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.
This series II session combines poetry with visual arts. We’ll look at how different artists and poets approach the creative process in making their work. These discoveries will serve as jumping off points for our own responses, whether it’s writing a poem, or making a collage, a drawing, or a mixed media piece.
These classes are designed for participants ages 60+. Sessions end at 11:30 a.m.
Please note: There will be no class on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
Join DC Public Library users and staff for coffee, conversation and sometimes even a craft on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.
Coffee & Conversation brings together users from all walks of life in informal conversation focused on relevant and engaging topics discussed over a cup of coffee. Through this exchange of ideas, Coffee & Conversation promotes the library as a place to meet your neighbors and focuses on what people have in common rather than their differences. Please join us!
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old.
Baby and Toddler Story Time features more activity and movement than the Lap Time program. Children and their grownups are encouraged engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
West End Library Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment.
These 20-to-30-minute story times are full of books, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children birth to 2 years old.
Baby and Toddler Story Time features more activity and movement than the Lap Time program. Children and their grownups are encouraged engage with the books and songs and to actively participate in the program.
West End Library Baby and Toddler Story Time is a great way to introduce your child to language skills in a positive and fun environment.
Sing, jump and dance with Mr. Lilo and his guitar.
Enjoy original music and traditional songs in English and Spanish.
This is a free event intended for children and their caregivers.
This series II session combines poetry with visual arts. We’ll look at how different artists and poets approach the creative process in making their work. These discoveries will serve as jumping off points for our own responses, whether it’s writing a poem, or making a collage, a drawing, or a mixed media piece.
These classes are designed for participants ages 60+. Sessions end at 11:30 a.m.
Please note: There will be no class on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
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.
A talk on the 16th president as an amateur astronomer
This event has been canceled due to a change in the speaker's travel plans.
Commander Kirk R. Benson, Precise Time and Astometry Technical Lead, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, will speak on President Lincoln's interest in the heavens on Wednesday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the library's meeting room.
Celebrating the versatility, longevity, and flexibility of the sonnet form
Sonneteers, unite . . . and join us for a reading from the new Sonnet issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m., featuring Washington, D.C.-based poets Holly Bass, Holly Karapetkova and Melanie Henderson.
Editor Michael Gushue and Kim Roberts also will read selected poems from the issue, and Deborah Ager will host.
Shakespeare, Spenser, and Petrarch as masters of the sonnet will attend in spirit :>)
Please join us Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. in the meeting room for a talk by Stephen A. Hansen, longtime D.C. resident, architectural historian, historic preservation specialist, and author of A History of Dupont Circle: Center of High Society in the Capital (History Press, 2014).
The West End Fiction Book Club will meet Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 12:30 p.m. to discuss George Orwell's classic novel 1984, in keeping with system-wide programming on the topic of government transparency and personal privacy in the digital age.
Copies are available at the branch.
Please pick one up and join us!
The library's closed, but dclibrary.org is open 24/7!
All library locations are closed today, but there's myriad ways you can enjoy the library online!
1. Have your own film festival at home.
View films from major festivals like Sundance, Tribeca and more. Log into IndieFlix with your library card.
Cuddle up to books this winter break and be eligible to receive a Chipotle gift card!
This winter break, between Dec. 21 and Jan. 3, elementary and middle school students who visit their neighborhood branch can be eligible to receive a Chipotle gift card for sharing their winter reading with their librarian.
