From the Director’s Desk Dates to Remember Well I am sure that you are feeling as I am, is it spring Early Voting: yet?! In these pages you will see some of the things we have March 18-April 1 planned for you as the weather hopefully improves. Quiet Room. Hang in there folks, it is the middle of February as I write this. Enter on Upper Level. See the complete list of And we can always find hope in the fact that pitchers and hours on page 7. catchers report this week and baseball is back! Nothing says
spring more than that! So whatever team has your heart,
may they have a fabulous season and go far in post season National Library Week:
April 7-13, 2019
RY play. I hope that the White Sox land one of the big free agents still out there. As for my Cubs, another World Series title See page 6 for some would be nice. of our services!
It looks like our local MLB player Curtis Granderson will Look for us in the Good probably be spending at least the beginning of the season with Neighbor Parade the Florida Marlins. He will be a welcome addition to their Saturday, May 4th! Open 9-1 team and in my opinion especially in the clubhouse. The young players can learn a lot from Granderson’s example of how he plays the game and leads his life. And I can think of Memorial Day: worse places to spend the spring months. We wish you all the Closed Monday, best this season CJ! May 27, 2019
We have an election fast approaching for some local offices. Save the Date: Edition We will again be an early voting center. Early voting begins Library Block Party Limited Limited on Monday, March 18 and runs through Monday, April 1. Friday, June 7 We are open on Sundays during that time span just for voting. 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Please do yourself a big favor and come in early. If you wait Library open for business LANSING PUBLIC LIBRA until Monday the 1st of April I can guarantee you, you will 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. wait in a long line. Avoid the frustration and come in early! Election Day is Tuesday, April 2nd at which time you may go Volume Issue and vote in your usual precinct place. We will hold a Library Hours: Candidates Meet & Greet here on Tuesday, March 12 from March 2019- Monday-Thursday 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. This will give you a chance to see and May 2019 hear the candidates and to chat with them in an informal 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. setting. You may ask a question and get their thoughts on Friday & Saturday why they are running for office. 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Two more concerts are in the offing on Friday, March 1 and 2750 Indiana Avenue Friday, April 5. It has been an awesome season so far, we sure Lansing, IL 60438-2226 hope you are enjoying it. We look forward to next season, Sandra is already mulling around ideas. We also look Phone: 708-474-2447 forward to working with the Village to sponsor an event up www.lansingpl.org at the beautiful Fox Pointe venue. #gettothepointe
Just an early heads up our Annual Block Party will be on In This Issue Friday, June 7 at 6 p.m. Please save the date as it is always a Adult Events great time for the community to kick off the summer season. Candidates Meet & Greet I am sure you can find something of interest in these pages. Please visit the Library or If you have an idea for a program or event please let us know. Concerts our website for updates to We love to hear your ideas. Computer Classes program information. Early Voting www.lansingpl.org Friends & Groups
Debbie Albrecht, Director Director: Deborah Albrecht Shred Day Editor: Kelli Staley Teen Events Graphic Design: Kelli Staley Youth Events Adult Events, Friends & Groups
Register for Adult Events at the Lansing Garden Friends Meetings Information Desk, on our Club Tuesdays: Monday, March 11 & website, or by phone at March 19, April 16 Monday, May 13 at 474-2447 and May 21 from 6:30 p.m. in the Community 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Room. Join us! Group Events: in the Community Room Creative Writers Introducing the newly created Congratulations to the Group Lansing Garden Club! The club 2019 Friends Officers: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. will meet on the third Tuesday of President, Rosalee Lester in the Community Room each month, from 6:30 p.m. until Vice President, Jackie Luberda Age 18 & up. 8:00 p.m., at the Lansing Public Secretary, Luci Lugowski New writers are always welcome. Library. Treasurer, Dorothy Kiefor Saturdays: March 2 & 16, Are you looking to get involved April 6 & 20, May 4 & 18 with your community and make Purchase a slice of
