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.

Join KERA KIDS as we explore science thorugh the Play and Learn Science app! 

Unase a KERA KIDS mientras exploramos la ciencia a traves de la aplicacion Play & Learn Science! 

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 The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. 

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.

This class is a continuation of "Basic Computer Classes/Clases básicas de computadora."

In this class students will continue practicing their basic computer skills but will also begin to focus on working with specific computer programs

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.

In celebration of Earth Day we have invited local artist Jennifer Wester to create a color in chalk art experience.

No Green thumb? That's fine, you can't kill a succulent. Probably. Come see us at the North Oak Cliff Library to build your very own terrarium that will support a live succulent.

Forest Green Library Presents Movie Matinee! Every 4th Saturday of the month, we will have a movie screening. The movie changes every month!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Boost your memory and keep your mind sharp with Senior Trivia with facts from history, music, and pop culture presented by Care N Care. 

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. 

Want to upcycle music CDs? Breathe new life into an old CD by repurposing it into beautiful pieces of art. If you like rock painting, you’ll enjoy this program! 

Adults, visit the Skyline branch Saturday, April 22nd from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. to celebrate nature and Shakespeare's birthday!

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 as we sew simple monogram keychains out of fabric felt. 

Te invitamos a esta manualidad. Estaremos haciendo llaveros cosidos.

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.

Come celebrate Earth Day on Saturday, April 22nd, by making an Upcycled Toilet Paper Roll Flower.

"As... you... wish!"

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.

*Special note: For this meeting, we will be joined by civil rights activist and author, Ernest McMillan.

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

When we think about Shakespeare, we think of it performed in a very specific accent. However, Shakespeare hasn’t always sounded like that!

Greetings and salutations, patrons of the arts.

The Dallas Public Library is proud to announce a Dungeons and Dragons actual play show inspired by the works of William Shakespeare!

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.

Earthquakes! Tornadoes! Hurricanes! Droughts! Throughout history, weather has impacted the lives of our ancestors and caused disease, death, migration and property loss.

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!    

Paint your own pot to plant any spring seeds you may have! Make it fun, silly, and 100% you! 

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 professional storyteller Dorayne Breedlove, on "Earth Day" to be inspired by nature stories and share with each other all the way we can take care of our beautiful Earth.

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

Stop by to design your own bookmark so you never loose your place in a book again!

It's a suncatcher, it's a wind chime, it's a suncatcher wind chime! Paint one for yourself at this Saturday's craft. 

All materials available while supplies last. 

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

Dallas County Master Gardener, Kevin Burns, loves native Texas perennial plants and roses. He will be presenting a talk providing information about our native Texas wildflowers.

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.

It's library week! Tell us how much you love the library by painting inspirational words on our library banner!  Paint is provided.

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

We have invited the Cara Mia Theatre Company to perform Juana Ines: The Child Who Loved to Read, a Play about Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz.

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. 

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. 

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.

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!

Unleash your creative side! Each month we'll host a new fun craft project. 

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!

Using all recycled and reused material we're celebrating Earth day by creating a mosaic art piece of planet Earth!

This Program Made Possible 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.

Celebrate Spring with fun crafts the entire family can enjoy. 

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

Calling all gamers!

This is a culmination of the practice the students of the Dallas Public Library. It is open to everyone and will be offered in person and on Zoom. We hope you'll attend.

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. 

Bring science and art together in this fun craft! We'll be using tubes and foil to create a neat kaleidoscope that can teach us about reflections and patterns!

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

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. 

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 Hunger by Hamsun

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.

Join us for an hour of activities to help you relax and learn different ways to manage stress, anxiety, and the wears of every day life. Some of our activities and happenings will include:

Do you love a good mystery?

Would you like to share your love of mysteries with others?

Join the Audelia Road Branch's Mystery Book Club which meets every 3rd Thursday of the month to discuss a predetermined book.

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.

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. 

Open to all LGBTQIA+ individuals and allies, Pride@thePark is an arts and literature program centered on queer media either by queer authors or featuring queer characters.

Don't just recycle; upcycle!

From used K-cups, wine corks, old shirts, and books to plastic bottles, toilet paper rolls, and so much more, let's transform your trash into treasure!