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.
Join OFPL on Facebook LIVE @galluplibrary on Saturday, December 19th at 1:00 p.m. for an afternoon of coloring and mocktail making. Request coloring pages, colored pencils, and an ingredient leaflet with mocktail/cocktail recipes below:
Color different pages from characters, scenes, and mandalas. Mocktail & Cocktail Recipes below:
Mocktail Recipes:
Lime Rickey
Ingedients: • 1 oz. Lime Juice • 1 oz. Sugar Syrup • 4 oz. Soda Water • 1 Lime
Directions: 1. Take the limes and squeeze them into a glass. 2. Pour in the sugar syrup 3. Top the glass with a shaker and shake the contents thoroughly. 4. Take a tall glass, add ice. 5. Pour the shaken contents through a strainer and into the glass. 6. Add the soda water. 7. Stir. 8. Garnish with lime peel 9. Drink and enjoy!
Shirley Temple
Ingedients:
• 1.5 oz. Grenadine • 6 oz. Ginger Ale • 1 Lemon
Directions: 1. Pour grenadine into tall glass. 2. Add ice. 3. Pour in ginger ale. 4. Stir. 5. Garnish with lemon peel.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Cocktail Recipes:
Mojito
Ingedients: • 1.5 oz. White Rum • 0.75 oz. Lime Juice • 0.5 oz. Sugar Syrup • 4 oz. Soda Water • 1-2 Sprigs Mint Leaves • Lime Slices, Garnish
Directions: 1. Muddle mint leaves with simple syrup in mixing glass or tin. 2. Add lime juice, lime hull, and rum. 3. Add to milkshake glass. 4. Top with ice and soda water. 5. Roll drink back and forth in mixing glass. 6. Top with ice and garnish with mint bouquet and lime slice. 7. Drink responsibly & enjoy!
Shirley Temple
Ingedients: • 1 oz. Vodka • 1 oz. Grenadine • 8 oz. Ginger Ale • Lemon Slices, Garnish
Directions: 1. Add Ice 2. Pour vodka into the glass. 3. Pour in ginger ale. 4. Add Grenadine. 5. Garnish with lemon peel. 6. Drink responsibly & enjoy!
Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, January 25th at 2:00 p.m. for an afternoon of childhood throwback as you color different pages from scenes to mandalas.
Contribute to our community coloring mandala that we will display once finished. Mocktails will be provided for added fun!
Library serves up a colorful concoction: Mocktails and Coloring
Gallup Independent. November 18th, 2019. Vida Volkert, Staff Writer.
GALLUP – Josh Whitman was making non-alcoholic mojitos with club soda instead of rum, and Shirley Temple with grenadine syrup and lime juice during a mocktails-and-coloring event at the Octavia Fellin Public Library Saturday.
On the table, next to the cups, syrup, ginger ale, ice cubes, and mixers, Whitman had a spread of designs and colored pencils. On another table behind him, Whitman had a set of speakers and was streaming indie music on Spotify.
“Coloring is one of the things you can do and not stress about it.” Whitman, the library’s experiential learning coordinator said. Continued After Image
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
‘Creative Expression’
“I have 14 different designs for them to choose from, and three different cocktails – I call them mocktails. The holidays could be stressful time of the year when people are shopping.” he said. “This is a free of stress and gives them a nice creative outlook to creative expression.”
Danielle Leekity, 32, and her children Anjelica, 11 and Jacob, 5, learned about the activity on Facebook and decided it was a good way to spend their Saturday in Gallup. The mother and her two children were sitting next to each other on an adjacent table and were coloring while enjoying their drinks.
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
“My daughter is very artistic. She has pastels at home and taught herself how to draw,” Leekity said. “We usually come her for the events. Everybody says it gives children something to do but it is also for the families. a relaxing wat to spend the weekend. We go to the ArtsCrawl every month. The fun part about this area. everything is within walking distance.”
Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.
