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.

9-10am, first Saturday of each month.Bring a project to work on, and join us for knitting and conversation.

Bring poetry you've written and receive helpful and encouraging comments from fellow poets.

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.

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!

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

An early childhood music program for children 5 and under. Bring your
little one and the whole family for a fun and special family music time!Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

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

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

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

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

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month!Join the Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program for games, snacks, and a conversation about consent.

Hang out and have fun playing some of your favorite video games--new and classic games on various game consoles and the Raspberry Pi.
Grades 7-12.Free and open to public.

Drawing is for everyone and a great way to connect as a family. Come experiment with basic drawing skills. Parents welcome! With Classical Conversations.

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

Special meeting of ACPL's Board of Trustees. Open to the public with time set aside at each meeting for public comment. 

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.

Drawing is for everyone and a great way to connect as a family. Come experiment with basic drawing skills. Parents welcome! With Classical Conversations.

 Create and share your stories in a welcoming place.  This workshop's focus is fiction (Fan Fiction also welcome)  It is peer-led and flexible to all your needs.  All types of stories and lengths are encour

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 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

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!

The Athens County Prosecutor's Office provides an open support group for parents who have experienced a child fighting addiction, the first Wednesday of every month.

Come join our annual perennial exchange!  Don’t have any plants to exchange this year?

A moderated Q&A event for the press and the general public, featuring the candidates for the Democratic
Primary, Samantha Miller and Arian Smedley.Hosted by the League of Women Voters for Athens County.

Our ancestors developed a fascinating body of lore about trees, including practical insights and supernatural beliefs.