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.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Family Storytime -May 2022
Tag: literature
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inside Children’s Branch
200 West Aztec Ave.
Wednesdays at 11:00 AM
Email bmartin@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.
Inside Children’s Branch
200 West Aztec Ave.
Wednesdays at 11:00 AM
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Navajo Astronomy
Join OFPL LIVE on Zoom or in-person at the Main Library on Friday, March 11th at 4:00 PM for a Navajo Astronomy presentation.
Friday, March 11th at 4:00 PM
The final virtual presentation in the series will further discuss traditional Navajo astronomy, constellations, and the unique way in which Navajo people view the cosmos and their place within it.
Three Ways to Join:
Astronomy kits are available using the Supply Request Form.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Matchbook Stories
Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library every Monday in February at 4:00 PM. Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years and older.
MONDAY, March 7th AT 4:00 PM
Learn how to craft your favorite book into a matchbook story and bring it to life.
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.