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.

Low-impact yoga exercise can provide pain relief naturally to people suffering from arthritis, or other ailments, by strengthening the muscles around the joints, helping to maintain bone strength and increasing flexibility.

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.

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.

Start your journey to becoming a Booker T. Creative Revolutionary! 

Start your journey to becoming a Booker T. Creative Revolutionary! 

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.

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

Hansen’s

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 us on the second Thursday of each month for our Senior Game Day! This month we will be playing Yahtzee and Farkle! Come play your old favorite version, or maybe even learn a new one!

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.

We have partnered with local artist, Jennifer Wester to teach a traditional Cyanotype art class. Cyanotype is a 19th-century photographic process that prints in the sun and produces a beautiful blue image.

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. 

Are you new to drawing and sketching? Want to learn the fundamentals every artist needs to start their journey?

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.

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

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

In celebration of, "National Novel Writing Month" we will be hosting weekly meetings to discuss, share, and brainstorm ideas, drafts, etc. Let us help guide you in your novel writing process. 

Learn basic sewing skills including how to thread a machine, wind a bobbin, and sew straight stitches.

Join the Dallas Folk Music Society this afternoon as they play together for fun, camaraderie, and learning. They will be playing tunes from long ago through today's contemporary favorites.

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.

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!  

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.

Movie Wednesday!
Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we will have a movie screening for all teens, tweens, and school-age kids starting at 3 p.m. The movie changes every month!
All films will be rated G or PG. 

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!    

Learn more about the resources DPL has to research your history, and make your own custom scrapbook page to take home. Bring a photo of an ancestor and an old address for them to use in this program.  

Consider yourself a good cook or baker? Do you love Thanksgiving because it gives you the opportunity to show off your wonderful cooking or baking? Come and enjoy a special recipe swap party at the library.

Catch the Mobile Memory Station at the Kleberg-Rylie Branch Library.

Students from Highland Park High School's Orchestra will introduce young people to string instruments. A short presentation will introduce the audience to a cello, bass, and violin.

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.

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. 

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. 

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

Crafternoons every Thursday at the Audelia Road Branch Library!    

Join us for a fun craft repurposing recycled materials into cute planters!

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!

Come and meet, chat, play, and challenge fellow gamers! Every Tuesday we will have our gaming system available and will be hosting gaming sessions.

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

Classes run from October 11th through December 20th. 

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!

Kindness is in the air, help spread it by creating a kindness stone for yourself or someone else! Give it to someone special, leave it on the ground for someone else to find, or gift it to yourself as an affirmation.

Let's make our own city! This week will be making trees, bushes, flowers, and gardens. Join us to create a town of your own that will be displayed in the library!

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.

Dedicate some time to write at the Lakewood Branch Library! This time is blocked out for those who wish to write and work on their NANOWRIMO or personal projects. 

Totem poles are a traditional way of telling the stories of First Nation families and clans, and of keeping records of important historical events.

Create your own totem pole then discuss what story your totem pole tells!

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.

Whether you are a grandmaster or a beginner, players of all skill levels and ages are welcome to the Preston Royal Chess Club!

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!

Totem poles are a traditional way of telling the stories of First Nation families and clans, and of keeping records of important historical events.

Create your own totem pole then discuss what story your totem pole tells!

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

Rapidly sketch a randomly selected prompt before the timer runs out! Practice some solo sketches or compete with friends.

There is just something so comforting about squeezing a stress ball. But it’s even better when that squishy stress ball smells like calming essential oils!

Gather your friends and join Prairie Creek Branch Library for an evening of intrigue, secrets, and suspense! Put your detective skills to the test, follow the clues, and discover the truth behind a puzzling disappearance at Midnight Manor!

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. 

Come celebrate Diwali with the Youth Discovery Center! Enjoy a DIY Henna and flower lantern craft!

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!

Create a leaf bowl perfect for Autumn decor!

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!

Bring your art skills and help the Library and the DMA paint a mural that will go up in the children's area. Ages 12-18.

Discover the joy of sewing in our Beginner's Sewing Class! In this introductory workshop for adults, you'll learn the basics of sewing while creating a delightful frosted animal cracker-shaped throw pillow.

The book club with no assigned reading and no pressure!

Learn about safety in professional nail salons, practice a little self-care, and take the provided supplies to bring the spa home with you. 

Registration required. All materials will be provided. 

Test your knowledge of Studio Ghibli! Team up with your friends or challenge them.

There will be prizes for trivia winners.

We will have a craft also.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library