meet at the Glouster Public Library for a hike on
Trimble High School's Muddy Boot Trail. This trail is a short walk from

Join us for a special storytime with the group Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ).

Professional geologist Dr. Douglas Green uses Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth to teach us about volcanism, the geology of Iceland, and how caves, caverns and tunnels are naturally formed.

Join us every Monday to play something from our large collection of games. From classics like Sorry and Uno to new favorites like Exploding Kittens and Trash Pandas! We have games for all ages!

Drop by the Coolville Public Library to browse for recipes in Taste of Home's Simple & Delicious. Choose one you would like to prepare and share. Bring it the evening of the program and enjoy a potluck dinner with friendly people.

This knitting circle is free and open to all adults and is a great way to learn from one another.  It also includes crochet.  Enjoy this

We'll be making creative projects after hours, every Monday in September at 6pm.  Hope you can join us!This week and next, we'll be making a mosaic to be displayed in the library.

Drop in or attend every meeting of this series hosted Monday evenings through November. You do not need to have experience with meditation, and may join us to enjoy some quiet time to de-stress.

Already have a mountain dulcimer you'd like to learn to play, or play again? This class is for you! Don't have an instrument? Some are
available to lend. This class is for you!In

This will be our fifth gathering this year with a focus on these topics. They are connected in deep ways and our responses are best crafted with that in mind. We will listen to each other while supporting taking action to make a difference.

This event is planned and hosted by a community group using the library's free meeting spaces. Are you helping to host an event at one of our locations? Let us know!

Incumbent Steve Patterson versus challenger Damon Krane.

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Quite apart from the debates of historians as to the actual guilt or innocence of King Richard III, the last of the Royal House of York to
rule England, William Shakespeare's play is an artistic study in the

Please contact the group or individual leading this event for more info. This event is planned and led by a community group using the library's free meeting spaces. Are you leading a Community Event at one of our locations?

We meet on the last Wednesday of every month (except May, August and December) at 7pm at the Athens Public Library.  For current information
about the upcoming program, see: athensbirthcircle.com