Get in touch with your creative side and learn new techniques and technologies. This month, October, we’re bringing the heat with our heat tools. Make projects using shrink plastic, polymer clay, and fuse beads.
*Intended for ages 8 and older.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
Whether you’re a chess expert or new to the game, join us at the Children’s Branch on Tuesday, October 1st and October 22nd at 4:00 p.m. to learn chess moves and strategies. Meet others who love the game and make connections! Refreshments provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
FREE money for college expenses? Join the Money Club at the Main Library on:
To learn more about college success and money. Meet up with friends and have some pizza!
*Each session in October covers the same material.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Honor loved ones who have passed with a community Día de Los Muertos Altar at either the Main Library or Children’s Branch.
Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient, Mexican and Mexican American holiday, with a historically rich tradition that integrates pre-Columbian and Catholic customs. It is often celebrated in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. The celebrations are based on the belief that the souls of the ones gone can come back to this world on these days.
The Day of the Dead Altars also known as Ofrendas are the most prominent feature in the celebration because they show the souls the way to their home. Altars make the souls (animas) feel welcomed and show them they have not been forgotten. OFPL invites the local community to add photos, messages, and symbolic items to our Altar or “Ofrenda” during the month of October.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Celebramos el mes de la herencia hispana con diversión y juegos. Únase a nosotros en la sucursal de los niños el sábado 28 de septiembre a las 4:00 p.m. para aprender el juego Loteria y ganar premios!
Envíe un correo electrónico a childlib@gallupnm.gov o llame al 505-726-6120 para obtener más información.
We’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage month with fun and games. Join us at the Children’s Branch on Saturday, September 28th at 4:00 p.m. to learn the game Loteria and win prizes!
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Insert your quarters and play in a life-sized PAC-Man game. “Eat” your way through the first two levels of PAC-Man before the ghosts catch you. Join us at the Children’s Library Branch on Friday, September 27th at 4:00 p.m.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Are you a master builder? Join us at the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, September 25th at 4:00 p.m. to make boats that float, cars that go, marble mazes, and more!
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information
Film and video productions can vividly depict the impact of censorship on individuals and society. A First Amendment film festival for Banned Books Week will be hosted in the Meeting Room of the Main Library.
Join us for film screenings based on book titles that have been censored.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Monday, September 23rd
at 5:30 p.m.
City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
View trailer HERE
Tuesday, September 24th
at 5:30 p.m.
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
View trailer HERE
Wednesday, September 25th
at 5:30 p.m.
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
View trailer HERE
Thursday, September 26th
at 5:30 p.m.
In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
View trailer HERE
Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. The OIF tracked 347 challenges to library, school and university materials and services. Overall, 483 books were challenged or banned in 2018.
A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.
Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.