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.

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.

Enjoy a Halloween dress rehearsal by wearing your costume to storytime!

After our stories, there will be a little parade around the library to show off your costume!

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 Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.

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

In this beginners workshop, students will learn about leather tools, types of leather and hand stitching. Students should walk away with completed leather pieces at the end of each class to take home!

Visit the Prairie Creek branch every Saturday from 10:00am - noon for our weekly gathering to share patterns, projects, and socialize.

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:

Stop by for a fun and relaxing time that the whole family will enjoy. Families will get to participate in coloring, journaling and a Lego makerspace as tools to help with ins and outs of day-to-day living. 

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. 

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

Get ready for Halloween with a Spooky-Fun time for the whole family! 

10:30 AM: Mini-Halloween Storytime followed by a Pre-K craft in the theater

Make your own Spooky Book Nook to add that little extra bit of fright to your mini at-home libraries with this spine-chilling addition to your shelves.

This month's book club pick is Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe.

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.

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Play a game of American Mahjong with others!

Spend an afternoon relaxing and brushing up on your art skills with our art instructor Irving. Learn the basics of different aquamedia and how to use/maintain our many art tools until you're ready to pursue your own ideas and art pieces. 

Celebrate spooky season with the fun horror films that we'll be showing in the 1st Floor Auditorium!

Note: Rated R movies are intended for audiences 18 and older; films, times, and room are subject to change.

Celebrate spooky season with the fun horror films that we'll be showing in the 1st Floor Auditorium!

Note: Rated R movies are intended for audiences 18 and older; films, times, and room are subject to change.

Are you new to drawing and sketching? 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?

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.

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.

Drumba is a fun, unique group fitness workout utilizing weighted drumsticks, dance moves, and high energy music. 

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

Literary LEGO is a creative workshop for school aged children. Participants can create their own stories, or a story based on books in the library.

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! 

Celebrate spooky season with the fun horror films that we'll be showing in the 1st Floor Auditorium!

Note: Rated R movies are intended for audiences 18 and older; films, times, and room are subject to change.

Let's get spooky at the library! Wear your best Halloween Costume, walk through our haunted house, make spooky crafts, and trick or treat! 

When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.

Calling all chess prodigies and aspiring grandmasters! Unlock the timeless allure of chess and embark on a captivating journey of strategic mastery and intellectual camaraderie every 2nd and 4th Saturday at 1:00 PM.

Recipes hold history—histories of our family, the lands they come from, and of survival. 

Celebrate Fright Night this year at the Haunting of Hampton Scare Maze. Bring your whole group to experience the terrors within. 

This event is made possible by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. 

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.

Knitting, companionship, gossip, oh my!!!

Bring your yarn and your needles to our weekly meet-up at the Lakewood Branch Library for some knitting fun.

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.

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!    

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

If you have a passion for gardening and would love to meet people that also do, come enjoy an hour of socializing, seed swapping, and even a craft provided by the North Texas Master Naturalists who will be bringing supplies for participants to mak

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 how to edit your work with confidence, make adjustments as needed, utilize editing software, and find editors for larger pieces or general feedback. Each class ends with an optional writing prompt.

Crafternoons every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at the Vickery Park Branch 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. 

Crafternoons every Thursday at the Audelia Road Branch Library!    

Protect you and your loved ones from the Evil Eye with a custom bracelet.

Supplies courtesy of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library

Using materials you can find from local stores, use your imagination and create your own character costume for Halloween while practicing the age-old art of playing pretend.  

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.

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!

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!

In this class, we will introduce the basics of special effects makeup for costumes and characters.  This is a family-friendly event with materials and practices appropriate for varying ages at a beginner's level.  

Calling all young arachnid enthusiasts! Join us at the library for a spooktacular kids' program where you can create your very own Creepy-Crawly Spider Headbands.

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!

Come learn how to loop and thread beads into wearable art. Create a statement piece that is as unique as you!

Calling all gamers!

Meet new friends and discover the addiction of the game of Mah Jongg.

These sessions will be open play with no instructors.

You must bring your own set.

Calling all young arachnid enthusiasts! Join us at the library for a spooktacular kids' program where you can create your very own Creepy-Crawly Spider Headbands.

Protect you and your loved ones from the Evil Eye with a custom bracelet.

Supplies courtesy of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library

Looking for a fun and safe way to celebrate Halloween with your family? Look no further! Our Halloween Party and Costume Contest has something for everyone, from the tiniest trick-or-treaters to the seasoned Halloween enthusiasts.

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

Instruments will be provided for use during class and may be available to check out (just like a library book).

Calling all gamers!

Make a spooky sensory bottle just in time for Halloween!

All materials will be provided while supplies last. 

Fridays at 4pm will be a violin class!

Classes run from October 13th to December 22nd, 2023.

Fall 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

Is Halloween giving you the chills? Well, why not carry a charm with you? Making pumpkins and bats tiny can not only be fun but also cute!

Wednesdays at 5pm will be the violin class!

Classes run from the October 11th through December 20th.

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

Challenge one another or our staff and see who comes out on top! From 4:30 to 6:30, we will have our X-Box and Playstation 5 Available for teens to come and meet, chat, play, and challenge fellow gamers!

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.

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!

Teens and adults gather at the library for a classic movie night with a more mature rating.  

October 26th we will be showing The Hands of Orlac (1924).

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. 

Can you work together to complete the puzzle in one hour?

Join us on the fourth Thursday of each month to participate in our Puzzle Challenge!

Please be sure to download the word document attachment on this page.

Each month we have a game night where all are welcome to play with us! 

No registration required, just show up and let's play some games!

Start Making Sense Book Club

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

Fretz Park Community... lets meet over a good book. 

Fretz Park Book Club meets once a month on Thursday at 6:30pm. Lets discuss opinions, themes and favorite chapters about the book posted below. 

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American histor