Ring in the new year with a new skill!
Come by the Children’s Branch on Tuesday, January 14th and 21st at 4:00 p.m. to learn basic sewing skills, how to sew on buttons, fix torn seams and more! All supplies provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Feeling down in the dumps and gloomy? Is the motto “New Year, New Me” not working out?
Join us at the Main Library on Monday, January 13th and 27th at 5:30 p.m. as we indulge in a little self-care by making DIY cosmetics such as body scrubs, lip balms, and face exfoliators out of natural made products.
*Supplies provided.*
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Ring in the new year with a new skill!
Come by the Children’s Branch on Saturday, January 11th and 25th at 2:00 p.m. to learn basic embroidery stitches you can use to decorate your duds! All supplies provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Are you a master builder?
Come by the Children’s Branch on Wednesday, January 8th and 22nd at 4:00 p.m. to test your skills with boats that float, cars that go and mazes to stump your friends.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
MakerSpace is lighting up the sky with LED Circuits every Wednesday this month.
*Intended for ages 8 and older.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
GALLUP – The sight of a nun walking down Thoreau’s NM Highway 371 with an acoustic guitar strapped to her shoulder is one of the reasons Jerry Brown changed the course of his life.
Brown, now a successful artist from Mariano Lake, had dropped out of high school and had no direction. In his own words, “I was too wild.” He had spent a few years in different boarding schools in the area, a school in Utah and public schools in Thoreau, Wingate and Crownpoint. Continued after Image
“I started the public school, but I didn’t like it there and walked back to the house.” he said
It was around 1988 when Brown saw the nun walking down the street in Thoreau. The nun was “Sister Michelle.” She was the principal of St. Kateri Tckakwitha school in Thoreau, which later became St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School.
Brown remembered the school was known as “the academy,” and it was a small campus. He was so intrigued by the sight of Sister Michelle walking with her guitar that he decided to visit the school.
“They put me in 10th grade. I met all the teachers. They came from all walks of life. They were missionaries that were doing the good thing for the natives,” Brown said.
Get technical this month at the MakerSpace where we’re going to take apart computers, keyboards, and other electronics to see what makes them tick.
*Intended for ages 8 and older.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
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.