Week Calendar

Do you want to learn how to play chess?  Are you a chess enthusiast or looking for someone to play against? Then come check out Mountain Creek our Chess Club! Chess boards are provided.

Artstillery offers a fun, interactive experience for those who are interested in sharing space and moving their bodies to invoke joy, healing and shared experiences. Join us to loosen your mind, spirit and body.

Basic introduction to Shakespeare and his work. This program will be divided into 4 series:

June 13th: Intro and Insults

June 27th: Comedies

July 11th: Tragedies and Roman Plays

July 25th: Problem Plays.

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! 

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.

Come join us for stories, songs, crafts, and other activities in our play-learning space!

After which, you and your child can enjoy the toys, puzzles, and soft play zone in our children's area! 

For ages 0-4.

Be a character from folk tales, picture books, or poetry!

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. 

Welcome to the library where we are taking LEGO building to the next level with various materials and challenges to engage STEAM learning principles with a familiar well beloved toy, legos! 

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 the Flying Acorns, an all-squirrel home delivery service specializing in nuts. Lately, there have been several complaints that the packages are not being delivered correctly.

What makes basil the King of Herbs?  Stephen Seewoester, a Dallas County Master Gardener, will speak on Basil, the King of Herbs. His special garden passion is herbs more than 50 varieties with basil being his favorite.

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.

Party like a wizard and celebrate the magic, friends, and adventure of the wizarding world and Harry Potter!

Celebrate the boy who lived with a day of crafts, movies, games, and fun at the Audelia Road Branch Library! 

Ride the royal icing wave for Summer Cookie Decorating! Your instructor, Aamina is a trained pastry instructor at Colin College and will demonstrate basic decorating techniques and ideas as well as how to get the perfect royal icing consistency.

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

The impacts of improperly disposed of waste are apparent in many ways. We see plastic bags floating in the wind, cans squashed under car tires, and straws washed up on the banks of the Trinity River.

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.

The cornerstone of a healthy anatomy is motion, and regular activity is the key to reducing pain and discomfort during your everyday activities.

Are you new to watercolor painting? Want to learn the fundamentals every artist needs to start their journey?

Like a combination of cross-stitch and paint-by-numbers, diamond painting is the new creative hobby that’s taking the crafting world by storm. You simply apply colorful resin rhinestones to richly-pigmented canvas paintings. The result?

Pop, lock, and drop it on over for a day filled with fun in the sun!  Enjoy live music mixing from K104, balloon artists, Kona Ice Truck, dance artists and more!

Celebrate Harry Potter's birthday at the Martin Luther King Branch Library with activities, crafts as well as a screening of the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

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

Let’s explore the science of sound as you create your very own rock band of recyclables!
By making simple adjustments to the instruments, you can raise or lower their pitch and make different kinds of sounds. 

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

Join in the fun this Summer with creative arts and craft making that you can take home.

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

Come sit and knit with us at this weekly craft meet-up for adults.

Don't know how? Knot a problem! Needles, yarn and help are all provided for beginners who want to learn.

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

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.

This paper plate pufferfish craft for kids is super cute and easy to make! It provides lots of cutting practice for little hands!

Wizards and Witches are invited to celebrate the most famous wizard who has ever lived! This Hogwarts-themed birthday party will include various activities and crafts to celebrate the great Harry Potter himself. 

Watch a fun movie every Saturday afternoon* here at the library!

*Note: times, room, and films are subject to change.

John Hammond invites Ian Malcolm to visit a second island where dinosaurs are still thriving. When Ian learns that his paleontologist girlfriend is already there, he agrees to go.

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

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

Historic newspapers hold a wealth of information about your family's history. From weddings, to town gossip, to land sales - newspapers will give an in-depth snapshot into your ancestors' daily lives.

Come and hang with some cool ladies and knit your own projects or work on a group project.

Join the Flying Acorns, an all-squirrel home delivery service specializing in nuts. Lately, there have been several complaints that the packages are not being delivered correctly.

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.

Get creative with us this summer and create your very own faux stained glass window ornament. 
Use it to brighten up your kitchen or give it as a gift.

We'll see you there!

Supplies are limited to the first 15 people.

Looking to hone your green thumb without spending a fortune on gardening supplies? Dallas County Master Gardeners is here to help!

Crafternoons are rewed for the summer with a sunny summertime theme! Saturdays at 2 p.m. at the Forest Green Branch Library for a summer twist to our crafts! 

While supplies last. 

Do you want to learn or increase your skills? 

Come and join us every Saturday @ 2pm to knit, crochet, cross-stitch, and macrame.

The Colors of Kindness Bubble show teaches tolerance, encourages kids not to be bullies, and the science of bubbles. This show has brand-new bubble effects, so if you've seen bubble shows before, get ready for something new.

Feel free to stop on in and enjoy a movie! Bring your own refreshments and kick back for a relaxing time. For more information on titles being shown, please contact the branch.

Join us for a family build as we build an airship. Easy enough for a 5-year old, but fun for all ages. Parents will have a fun time working with their child on this project. Parent/caregiver must be present at all times.

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 July 7 - September 29, 2023.

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

Island stories and hula will engage children as they travel the enchanted seas through stories and music with master storyteller, Dorayne Breedlove.

A Part of SMART Summer. Sponsored by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library

Get out of the heat and enjoy the air-conditioned library for an afternoon matinee, Toy Story 1.

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

The book club with no assigned reading and no pressure!

Wednesdays at 4pm will be the keyboard class with an emphasis on music theory!

Classes run from the weeks of July 5- September 27.

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!

Get out of the heat and hang out with fellow Mah Jongg players to learn the fun and mentally stimulating game of Mah Jongg!

4 p - 4:45 p Guitar 

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

Calling all gamers!

Fridays at 4pm will be a violin class!

Classes run from the weeks of July 7 - September 29, 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

Wednesdays at 5pm will be the violin class!

Classes run from the weeks of July 5 - September 27, 2023.

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

Bring your friends to the library for a night of fun adult party games! Games include What Do You Meme, The Blockbuster Game, Tell Me Without Telling Me, 5 Second Rule and Urban Trivia.

Students will expand acting and life skills such as ensemble building, self-confidence, and problem solving while developing their talents in an atmosphere that encourages fun, commitment, and taking creative risks in a safe environment.

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!

We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out.

Learn practical hand sewing skills including blind stitching holes, blanket stitch and sewing on buttons and zippers. Test those skills as you complete the monthly project.

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?

Learn to play Dungeons and Dragons-

Come join us for a Spanish Class for beginners.  We will learn grammar and vocabulary and will also learn about music, art, culture and current events in the Spanish speaking world.  

Enjoy a free-family concert with positive music and the recording sounds of Nature with INTUNE WITH NATURE. Produced by Nova Pangea, presented by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. 

Create your very own work of art in a painting workshop. There is just one catch: no brush!

Who says snow globes are for Winter only? Craft a beachy summer snow globe to capture the warmth of Texas Summer!

All materials provided while supplies last so please register. 

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. 

Join us for this month's book club selection:  KLARA AND THE SUN

For one night, the Dallas Public Library will be transformed into an enchanting land of fairies, adventure, and magic!