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 us for coffee or tea to jump-start your week and visit with friends and community members.

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 strength

Rebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses. Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

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

Have a little wiggler? No problem!  There is no pressure for kids to sit still during this story time.

  Back by popular demand, welcome Spring and Summer with open arms.  Come and make a reversible sign with us that will be a wonderful decoration to display.  All materials will provided free of charge.

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.

This program is a response to a call to action from By the People and the Library of Congress, to transcribe documents from throughout the women’s suffrage movement so that documents may be easily searched and

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!

Enjoy a light lunch and watch the movie The Fox and the Child. A youngster (Bertille Noël-Bruneau) befriends a wild fox and they undertake a wilderness adventure. Isabelle Carre. Narrated by Kate Winslet.

A time to read, play, and sing together! Try out songs by Woody Guthrie (plus other easy, family-friendly tunes) with Tessa every Friday. 

Rhythm instruments provided.

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

Visit this event's Facebook event page at 11am to join in the fun as this program is live-streamed! 

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 unfinished sewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready for some new ideas and shortcuts?

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

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

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

From colonial times through the 20th century, America was one of the great examples of a nation built on immigration. This vision, however, came at a tremendous cost to the indigenous inhabitants.

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is welcome. Game pieces and character sheets are provided, but feel free to bring your own. Grades 9 and up.

Join us Mondays for school-aged, maker-themed programming inspired by books!

This week, make your own wizard wand!

Program inspired by the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Make signs for our community garden, plant seeds, and check the progress of things we planted in March. 

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.

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

For girls in grades 3-5. 

Join us for an afternoon of creativity making beads and jewelry from recycled paper!

Come draw with us and see the art show from the previous month.  April's theme is bugs and flowers and we will practice drawing them as they pop back up with the spring weather!

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.

Come geek out with us at the Athens Public Library! Join in for a flexible Dungeons and Dragons campaign, bring your own board game, or learn to play our featured Board Game of the Month.

In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn about a few crucial techniques for making a beautiful arrangement without great cost, difficulty, or special equipment.