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 3rd at 11:00 AM
Discover different ways that kids can have fun with water, whether it is by swimming, splashing in puddles, or taking a bath.
August 2022 WEEK 1 FAMILY STORYTIME THEME: Water is fun
Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every other Monday at 4:00 PM for STREAM workshops and activities for kids and tweens (ages 5-12). STREAM workshops explore topics in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Making.
Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library 200 West Aztec Ave.
August 1st at 4:00 PM
Explore the amazing properties of water through simple interactive experiments.
Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library April 25th at 4:00 PM. Let’s go on an adventure but wait, who has the map?
Main Library, 115 West Hill Ave.
April 25th at 4:00 PM
Learn how to create your fantasy map utilizing beans, a pencil, and watercolor paper. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form below.
Join OFPL inside the Rio West Mall behind Hobby Lobby April 23 rd from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM for SOME hands-on FUN! Try your hand at building robots and explore structural engineering as OFPL challenges you to build the tallest tower. Fun and entertainment for the entire family.
Rio West Mall, 1300 West Maloney Ave.
April 23rd from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL, the Community Pantry and Hope Garden, and the McKinley Citizen’s Recycling Council for an Earth Day Soirée virtually on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube for demonstrations and in-person at the Main Library for a film screening April 22nd from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
• 9:00 AM – Tree Care: Planting & Pruning (Virtual Workshop) Garden staff will discuss tips, and tricks for planting, maintaining, and promoting a healthy environment for tree growth. Presented by The Community Pantry & Hope Garden.
• 12:00 PM – Recycling 101 (Virtual Workshop) This workshop will discuss basic recycling and the differences between industrial, commercial, and residential recycling. Presented by the McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council.
• 3:00 PM – Paint Pigments from Scratch (Virtual Workshop) OFPL’s Resident Artist will discuss how to turn plants into paint. Presented by Octavia Fellin Public Library.
• 3:00 PM – The Day the Earth Stood Still (In-Person Film Screening) Released in 2008 • 1 hr. 44 mins. • PG-13 An alien from another planet, accompanied by a giant robot, lands on Earth to eradicate the human race because of environmental damage inflicted by mankind on the planet.
Main Library, 115 West Hill Ave.
April 22nd at 3:00 PM
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Official Trailer (HD). OFPL does not own the rights to this video.
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.
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.
Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library April 8th at 4:00 PM to make Artist Trading Cards. Artist Trading Cards or ATCs are miniature pieces of art that are traded by artists around the world. Learn how to make your own ATC with an interactive workshop inspired by Courtney Cerruti’s Creative class.
Main Library, 115 West Hill Ave.
April 8th at 4:00 PM
Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form below.