Bakers’ Square pie The Lansing Business new friends? Women’s Association is This is a non-profit informal club after the March & April cutting and sorting whose members love to garden, concerts for $3.00! coupons for our military whether it is growing a large Your purchase helps Friends families overseas. Donate your formal garden, a small vegetable sponsor the concerts. unexpired coupons! Join us on the garden or patio containers, this first Monday of each month may be the club for you. The Village of Lansing’s upstairs in the Library The Mission of the Lansing Human Relations at 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Garden Club is to stimulate Commission (HRC) knowledge and love of gardening, meets on the third The popular knitting & crochet promoting native species, Thursday of the month circle “Purls of Wisdom” pollinators and birds, in the at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s meets on the upper level community and at home. Community Room. of the library. Bring your Meetings are open to the public. own supplies. Agendas are posted on the Village of Beginners always welcome! Lansing’s website in their document
center. https://bit.ly/2N1JKwy Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m.-Noon March 13 & 27, April 10 & 24, May 8 & 22 Book Sales Shred Day Fridays: 10:00 a.m.-Noon Members Only 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Saturday, April 27 March 8 & 22, April 5 & 19, General Public from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 3, 17 & 31 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. or ending earlier if truck fills up. Any person needing an Friends memberships are available at the door. Library Parking Lot accommodation for a In partnership with the Office of State disability at any library Saturday, March 9 regular sale Representative Marcus C. Evans, Jr., 33rd sponsored meeting, event Saturday, April 13 District a shred truck will be at the library. or activity should contact $5-Fill-A-Bag. Open until 2 Sponsored by Walgreens & ComEd. Deborah Albrecht, Director, Lansing Public Library by phone at Saturday, May 11 regular sale * Residential Only. 708-474-2447, or in writing five (5) * Illinois License Plate on vehicle. working days prior to the event. * Limit 2 Bags per vehicle.
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Dead Relatives Society enormous heist on New York's Make It Class: Saturdays: March 16, annual Met Gala. After being Pretty Peat Pots for April 20 & May 18 from released from prison, Debbie recruits Spring Time her best friend Lou to set out and 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Friday, March 8 assemble a team of larcenists. Meets in Study Room 2. at 10 a.m. This hodgepodge, seven-member in the Community Room Come join us to do research. team includes everyone from a street Paint a peat pot, add lace and a This is an informal study/research pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and group that meets at the library. a jewelry expert. The women band flower or two. You can stamp it, write on it, and glue buttons on The library supplies computers (but together to infiltrate the Met Gala your pot. This little pot becomes a you can bring your own laptop) and and steal a $150 million necklace worn by celebrity Daphne Kluger. “little treasure pot” to hold tea, a staff member, along with access Rated PG-13. 110 min. candy, pens or pencils. to the subscription databases. Doing Have a wonderful summer, movies Anyone over 18 may attend this research in a group lets us share our will return in September. class. Registration is required, challenges and the thrill of breaking limit 12. down our brick walls. Come join in with the camaraderie of doing Candidates Meet & Greet family history together. Tuesday, March 12 from Movies 6:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Friends of Lansing Library in the Stage Area Join us to chat with Trustee candidates. After Hours Concert: Skyscraper Character Fleadh Tuesday, Monday, Mar. 25 at 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. March 19 in the Community Room on the Stage. at 6:30 p.m. Global superstar Dwayne Johnson Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Laura F. Keyes, leads the cast as former FBI Since its formation in 2008, as Elizabeth Cady Hostage Rescue Team leader and Character Fleadh has performed U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, at Irish bars, weddings, colleges, and Stanton who now assesses security for festivals throughout Chicago and the on the Stage skyscrapers. On assignment in Midwest. Founder Ethan Sellers has Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for Hong Kong he finds the tallest, guided the band through a number of equal rights for Women for over safest building in the world, fifty years, and upon her death in The Pearl, suddenly ablaze, and he's line-up changes while maintaining a top-quality ensemble comprised of 1902 she left behind a legacy of been framed for it. A wanted man her crusade for female equality on the run, Will must find those some of the Chicago area's finest responsible, clear his name and Irish and Scottish musicians. and myriad writings that would somehow rescue his family who is The group's two most recent inspire feminists for over a trapped inside the building, above recordings enjoy airplay on Irish century to come. Hear from the fire line. Rated PG-13. 