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Ages 0 - 3: Bring your baby or toddler to the library for stories, songs, dance, and activities from 10:00 am - 10:30 am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30 am - 11:00 am.
Drop by with your tablet and learn how to borrow ebooks, movies, music and more or to get answers to other basic tech questions. Staff cannot do repairs on your device.
It's a Frankenstein celebration! Come to one program or come to all. Each week will have a different activity, such as 3D printing monster pieces, coding with Sphero SPRK+, or designing your own monster character with Bloxels.
Hear from candidates for the 2018 General Election at this candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Attendees will have an opportunity to speak one-to-one with the candidates following the forum.
Ages 3-5: Bring your preschooler to the Library for interactive stories, songs, dancing, crafts and play from 10:00am to 10:30am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30am to 11:00am.
Positive Link provides comprehensive prevention and free testing to those impacted by HIV in south central Indiana. Test is done with a simple finger prick and results are delivered in one minute.
Learn to play the guitar and better understand basic music concepts like melody, rhythm and chords with the West Vigo Guitar Club. The club will meet as a group for free instruction from October through December. No music experience is required, but space is limited.
Enjoy refreshments as you play traditional and non-traditional Bingo. Prizes will be offered to the first to call out, "Bingo!" All levels of experience welcome. Bingo cards and number markers will be provided.
Learn
about various Invasive Species in our state and how they impact the environment. Get involved with the Indiana Invasives Initiative with this first session
in our "CISMA Community Call Out" designed for everyone from novices to expert gardeners.
Wear your pajamas for stories, songs, and crafts before bedtime! This event will vary each week from traditional story time, to art-based activities, to music-making, and everything in between!
Ages 6-11: Hang out with your friends at Distraction Attraction, an alternative to Books Before Bedtime that lets older children explore cool technology, games and activities.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Ages
0-5: Sing along to music, move your bodies with egg shakers and scarves, hear
stories and participate in crafts or playtime. Parents and caregivers are
invited to participate with their children during this storytime.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore sheering sheep, milking cows, shucking corn and being a farmer for a day through sensory activities. The first fifty kids will leave with a stuffed barnyard animal to take home.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Shop from a selection of thousands of items: Books, movies, music and more. The average book price is just $1.00. Proceeds raised at the monthly book sales help provide funding for Library programs and services.
Ages 0-5: Join Mother Goose for an interactive storytime with books, songs, rhymes and musical instruments. You and your child will play together and develop early literacy skills.
Shop from a selection of thousands of items: Books, movies, music and more. The average book price is just $1.00. Proceeds raised at the monthly book sales help provide funding for Library programs and services.
Ages 0 - 3: Bring your baby or toddler to the library for stories, songs, dance, and activities from 10:00 am - 10:30 am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30 am - 11:00 am.
Have you ever created a Nebula in a jar or painted a colorful work of art? In this family-oriented program for all ages, families will explore, create and have fun learning about science, art, history and other subjects. Free-play will also be available for younger children.
You've heard of Google, but what do you do with it? Learn basic search techniques and how to navigate your favorite websites. Please be familiar with using a mouse.
Have you ever created a Nebula in a jar or painted a colorful work of art? In this family-oriented program for all ages, families will explore, create and have fun learning about science, art, history and other subjects. Free-play will also be available for younger children.
It's a Frankenstein celebration! Come to one program or come to all. Each week will have a different activity, such as 3D printing monster pieces, coding with Sphero SPRK+, or designing your own monster character with Bloxels.
Teen Advisory Board -TAB for short- helps the library design events specifically for teens. TAB is a great way to express your opinions and make new friends all while serving the community. All teens are invited to attend the monthly TAB meeting and snacks will be available! For more information contact Eric Alsip at ealsip@vigo.lib.in.us or call him at (812) 232-1113 x 2275.
Hear from candidates for the 2018 General Election at this candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Attendees will have an opportunity to speak one-to-one with the candidates following the forum.
