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Microfiction Collection: The Power of Postcards. Wish You Were Here!
12:00am - 12:00am
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Club
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...
Northside
Northside Activities Room A
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 17
Description
Spend an evening with one of the "notorious girlfriends" and try your hand at some Vampi-inspired goth makeup! We will have the supplies, you just bring yourself. Registration is limited and required....
Southwest
Southwest Conference Room
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Book Club
Description
Are you an LGBTQIA+ teen? Are you a teen ally? If you answered yes to either of these questions, come together to join us in a book discussion and hangout session pertaining to issues that affect you and your fellow teens!...
Northside
Northside Activities Room A
Program Type: Class
Description
Join Sam Strelow from First American Bank for a class on teaching teens financial respnsibility. Understanding basic financial concepts will help young adults make good financial decisions and maximize their potential....
Southwest
Southwest Atrium
Program Type: Book Club, Special Event
Description
What better way to celebrate libraries than a Read-A-Thon! Stop by the Southwest Atrium to enjoy and discover some short stories, read aloud by KPL Staff. Listen for a few minutes or all day - the choice is yours!...
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Book Club, Special Event
Description
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick discusses the path information has taken to lead us into the present Information age, including the significant role libraries have played in it’s evolution and accessibility....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room B
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Film Screening
Description
Mondays can be a bummer, so join us after school with a teen movie! Popcorn will be provided. Movie will be announced 1 month in advance....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room A
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Craft
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 9
Description
Come make a fake flower wall hanging for your bedroom, bathroom, or future dorm! This is a high school only event. Participants must be in grades 9-12. Registration required....
Bookmobile Escape Room! (National Libraries Week)
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Northside
Northside Main Floor
Program Type: Special Event
Description
Walking down 15th Street, feeling bored and feeling blue, next thing that you know, there's a book bus parked by you!...
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Open House
Description
Want to try out virtual reality? Love retro video gaming? Hang out with your friends, have some snacks, and try not to get pwned....
Southwest
Southwest Storytime Room
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Club, Film Screening
Description
Love watching Yuri skate across the ice, Asura spreading chaos, and Goku going Super Saiyan? Come to watch anime, talk about manga, eat Japanese snacks, and enjoy fun activities! Most importantly...subs or dubs? ...
Screening: Decoding the Weather Machine (Earth Week)
5:00pm - 8:30pm
Northside
Northside Activities Room A
Program Type: Film Screening
Description
Disastrous hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and more. It is not hard to notice the changes in the weather. Scientists agree that this is not just a coincidence - it is a result of the weather machine itself....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Film Screening, Special Event
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Description
Watch Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone while you shout, cast spells, and snack along with it! Participants will receive a prop bag full of surprises and instructions to interact with the movie. Registration Required....
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Club
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Film Screening
Description
Our Earth Week tradition continues with another screening of the Emmy-winning Greenfire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. This film considers the life and extraordinary legacy of famed conservationist, Aldo Leopold. ...
Northside
Northside Children's Area
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Special Event
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
Description
Like the classic make-believe game, the library's floor will turn into lava when the doors lock for the evening! Come hop from rock to rock, leap over chasms, and stay safe from the lava. Registration Required....
May the 4th / Comic Book Day
10:00am - 3:00pm
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Special Event
Description
Join us for a fun day of Star Wars and Comic Book inspired crafts, games, Virtual Reality, and other activities. Check back for more details as they are released! All ages are welcome!...
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Film Screening
Description
Mondays can be a bummer, so join us after school with a teen movie! Popcorn will be provided. Movie will be listed here 1 month in advance....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Open House
Description
Come drink slurp juice and eliminate all of the Bush Wookies in a fun night of Fortnite!...
Northside
Northside Activities Room A
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Film Screening
Description
Mondays can be a bummer, so join us after school with a teen movie! Popcorn will be provided. Visit the events calendar on mykpl.info for movie listings. ...
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room B
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Club, Film Screening
Description
Love watching Yuri skate across the ice, Asura spreading chaos, and Goku going Super Saiyan? Come to watch anime, talk about manga, eat Japanese snacks, and enjoy fun activities! Most importantly...subs or dubs? ...
Trains, Tracks, Whistles, & Wheels
9:30am - 4:30pm
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Special Event
Description
Come enjoy a detailed and interactive model railroad display all weekend! All ages and generations welcome - Bring the whole family! Check out Thomas & Friends and visit the Youth and Family Services department for fun crafts and activities....
Trains, Tracks, Whistles, & Wheels
12:00pm - 2:30pm
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Special Event
Description
Come enjoy a detailed and interactive model railroad display all weekend! All ages and generations welcome - Bring the whole family! Check out Thomas & Friends and visit the Youth and Family Services department for fun crafts and activities....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Open House
Description
Want to try out virtual reality? Love retro video gaming? Hang out with your friends, have some snacks, and try not to get pwned....
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Special Event
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 13
Description
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to decorate the most aesthetically pleasing cupcake that fits the theme, in the time allotted. The theme will be announced upon arrival....
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Club
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...
Simmons
Simmons Stocker Children's Room
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Craft
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 9
Description
Need more room décor? Come take your wall from drab to fab with a new photo line. We’ll create lines, decorate frames, and make it easy to hang up when you get home! Registration Required to attend....
Southwest
Southwest Conference Room
Age Groups: Teen
Program Type: Book Club
Description
Are you an LGBTQIA+ teen? Are you a teen ally? If you answered yes to either of these questions, come together to join us in a book discussion and hangout session pertaining to issues that affect you and your fellow teens!...
Southwest
Southwest Activities Room AB
Program Type: Performer, Special Event
Description
Enjoy an evening of performances by the best young talent from around the nation attending this year’s fresh inc festival, a one-of-a-kind chamber music festival redefining the training process for emerging musicians....
Simmons
Simmons Library Park
Program Type: Craft
Description
Do you love to paint? Join us out in the sunshine, in the Simmons Library front lawn, where we will be painting this gorgeous, historic building. Prefer painting nature? Feel free to stop by and paint the park instead -- or whatever you like....
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Club
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...
Southwest
Southwest Atrium
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...
Uptown
Uptown Fireplace
Program Type: Club
Description
Do you enjoy board, card, and dice games? Try CATAN, TICKET TO RIDE, or CODENAMES. Interested in role-playing games? Be a hero in the worlds of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, STAR WARS, and STAR TREK. Plus, come for MAGIC: THE GATHERING on Thursdays!...