103 min. music specialty shows on WHPK, Mrs. Stanton in 1866, when the WDCB, and WEFT. Civil War was over, but the battle Ocean’s 8 Free admission. for Women’s Suffrage was just Monday, Apr. 22 at 11:00 a.m. beginning. Join Laura Keyes, as in the Community Room Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for this Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister informative and inspiring of infamous criminal mastermind presentation. Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an
LIMITED EDITION Page 3 Adult Events Adult Book Discussions After Hours Concert: Book discussions are open to anyone who want to Chicago Soul Revue participate. Books are available at the Circulation Friday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. Desk one month before each discussion. on the Stage. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, Match 7 at 6:30 p.m. Chicago Soul Revue is an authentic tribute to the ‘Avid Reads’ in the Brick Room classic soul of Motown, Memphis, Philly and Chicago. We will take you on a voyage to the late sixties, where Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Aretha Franklin was Queen and Motown was the “it” on the radio. Lead vocalist Felicia Patton and one of the Thursday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m. most serious backing bands in Chicago will give you a ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room taste of soul that will keep you on your feet and make The Drunkard’s Son: A Chicago Story— you weak in the knees. If you love Bill Withers, Gladys Part Memoir, Part Not by Dennis Foley Knight, Stevie Wonder, Clarence Carter and Aretha, you’ll love CSR. Free admission. Thank you to Friends Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. of Lansing Library for their sponsorship of the concerts! ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room Force of Nature by Jane Harper Cancer Genetics Screening Information Wednesday, April 10 at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. Educate yourself on the importance of hereditary cancer ‘Avid Reads’ in the Brick Room screenings. Royalene Wilson, an advocate for the Vox by Christina Dalcher American Family Financial Association will speak about Cancer Genetics Screening. Cancer Genetics Thursday, April 11 at 6:30 p.m. Screening is Medicare approved. ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Make It Class: Pony Bead Bracelets Chicago by Christine J. Walley Friday, April 12 at 10 a.m. in the Community Room A strip of leather and colorful beads equals a skinny little bracelet Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. that you can stack. Wear 1 or 10. Make a colorful ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room ‘welcome to spring’ statement. Age 18 & up. Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart Registration required, limit 12. Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. DIY Green Cleaning Products ‘Avid Reads’ in the Brick Room Tuesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. The It Girls by Karen Harper in the Community Room Anna Stange, will lead this hands-on, make-and-take workshop. Learn how Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. to make effective, homemade, environmentally friendly ‘Reality Check’ in the Brick Room cleaners from simple ingredients like baking soda, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My vinegar, washing powder and essential oils. Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less All supplies included. Registration required, limit 30. by Terry Ryan
Make It Class: Small Circle Pop-Up Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. Cards Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. in the ‘Murder & Mayhem’ in the Brick Room Community Room Create a very special All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson 3D pop-up card with “hidden pockets.” Join us and learn how to make this very special card for your very own special person. Age 18 & up. Registration required, limit 12. Page 4 LIMITED EDITION Computer & Technology Classes with Dan Register on our website. Intro to Become A Graphic Electronic Readers Windows 10 Designer With Canva! and Reading Tuesday, Tuesday, April 2 from Tuesday, March 5 from March 19 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and Thursday, May 2 Thursday, April 4 Thursday, May 30 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Study Room 2 Study Room 2 Study Room 2 Learn how