Week Calendar

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Calling all knit, crochet, needlepoint, cross-stitch, sewing and fiber arts enthusiasts!   Bring your projects and materials for a morning "in stitches" with other fiber craft artists.  All skill levels are welcome! 

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Practice the skills you need to be ready to read. Hear stories, sing songs, jump around and learn!

Suggested ages: 18 months - 3 years old.

Tell us how much you love the library by painting inspirational words on our library banner! We will be in the lobby, and paint will be provided.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Playtime at Union has relocated just down the road to Playtime at Oak Lawn! Come join us for stories, songs, crafts, and other activities in our new and improved play-learning space!

Playtime at Union has relocated just down the road to Playtime at Oak Lawn! Come join us for stories, songs, crafts, and other activities in our new and improved play-learning space!

Join KERA KIDS as we explore science thorugh the Play and Learn Science app! Families will play a series of shadow games to explore  light and how it can affect the size and shape of a shadow. We will also make out own shadow!

Join us every month for a preschool craft just for littles! Preschool crafting helps toddlers and infants to promote fine motor skills, creativity, early math and literacy skills. 

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

The Central Library is hosting a new writing club every first and third Saturday of the month!

Visit the Prairie Creek branch every Saturday from 10:00am - noon for our weekly gathering to share patterns, projects, and socialize.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library.

This spring the Library has partnered with Pawlish Up with Pets, LLC to bring you a special Storytime series with Simba the Therapy Pomeranian. 

Reading to therapy dogs can help improve kids' confidence in their reading abilities. Since dogs are not judgmental, kids can read to them without feeling the pressure and anxiety that may come from reading to peers. 

It's Sunday Funday! Bring the entire family and join us for Family Storytime at Vickery Park Branch Library to listen to fun, new stories! You don't want to miss this! 

Bhuvana Venkatraman from Tejas Dance DFW will guide you in a session of yogasanas and breathing techniques. This is a holistic approach to exercise. Content can be adjusted based on age and ability.

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community every Tuesday and Wednesday. Listen to stories, move to the music, and have fun!

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community every Tuesday and Wednesday. Listen to stories, move to the music, and have fun!

This month's book club pick is a look into the past, The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis. 

The first Dallas Poet Laureate, Joaquín Zihuatanejo, will hold office hours for aspiring poets in the city of Dallas! These sessions are designed to help Dallas poets work on individual poems and to eventually create a poetry manuscript.

Learn how to draw digitally using iPads and design programs, from procreate to adobe creative suits.

Groove Line Dance is fun way to dance and engage with others. This class begins with a simple guided warm-up to old school R&B music.

Presenter Christopher D. Bryant will discuss how to combine traditional genealogy research with DNA to solve brick wall problems. 

Are you interested in learning about and creating your own punch needle embroidery craft?  Create your own free-form or abstract design or bring in your own design to use as a stencil.  Embroidery hoops in both 4.5” and 9.5” diameter wil

Bring the family to this years annual Spring Egg Hunt in partnership with the Kleberg-Rylie Branch Library and Recreation Center .

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

An opportunity for movers to explore, play, acknowledge, and share their daily lived experiences through creative movement and mindfulness techniques. All levels are welcome and encouraged to participate. 

Get a jump start on planting season! Join us to learn about seeds native to the North Texas area as we get down and dirty with making seed balls that you can plant - or throw - in your own yard.

Bring the outside inside with our beautiful framed flowers. Learn how to create these simple designs to help usher in the spring weather. Simple, elegant, and easy to make, framed flowers make the perfect gift for someone special in your life.

Spend an afternoon relaxing and brushing up on your art skills with our art instructor Irving. Join in with a work in progress or just an idea you're ready to put to paper.

It's adventure time!

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Weekly yarn craft meetup for adults

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Enjoy painting an encouraging word that empowers and inspires you. Take home your masterpiece to use as a daily motivation.

Bark your calendars for this pawesome event made especially for your furbabies! The spring Bacon Hunt is coming to the Audelia Road Branch Library!

This Basket Weaving Workshop in continued from Basket Weaving Part 1 on March 25, 2023

Join us for movie Saturdays in the library's 1st floor auditorium!

*Movies, times, and location subject to change

This March we are playing:

3/4-- Mean Girls

You are invited to an exciting experience!

Enjoy painting, friends, and a good time!

Registrants receive a painting kit to be picked up at the Polk-Wisdom Branch.

Learn about Ramadan and how it is celebrated around the world! 

Join us for storyhour, crafts, games, henna, and Arabic Calligraphy!  

Calling all sewers, knitters, quilters, and embroiders! Come to our Sew and Tell with your latest project as we share tips and ideas. Beginners welcome!

Are you a poet and you didn’t know it? Have you ever wanted to woo someone with beautiful Shakespearean sonnets? Well, now is your chance!

Join Studio Bella For Kids for a Make n’ Take Project!  Together, we'll create the cutest motorized buzzing bees and learn how we can help our pollinators benefit the earth in the spirit of Earth Day. 

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

Do you want to learn or increase your skills? 

Please come to the Vickery Park Branch every Saturday @ 2pm to knit, crochet, cross-stitch, and macrame.

Crafternoons every Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Forest Green Branch Library!    

Hop on by for today's Crafternoon! We'll be making a cute recycled paper roll rabbit for this spring season!

Our Creative Learning Room will be open six days a week for children ages 0-5 with their adults. Experience our sensory wall, life size building blocks, and a play kitchen space. Parent or caretaker supervision is required at all times.

Visit the Kleberg Rylie branch library on April 1st from 2:00 to 3:00pm after the Egg Hunt for a special Spring Magic Show with Gregg's Magic!

