Week Calendar

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.

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! 

Enjoy an inviting space where you and your child can learn, play, and socialize with others in the community every Tuesday. Listen to stories, move to the music, and have fun!

Recommended for ages 3 and up with a caregiver.

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

 Explore the second season of gardening with the Dallas County Master Gardeners.  Limit of 15 seats so sign up now!

Bone up on our dinosaur knowledge with a day filled with dino-tastic programs!

Grab your dice and bag of tricks and stop by Forest Green's first Dungeons and Dragons event!

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 every 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month from 10:30am to 2:30pm for a come & go makers series presented by the Dallas Young Makers Club!

Learn how to:

Jewelry class marathon workshop lead by local artist, Motcy Designs! 

Move, dance and sing with us to help develop your kiddo's motor movement skills, brain development, and love of music! Music and movement activities are essential building block for a child’s developing brain.

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. 

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.

Social history helps us to better understand lives, provides a background to our research, adds interest to your family tree, and can also lead to finding additional records about your ancestors in places you might not expect!

Calling all sewers, knitters, quilters, and embroiders! Come to our Sew and Tell with your latest project as we share tips and ideas. Beginners welcome!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

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.

Exercise and Tech! Get up and move with Prism Movement Theater. Now that your body is in tune, get in tune with Zoom.

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.

We are excited to offer this 9-week course in beginner piano for adults. If you have always wanted to learn piano but never did, now's your time to sign up! 

Join us as we explore a new topic in art every month.  This month's adventure will be Plant Portraiture!

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

Let's celebrate our differences! This is a program for children with disabilities and their caregivers. Explore through free play and dance to your favorite songs.

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!  

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

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

Are you encountering difficulties with your German research? Have you considered reaching out to a local genealogy society for assistance?

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

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.

HistoryGeo is an online, interactive database with land-ownership maps and historical atlases which are key for tracking historical migrations of families across the early United States.

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

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.

Create, design, and get messy!  ART Saturdays for Kids is a monthly program where participants can create their very own art project.  Each month will highlight a specific artist or type of art and then kids can take the reins to cr

Do you want to learn or increase your skills? 

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

Crafternoons every Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Forest Green Branch Library!    

Show the Grandparents some Love! All Grandparents are invited to Arcadia Park Library to be celebrated! Take photos, complete a special craft, and listen to a special story.

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

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

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.

Learn the latest line dances

while maintaining a healthy lifestyle

for your mind, body, and soul.

Bring the family for a kids friendly movie screening. Repeats weekly.

It's adventure time!

Papel Libre is a vibrant and engaging program that celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month through the creation of colorful and unique lucha libre masks made out of paper.

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. 

Learn more about habitats and create your own for your creature to live in and display on your desk

Each class features beginner level instructions in guitar by an experienced instructor. Instruments provided. Great for ages 8 - 18. For the best learning experience, students should try to attend as many sessions as possible.

We have invited the Nasher Sculpture Center to come to the library and explore art activities around the musesum's Moonbird sculpture by Joan Miro.

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 twist, twirl, and coil paper into wonderful works of art. We will learn about how to use recyclable materials to make necklaces, wristbands, and keychains.

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!

  “Graphic medicine” refers to comics and graphic novels about people’s experiences with health and illness. In this 8-week program, you will meet 4 times with fellow community members to read graphic medicine narratives.

Get out of the heat and hang out with fellow Mah Jongg players.

These sessions will be open play with no instructors.

You must bring your own set.

Join us as we twist, twirl, and coil paper into wonderful works of art. We will learn about how to use recyclable materials to make necklaces, wristbands, and keychains.

Visit the Pleasant Grove branch Wednesday September 6th 4:30 pm 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!

 Today's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of… Meatballs?! Enjoy the classic film “Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs” and afterward get to create your own tornado in a bottle.

Calling all gamers!

Join us as we twist, twirl, and coil paper into wonderful works of art. We will learn about how to use recyclable materials to make necklaces, wristbands, and keychains.

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

Today's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of… Meatballs?! Enjoy the classic film “Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs” and afterward get to create your own tornado in a bottle.

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 The 42nd Parallel by Dos Passos

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!

A dance and movement class focusing on a variety of dance styles and movement practices. All levels are welcome to come explore and expand their personal movement vocabulary. 

Bring your whole family and create a fun birdhouse together.

All supplies provided.

Sponsored by the Friends of the North Oak Cliff Library.

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

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

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.