the website Explore various portable Explore how to navigate and use the www.canva.com, can help you electronic readers available to use, Windows 10 operating system. easily create professional looking learn the basics of navigating them, Limit 5. Registration required. advertisements and other graphic and find out how to bring the designs for both the web and print, library to your fingertips! Be Instagrammable! for free! Limit 5. Registration required. Thursday, March 21 Prerequisite: Introductory knowledge from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. of computers and Internet browsing. Internet Basics and Tuesday, April 23 Limit 5. Registration required. Thursday, March 7 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Study Room 2 and Tuesday, April 30 Explore how you can use the from 6:00 p.m-7:30 p.m. Instagram application to promote Study Room 2 yourself, your business, or your Learn the basics of how to use the organization, for free! Internet, including how to get on, Prerequisite: Introductory Streaming Your Way to what search engines are, and knowledge of computers and the Entertainment! how to find what you need Internet. Tuesday, April 9 from 6:00 p.m.- safely and easily! Limit 5. Registration required. 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, May 23 Limit 5. Registration required. from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Coming to You Live! Study Room 2 Creating a Budget Thursday, March 28 Learn about different streaming Using Excel from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. services: what they are, how they Thursday, March 14 and Tuesday, May 14 work, and how you might be able to from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. cut down on those cable bills! and Thursday, May 9 Study Room 2 Limit 5. Registration required. Explore how Livestreaming, a way from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. st Study Room 2 of broadcasting live video using the 21 Century Learn how to create a workable Internet, can benefit your business or Couponing budget spreadsheet. Please bring a organization! Thursday, April 18 flash drive* or your email address Prerequisite: Introductory from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. to save your work. (*Flash drives knowledge of computers and the Study Room 2 are available for $7 at the Internet. Learn different couponing techniques Circulation Desk.) Limit 5. Registration required. to help you save without clipping from Prerequisite: Introductory the newspaper! knowledge of Excel and computers. Prerequisite: Introductory knowledge Limit 5. Registration required. of computers and the Internet. Limit 5. Registration required.
LIMITED EDITION Page 5 It's National Use one of our many subscription databases to do Library Week! research here or at home! Your library card unlocks But of course, we free access to: Learn a language or English as a second language with Mango! Get ready for the road believe every week with AutoMate, & Driver Practice Tests. is library week! Jump start your career with The Careers College. Find your roots with Ancestry Library Edition Celebrate by bringing a (in-library use only), Fold 3, and Newspaper friend to the library or Archive. Plan your next adventure with A to Z the learning about the USA, A to Z World Travel, and Global Road many services we offer! Warrior. Find business contacts and clients with AtoZdatabases. Get the facts with Britannica Ask staff to learn more about streaming video, Reference, CQ Researcher, and EBSCO magazine downloadable eBooks, Wi-Fi hotspots, articles including Consumer Reports!, Consumer computer & technology classes, genealogy, storytime, Health Complete, Science Reference Center, and book discussions, events for all ages, homebound services, Small Engine Repair Reference Center. study rooms, and more! Bring a friend to one of our educational or recreational programs! Find your next great book to read with NoveList, and NoveList K-8. Ask staff for a demo of any of Check out a book, museum or zoo pass, DVD, these you haven’t tried! videogame, magazine, audiobook or large print item! Download eBooks, eMagazines or stream a video! Get involved in your community through one of the groups that meet here at the library such as the writers As a member of the SWAN libraries consortium, if we group, knitting & crochet group, the Lansing Historical don't have the title you want in the building, it's likely we Society, Friends of Lansing Library or the new Lansing can get it delivered here at no charge! Just ask! Garden Club. Check our calendar for meeting dates.
Kanopy Streaming Video
Stream movies to your mobile device, smart TV, or computer for free with your Lansing Library Card!
Enjoy foreign films, independent films, documentaries, foreign language films, award winners, Great Courses, and more!
