Family Storytime – Sounds All Around

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! This month, we are learning about sound! Ages 0-5.

Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

September 7th at 11:00 AM 

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Mighty Chondria Kids – Can You Kazoo?

Join OFPL on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or on YouTube 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.

September 5th at 4:00 PM

Investigate how kazoos work–and the amazing properties of sound–by building your own!

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

End of Summer X-STREAM Pirate Party

OFPL X-STREAM Summer 2022

Join OFPL at Fox Run Golf Course on July 30th from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM for an X-STREAM Pirate Party!

Fox Run Golf Course
1109 Susan Ave.

July 30th from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Celebrate the end of summer with fun and prizes! OFPL has been collecting your activity logs all summer long for this special raffle. Enjoy food, games, a temporary tattoo parlor, a dunk tank, a mermaid Princess and more! Explore oceans of possibilities with OFPL!

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime

Join us in person every Wednesday 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.

EVERY WEDNESDAY IN February
STARTS AT 11:00 AM

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Family Storytime

Join us in person every Wednesday 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.

Going Places with Storytime

Join us outside by the playground at Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch every Wednesday at 11:00 AM for stories, songs and activities all related to transportation and getting around!

Summer Reading Block Party

Join OFPL for an end of Summer Reading Block Party on Friday, July 30th at 3:00 PM outside the Children’s Branch near the playground.

  • Play OFPL’s Minute to Win It mini-challenges and win PRIZES.
  • Participate in Chalk the Walk and make your own colorful sidewalk chalk art.
  • Assemble your own Artist Trading Cards and exchange them with other community members.

Stop by for a fun filled afternoon for all ages.

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information. 

World Day of Music

Join us on LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary Monday, June 21st at 2:00 p.m. for a virtual music learning session.

Open your ears and minds to the world of music by celebrating the day harmonizing on a harmonica. Music instructor John Boomer will show the basics of playing the harmonica.

The library will have a limited supply of harmonicas available through curbside pick-up. Make a curbside request and have your harmonica ready for World Day of Music.

Request your harmonica HERE

Email mdchavez@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Sunburnt Stone: Troubled Dreams

Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, and YouTube on Monday, May 17th at 6:00 p.m. for a presentation featuring New Mexico band Sunburnt Stone from Albuquerque, NM.

From the winds of the reservation to the pavement of Burque they bring to you their experience in life through music. Their presentation on From Voice to Vision will discuss their experience in bringing their music through Visual Storytelling by releasing their first album during the pandemic.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

2-Hour Virtual Zumba Class

Join OFPL LIVE on Zoom Saturday, April 24th at 12:00 p.m. for a special 2-hour Zumba class hosted by OFPL’s own Zumba Fitness instructor, Joshua Whitman and guest instructors. Register below to participate virtually from home. Registration is limited to 100 participants.

Register to Participate HERE

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.