Week Calendar

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

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.

Tommy Terrific is a big kid that shows up at your event to watch his Uncle Fumpernutter perform his magic show! When no one can find Uncle Fumpernutter, Tommy takes over!

The Family Learning Program is a companion program to Saturday English language classes. Students' children ages 6-11 will do fun, educational, and creative activities while their parents are in class.

Visit the Pleasant Grove branch Saturday, August 5th from 10:30am - 12:30pm for a kids songwriting and composition class presented by local artist, Kirschen 'TeX' Wolford!

Learn the fundamentals of coding using Scratch, a visual programming language developed specifically for young learners. Best for ages 8 - 11.

All classes begin at 11 a.m. and last about an hour.

Tuesday, August 1

Be amazed by Brett's "Colors of Kindness" magic show.

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

Learn the fundamentals of coding using Scratch, a visual programming language developed specifically for young learners. Best for ages 8 - 11.

All classes begin at 11 a.m. and last about an hour.

Tuesday, August 1

Learn the fundamentals of coding using Scratch, a visual programming language developed specifically for young learners. Best for ages 8 - 11.

All classes begin at 11 a.m. and last about an hour.

Tuesday, August 1

Tinker, Create, Explore and Make! 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Free summer meals provided for kids ages 0-18.

Sponsored by 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Free summer meals provided for kids ages 0-18.

Sponsored by 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Equal Heart. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Free summer meals provided for kids ages 0-18.

Sponsored by 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

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.

Stop by to learn all about the cats native to the state we live in, before doing a fun activity about them!

*There will be no real cats in attendance

Movie program for Recreation Center

In a world where the dinosaurs never went extinct, a young Apatosaurus is swept away by a vicious river current and ends up far from home.

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

A chance for our community to leave a little something of themselves on the mural and become apart of DPL history.  This will be a come and go event where anyone can add a handprint to the new mural at Forest Green Branch Library.  Bring

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 Vickery Park Branch Library! 

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

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

Share your creativity as we get crafty every Tuesday at the Lochwood Branch Library!

Visit the Prairie Creek branch every Wednesday this summer from 2 to 3pm for a fun circle of reading with kids your age!

Take turns reading a new story out loud and earn a small prize from your librarian friends.

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

Big puppets have been used in many cultures and for many different theater companies around the world. Oversized puppets, or Mojigangas, have been used in Mexican towns during religious and cultural festivities.

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

The Lochwood Branch Library is getting you ready to go back to school! This event offers students of all ages a chance to get the supplies they need to return to school at no cost to them.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

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 Vickery Park Branch Library! 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 1-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

 Did you know that you can learn about coding without using technology? Well you can!

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

The Dallas YMCA Tech Hub is the best Mobile Video Game Party Truck with its Luxury, Limo-Style Mobile Game Theater with 7 Widescreen High-Definition TVs, Laser Light Show, and Multiplayer Gaming Excitement!

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 1-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 1-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

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 free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 1-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

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. 

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education PV. Open to ages 0-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Enjoy a free, nutritious meal provided by Education Potential Verified. Open to ages 1-18. Meals are made possible through the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program.

Improve your focus and concentration with this method which involves carefully observing the outline and shapes of a subject while slowly drawing its contours in a continuous line.

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 July 5- September 27.

Visit the Pleasant Grove branch Wednesday, August 2nd from 4:00pm to 6:30pm for kids music classes by Swan Strings!

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!

Join us Thursdays afternoons as we explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

Calling all gamers!

Visit the Pleasant Grove Branch every Thursday from 4:30pm to 6:30pm starting July 13th until August 10th for a free Comic Book Building Class!

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. 

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!