No waiting lists! Pause & resume your movie anytime during your 3-day checkout. Limit 10 checkouts per person per month.
Get started using the Kanopy app or go to http://lansingpl.kanopy.com
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Visit our https:// www.lansingpl.org/taxes.html page to file online for free, or download and print your own forms. The library will not have free forms available. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to a) Visit Business/AV Dept. (upper level) to make quickly explore historical content. photocopies from a master of common forms (10¢/page, instruction books not available NewspaperARCHIVE.com is adding newspaper pages due to length) faster than you can search them - with one newspaper page added every second - that's over 80,000 images a day, b) File online for free on IRS website, State of Illinois or about 2.5 million pages per month! website or www.creditkarma.com/tax or https://www.hrblock.com/ (depending on your situation) NewspaperARCHIVE is the world's best resource for historical and genealogical information. Our unique archive c) Log on a public computer and download/print spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town the forms you need (15¢/page) events, world news and more. Log on free with your Lansing Library card or purchase a guest pass. (Lansing residents $1) Visit the Learn section of our website to access. 15-minute express station available at no charge.
Do you need help getting started with the library resources mentioned on page 6, or websites such as Facebook, GoodReads, Gmail, Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter?
View short video-demonstrations to help you learn how to use the library’s resources. Tour our website, learn how to book a study room and more!
Visit our Lansing Library Academy at https://my.nicheacademy.com/lansingpl/ to see the free courses, or click the green “tutorials” bar at the right side of our webpage anytime!
Early Voting: Consolidated Election (Voter registration too!) March 18 through April 1 on the Upper Level
Monday, March 18—Saturday, March 23 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday, March 24 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday, March 25—Friday, March 29 from 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 30 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday, March 31 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday, April 1 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2: Election Day. Vote at your assigned polling place from 6:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
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All of our Children and Teen events to share 1,000 books before kids Mi Casita are open to the public. They do not enter kindergarten. Come to the Bilingual require a library card or registration desk to get your record sheet and Playgroup unless otherwise indicated. start reading! Every 100 books For some programs supplies may Tuesdays @ be limited. If you want to secure earns you a prize in addition to the your spot, we advise you show up big prize at the end of all 1,000! 5:30 p.m. early, and let us know you’re here No sign-up required. for this program. March 12, April 9 & 23, May 7 & 21 [Ages 8 and under] Outreach Morning Lansing Public Library loves to Brick Room Storytime venture out and be part of our Come join Mi Casita Bilingual community. Sessions Playgroup for a fun, enriching playgroup filled with activities Book Talk at Nathan Hale designed to enhance your child’s Twice a month the library visits Beginning March 4 and language development in both Nathan Hale Elementary School to ending May 16. English and Spanish. Help your bring them books and information. No sign-up required. child experience the benefits of We share silly stories, reader’s Baby Storytime (Birth – 24 mos.): bilingual development while they choice nominated books, and let Mondays at 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. learn through play. the students and teachers know all Toddler Storytime (24-36 mos.): about library resources and Acompáñenos a nuestro grupo de Wednesdays at 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. juego bilingüe Mi Casita para un upcoming events. Preschool Storytime (3-5 years): momento divertido y enriquecedor Thursdays at 10:30 & 11:30 a.m. St. Ann Storytime lleno de actividades diseñadas para
St. Ann’s playgroup has invited our mejorar el desarrollo de lenguaje own Miss Kelly to visit and bring de su hijo en Inglés y Español. her ukulele and favorite stories. Deje que su hijo experimente los beneficios del desarrollo bilingüe Library Lunch at TF South mientras aprenden a través del Every Wednesday the library juego. invites TF South students to come and hang out during their lunch Family STEAM break. What better way to spend Silly Songs Nights: your lunch than by chatting with Tuesdays @ 5:30 p.m. great people about great books? Foam Fountain March 5 & 19, April 2, 16 & 30 Monday, May 28 Recurring Programs March 11 [Family Event] from 5:30 p.m.- 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Brick Room [Preschool] 6:30 p.m. Come sing along to some silly [Ages 5-10] Youth Desk ukulele songs! Make some noise, Reading is incredibly important Teen Zone explore some instruments, and get Come check out this fun, funny for developing language and silly at your library! vocabulary in young children. experiment! Our favorite hits include 1,000 Books Before “Wheels on the Bus,” “Five Little Kindergarten is a campaign to Ducks,” and “Wishy Washy encourage children and parents Washer Woman.”
