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.

Considering downsizing but don't know where to start? Join this Care N Care presentation for Seniors and learn the tips and tricks of downsizing and decluttering your home. 

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!

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 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.

Join us for one Saturday a month as we do something fun for the whole family!

We're celebrating the start of Spring in the most Eggcellent way we know how: a party!

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. 

Want to learn to use a sewing machine? 

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!

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.

Love nature? Love reading about nature? Join our nature book club!

Looking for a fun and creative way to express your plans and goals for the future?

Vision boards are designed to serve as a source of inspiration and motivation for any and everyone!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Are you new to drawing? Has it been some time since your last sketch? Want to learn the fundamentals every artist needs to start their journey?

Celebrate National Disability Awareness Month with a visit from Canine Companions and learn all about service dogs! A few service dogs will be present to demonstrate how they work! 

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.

Find your artistic voice by creating a unique paper art project. Our program will be a step-by-step guide to creating your own beautiful art decoration. All supplies will be provided.

Theme: Accordion Paper Flowers

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.

In celebration of National Disability Awareness Month and National Deaf History Month, Bianca Walker, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access Specialist from the Deaf Action Center, will present about the histo

Literary LEOG is a creative workshop for school aged children. Participants can create their own stories, or a story based on books in the library.

Join us for a basket weaving workshop and try your hand at three-dimensional weaving.

Learn to play or sharpen your skills. All ages and skill levels welcome! Happens every second and fourth Saturday from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

Afternoon Movie DC League of Superpets

Rated PG

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis.

In partnership with the Juanita Craft House and South Dallas Cultural Center, the MLK Book Club is a space to share, connect and learn through a selected book.

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

Skip the Sunday Scaries and brighten your day with some paper puzzles and games (think sudoku and crosswords, "exquisite corpse" and MadLibs).

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.

While most history classes cover the original settlement of the United States Northeast coast, not many cover the settlement of the Gulf Coast of the South.

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.

Librarian Nick Manca will present about the Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Genealogy Collection and research opportunities available at the Dallas Public Library.

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.

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!

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!    

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.

Every other Saturday gather at the library with your family for a movie showtime presented in Spanish! Everyone is welcome!

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

Want to learn a craft, but you aren't very crafty? Come learn the basics of the art of macrame while creating your own macrame wall hanging.

Limited to 10 adults. Registration is required.

Are you an adult that loves to read and talk about different manga series?

This new book club might be for you. A new manga series will be discussed each month. 

This month: TBA

Adults, visit the Pleasant Grove branch Saturday, March 25th from 2:30-3:30pm and create your own free photo pendant necklace to take home.

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

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

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.

Crafternoons every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at the Skillman Southwestern Branch Library!    

Have you ever made your own slime? What ingredients do you prefer to use contact solution, baking soda, shaving cream? Come make slime with us and share your tips and tricks. 

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. 

Crafternoons every 2nd and 4th Thursday at the Audelia Road Branch Library!    

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

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. 

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!

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

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

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.

This Wednesday we will be practicing solar photography, also known as Cyanotype Photography. 

Celebrate Women's History Month and enjoy the retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of womanhood set against the backdrop of post-Civil War America. Rated PG. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday March 22.

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!

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.

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.

Hey Eddy is back and we got games to play. 

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. 

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 p -Violin & Theory

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

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.

Increase your storage at home with this useful craft! 

Give your storage a spring sprucing! These evening participants will make a macrame Fruit Storage Hammock. The perfect way to increase storage in your kitchen!

Tiffeni Fontno, Director of the Peabody Library at Vanderbilt University, joins us virtually to share and discuss books for children and young adults to celebrate women and girls of color. Tiffeni incorporates screen-shari

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. 

Learn to play Dungeons and Dragons-

Please join the Dallas Public Library and the Juanita Craft Foundation in celebrating the legacy of Dallas civil rights activist Juanita Craft with the dedication of the Juanita Craft Reading Room on the Dallas History & Archives flo

Learn how to repair holes in clothing and replace buttons by hand! Knowing how to sew by hand can help you extend the life of your clothing and allow for your very own customizations.

Try Meditative Coloring to Help Ease Stress and Anxiety

Fretz Park Community... lets meet over a good book. 

Fretz Park Book Club meets once a month on Thursday at 6:00pm. Lets discuss opinions, themes and favorite chapters about the book posted below. 

Greetings adventurers!