Head to the Teen Space for board games and Wii games.
Ages 12 - 19.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
6:30 p.m.
Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!
Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.
Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
3:00 p.m.
Need a place to sit and chat with friends, play games, or just chill?
Come to the teen café at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library.
4:00 p.m.
Come to Northwest One to create a free Tin Can Herb Garden! We'll decorate a Tin Can, plant a seed and watch it grow into a plant that you can use for cooking.
Come and learn what can grow Beneath the Surface.
5:00 p.m.
Join us at Northwest One for Wii game night.
We provide the Wii, Games and controllers, all you need to do is show up! Game nights are for an hour on Thursdays.
5:30 p.m.
Albus Cavus is a collective of artists, scientists and educators who improve quality of urban life through community based public art and creative participatory events.
In this program, you will learn about wheatpasting, a highly effective public art technique. Wheatpasted art is created in a studio on a large piece of paper and subsequently installed. It is closely related to installing wallpaper. This workshop will explore wheatpasting both as art and as a potential career.
Ages 13-19.
Friday, June 14, 2013
3:15 p.m.
Join us at the MLK Teen Space for a great movie in our Teen Lounge every Friday afternoon.
We show many popular movies as soon as they are released on DVD and in the library collection, and the fourth Friday of every month we show an anime show or movie to tie into the Manga Club program at Teen Space.
3:30 p.m.
Teen Game Night is every Friday until 4:30 p.m. in the Teen Space.
Teens can participate by playing video games, board games and trading card games.
Games played during Teen Game Night are appropriate for teens ages 12-19.
3:30 p.m.
Play a variety of Wii games in the teen room and enjoy books and snacks.
3:30 p.m.
Swing by the library after school to sign up for Teen Summer Reading! Our theme this year is Beneath the Surface and we are going to explore underground movements and subcultures. We’ll have snacks and fun activities at our kickoff.
Release your inner hippie and tie dye bandannas for cats and dogs at the animal shelter. Grab some sidewalk chalk and liven up the sidewalk with chalk graffiti.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
(All day)
At Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library, we will be kicking of Summer Reading with a full day of activities for library customers of all ages!
This year, children, teens, and adults will be able to participate in Summer Reading. The library will host events for each age group throughout the summer, and everyone will have an opportunity to win fabulous prizes!
Come read with us!
(All day)
There will be an opportunity for parents to read to kids, teens to read to kids, and for kids to read independently! Come to the Bellevue Library and join in on the fun!
Stop by the Bellevue Library's Children's Room Desk for more information or call 202-727-0991.
10:30 a.m.
Come by and listen to apple pie stories and enjoy an arm chair trip around the world.
Apple pie will be served!
12:00 p.m.
Join us we celebrate Read-In. Participants will have the opportunity to not only "read" about their favorite musician but be able to "listen" to the music of their favorite musicians!
Best for ages 13 and older.
1:00 p.m.
Pay tribute to your favorite book or author by creating an edible book to share at your library!
Along with your cake (or other edible creation) please bring a place card with your name, the title of the book that inspired your creation, and a list of ingredients.
Monday, June 17, 2013
4:30 p.m.
Do you have the skills with a Wii or Xbox controller?
Come every Monday until 6 p.m., starting April 1, in the large meeting room on the first floor.
Wii and Xbox games will be played, so come with friends ages 12-19 years old.
5:00 p.m.
Join us every second and fourth Monday at Shepherd Park Library for a teen game night!
We will have different Wii and Playstation 2 games available as well as board games to play.
5:30 p.m.
Beginning Monday, April 2, 2013, Chess Instruction for children and teens will be held on Mondays at 5:30 p.m.
There is no change for chess instruction for younger children ages 2- 6 on Thursdays.
Best for ages 7-16.
5:30 p.m.
Come learn about the underground Riot Grrl movement of the 1990s and make your own handmade zine to photocopy and share.
5:30 p.m.
Albus Cavus is a collective of artists, scientists and educators who improve quality of urban life through community based public art and creative participatory events.
Discover the wonderful and unexplored world of color around us! Why is a sunset red and a rainbow always the same? To answer these questions, we will look at color from the perspective of an artist, physicist, neuroscientist, biologist, philosopher and even a linguist. Create your own rainbows with diffraction grating and mess around with LEDs, paint and more!
Ages 13-19.
6:30 p.m.
Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!
Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.
Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
5:30 p.m.
Albus Cavus is a collective of artists, scientists and educators who improve quality of urban life through community based public art and creative participatory events.
Discover the wonderful and unexplored world of color around us. Why is a sunset red and a rainbow always the same?
To answer these questions, we will look at color from the perspective of an artist, physicist, neuroscientist, biologist, philosopher, and even a linguist. Create your own rainbows with diffraction grating and mess around with LEDs, paint and more!
Ages 13-19.
7:00 p.m.
Join us every Tuesday evening for open chess play in the Bellevue Teen Room.
Players of any skill level are invited to hone their skills or learn to play in an informal and welcoming environment. Learn the fundamentals or practice for the next tournament with other teenage king slayers!
7:00 p.m.
The DC Public Library is pleased to welcome Karin Silverman for a workshop titled "Leading a Life of Balance and Peace Through Meditation."
The workshop will take place in Room 221.
The workshop is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information, please call Information Services at (202) 727-1291.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
11:30 a.m.
Come join us for some food, fun and music as we kick off Books & Bites -- a limited engagement with some of D.C.'s tastiest food trucks in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
And if you can't make it out on Wednesday, the trucks will be back next week. But this food truck special is only for a limited time, so don't dally.
1:00 p.m.
How well do you know your local transit system? Come out for a trivia contest about our local underground train system.
Participants will be quizzed on historic sites, popular restaurants, libraries and other points of interest accessible via "the underground."
Participants will be quizzed on historic sites, popular restaurants, libraries and other points of interest accessible via "the underground."
3:30 p.m.
Albus Cavus is a collective of artists, scientists and educators who improve quality of urban life through community based public art and creative participatory events.
Discover the wonderful and unexplored world of color around us! Why is a sunset red and a rainbow always the same? To answer these questions, we will look at color from the perspective of an artist, physicist, neuroscientist, biologist, philosopher, and even a linguist. Create your own rainbows with diffraction grating and mess around with LEDs, paint, and more!
Ages 13-19.
4:00 p.m.
Do you have mad videogame skillz? Come test them out during our Wii Wednesday program, running twice monthly in the MLK Teen Space.
Show your platforming prowess in a Mario game, bust a move in Just Dance 3, or have some fun fencing in Wii Sports Resort.
The possibilities are endless...
5:30 p.m.
The Francis A. Gregory Library Chess Club meets weekly on Wednesday nights from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We welcome players of all ages and abilities.
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