Free and fun for the whole family!

We're crafting chicks using the technique of quilling! Quilling involves using strips of paper that are rolled, looped, curled, twisted and otherwise manipulated to create different shapes, and glued together to create decorative designs.

Pase por Bachman Lake Branch Library los Sabados por la tarde si le gusta tejer o hacer ganchillo.

Prepare for a day at the movies from the comfort of the library!

Feel free to bring snacks and make yourself comfortable. All movies shown are rated G or PG and suitable for children 6 and up.

Join us for this months DIY with DPL, where we will be mixing up individual pots of a moisturizing and exfoliating emulsifying scrub.

This program is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library.

Expand your music listening skills with this online offering from the Dallas Library's Music Program.

Every Tuesday afterschool there will be a new craft available to make and take with you.

Todos los martes hay una nueva artesanía disponible para hacer y llevar contigo.

CodeStream Studios will present an interactive coding workshop! During this event, you will get to play computer science games designed by our very own programmers. Each game will teach you the foundation you’ll need to become a pro! 

Decorate your own Cascarones or “confetti eggs”, brightly colored confetti filled egg shells. 

Reading to therapy dogs can help improve kids' confidence in their reading abilities. Since dogs are not judgmental, kids can read to them without feeling the pressure and anxiety that may come from reading to peers. 

It's adventure time!

Fridays at 3pm will be the guitar/ukulele class!

Classes run from the weeks of January 4 - March 31, 2023.

Spring music classes for school-aged students 6-12 yrs on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

It's time for a fun Family Afternoon movie at the Library!
Snacks and drinks will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

This month we will be watching: Strange World

Visit the Skyline branch every Friday from 3:30- 4:30pm and have some fun after school.  Make crafts, color, read, or make new friends!

Join us for for this suds-y DIY, where we will be mixing up individual pots of a moisturizing and exfoliating emulsifying scrub.

RSVP to save your spot today!

Join us for FREE weekly music classes with top-notch instructors at your local library! Instruments will be provided for use during class.

4 p - 4:45 p Guitar or Keyboard

Sign up at the front desk or email vickerypark@dallas.gov.

Join us for FREE weekly music classes at Vickery Park Branch with top-notch instructors at your local library!

Wednesdays at 4pm will be the keyboard class with an emphasis on music theory!

Classes run from the weeks of January 4 - March 31, 2023.

Stop by the Vickery Park Branch Library every Wednesday @ 4 pm to learn the rules and strategies of chess! This program is suitable for kids ages 7 and up and welcome to all!

Engage your creativity after school! Library Out Loud teaches STEM in a whole new way. 

Presented by The Artist Outreach and sponsored by Big Thought.

Let’s create something extraordinary by combining techniques in collage, de-collage, assemblage, and embellishments from a selection of books, boxes, tins, canvas, and other non-traditional surfaces.

Visit the Pleasant Grove black box theatre Wednesday, March 29th from 4:30 -5:30pm for our family movie night featuring, Disenchanted!

5:00 p - 5:45 pm - Keyboards

Sign up at the front desk or email vickerypark@dallas.gov

Join us for FREE weekly music classes at Vickery Park Branch with top-notch instructors at your local library!

Calling all gamers!

Fridays at 4pm will be a violin class!

Classes run from the weeks of January 4 - March 31, 2023.

Spring music classes for school-aged students 6-12 yrs on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

We are pleased to host local artist Alex Cely for a two-week dance workshop! Explore Latin dance rhythms and basic steps with a dynamic and fun contextualization, and learn about their origin and cultural importance.

5:00 p - 5:45 p -Violin & Theory

Join us for FREE weekly music classes at Vickery Park Branch with top-notch instructors at your local library!

Wednesdays at 5pm will be the violin class!

Classes run from the weeks of January 4 - March 31, 2023.

Spring music classes for school-aged students 6-12 yrs on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

Get a jump start on planting season! Join us to learn about seeds native to the North Texas area as we get down and dirty with making seed balls that you can plant - or throw - in your own yard.

Make soothing bath bombs that will leave your skin soft and moisturized! Sweet almond oil nourishes the skin, while colloidal oatmeal soothes any irritation.

Practice your Spanish conversational skills at this casual weekly meetup. This program is open to Spanish language learners of all levels. 

5:00 p - 5:45 pm - Violin

Join us for FREE weekly music classes at Vickery Park Branch with top-notch instructors at your local library!

Sign up at the front desk or email vickerypark@dallas.gov

Get a jump start on planting season! Join us to learn about seeds native to the North Texas area as we get down and dirty with making seed balls that you can plant - or throw - in your own yard.

Visit the Skyline branch Thursday, March 30th from 5:30-7:00pm for free board games at the library.

Spaceships, and planets, and lasers oh my! Enjoy a night of board games that will take you to another world!

Join PEN America for a media literacy workshop and Q&A. We will begin with our classic media literacy workshop and then explore the connection between disinformation and other anti-democratic trends.

Create your very own work of art in a painting workshop. There is just one catch: no brush!

Beginning March 14th, the library will be screening a wide range of teenage cinema. From the DC or Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to potent coming-of-age dramas and comedies, we will host a wide variety of YA films. 

Don't scrap it-- plant it!

Kitchen scrap gardening is when you grow plants from items you'd typically throw away or into your compost bucket. Reusable gardening is a great way to reinforce sustainable living concepts of recycling.

Try Meditative Coloring to Help Ease Stress and Anxiety

Find your artistic voice by joining educators and artists from the Dallas Museum of Art to explore techniques, be inspired by amazing works of art and artists, and to level up your skills to expand your creativity toolkit!