KIDS & TEENS
Toddlertime
Tuesdays, May 24 and 31, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Join Miss Kelly and her puppets for storytimes geared to ages 1 to 3 with an adult caregiver.
Art & crafternoons
Tuesday, May 31, 3-4:30 p.m.
From painting to print-making and from collage to sculpture, each crafternoon features a different kind of activity. For kids ages eight and up, or ages six and up with an adult helper. May 3: koinobori streamers. May 17: root children peg doll. May 31: newspaper chickens.
Lego builders
Wednesday, May 24, 3-4:30 p.m.
Projects geared to kids ages eight and up, or ages six and up with an adult helper. Each week, builders explore, create and participate in challenges.
Babytime
Wednesday, May 24, 10:30-11 a.m.
A gentle, slow storytime that features songs, rhymes and lap play.
Friday movie
Friday, May 20, 3-4:30 p.m.
“Chicken Run.”
Draw together
Tuesday, May 24, 3-4:30 p.m.
Use Wendy Mac’s magically inspiring drawing program virtually in the Katie O’Brien Activity Room. materials and watercolor paints supplied.
ADULTS
Tech help in the digital lab
Fridas, May 20, 10 a.m.-noon
Do you have a new computer or device that you don’t know how to use? Come to the digital lab for one-on-one assistance.
English conversation circle
Monday, May 23, noon-1 p.m.
English as a Second Language discussion group, facilitated by experienced instructor Louis Giancola.
Poetry club
Tuesday, May 24, 11 a.m.-noon
Come share your poetry in a supportive, comfortable setting facilitated by local poet Jodi Girouard.
Legislative forum
Monday, May 23, 6:30-8 p.m.
South Burlington delegation on hand in the community room, in person and remotely.
Film screening, discussion with Nora Jacobson
Wednesday, May 25, 6-8 p.m.
Screening of the first wide-release feature film made by and starring Native Americans, “Smoke Signals,” followed by a discussion with adult services specialist and film enthusiast Yitzi Gittelsohn.
Evening book group
Thursday, May 26, 6-7 p.m.
May evening book group selection is “Ridgerunner” by Gil Adamson. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, this vivid historical novel draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humor and loss and steeped in the wild of the natural world.
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