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After Hours LEGO Night - Adults Only

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Mezzanine
Age Group: Adults (18 and up)
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

Adult LEGO fans, come and build with us! Collaborate with friends on one of our LEGO sets, indulge your creativity with our brick stash, or take on a challenge. Adults.

MidLab - DIY Hours

10:00am - 1:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab — DIY hours

2:00pm - 4:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab — DIY hours

10:00am - 1:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab - Staffed Hours (Jon)

2:00pm - 4:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space. 

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MidLab - DIY Hours

5:00pm - 7:00pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

Teen Night: Painterly Pottery

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Orchard Room
Age Group: Tweens (6th - 8th grade), Teens (9th - 12th grade)
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 25
Event Details:

Join us in the Orchard Room to paint your own pottery! Painterly Pottery will then take the pieces back to the studio to be processed and return them to the library to be picked up about 1 week later.

MidLab - Staffed Hours (Bill)

10:00am - 1:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space. 

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Dancing Babies

10:30am - 11:00am
Storytime
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Story Room
Age Group: Babies (0 - 18 months)
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Babies will enjoy stories, songs, dancing, and exploring with musical instruments.

Tickets for this event will be handed out 30 minutes before the program at the YS Desk.

 

Dancing Babies

1:00pm - 1:30pm
Storytime
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Story Room
Age Group: Babies (0 - 18 months)
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Babies will enjoy stories, songs, dancing, and exploring with musical instruments.

Tickets for this event will be handed out 30 minutes before the program at the YS Desk.

 

Sensory Friendly Movie - Hook

1:00pm - 3:30pm
Movie
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Everyone (all ages)
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Introducing sensory friendly movies at the library, where every person is welcome to enjoy a movie in our theater. Our Sensory Friendly Movies are shown without previews, with the volume down and the lights on.

MidLab — DIY hours

2:00pm - 4:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab - DIY Hours

5:00pm - 7:00pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab - Staffed Hours (Bill)

10:00am - 1:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space. 

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MidLab — DIY hours

2:00pm - 4:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

MidLab — DIY hours

5:00pm - 7:00pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.

Family Night: Pet Rocks

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Maker Space- YS
Age Group: Families (all ages)
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Family Night

Spend quality time at the library with family and enjoy open-ended interactive activities!

Event Details:

Join us Wednesdays from 6-7pm for Family Nights at the library! They will take place in either the Youth Services Storyroom or Maker Space!

Choose Your Own Book Club - Mystery

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Book Club
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Orchard Room
Age Group: Adults (18 and up)
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
Event Details:

Join fellow book lovers for a book club … with a twist! Each month, we'll pick a different theme or genre.

MidLab - Staffed Hours (Katie)

10:00am - 1:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space. 

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Move & Groove with Michigan Learning Channel

10:30am - 11:00am
Activity
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Library Lawn
Age Group: Toddlers (18 - 24 Months), Preschool (3 - 5 years)
Program Type: Activity

Move & Groove

Build active bodies and minds! Dance to fun action songs and participate in movement activities.
Event Details:

Read, sing, and dance at Move and Groove, as we are joined by Michigan Learning Channel! We meet Thursdays at 10:30 in the library lawn under the west portico of the staff parking lot.

Crafty Thursday: Whirligigs

11:00am - 7:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Maker Space- YS
Age Group: Toddlers (18 - 24 Months), Preschool (3 - 5 years), Children (K - 2nd grade), Children (3rd - 5th grade)
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Stop by the Youth Services Makers Space to create a whirligig! Materials will be provided between 11AM to 7PM. 

MCFTA Presents: Sea and Sky Trailblazers

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Performance
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Story Room
Age Group: Children (3rd - 5th grade)
Program Type: Performance
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Event Details:

Be SEA AND SKY TRAILBLAZERS with the Midland Center for the Arts. Become an engineer and design ways to travel the world! Learn about the great explorers that sailed across seas and flew into the beyond.

MCFTA Presents: Sea and Sky Trailblazers

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Performance
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: Story Room
Age Group: Children (3rd - 5th grade)
Program Type: Performance
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 30
Event Details:

Be SEA AND SKY TRAILBLAZERS with the Midland Center for the Arts. Become an engineer and design ways to travel the world! Learn about the great explorers that sailed across seas and flew into the beyond.

MidLab — DIY hours

2:00pm - 4:30pm
MidLab
Registration
Library Branch: Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
Room: MidLab Maker Space- AS
Age Group: Ages 12 and up
Program Type: MidLab
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

The MidLab is a place for adults and teens to create, tinker, and explore! Registration is for one session and is required to use the MidLab space.