Each Thursday in June, middle and highschoolers are invited to explore creativity through art, tech, design, and more. All supplies will be provided for this event and no experience is needed. Today, engage with color theory, the color wheel and...
Teens
Upcoming events
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 6:30pm
Digital Media Lab
Create a beautiful, layered greeting card with butterfly shapes cut by our Cricut! You'll see the machine in action and get familiar with its software for your future projects. All supplies will be provided. Please register, as space is limited....
Friday, June 7, 2024 - 1:00pm
Teen Center
Every Friday throughout Summer, we'll explore food, create a recipe and watch a movie. Food: Molly's Cupcake contest Movie: Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse. Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of...
Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 11:00am
Meeting Room D
Spoken Word Club is a weekly generative writing workshop that provides teen writers with a safe space to share their work, get inspired, and meet other teen writers in Iowa City. Each meeting will have writing and performance examples, activities,...
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 1:00pm
Teen Center
Every Monday in June, middle and high schoolers have to opportunity to make something new. All supplies are provided and no experience is necessary. The mini vendor kit we're making this week is absolutely adorable! Work on building it...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 6:30pm
Digital Media Lab
You need first-hand experience with AI to fully understand the hype! In this workshop, we'll generate text, images, and music with various online tools. You'll leave with a better ability to identify AI-created content and ideas for how you might...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 - 2:30pm
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
This program is intended for people of all ages who are neurodivergent, or who experience intellectual or developmental disabilities. Join us to play Squishmallow bingo (with prizes!), then create a piece of Squishmallow fan art by painting a mini...
Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 10:30am
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Join us for a book sale during Iowa City Pride Festival! The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation is hosting its largest book sale of the year on Saturday, June 15 from 10:30 am-3:00 pm in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library. Shop...
Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 8:30pm
Other
Join ICPL staff and members of the Cedar Amateur Astronomers for a special ICPL Astronomy Night event at the Eastern Iowa Observatory & Learning Center at the Palisades-Dows Preserve. Members of the CAA will give tours of the facility beginning...
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 6:30pm
Digital Media Lab
Bring in a couple of your paperback books with misleading or unpleasant cover designs, and we'll create custom book jackets! After measuring your book, we'll use Canva to make a template you can fill with their clip art, background images you find...