Family Storytime – Fish

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Join us Wednesdays at 11:00 AM and Saturdays at 2:00 PM inside The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, and read-aloud stories every week! Age 0-4.

The Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

June 8th at 11:00 AM

June 11th at 2:00 PM

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022 Week 2
Family Storytime Theme: Fish

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

Garden Storytime

Join OFPL, the Community Pantry and Hope Garden, and Spirit Farm in-person at the Community Pantry on May 21st at 11:00 AM for garden storytime.

The Community Pantry & Hope Garden
1130 Hasler Valley Rd.

May 21st at 11:00 AM

Spirit Farm will present a special storytime and puppet show followed by a tour of the Community Pantry grounds. Learn more about services and programs provided to our community.

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

Family Storytime – May 2022

Join us Wednesdays at 11:00 AM inside the Children’s Branch for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, and read-aloud stories every week! Age 0-4.  

Children’s Branch
200 West Aztec Ave.

Wednesdays at 11:00 AM

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

A Place of Thin Veil: Book Talk & Signing

Join OFPL and Guest Author, Bob Rosebrough
Main Library on April 27th beginning at 5:00 PM.

“The veil between the material and spiritual worlds is thinner and more permeable in Gallup, New Mexico. It is a place that is disproportionately and simultaneously wonderful and terrible. A reservation border-town with a remarkably diverse citizenry, Gallup started out as a railroading and coal mining community with an alcohol-soaked, violent history. It is a place of
constant struggle where the forces of good and evil are joined in combat and where each resident faces their own inner struggles. This book isn’t just for Gallupians or New Mexicans; it is both a memoir and history about real people facing Goliath struggles.”

Main Library, 115 West Hill Ave.

April 27th at 5:00 PM

Books will be available to purchase on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Cash or Check

Light refreshments

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

Family Storytime

Join us Wednesdays at 11:00 AM inside the Children’s Branch for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, and read-aloud stories every week! Age 0-4.

Children’s Branch, 200 West Aztec Ave.

Every Wednesday at 11:00 AM

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

Block Letter Book Art

Join OFPL in-person at the Children’s Branch April 27th at 4:00 PM to transform simple wooden letter blocks into art using your favorite book covers, poetry, magazines, and more.

Children’s Branch, 200 West Aztec Ave.

April 27th at 4:00 PM

Register in advance below by April 15th to receive a 13-inch letter of your choice.

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

Family Storytime

Join us Wednesdays at 11:00 AM inside the Children’s Branch for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, and read-aloud stories every week! Age 0-4.

Children’s Branch, 200 West Aztec Ave.

Every Wednesday at 11:00 AM

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

Mint Tin Book Diorama

Join OFPL on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library every Monday at 4:00 PM. Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years and older.

April 4th at 4:00 PM

Celebrate National Library Week by transforming words from your favorite book into a miniature diorama inside a mint tin box.

Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form below.

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

We READ, We TALK Book Club

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is the next Book Club read.

“As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible “adult” around. She finds peace in the starry Midwestern night sky above the fields behind her house. One night everything changes when she witnesses one of her father’s thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold, wreck his motorcycle. What follows is a powerful and shocking love story between two unlikely people that asks tough questions, reminding us of all the ugly and wonderful things that life has to offer.”

Register at https://ofpl.online/programs/#bookclub receive a free copy of All
the Ugly and Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood now through April 30th. *A limited number of copies available, first-come, first-serve basis.

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

Women’s History Month: Female Empowerment

Join author Daniel Vandever and illustrator Corey Begay LIVE on Zoom or Facebook, @galluplibrary on Wednesday, March 30th at 2:00 PM for a presentation and reading of Herizon, a story that details the journey of a young Diné girl as she helps her grandmother retrieve a flock of sheep aided by a magical scarf.

Wednesday, March 30th at 2:00 PM

In an age that has seen the election of the first female Vice President and the first Native American Secretary of the Interior, Herizon speaks to the power of the moment and honors progress and persistence during Women’s History Month.

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