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 welcome.

Join Ashleigh Vale in storytime yoga! The second half of the hour will be open play. 

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

Join us for a spot of tea as we enjoy a bit of British television or film together. Cheers!

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!

Join us for a spot of tea as we enjoy a bit of British television or film together. Cheers!

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!

Join friends as we read, play, sing, and create together!

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!

This documentary paints a portrait of the life and work of children's entertainer Fred Rogers, star of “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.” A former
minister, Mister Rogers creatively communicated themes of empathy and

Join us for stories, play, and fun-filled activities!  Free and open to the public.

Enjoy stories, songs and play with Taryn.

Folk music and Irish dance on stage, weather permitting. In bad weather, the party will move inside on the main floor of the library.

Patrick returns to the library to help us prepare a variety of nutritious foods to enjoy. He will also lead us in fun, healthy activities.

Join us for a spring break picnic lunch. All ages welcome!

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

Patrick returns to the library to help us prepare a variety of nutritious foods to enjoy. He will also lead us in fun, healthy activities.

Join us for a spring break picnic lunch. All ages welcome!

Patrick returns to the library to help us prepare a variety of nutritious foods to enjoy. He will also lead us in fun, healthy activities.

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

From arts and crafts to field games, get together at 2pm every day this week of Spring Break!

Join us for an afternoon showing of Ralph Breaks the InternetPopcorn and themed activities will be provided!

From arts and crafts to field games, get together at 2pm every day this week of Spring Break!

From arts and crafts to field games, get together at 2pm every day this week of Spring Break!

From arts and crafts to field games, get together at 2pm every day this week of Spring Break!

Join us for an afternoon showing of The Incredibles 2! Popcorn and themed activities will be provided.

From arts and crafts to field games, get together at 2pm every day this week of Spring Break!

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

Fixings, ingredients, and chips provided! Free and open to the public.

All fixings and ingredients provided!Free and open to the public.

Join historian, lecturer, and author Kenneth Hammontree as he comes in character as General Patton. Listen to a reenactment of the address Patton gave the press corps on the victory of pushing the Nazis back to the frontline on December 16, 1944.

Please join us for an after school snack and some great stories!Playful activities too! 

Join us for a special Storytime with the group Standing up for Racial Justice (SURJ). They will read a few stories, share an activity, and offer a resource guide and book list for families to learn more about the topic!

Like books and chocolate?  We will discuss your favorite books while eating chocolate treats and sipping hot chocolate!Free and open to the public.Grades 7-12

Join Rising Appalachia (www.risingappalachia.org) at Chauncey Public Library for outdoor games and wilderness education.As part of Chauncey's weekly Thrive Thursday school-age programming,

Make some noise in the library with Fiddles, crafts, snacks and live music!

Join us for a special Storytime with the group Standing up for Racial Justice (SURJ).

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!

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades 1-4.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image source:

This week:  It’s a family affair, so gather your leprechauns! Learn how to replace sugary birthday and holiday party snacks with healthy, festive treats.

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

Get together to learn new board games with a fun group of people.

Explore and Develop Your Creative Abilities with a Community of Teen Writers.Meets every-other Monday from January 14th through March 25th.Free and open to all teens.  Registration is encouraged, but not required.

What is this movie about?
A superhero known as Black Panther defends Wakanda, a technologically
advanced country in Africa that has hidden itself away from the rest of

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!

Spend the evening playing Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Small World, The Grizzled, and more. For grades 7 and up.Free and open to the public.

Kick back and get into an author's imagination. Librarian Todd will read a classic short story by Theodore Sturgeon,