Join us in-person Fridays at the Main Library at 3:00 PM to get creative! Make your own art using material found around your home (ages 13 and up).
Celebrate the spooky season by creating your own haunted house using chalk pastels and paper.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Diné weaver Lois A. Becenti with Diné Be´ iinà – The Navajo Lifeway will host Navajo Rug Weaving Classes on the fourth Friday of every month. Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library on October 28th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Learn the fundamentals and techniques of rug weaving in traditional Diné style, including warping, carding, and spinning.
Please bring your own weaving materials and/or projects.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join us in person at the Children & Youth Library every Thursday at 4:00 PM for family-friendly crafts with step-by-step tutorials for all skill levels and ages. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-served basis using the Supply Request Form below.
Email hetsitty@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL and special guest Shanna Stoker Live on Zoom or Facebook @galluplibrary October 27th at 3:00 PM for a tarot tutorial.
Shanna is a tarot practitioner and a descendant of Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker, author of the 1987 Gothic Horror novel, Dracula. Discover how tarot reading can help you gain greater insight, honor your intuition, and forecast potential outcomes.
Stay tuned after the presentation for a Q&A session with Shanna. Learn how to use Ancestry.com to trace your family genealogy at your library.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.org or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library on October 26th at 5:00 PM for an immersive workshop as you learn basic and advanced techniques using acrylic paints!
OFPL is inviting youth artists to submit artwork to display at the youth library using the theme: Spooktacular Munster Mash. Use the materials and techniques learned in this workshop to contribute to the library space and leave your mark on OFPL. Supplies will be provided.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL at the Children & Youth Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for an interactive, hands-on tech program for tweens & teens. Stimulate your creative thinking and learn how to use computer coding to create art, tell stories, and design games!
In this coding challenge, participants will use block code to create a story in which the audience can make a decision.
Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL in-person at the Main Library every Wednesday at 4:00 PM for weekly film screenings of award-winning, classics, documentaries, newly released, and specially selected films.
2022 | PG-13 | 2 hrs. 6 mins.
Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse.
Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
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 animals! Ages 0-5.
Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every other 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. October’s theme is Kitchen Chemistry: delicious, edible STREAM activities that will help you learn about the properties of matter.
Molecules are all around us, but they are hard to observe because they are so small.
Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Who in your family do you look like? Have you ever wondered why some people like cilantro and others think it tastes like soap?
Join OFPL, Explora, and UNM Health Sciences in-person at the Children & Youth Library on October 22nd from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM for hands-on activities exploring these questions and other genetic related puzzles.
Email pneilson@gallupnm.og or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.