Tag: adventure

Hour of Code – Adventure on the High Seas

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for an interactive, hands-on tech program for tweens & teens. Stimulate your creative thinking and learn how to use computer coding to create art, tell stories, and design games!

Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

September 28th at 4:00 PM

Use block code to create repeating events that animate an ocean wave.  Tell a story that takes place on the high seas!

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Art Demo: Adventures of Rezmo in Dinéland & Further

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Thursday, May 13th at 4:00 p.m. for an art demonstration featuring Tasha Martinez.

Tasha’s artist name is Rezmo who works as a graffiti artist in Arizona. She incorporates her heritage as both Diné and Mexican into her graffiti work. Rezmo has worked on several art projects in her local community and created fundraising merchandise to help the Navajo Nation during the pandemic.

Watch Rezmo create art and talk about the challenges of being a contemporary graffiti artist.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Thrill of the Chase Challenge

Forrest Fenn was a NM Poet that loved the outdoors and encouraged others to do the same. He created a treasure hunt that baffled the world for a decade.

To honor his memory and the outdoor adventures he loved, OFPL has created a Treasure Hunt! Watch for a poem to be posted on each of our social media platforms, @galluplibrary on Saturday, October 3rd.

Follow the clues in the poem to find the treasure we have hidden somewhere in the Gallup area. Find our treasure, enjoy the contents, take a photo with it, and share it with the library. Enjoy the thrill of the chase with this great adventure!

Email mdchavez@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

March Film Series – Wonder Woman

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH AT 5:30 P.M.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2017
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 2 hrs. 21 mins.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

January Film Series – Abominable

Wednesday, January 8th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Three teenagers must help a Yeti return to his family while avoiding a wealthy man and a zoologist who want it for their own needs.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 37 mins.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Holiday Movie Marathon

Join us for a light-hearted and magical movie marathon at the OFPL Main Library on Monday, December 23rd from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Snacks will be provided.

Email libtrain@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Ernest saves Christmas (1988)

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011)

Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)

Starting at 12:00 p.m.

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.

  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 35 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy from YouTube.

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

Starting at 1:45 p.m.

With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute.

  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Family
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy from YouTube.

A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011)

Starting at 3:30 p.m.

Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree.

  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 30 mins.
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy from YouTube.

December Film Series – The Peanut Butter Falcon

Wednesday, December 4th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 37 mins.
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Magic for Muggles

Join us at the Children’s Branch on Friday, October 25th at 4:00 p.m. for an afternoon of magical adventure as we get sorted into our Hogwarts Houses and begin our journey through the wizarding world.

Make your own wand and watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.

OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy from YouTube.

September Film Series – Escape Room

Wednesday, September 18th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 39 mins.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.