Painting & Mocktails

Join OFPL in person at the Main Library on March 24th at 6:00 PM for an after-hours step-by-step workshop to learn some basic painting techniques. Try something new with us, relax, have fun, and be creative!

Octavia Fellin Public Library
115 West Hill Ave.

March 24th at 6:00 PM

Complete a full painting while sipping on mocktails after hours at the library. Space is limited. Includes all supplies, instruction, and mocktails! Register below to reserve your spot. The workshop is limited to 20 participants.

Workshop Registration

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

Family Storytime – Taking Care of Water

Join us every Wednesday at 11:00 AM and Saturday at 2:00 PM at the Children & Youth Library for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week! August is National Water Quality Awareness month and we are learning about water (Navajo: Tó). Ages 0-5.  

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 31st at 11:00 AM

Discover the importance of water to life and how to conserve and keep it clean.

August 2022 WEEK 5
FAMILY STORYTIME THEME: Taking Care of Water

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

Tweens Who STREAM – Build a Water Filter

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library on August 8th and 22nd at 4:00 PM for interactive STREAM workshops. STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

August 8th at 4:00 PM

In this hands-on activity, students investigate different methods—aeration and filtering—for removing pollutants from water. Working in teams, they design, build and test their own water filters.

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

Mighty Chondria Kids – Watersheds & Aquifers

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every Thursday at 2:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

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

July 21st at 2:00 PM

Activities promote understanding of the natural world and encourages seeking out answers to questions about the natural world.

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

Coloring & Mocktails

Join OFPL on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube on Wednesday, January 26th at 4:00 PM for a mocktail demonstration!

Wednesday, January 26th
Starts at 4:00 PM

Need a little stress relief after the holidays? Pick up a kit containing coloring sheets, pencils, and mocktail recipe cards.

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

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

Coffee Demonstration Presented by Gallup Coffee Copany

Join us on Facebook LIVE @galluplibrary every Friday at 4:00 p.m. to participate in Fun Friday interactive events and the opportunity to win some great prizes!

FRIDAY, MARCH 26TH
LIVESTREAM ON FACEBOOK LIVE
Coffee demonstration
Presented by Gallup Coffee Company

Join us for a special demonstration on coffee presented by the Gallup Coffee Company. See how coffee beans get turned into your favorite cup of coffee and learn different at-home brewing methods.

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.

March Film Series – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

WEDNESDAY, March 4th AT 5:30 P.M.

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

Synopsis:

Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2019
  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 49 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

February Film Series – Race

Wednesday, February 26th at 5:30 p.m.

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

Synopsis:

Jesse Owens’ quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2016
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 2 hr. 14 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.

Roaring ’20s Day

Join us at the Main Library on Thursday, February 20th for a day to celebrate the Roaring 1920s. There will be ’20s era music, documentaries on the 1920s, and a special showing of The Great Gatsby at 5:30 p.m.

Come in your best 1920s outfit and relive the Roaring Twenties.

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

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Synopsis:

A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.

About the Film:
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 2 hrs. 23 mins.
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
OFPL does not own the rights to this video. Courtesy of YouTube.