Program Type:
Arts, Culture, & Literature, Community & City Engagement, Early Literacy, Out-of-School Time/Summer ReadingAge Group:
Family, Infant, toddler & preschool (ages 0-5), School Age (ages 6-12), Teen (ages 13-17), Adult (18+)
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Program Description
Event Details
Celebrate Black History/African-American Heritage Month with a month long of programming to inform, celebrate, honor, and highlight the Black community's history and achievements.
Online Programming
Adult & Teen
- February 1 at 2 p.m.- Beginning African American Genealogy
- February 11 at 11 a.m.- Lunch and Learn with Cleveland Robinson, founder of Robinson House Behavioral Health Services
- February 15 at 2 p.m.- Researching African Americans in Census Records
- February 25 6 p.m.- Kamica King (Musical Performance)
Children
- February 17 at 4 p.m.- Afro Dance
Kits
- February 1 10 a.m.-Black History Month Water Color Kit- Highland-Hills Branch
- February 2 to March 3- Black History Month Craft Kits- Grauwyler Park Branch
- February 12 at 1 p.m. -Celebrating Mae Jemison- Take Home Constellation Craft- Hampton-Illinois Branch
- February 16 at 4 p.m.- Crafternoon: Community Quilt kit- Skillman Southwestern Branch
- February 23 at 3:30 p.m.- Crafternoon: Standing African Mask kit- Vickery Park Branch
- February 19 at 2 p.m.- Crafternoon: Community Quilt kit- Forest Green Branch
- February 22 at 3:30 p.m.- STEM Tuesdays: Traffic Light kit- Vickery Park Branch
- February 23 at 4 p.m.- Crafternoon: Community Quilt kit- Audelia Road Branch
- February 24 at 3:30 p.m.- Crafternoon: Community Quilt kit- Vickery Park Branch
- February 26 at 2 p.m.- Crafternoon: Traffic Light kit- Forest Green Branch
In-Person
- February 16 at 5:30 p.m.-Ebony Shakes Performance- Pleasant Grove Branch
- February 26 at 4 p.m.-The Bandan Koro Experience- J. Erik Jonsson Central Library- 4th floor
Adult & Teen
- February 12 at 11 a.m.- African American Movie Series- Martin Luther King Jr. Branch
- February 12 at 12 p.m.- Black Cinema Film Screening- Forest Green Branch
- February 22 at 4:30 p.m.- Celebrating Black Inventors: Create Your Own 3D Printed Keychain- Highland Hills Branch
- February 19 at 12 p.m.- Black Cinema Film Discussion- Forest Green Branch
- February 24 at 4 p.m.- Celebrate your Heritage with a Custom T-Shirt- Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest
February 24 at 5:30 p.m.- Black Creatives: Local Black Artists (painting workshop with "Loosemedium")- Skillman Southwestern Branch- February 26 at 12 p.m.- Black Cinema Film Screening- Skillman Southwestern Branch
- March 2 at 5:30 p.m.- Black Creatives: Local Black Artists (painting workshop with Ebony Lewis)- Forest Green Branch
- March 3 at 5:30 p.m.- Black Creatives: Local Black Artists (painting workshop with Ebony Lewis)- Audelia Road Branch
- March 9 at 5:30 p.m.- (Rescheduled) Black Creatives: Local Black Artists (painting workshop with William Toliver)- Vickery Park Branch
Children
- February 8 to 19- Creative Kids Coloring: Black History Month- Timberglen Branch
- February 8 to 19- Creative Kids Coloring: Black History Month- Fretz Park Branch
- February 8 to 19- Creative Kids Coloring: Black History Month- Park Forest Branch
- February 8 to 19- Creative Kids Coloring: Black History Month- Renner Frankford Branch
- February 26- Black Dance Evolution- J. Erik Jonsson Central Library -2nd Floor