Page 8 LIMITED EDITION Youth Events Bookworm Circle Sensitive Sensory Paint and [Grades 3-5] Explorers Sip… Juice Community Room Saturdays: March 9, Boxes Come join our book April 13 & May 11 club! Stop by anytime in the month from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. to pick up your Book Club Kit, and Community Room Saturdays @ 11:00 a.m. come back to chat about the book, [Ages 12 and Under] March 23 Community Room & eat snacks, and participate in fun For our young patrons with April 20 Teen Zone activities about this book! Limited special needs and/or sensory to the first twelve people. [Ages 18 and under] No sign-up required, but issues we are opening Sensory Why should adults have all the attendees must have read the book. Exploration one hour early fun? Come create a masterpiece all EXCLUSIVELY for you! your own when we host our very Tuesday, March 26 @ 6:00 p.m. Come explore our 5 different own paint morning! Light Hello, Universe sensory tables with your hands, refreshments will be served. by Erin Entrada Kelly ears, eyes, and noses. Supplies may be limited.
Tuesday, April 30 @ 6:00 p.m. (No tasting, please.) This time is Diamond Willow by Helen Frost set apart by low lighting, a calm environment, and you! We hope Tuesday, May 28 @ 6:00 p.m. families will come and make Matilda by Roald Dahl friends and find support while having fun. The doors will open Family STEAM to all patrons after the first hour Nights: and you are welcome to stay as Lava Lamps long as you like. Monday, April 8 Sensory Exploration from 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Saturdays: [Ages 5-10] March 9, April 13 Teen Zone & May 11 from Make a DIY lava lamp that you 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Paint and Sip Juice Boxes can take home with you! [Ages 12 and Under] Art Show Community Room Thursday, May 16 @ 5:30 p.m. Family STEAM Squishy, powdery, flakey, wet, Upper Level Nights: hard, soft, squelchy, and down [All ages] Kinetic Sand right interesting! Our sensory bins Why travel to see art from Banksy Monday, will be full of new things to when you could come to the Paint May 13 touch, squish, and experiment and Sip Juice Boxes Art Show for with every month. free! Art from the monthly Paint from 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and Sip Juice Boxes program will [Ages 5-10] be displayed for all to see! Come Teen Zone listen to the kids talk about their Learn how to make your own art, enjoy light refreshments, and kinetic sand from household appreciate the wonders that is a items. child’s imagination on a canvas.
