Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years. Children and their grownups, will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-to-40-minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them.
Join us for weekly chess instruction on Thursdays.
This program is for children of all ages who want to learn to play or improve their chess moves and play in tournaments. Our chess instructor will teach you how to think and plan your next move and use your brain power to win. Come and join our chess group and learn to make a risky move or two and have fun.
This program is made possible by the Friends of the Chevy Chase Library.
When the chess instructor is unable to attend, this program will be canceled.
Fun for the entire family, this 30-to-40-minute story time is packed full of books and activities for all ages. Promoting language and literacy skills, story times are a great way to further your child’s lifelong love of reading and learning. Children and their caregivers are encouraged to actively engage and participate with the stories and activities during the program.
Free film showing of Dunkirk, winner of 3 Academy Awards. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the Germany army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
US, 2017, rated PG-13, 1 hour 46 minutes.
A story time experience for our youngest library users and their caregivers. These 20-to-30-minute story times introduce books, songs, rhymes, tickles and bounces developmentally appropriate for children ages 0 to when they start walking. Baby Lap Time is a wonderful way to introduce your child to the joys of reading in a positive and fun atmosphere. This story time is designed so the baby will be in their caregiver’s lap and the grownup is actively involved in the program; it is recommended that each child have their own adult with them.
Free film showing of Dunkirk, winner of 3 Academy Awards. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the Germany army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
US, 2017, rated PG-13, 1 hour 46 minutes.
Get up and get moving at our Toddler Story Times. These 20-to-30-minute programs are full of books, songs and fun activities are designed to help develop your child’s language skills. Children ages 18-36 months and their grownups are encouraged to engage with the stories and activities and participate in the program along with the children.
Tickets required; available on a first-come, first-serve basis the morning of the program.
Get up and get moving at our Toddler Story Times. These 20-to-30-minute programs are full of books, songs and fun activities designed to help develop your child’s language skills. For children ages 18-36 months and their grownups, who are encouraged to engage with the stories and activities and participate in the program along with the children.
Tickets required; available on a first-come, first-serve basis the morning of the program.
Join us for songs, books and more.
This program is recommended for children 12-24 months.
Registration required. Visit the library or call (202) 282-0021 to sign up.
Get brains thinking and fingers building with the Chevy Chase Library Lego Club. Grab your friends and swing by. You bring your imagination and we'll provide the Legos.
Recommended for ages 5-12.
Chevy Chase Library's "Metamorphosis" lecture and discussion series will continue on April 21 at 6 p.m. We will be discussing The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Our guest lecturer for this session will be Jonathan Loesberg, professor of literature at American University.
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month, and win fantastic prizes!
Every Monday in March, a new trivia question will be posted on Twitter (@dcpl) and Facebook. Respond by Friday with the correct answer using #herstoryDCPL, and get entered to win a different prize each week! We'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the week.
We love the classics and literary fiction here at the Chevy Chase library, but it can’t all be Middlemarch, right? Sometimes you have to read something fun, easy and frequently ridiculous. Then, preferably, you want to discuss it over drinks with friends.
Hence Chevy Chase DC Library’s new book club Lowbrow Throwdown.
Chevy Chase Library's "Metamorphosis" discussion series will continue on March 17 at 6 p.m. We will be discussingA Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare.
Our guest lecturer for this session will be Jennifer Linhart Wood, Professor of English at George Washington University.
The April selection of the Chevy Chase Library's Book Club is The Secret History by Pulitzer Prize winner Donna Tartt. We will meet on Tuesday, April 7 at 7 p.m.
The Secret History, Donna Tartt’s beloved first novel, tells the story of five gifted classics majors at an elite college who become involved with a murder.
Chevy Chase Library's new Teen Book Club is run by teens, for teens. For our very first meeting we are reading Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. We will also be crafting Book Jars to help you pick your next read.
The March selection of the Chevy Chase Library's Book Club is Night by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. We will meet on Tuesday, March 3 at 7 p.m.
History & Biography Book Club selection for February
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind will be discussed by the Chevy Chase Branch Library History and Biography Book Club at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10. This meeting will take place at the Bread & Chocolate Restaurant at 5542 Connecticut Ave. NW, near McKinley Street.
