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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 6:30pm

Meeting Room D

Climate Fiction Book Club is a monthly book club that will read and discuss fiction to explore imagined futures of the climate crisis. This month will be a discussion of Dry by Neal Shusterman. When the California drought escalates to catastrophic...

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Monday, May 19, 2025 - 12:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Join us May 19 at noon for a behind-the-scenes look at local news gathering with The Gazette's Executive Editor, Zack Kucharski. He'll share what's been happening at The Gazette from a local perspective as well as the industry-wide...

Adults Teens Families Current Issues Guest Speaker
environmental impacts of computing

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 6:00pm

Zoom

You may have heard that water and electricity are required in big quantities for data centers, and that some activities like artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are especially demanding. Learn more about how these systems work and discuss the...

Adults Teens Current Issues Guest Speaker Science & Technology

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:00pm

Teen Center

Want to learn about becoming a more informed citizen and taking a more active role in our community? Ijeoma has extensive knowledge she’s willing to share. Ijeoma is a fourth-year Honors student and Advantage Iowa Scholar at the University of Iowa...

Teens Current Issues

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 2:30pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Learn about lucha libre, the fast-paced, high-flying sport of Mexican professional wrestling, from Iowa's own masked lucha libre superstar, Latin Thunder! Latin Thunder will share stories, demonstrate some moves, answer questions, sign...

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Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 4:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Are you a fan of Squishmallows, the plush toy that's loved the world over for being super soft, huggable, round, and adorable? Join us to make a piece of fan art celebrating Squishmallows at our painting party! Upon arrival, select from one of...

Tweens Arts & Crafting Current Issues Gaming & Pop Culture

Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 4:00pm

Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C

Celebrate Disability Pride Month by learning about the life of Judith Scott, a renowned fiber sculptor who was Deaf and had Down Syndrome, then making a variety of fiber art pieces. We'll weave and wrap, cut and twist to create stunning art...

Tweens Arts & Crafting Current Issues
intro to craftivism embroidery

Saturday, August 9, 2025 - 1:00pm

Meeting Room A

Shannon Downey (aka Badass Cross Stitch and author of Let's Move the Needle: an activism handbook for artists, crafters, creatives, and makers) will join us via Zoom on the big screen to share everything we need to know to start stitching staggering...

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