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LEGO Adventures written in white block lettering atop a blue background with a black border.

Adventures with LEGOS

Friday, June 28, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Children, Tweens, Family
Event Details:

Spin the mystery wheel and find out where your LEGO adventure begins or build your own inspired creation.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Family
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Spin the mystery wheel and find out where your LEGO adventure begins or build your own inspired creation.

Card games sushi go and taco cat goat cheese pizza and board games dixit and ticket to ride with cheese doodles hummus and veggies, a chocolate chip cookie and 2 water bottles. The words fun and games (and snacks) are above the items.

Tabletop Adventures

Monday, July 1, 2024 at 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Gaming
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Text that reads "Stitch It!" with pink and blue yarn border

Stitch It! Knit & Crochet Club

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others wh...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others while you knit or crochet together.

Toothbrush head with googly eyes, pom poms for a tail and nails for an antennae and a small battery motor attached to form a bristle-bot

Full STEM Ahead with Bristle-Bots

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Workshop
Age Group:
Children, Tweens
Open
Required
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Workshop
Required
Seats Remaining: 16
Young children wave from a hot air balloon high in the air while an infant with pigtails sits on an open book below looking up at them and an older child reads aloud from a book. The words storytime, adventure begins at your library headlines the image

Storytime

Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Babies
Preschool Storytime:

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Babies
Program Type: Storytime

Preschool Storytime

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Text that reads "Stitch It!" with pink and blue yarn border

Stitch It! Knit & Crochet Club

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others wh...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others while you knit or crochet together.

Young children wave from a hot air balloon high in the air while an infant with pigtails sits on an open book below looking up at them and an older child reads aloud from a book. The words storytime, adventure begins at your library headlines the image

Storytime

Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Babies
Preschool Storytime:

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Babies
Program Type: Storytime

Preschool Storytime

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Image of red, gold, and black cards and game pieces with text that reads: Board Game Cafe

Board Game Cafe

Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Gaming
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Come play board games of all types on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Bring a game or play one of ours. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided. For teens and adults. 

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Come play board games of all types on the 2nd Thursday of each month. Bring a game or play one of ours. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided. For teens and adults. 

Jackson Baugus smiles as he holds assorted lizards and snakes on his outstretched hand with the words Jack's Jungle intertwined with a python underneath.

Go Wild! with Jack's Jungle

Friday, July 12, 2024 at 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Family, Everyone
Event Details:

Get wild with Jack's Jungle!  Snuggle with a 10-foot Burmese python, get nose to snout with an American alligator or ask an ancient sculcata tortoise about the meaning of life...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Family, Everyone
Program Type: Special Event
Event Details:

Get wild with Jack's Jungle!  Snuggle with a 10-foot Burmese python, get nose to snout with an American alligator or ask an ancient sculcata tortoise about the meaning of life in this wildlife program with Jackson Baugus and his live animal f

Card games sushi go and taco cat goat cheese pizza and board games dixit and ticket to ride with cheese doodles hummus and veggies, a chocolate chip cookie and 2 water bottles. The words fun and games (and snacks) are above the items.

Tabletop Adventures

Monday, July 15, 2024 at 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Gaming
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Text that reads "Stitch It!" with pink and blue yarn border

Stitch It! Knit & Crochet Club

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others wh...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others while you knit or crochet together.

Caregiver Support Group

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Purpose of Meeting:

Caregiver Support

This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Purpose of Meeting

Caregiver Support

Colorful mirrored disco ball on a black background

Let's Sparkle: Mirror Ball Painting

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Event Details:

Learn how to paint the brightest trend around: the disco ball!  Participants will learn about underpaintings, perspective and light while they design and paint their one of a ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Learn how to paint the brightest trend around: the disco ball!  Participants will learn about underpaintings, perspective and light while they design and paint their one of a kind disco ball.

Young children wave from a hot air balloon high in the air while an infant with pigtails sits on an open book below looking up at them and an older child reads aloud from a book. The words storytime, adventure begins at your library headlines the image

Storytime

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Babies
Preschool Storytime:

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Babies
Program Type: Storytime

Preschool Storytime

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Text that reads "Stitch It!" with pink and blue yarn border

Stitch It! Knit & Crochet Club

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others wh...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others while you knit or crochet together.

