Beflast Free Library

Steam Team Explorers~ Marine Touch Tank: A Traveling Ocean Petting Zoo
2024-01-25 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Abbott Room
See and touch Maine’s ocean life up-close-and-personal when University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research brings their traveling touch tank to the library.
Free event for ages 8-12. Space is limited to 30 children. Registration is required
Click here to register your child

Be Red Cross Ready
2024-01-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Abbott Room
Home fires, floods, hurricanes and wildfires are becoming more frequent and can be devastating to our loved ones, homes and communities.
Build confidence by learning simple steps you can take now, to help prepare and protect yourself and your loved ones. It’s easy to learn through our free disaster preparedness training.
We will also have an opportunity for individuals and families to sign up for free in-home smoke alarm installations and to create a fire escape plan!
Sponsored by the America Red Cross. For more information visit redcross.org

The Wheelbarrow Poets Meet
2024-01-30 09:30 - 11:00, 2024-02-06 09:30 - 11:00 | Abbott Room
The Wheelbarrow Poets meets weekly on Tuesdays in the Abbott Room from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Writing prompts are sent in advance of the gatherings by Belfast Poet Laureate Maya Stein, and participants share work and discuss. Open to writers ages 18 & up. Email hello@mayastein.com for more information and to register.

Tarot Deck Group for Teens
2024-01-30 15:30 - 16:30 | Conference Room
Teens 11-17, come and take part in our Tarot Deck Making Group! This is a three session group. We will each make a full 78 card Tarot Deck! All supplies will be provided. There will be snacks! You must register for this group. Space is limited, so register soon! You can either email cvaccaro@belfastlibrary.org, or you can go to the second floor of the Belfast Free Library, and sign up in the YA room! Don’t miss this awesome series of workshops!!
Dates: Jan. 30th, Feb. 20th, and Mar. 19th
Time: 3:30 to 4:30
Location: The Conference Room on the third floor of the Belfast Free Library

Knit2Together
2024-01-31 16:00, 2024-02-07 16:00 | Abbott Room
Knitters, crocheters, yarn enthusiasts of all experience levels are welcome to join us every Wednesday , from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Abbott Room.
This drop-in event is a chance for knitters- and crocheters too- of all ages and experience levels to chat, get tips, and learn from each other while working on their own projects. Library staff will have computers available to demonstrate how to use Ravelry.com and other websites to help find patterns and organize your work. Registration is not required. For more information please call 338-3884 ext.10
Contact bharrington@belfastlibrary.org to sign up to to join the knitting group.

Friends of the Library Book Sale
2024-02-03 10:30 - 13:00 | Library Lobby

Knit Along Launch
2024-02-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Abbott Room
The Library’s Knit2Together is happy to host the Knit- Along (KAL) kick off meeting with pattern designer Reah Janise Kauffman. All are welcome to join!
Here are the details of the KAL:
Good Karma Yarn and Soap and Heavenly Yarns announce the first joint Knit-Along (KAL) featuring two new cowl designs by Reah Janise Kauffman using Good Karma’s DK weight yarn—Cowler (a single-color, guernsey stitch pattern) and Cowler 2 (a 2-color mosaic pattern).

Participants can select one or both patterns for the KAL. The price for one pattern is $5, $8 for both patterns with the coupon code “cowler KAL.” The coupon activates on January 20, 2024, but please wait until the official start date of February 3 to begin. Patterns are available on Ravelry.
The official start for the KAL is February 3, 2024 and ends Thursday, February 29, 2024.
Please post a picture of your finished cowl(s) on your Ravelry project page with a link to the pattern(s). At the end of the KAL, three participants will be randomly selected for a prize.
A kick-off meeting will be held at the Belfast Free Library on Saturday, February 3 from 1-2 pm. For those who cannot attend, a Zoom meeting will be held the same day at 4 pm.
To sign up for the KAL, send an email to rjkkal@gmail.com, especially if you will be joining the kick-off Zoom meeting so that she can email you the Zoom link.
Samples of the cowls are available at Good Karma Yarns in Bridgton and Heavenly Yarns in Belfast.

Music Together
2024-02-05 10:00 - 10:40 | Abbott Room
A music & movement class for ages 0-5 and their grownups
FREE

Origami Workshop For Teens
2024-02-05 15:30 - 16:30 | Abbott Room
Teens 11-17, and fun adults are invited to a lovely afternoon of origami! We will learn how to make an origami octahedron! You will literally be taking one home with you! Come get your fold on!! Snacks will be provided, and they will be delicious!

Artist Talk and Reception: Susan Hess
2024-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
Miniature Echoes: Through the Art of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers, an exhibit by fiber artist Susan Hess will be on display in the Kramer Gallery January 31- February 29, 2024. The exhibit is in recognition of Black History Month.
In 2006, the U.S. Postal Service chose ten quilts created by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and issued a book of 39¢ stamps as “American Treasures: Quilts of Gee’s Bend.” Inspired by the exhibit of the quilts at the Philadelphia Art Museum, the life stories of the women of Gee’s Bend, and the recent pandemic and social unrest, Maine fiber artist Susan Hess has replicated the ten stamps in miniature using weaving and embroidery techniques. She has self-published an autobiographic book entitled Miniature Echoes Through the Art of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers.
On Tuesday February 6th, at 4:00 pm Susan will give a brief history of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers and how her project unfolded. Books and note cards will be for sale at the reception. All are welcome, light refreshments will be served.
Susan has self-published an autobiographic book entitled ‘Miniature Echoes Through the Art of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers‘. She exhibits the artwork and presents programs to share how endeavors of creative imagination can reorient the societal, cultural and personal considerations of one’s awareness.
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Lego Club - CANCELLED DUE TO STAFF ILLNESS 2/8
2024-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Abbott Room
Love LEGO blocks? Join the club. The library provides boxes of LEGO. Build what you like or take the Library Challenge. You can describe your build or leave it to our imagination. Your creation will be on display on the second floor of the library. All are welcome!

Kiss & Tell: A Love-Themed Reading Event
2024-02-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Abbott Room
All are welcome to come and read a love-themed poem. Sign up starts at 6pm, readings at 6:30.

Wiggle and Rhyme
2024-02-12 10:00 | Abbott Room
Content is prepared for birth through age 2. First 20 minutes are rhymes, songs and literacy followed by play time and bubbles for social time.