Page 9 LIMITED EDITION Youth Events Teen Events It’s Not Beginner Hand Teen Volunteer Magic— Sewing Board It’s Science! Monday, March 18 Tuesdays Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. @ 4:30 p.m. @ 6:00 p.m. [Ages 6-10] March 5, April 2 Community Room & May 7 March 7, April 4 & May 9 Learn the basics of hand sewing [Grades 6-12] [Ages 5-10] and make a cool project to take Teen Zone Community Room home. Limited to the first twelve Are you a teen who loves the Watch as crazy amazing things people. library? This is the club for you! happen right before your eyes! We will talk about how teens can You’ll think, how is that help make the library the best possible?! Well, listen up and place. Bring your ideas and we’ll teach you how to do it suggestions and we will provide yourself. Sometimes the best snacks. This program counts for an magic is actually chemistry. hour of volunteer service and will Join us for exciting, fun, and prepare teens for other informative experiments. Disney Trivia! opportunities in the library. Limited supplies. Tuesday, April 9 @ 6:00 p.m. [Grades 5 & Under] Teen Fandom Dr. Seuss Community Room Club Party Online registration required. Tuesdays Monday, Want to test your Disney @ 4:30 p.m. knowledge? Want to win prizes March 12, March 4 for your Disney costume? Dress April 9 & May 14 from up in your best Disney costumes [Grades 6-12] 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. to win a prize and bring a group Teen Zone [All Ages] of up to 5 people to win at Disney Are you a fan of Doctor Who, Lower Level trivia! Limit 25 people. Harry Potter, Supernatural, It’s time once again for our Sign-up is open Monday, Disney, Pokémon, Steven March 4th-Monday, April 8th. Universe, Kpop, Anime, Star Wars biggest party of the year! or other fictional worlds? Come join us to celebrate Courtyard Then Teen Fandom Club is for Dr. Seuss’ birthday! Coloring you! Play geeky games, watch Play games involving your Monday, April 15 videos, talk anime, listen to music, favorite Seuss characters. from 5:30-6:30 p.m. write and share fanfiction, create Vote for your favorite Seuss [Ages 5-10] fan art and crafts, perfect your Courtyard cosplay, and discuss your favorite book. Hear fantastic Seuss Come decorate our courtyard fandoms with other fans. stories. Eat delicious Seuss with your chalk art! All fandoms are welcome! snacks. Weather permitting!
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Anime Club Make-It Did you know that Tuesdays Monday: library cards are @ 4:30 p.m. Balloon FREE?! Kids with March 18, Stress Balls school IDs from April 16 March 18 Lansing Public Schools just need & May 21 @ 3:45 p.m. to present their ID, fill out a half [Grades 6-12] Community Room page form and have it signed by a Teen Zone [Grades 6-12] parent/guardian. When you bring Do you love anime? Anxiety about school? Friends? the form back, you get a free card! Are you a true otaku? Life in general? Don't have an ID? No problem! This is the club for you! Take it out on a balloon stress Bring a parent with you with their We will talk about all things ball! Come make your very own ID and some mail and you can still anime, manga, and pop culture stress ball out of balloons and get a free library card! from Japan. sand in the Chat Room. Activities will focus on your favorite fandoms. Image Release All program registrants and participants must permit the taking and use of their image in future library publications, both printed and electronic.
S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at Mar. 1 2 Quiet Room closed Concert: Character Writers Group 10:00-12:30 March 10 through April 2. Fleadh (Irish) 6:30 Please enjoy other areas of the library. Doors open at 6
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Coupon Cutting 9:30&6 Teen Volunteer 4:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Preschool Storytime Make It 10:00 Book Sale 9-1 Baby Storytime Silly Songs 5:30 10:30 & 11:30 Knit 10:00 members only 9-10 10:30 & 11:30 eReaders & Reading Internet Basics 2-3:30 Sensitive Sensory 11-12 It’s Not Magic 6:00 Dr. Seuss 6-7:30 Sensory 12-2 Party 6-7:30 Avid Reads Disc. 6:30
