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Red, green blue and purple paint splotches with the word Messtival written in large orange letters and Color Our World below it.

Messtival Summer Learning Kickoff

Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library

Program Type:

Special Event

Age Group:

Children, Preschool, Tweens, Teens, Family, Everyone
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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Tweens, Teens, Family, Everyone
Program Type: Special Event
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Celebrate the creative spirit at this messy art festival to kick off a summer of fun!

Groovy Nate in a hat and sunglasses outside next to a colorful mural holding an assortment of percussive instruments.

Get Your Groove on with Groovy Nate

Monday, June 2, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:15am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library

Program Type:

Performance

Age Group:

Children, Preschool, Family
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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Performance
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Move, sing and play with Grammy nominated Groovy Nate® and his funky grooves, exotic musical instruments and comedy. For ages 4 -10.

A human handing using chalk pastels to create a vibrant abstract doodle

Color Your World: Abstract Pastels

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library

Program Type:

Arts & Crafts, Workshop

Age Group:

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

Use and blend chalk pastels to create an abstract masterpiece in this workshop with local artist and art educator, Emily Crews. For ages 9 and older. Registration required.

female librarian in glasses and sassy red shoes sits on a stool to read a book to 2 children with her ukelele next to her and a butterfly floating past, The texts Color Our World Storytime with a blue bird perching on them tops the page.

Storytime

Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library

Program Type:

Storytime

Age Group:

Children, Preschool, Family
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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Preschool, Family
Program Type: Storytime
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Brighten up your week and celebrate summer by joining Ms. Beth for colorful stories, fun songs, rhymes and activities that support school readiness. For ages 8 and under with an adult caregiver.

Author Katherine Applegate in a jean jacket with colorful necklace standing next to the picture book cover of Odder with a sea otter leaning its face against a paw while floating on its back in the Pacific Ocean. World Builders Book club Watch Party written underneath

World Builders Book Club Watch Party with Katherine Applegate

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Community Meeting Room at Essex Public Library

Program Type:

Book Club, Special Event

Age Group:

Children, Tweens
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Library Branch: Essex Public Library
Room: Community Meeting Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Book Club, Special Event
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Join us for a watch party at the Library as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.

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