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.

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!

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 a fun time of decorating spring themed ornaments to take home with you!

This program is generously 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. 

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.

Join us after storytime for an eggs-ellent egg hunt! Please bring a basket or bag to collect your eggs. 

All eggs provided and available while supplies last. 

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!

Visit the Prairie Creek Branch library Saturday, April 8th from 11:00am - noon for our annual Spring Egg Hunt!

Bring the whole family and enjoy the crafts, games, and egg hunt outside the library!

Grab your baskets and get ready to collect eggs during our Spring Family Fun Egg Hunt at the Vickery Park Branch. Hundreds of eggs are ready and hidden, waiting to be found!

April is National Autism Awareness and Acceptance Month! Celebrate World Autism Awareness Day with Vickery Park Branch Library as we partner with Taiwanese Autistic Artists.

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 ready for Easter and the spring season.  Make a fun sign to hang on your wall or door to welcome friends and family.

Supplies are limited to the first 15 people. Take home what you make.

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.

Join us as we explore a new topic in art every month.  This month's adventure will be Bullet Journaling! The Bullet Journal has been taking the planning community by storm.   Part Planner, Part Journal, 100% customizable!

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.

Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs.  Visiting a club is the exciting first step to building a better you.  There

*Special note: This event will feature a tour at the African American Museum of Dallas at 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, TX 75210. You can either go directly to the museum or meet at the library and we will depart around 1:15pm.

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

A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a wonderful painting ready to hang.

Grab your baskets and get ready to collect eggs during our Spring Family Fun Egg Hunt at the Forest Green Branch. Hundreds of eggs are ready and hidden, waiting to be found!

Curious about the intricacies of lacemaking? Stop by the Forest Green branch library for the Dallas Lace Society Lacemaker's Society weekly meeting. Newcomers are absolutely welcome!  

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.

Genealogy Expert Patti Gillespie, owner of Family Lines and Stories, will help genealogy researchers better understand how to locate their ancestor's Scottish origins.

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.

Decorate and put together a simple kite for some outdoor fun!
All materials available while supplies last. 

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

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.

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 Saturday, April 8th from 2-3pm for our annual Indoor Egg Hunt!

Enjoy craft time and then separate into age groups to search the library for eggs!

Join us for a fun time of decorating spring themed ornaments to take home with you!

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

Every Saturday gather at the library with your family for a movie showtime from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Everyone is welcome! Free snacks while supplies last!

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

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.

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

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

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. 

This workshop will have you learning all the basics of sewing, from using a sewing machine to finishing a tote bag!

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

Classes run from the weeks of April 1- June 30, 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!

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

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 piano class with an emphasis on music theory!

Classes run from the weeks of April 5 -  June 30, 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!

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.

Join us for a fun time of decorating spring themed ornaments to take home with you!

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

5:00 p - 5:45 pm - Keyboards

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.

Receive a personalized button while you flashback to the 90's and watch a classic family movie!

Calling all gamers!

Fridays at 4pm will be a violin class!

Classes run from the weeks of April 1- June 30, 2023.

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

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!

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

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 April 1 - June 30, 2023.

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

Are you looking for the Easter Bunny? Look no further! Visit the Pleasant Grove Branch Wednesday, April 5th from 5 to 6 p.m. for a special spring themed petting zoo!

Candle making returns! Learn candle making basics, such as wax properties and wicking. Choose from a seasonal selection of scents and pour your own candle. At the end, participants will be able to take home a 4oz container candle.

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!

Visit the Pleasant Grove branch every Wednesday for free music classes from 5:30-6:30pm presented by Swan Strings!

Come join us as we read the greatest books of all time.  Today's reading is Hard Times by Dickens

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!

Do you like reading books from a variety of genres? Want to start digging a little deeper into the books you read?

Learn to play Dungeons and Dragons-

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. 

We welcome the first Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo back to his childhood library branch for stories about growing up in East Dallas and life as a competitive slam poet and spoken word artist.

Calling all social readers! We're reviving our branch book club and we need your input.

Try Meditative Coloring to Help Ease Stress and Anxiety

Dallas Public Library Genealogy & History Manager Stephanie Bennett will present Celebrate our Veterans - Military Records on Fold3 during the

Greetings adventurers!

Note: This D&D event is part 2 of the story that we began on Friday, March 24th! Players from the first event will be given priority for scheduling!

Here we go reading again!

This is an adult book club with the aim of being open and accessible to everyone, and to read as many sci-fi & fantasy works from diverse authors as we can.