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Baby Storytime Teen Fandom Club 4:30 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime Dead Relatives 9:30-11 10:30 & 11:30 Mi Casita 5:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Family STEAM Candidates Event Budget in Excel 6-7:30 5:30-6:30 6:30-7:30 Reality Check Disc. 6:30 Friends Meeting 6:30 17 18 Early Voting 9-519 20 Early Voting 9-521 22 23 Early Voting 9-5 Anime Club 4:30 Early Voting 9-5 Preschool Storytime Early Voting 9-5 Early Voting 9-5 Baby Storytime Silly Songs 5:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 Knit 10:00 Paint & Sip… 10:30 & 11:30 Windows 10 6-7:30 Instagram 2-3:30 Juice Boxes 11:00 Balloon Stress Balls 3:45 Laura F. Keyes as Murder/Mayhem 6:30 Beginner Hand Sewing Elizabeth Cady Stanton 6:30 HRC Meeting 6:30 5:30-6:30 Garden Club 6:30 Library Board 6:30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Early Voting 10-4 Early Voting 9-7 Early Voting 9-7 Early Voting 9-7 Early Voting 9-7 Early Voting 9-7 Early Voting 9-5 Baby Storytime Bookworm Circle 6:00 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime 10:30 & 11:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 Adult Movie: Coming to You Live! 6-7:30 Skyscraper 11:00
LIMITED EDITION31 Page 11 Early Voting 10-4 S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at April 1 2 3 4 5 6 Early Voting 9-5 Election Day 6a-7p Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Coupon Cutting 9:30&6 Teen Volunteer 4:30 10:30 & 11:30 Concert: Chicago Soul eReaders 2-3:30 Baby Storytime Silly Songs 5:30 Revue (Motown) 6:30 10:30 & 11:30 Design with Canva It’s Not Magic 6:00 Avid Reads Disc. 6:30 Doors open at 6 6-7:30 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Baby Storytime Teen Fandom Club 4:30 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime Make It 10:00 $5 Bag Book Sale 9-2 10:30 & 11:30 Mi Casita 5:30 Cancer Genetics 10:30 & 11:30 members only 9-10 Family STEAM Disney Trivia 6:00 Screening Info 10:30 Reality Check Disc. 6:30 Sensitive Sensory 11-12 5:30-6:30 Streaming Entertainment Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Sensory 12-2 6-7:30 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Baby Storytime Anime Club 4:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Dead Relatives 9:30-11 10:30 & 11:30 Silly Songs 5:30 10:30 & 11:30 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Courtyard Coloring Garden Club 6:30 21st cent.Couponing 6-7:30 Paint & Sip… 5:30-6:30 Murder/Mayhem 6:30 Juice Boxes 11:00 HRC Meeting 6:30 Library Board 6:30 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Baby Storytime Mi Casita 5:30 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime Shred Day 10:00 10:30 & 11:30 Be Instagrammable! Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 Adult Movie: 6-7:30 Ocean's 811:00 DIY Green Cleaning 6:30 28 29 30 Baby Storytime Silly Songs 5:30 10:30 & 11:30 Bookworm Circle 6:00 Internet Basics 6-7:30
S u n Mo n T u e Wed T hu F r i S at May 1 2 3 4 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 10:30 & 11:30 Library Closes Early Design with Canva at 1:00 p.m. 6-7:30 Watch for us in the Good Neighbor Parade! Avid Reads Disc. 6:30 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Coupon Cutting 9:30&6 Teen Volunteer 4:30 Knit 10:00 Preschool Storytime Make It 10:00 Book Sale 9-1 Baby Storytime Mi Casita 5:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 10:30 & 11:30 members only 9-10 10:30 & 11:30 Budget in Excel 6-7:30 Sensitive Sensory 11-12 It’s Not Magic 6:00 Sensory 12-2 Reality Check Disc. 6:30
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Baby Storytime Teen Fandom Club 4:30 Toddler 10:30 & 11:30 Preschool Storytime Knit 10:00 Dead Relatives 9:30-11 10:30 & 11:30 Coming to You Live! 10:30 & 11:30 Writers Group 10:00-12:30 Family STEAM 6-7:30 Paint & Sip Art Show 5:30 5:30-6:30 Murder/Mayhem 6:30 Friends Meeting 6:30 HRC Meeting 6:30 Library Board 6:30 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Anime Club 4:30 Knit 10:00 Streaming Entertainment Mi Casita 5:30 2-3:30 Garden Club 6:30
26 27 28 29 30 31 Silly Songs 5:30 Intro to Windows 10 Knit 10:00 Library Bookworm Circle 6:00 2-3:30 Closed