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.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

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 seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

The Central Library is hosting a new writing club every first and third Saturday of the month!

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

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.

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!

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.

Are you interested in learning about and creating your own punch needle embroidery craft?  Create your own free-form or abstract design or bring in your own design to use as a stencil.  Embroidery hoops in both 4.5” and 9.5” diameter wil

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

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.

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.

In partnership with the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, the library will be screening the film The Harder They Come. This event is part of the OCCC's 50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration.

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

Reception for Rahul Vyas, creator of the paintings and sculpture featured in the show "The African Big Five," the exhibit featured in the 4th floor's Bradshaw Gallery for July and August.

Starting and maintaining the habit of writing can be intimidating. Where do I start? What can I do to get inspired? How can I get feedback on my work?

Starting and maintaining the habit of writing can be intimidating. Where do I start? What can I do to get inspired? How can I get feedback on my work?

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!

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.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

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

Visit the Pleasant Grove Branch every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in August until August 10th from 2:30pm - 3:45pm for a relaxing music program.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

Teachers strategies session.

Visit the Pleasant Grove Branch every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in August until August 10th from 2:30pm - 3:45pm for a relaxing music program.

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 seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

Visit the Pleasant Grove Branch every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in August until August 10th from 2:30pm - 3:45pm for a relaxing music program.

Our Creative Learning Room will be open seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

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 seven days a week all August for children ages 0-5 with their guardian present.

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

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! 

Learn the latest line dances

while maintaining a healthy lifestyle

for your mind, body, and soul.

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. 

It's adventure time!

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Calling all gamers!

Sing your favorite songs,enjoy many tunes, and party with the stars of the Lancaster-Kiest Branch.

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

Come on down to Hobby Hangout, brought to you by Tuesday Night Tabletop at Fretz Park Library. 

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. 

Come join us as we read the greatest books of all time.  Today's reading is Emma by Austen

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?

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.  

Your friendly, community book club is back! We meet every first Wednesday of the month (and the 2nd in November) to share our thoughts, talk favorite characters, and rave about that ending. All adult readers welcome.

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.