Week Calendar

How Irish are you? Do you have an Irish ancestor? Celebrate Irish-American Heritage Month on the most Irish of all the days, St. Patrick's 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.

Visit the Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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! 

Visit the Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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 Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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.

Ahoy Matey! We are having a Pirate's Swashbuckling Spring Break at the Lakewood Library. 

Visit the Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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 Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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!

Addictive Books is DPL's monthly book club taking place at Union Coffee. We meet once a month on Saturday for coffee and discussion. This month's book club book is Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen. 

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 starting a new writing club!

We hope to build a supportive group that can provide accountability, help you stay motivated, and share in the joys and woes of creative writing.

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.

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. 

Join us for a beginner class in watercolor painting with watermelons! 

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

Want to learn to use a sewing machine? 

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! 

This program celebrates the unique language of Latin American classical music.
We explore the instruments, dances, and rhythms of the region, and show how composers portray their identity and traditions through the piano.

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!

Ahoy Matey! We are having a Pirate's Swashbuckling Spring Break at the Lakewood Library. 

The Perot will be coming to the Lakewood Library to provide Pirate-themed STEM activities! 

Care N Care Presents: Aromatherapy for Seniors! Participants will create an essential oil roller bottle and learn about the benefits of aromatherapy. 

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!

Ahoy Matey! We are having a Pirate's Swashbuckling Spring Break at the Lakewood Library. 

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.

Ahoy Matey! We are having a Pirate's Swashbuckling Spring Break at the Lakewood Library. 

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

Make a cute pillow that features a handy pocket for holding your current read! All supplies provided.

Ahoy Matey! We are having a Pirate's Swashbuckling Spring Break at the Lakewood Library. 

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

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.

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. 

The Celebration will include music, dancing, and demonstrations of the Mayan ballgame. 

It's adventure time!

Join us to paint and decorate a terracotta pot! Once it's finished you'll be gifted soil and seeds to plant and watch thrive!

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

A paint your own planter! Participants will be given a 4" terracotta planter to decorate themselves. Once the planters are decorated and dried (if necessary) staff would assist in distributing potting soil and planting a seed of choice.

Want to decorate your own phone case? Join us at Skyline while we partake in the Japanese style of "decoden". Charms, imitation whip cream, and pop sockets provided (or bring your own phone case) to decorate as you please!

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.

Teens, visit us during spring break for this fun and interactive mini journals & flip books workshop by CAP artist Mylan Nguyen! With a variety of risograph printed page elements, you'll get to assemble and customize your own mini journal.

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.

Adults, visit the Prairie Creek branch Saturday, March 18th from 1:00 - 2:00pm for an afternoon of crafting!

For those curious about the philosophy of existentialism, who ponder the nature of their existence and wonder about what it all means, freedom of choice and "being" itself, take a closer look by participating in a new book club about tha

This is the makeup class that was postponed on February 18, 2023.

Participants bring your embroidery items back to complete your tote bag.

Want to learn a craft, but you aren't very crafty? Similar to the popular paint and sip businesses, come learn the basics of acrylic painting while working on creating your creative take on the selected painting. 

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!

Meet other musicians, learn new songs, and play together in a relaxed and supportive environment. Acoustic musicians of all skill levels are invited to bring an instrument and join in. 

All are welcome to enjoy the music!

Join the Nasher Sculpture Center at the Bachman Lake Branch Library as we celebrate Mountain Moving Day and use creativity to explore shared ideas and experiences.

Its time for more MOVIE MANIA at North Oak Cliff!!

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.

This program will be held outdoors.

Everyone’s favorite musical group is missing! Two friends go looking for them but the show is about to begin. Can they find them before time runs out?!

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!    

Celebrate women's history month with this fun and informative craft, celebrating some awesome women in history! 

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 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 for an hour long program for a free guided meditation workshop and enjoy the peace within. Workshop will be followed by live music by Kirill Medvedev, a Santoor artist (who plays 100 string traditional instrument )

Are you an Urban Fiction reader?

This month we will be reading-

Rabbi: the autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams

Description:

If you love talking about murder, listening to true crime podcasts, and daydream about becoming a crime scene investigator, then this book club is for you.

Visit the Skyline branch library for a Shrek movie marathon during Spring Break every day from 10am - Noon! Free popcorn and drinks available while supplies last.

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

The African American Genealogical Interest Group explores areas of genealogy research unique to the African Americ

Amine fans, the Audelia Road Branch, and Dallas Anime Meetup have partnered to provide a book-club-style meeting for adults where attendees discuss an anime series with questions and trivia. Each month will feature a new topic or Anime.

Kids and teens, visit the Pleasant Grove branch Saturday during Spring Break from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. for a fun and different dinosaur themed learning experience!

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!

Kids and teens, visit the Pleasant Grove branch every day during Spring Break from 3:00-4:00pm for a fun and different dinosaur themed learning experience!

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.

Kids and teens, visit the Pleasant Grove branch every day during Spring Break from 3:00-4:00pm for a fun and different dinosaur themed learning experience!

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. 

Kids and teens, visit the Pleasant Grove branch Friday from 3:00-4:00pm for a fun and different dinosaur themed learning experience!

Make a cute pillow that features a handy pocket for holding your current read! All supplies provided.

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

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! 

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!

Learn about the plant cycle and then make a real life grassy friend that requires regular haircuts. You can style away like a hairdresser and try out new styles.

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 afterschool! Library Out Loud teaches STEM in a whole new way. Every Wednesday through March 22.

Presented by The Artist Outreach  and sponsored by Big Thought.

Engage your creativity afterschool! Library Out Loud teaches STEM in a whole new way. Every Wednesday through March 22.

Presented by The Artist Outreach and sponsored by Big Thought.

Create geometric art using a spirograph!

This Program Made Possible by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. 

Join us for a fun craft based on the popular DIY string art trend. We will be making String Art flowers.

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

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Bring your family and friends for a fun

Calling all gamers!

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

Join us for a fun craft based on the popular DIY string art trend. We will be making String Art flowers.

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

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. 

Tune in on Twitch to watch Wendi sumble through the new Paldea region as she builds her team of Pokémon based almost entirely on how cute they are. 

DPL Twitch

Do you love all things Japanese and know every subtype of manga and Anime? Are you on the other side questioning the difference between Manga and Anime?

A group of teens meet up monthly to discuss different books within the same genre. Bring your own snacks!

Two Rules:

-You DO NOT have to finish the book

-NO Spoilers (unless asked otherwise)

Oh hi patron, welcome to Fretz Park's Tuesday Night Tabletop: a monthly rotating showcase of the tabletop hobby.

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. 

Come join us as we read the greatest books of all time.  Today's reading is The Girl with the Golden Eye by Balzac

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

The Renner Frankford Book Club is back in person at the library!   We meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month (except during major holidays).

Are you a fan of manga and Japanese culture? Then come join us at the Manga Club! We'll talk about our favorite manga and anime, share information, and do various activities related to the Land of the Rising Sun.