Join West End Library Children's Room for Drop-In Lego Club every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Regular Lego and Duplo blocks provided.
All attendees must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and fingerplays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their grownups are encouraged engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
Coloring isn't just for kids. Get some midday relaxation by joining West End every Monday and Friday for Between the Lines, the coloring club for adults. Coloring sheets and coloring pencils provided.
Come by for an hour of morning writing with fellow creative folks. Everyone works on their own thing. No obligation to share. Just show up and write!
What to expect?
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old. Our Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment. With slightly more activity and movement than our lap times, children and their grownups are encouraged engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years old. 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.
Connect with poetry. Each week, we will read a short poem of the librarian's choosing, enjoy the poem's beauty and nuances, and then have a brief discussion on it.
This program will go for one hour.
For beginner, intermediate and advanced knitters. Any knitting question or issue will be solved. For more information, please contact my.nguyen@dc.gov.
A two-part series on balancing your life–body, mind and spirit
The library will sponsor a two-part series on the inner peace andjoy of Jyoti meditation to be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.
Soccer has taken center stage nationally, as the U.S. Women's National Soccer team secured victory at the 2015 World Cup in Canada. While the country celebrated the achievement of the Women's team, allegations of corruption within soccer's governing body, FIFA, left a dark cloud over the sport.
Career Coach Blair Goins will lead a 2 1/2-hour workshop on the first steps in identifying the career and life path that is an expression of your true passions and unique genius on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 at 2 p.m. This is an interactive workshop using revealing written exercises and a focused dialogue so that participants will:
Gain clarity on what they want in an ideal career
Uncover any special gifts
Start to discover their true passions in life
See what stops them in fulfilling their dreams
The West End Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 12:30 p.m. to discuss Cold Sassy Tree (1984) by Olive Ann Burns.
Copies are available at the library.
Please pick one up and join us!
The library will sponsor a screening and discussion of "The Greatest Man in the World," from the American Short Story Collection as seen on PBS and adapted from the classic short story by James Thurber (1894-1961) in celebration of the DC Public Library's summer reading program.
