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Everyday Art Project: Drafting Daydreams
Create a layered drawing and draft up your most whimsical daydream!
Special Storytime: Kari Percival
Join Kari Percival and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment to learn ways to help local frogs, toads, and salamanders.
Free to Be...You and Me at 50: Music, Messages, and Memories
Join us for a retrospective look at the creation, popular reception, and ongoing legacy of Free to Be…You and Me, while also sharing your own memories, thoughts, and questions with other participants.
Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books
Hear from Black women authors that push back against negative beliefs, counter negative stereotypes, and represent the beauty, joy, magic, and diversity of Black girls and their families.
Word Play with The Center Dance Studio
Bring your dancing feet for creative movement inspired by picture books.
Groovy Grown-Up '70s Party
Join pianist Joshua Sitron and musical theater star Myka Plunkett for an evening of food, drink, singing and dancing, and 1970s style!
Special Storytime: Richard Michelson
Join local award-winning author Richard Michelson and former state Senator Eric Lesser at the launch storytime event for Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder.
Collagraph Creations
Join The Carle’s Art Educators in this evening workshop to explore the world of collagraph print making in The Art Studio!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
See Eric Carle’s books come to life on stage.
Everyday Art Project: Collage Records
Collage and design a record of your own stories and songs!
Explore the BERL
Take a morning tour exploring the Barbara Elleman Research Library (BERL), a collection of scholarly resources and rare books. Space is limited.
Special Storytime: Juana Martinez-Neal
Join Juana Martinez-Neal while she shares her new picture book biography about Peruvian scientist Alberto Salas, “the godfather of potatoes.”
Back to Basics: Color with Cut Loose Collage Workshops
Join local collage artist Michael Sjostedt and rediscover the simple joy of artmaking.
Indigenous Drag Story Hour
Join beloved storytellers Lady Shug and Landa Lakes for a storytime celebrating Native language, stories, and culture.