Bright yellow school bus facing towards viewer with the words Welcome to the School Bus, bus tour and safety storytime and the Essex County Public Schools and Essex Public Library logos

Welcome to the School Bus

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Family
Event Details:

Enjoy a fun bus story and song before touring a real school bus and learning about bus safety.  For rising pre-K, kindergartners and 1st graders.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Special Event
Event Details:

Enjoy a fun bus story and song before touring a real school bus and learning about bus safety.  For rising pre-K, kindergartners and 1st graders.

Young children wave from a hot air balloon high in the air while an infant with pigtails sits on an open book below looking up at them and an older child reads aloud from a book. The words storytime, adventure begins at your library headlines the image

Storytime

Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Babies
Preschool Storytime:

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Babies
Program Type: Storytime

Preschool Storytime

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Diced tomatoes, green onions, carrots and peppers on a wooden cutting board with the words Choose Your Own Adventure Kitchen Edition Cheese & Carbs and the logo of Just Harvest underneath

Choose Your Own Adventure: Kitchen Edition - Cheese & Carbs

Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event, Workshop
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Use, herbs, spices and easy to prepare healthy ingredients to turn bland basics into flavor adventures in this hands-on cooking adventure with local non-profit, Just Harvest.

Open
Required
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Special Event, Workshop
Required
Seats Remaining: 13
Event Details:

Use, herbs, spices and easy to prepare healthy ingredients to turn bland basics into flavor adventures in this hands-on cooking adventure with local non-profit, Just Harvest.

LEGO Adventures written in white block lettering atop a blue background with a black border.

Adventures with LEGOS

Friday, July 26, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Other
Age Group:
Children, Tweens, Family
Event Details:

Spin the mystery wheel and find out where your LEGO adventure begins or build your own inspired creation.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Family
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Spin the mystery wheel and find out where your LEGO adventure begins or build your own inspired creation.

boys, girls and adults gather around 4 different large drums to play them with the words global beats with tampa taiko underneath.

Global Beats with Tampa Taiko

Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Performance
Age Group:
Children, Tweens, Family
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens, Family
Program Type: Performance
Card games sushi go and taco cat goat cheese pizza and board games dixit and ticket to ride with cheese doodles hummus and veggies, a chocolate chip cookie and 2 water bottles. The words fun and games (and snacks) are above the items.

Tabletop Adventures

Monday, July 29, 2024 at 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Gaming
Age Group:
Tweens, Teens
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Bring your own or choose from any of our board games, card games, puzzles and more at this regular time for nothing but fun!  Snacks and drinks provided.

Text that reads "Stitch It!" with pink and blue yarn border

Stitch It! Knit & Crochet Club

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others wh...

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Do you like to knit or crochet? Join us for a friendly, informal gathering of crafters. Get help with a project, share ideas and inspiration, or just enjoy the company of others while you knit or crochet together.

A collection of cardboard boxes and tape making a 5 foot tall by 10 foot wide fort with a child peeking out from inside. The words fort-night next to a graphic of 3 children and a dog reading under a blanket together.

Fort-Night

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Special Event
Age Group:
Children, Family
Event Details:

Boxes?  Check.  Tape?  Check.  Imagination?  You bring it - and maybe a stuffed animal friend.  It's time to build the perfect fort!  For familie...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Family
Program Type: Special Event
Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:

Boxes?  Check.  Tape?  Check.  Imagination?  You bring it - and maybe a stuffed animal friend.  It's time to build the perfect fort!  For families and children ages 8 and under.

Young children wave from a hot air balloon high in the air while an infant with pigtails sits on an open book below looking up at them and an older child reads aloud from a book. The words storytime, adventure begins at your library headlines the image

Storytime

Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library
Program Type:
Storytime
Age Group:
Children, Preschool, Babies
Preschool Storytime:

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Babies
Program Type: Storytime

Preschool Storytime

 Join Ms. Beth for a good story, fun songs, rhymes, and activities that help get little ones ready to read! For children 8 and under with an adult caregiver.