Teen Makers Club – March 2023 (2/2)

Let’s get creative! Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on March 25th at 2:00 PM for the teen makers club! OFPL will provide a space where creative minds can give shape to their ideas, and help spread their passion.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 25th at 2:00 PM

This month we focus on origami and zoetropes as we discover animation! Open to creative teens of all skill levels.

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

Teen Makers Club – March 2023 (1/2)

Let’s get creative! Join us in-person at the Children & Youth Library on March 11th at 2:00 PM for the teen makers club! OFPL will provide a space where creative minds can give shape to their ideas, and help spread their passion.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

March 11th at 2:00 PM

This month we focus on origami and zoetropes as we discover animation! Open to creative teens of all skill levels.

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

Chess Club – November 2022

Join the chess club at OFPL! Every Tuesday and Friday at 4:30 PM at the Children & Youth Library. Through the game of chess, members of the club are able to bond and improve their chess skills!

Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

Tuesdays & Fridays in November

  • Each Tuesday we will learn and practice chess theory and strategy together.
  • Each Friday we will compete in a tournament-style format. Prizes will be awarded!

All ages are welcome, although this is targeted at the age 8-18 range. Participants do not need to attend every event.

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

Chess Club

Join the chess club at OFPL! Every Tuesday and Friday at 4:30 PM at the Children & Youth Library. Through the game of chess, members of the club are able to bond and improve their chess skills!

  • Each Tuesday we will learn and practice chess theory and strategy together.
  • Each Friday we will compete in a tournament-style format. Prizes will be awarded!

Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

Tuesdays & Fridays at 4:30 PM

All ages are welcome, although this is targeted at the age 8-18 range.  Participants do not need to attend every event.

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

Chess Club

Join the chess club at OFPL! Every Tuesday and Friday at 4:30 PM at the Children & Youth Library. Through the game of chess, members of the club are able to bond and improve their chess skills!

  • Each Tuesday we will learn and practice chess theory and strategy together.
  • Each Friday we will compete in a tournament-style format.

Prizes will be awarded! All ages are welcome, although this is targeted at the age 8-18 range.  Participants do not need to attend every event.

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

Chess Club

Join the chess club at OFPL! Every Tuesday and Friday at 4:30 PM at the Children & Youth Library. Through the game of chess, members of the club are able to bond and improve their chess skills!

  • Each Tuesday we will learn and practice chess theory and strategy together.
  • Each Friday we will compete in a tournament-style format.

Prizes will be awarded! All ages are welcome, although this is targeted at the age 8-18 range.  Participants do not need to attend every event.

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

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club – Registration

Register below for a copy of A Place of Thin Veil by Bob Rosebrough now through September 30th

“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.” 

Zoom discussions will be held in October or in person at the Main Library with the author in attendance.

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

Chess Club

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Join the chess club at OFPL!

Every Tuesday at 4:30 PM and Saturday at 12:00 PM  at the Children & Youth Library.  Through the game of chess, members of the club are able to bond and improve their chess skills! Each Tuesday we will learn and practice chess theory and strategy together. Each Saturday we will compete in a tournament-style format. Prizes will be awarded!

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

Every Tuesday at 4:30 PM

Every Saturday at 12:00 PM

All ages are welcome, although this is targeted at the age 8-18 range.  Participants do not need to attend every event.

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

We READ, We TALK Hybrid Book Club

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Register below for a copy of Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo now through July 30th

Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother—the only parent who raised her—is dead. Searching through her mother’s belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew.

Zoom discussions will be held in August or in person at the Main Library. Refreshments will be served!

Email bmartin@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.