Ages 3-5: Bring your preschooler to the Library for interactive stories, songs, dancing, crafts and play from 10:00am to 10:30am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30am to 11:00am.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Time change: From now on we will meet from 2:00-3:00 pm. Set on Ireland's stunning West Coast, The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy is a joyous story about the meaning of home and the importance of finding a place where you truly belong.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
In the early years of the
First Galactic Empire, years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope, a young Han Solo meets his future
co-pilot, Chewbacca. While executing a heist, the two meet a
young Lando Calrissian, who would become one of Han's long-time friends.
Learn to play the guitar and better understand basic music concepts like melody, rhythm and chords with the West Vigo Guitar Club. The club will meet as a group for free instruction from October through December. No music experience is required, but space is limited.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Enjoy refreshments as you play traditional and non-traditional Bingo. Prizes will be offered to the first to call out, "Bingo!" All levels of experience welcome. Bingo cards and number markers will be provided.
Wear your pajamas for stories, songs, and crafts before bedtime! This event will vary each week from traditional story time, to art-based activities, to music-making, and everything in between!
Ages 6-11: Hang out with your friends at Distraction Attraction, an alternative to Books Before Bedtime that lets older children explore cool technology, games and activities.
Ages
0-5: Sing along to music, move your bodies with egg shakers and scarves, hear
stories and participate in crafts or playtime. Parents and caregivers are
invited to participate with their children during this storytime.
Spend an adult-only night out celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Sip experiment-inspired cocktails from our full bar and enjoy a delicious, free liquid nitrogen ice cream with mix-ins from Sweet Science.
Ages 12 & Up: Take your 3D printing to the next level at this demonstration of the new Raise 3D N2 with its dual extrusion, large heated build plate and the ability to use different types of filament including ABS and wood composites. Perfect if you have taken the Intro to 3D Printing.
Ages 0 - 3: Bring your baby or toddler to the library for stories, songs, dance, and activities from 10:00 am - 10:30 am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30 am - 11:00 am.
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with refreshments, drop-in activities, and a special showing of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie.
It's a Frankenstein celebration! Come to one program or come to all. Each week will have a different activity, such as 3D printing monster pieces, coding with Sphero SPRK+, or designing your own monster character with Bloxels.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Ages 3-5: Bring your preschooler to the Library for interactive stories, songs, dancing, crafts and play from 10:00am to 10:30am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30am to 11:00am.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Learn to play the guitar and better understand basic music concepts like melody, rhythm and chords with the West Vigo Guitar Club. The club will meet as a group for free instruction from October through December. No music experience is required, but space is limited.
Drop by with your tablet to learn how to borrow ebooks, movies, music and more or to get answers to other basic tech questions. Staff cannot do repairs.
Enjoy refreshments as you play traditional and non-traditional Bingo. Prizes will be offered to the first to call out, "Bingo!" All levels of experience welcome. Bingo cards and number markers will be provided.
Frankenstein and his Monster are characters often visited and revisited in literature. What of the poor soul made to be the Monster's bride? Kate Horsley's The Monster's Wife is told through the perspective of the doctor's housemaid and explores what happened on the Orkney Islands after Victor Frankenstein arrived to conduct his dark experiments - and how he came to choose the Bride.
Wear your pajamas for stories, songs, and crafts before bedtime! This event will vary each week from traditional story time, to art-based activities, to music-making, and everything in between!
Ages 6-11: Hang out with your friends at Distraction Attraction, an alternative to Books Before Bedtime that lets older children explore cool technology, games and activities.
Ages
0-5: Sing along to music, move your bodies with egg shakers and scarves, hear
stories and participate in crafts or playtime. Parents and caregivers are
invited to participate with their children during this storytime.
Some of your favorite fairy tale characters have gathered for a great celebration, but one of them may be hiding a dark secret. Enjoy food and drinks while working to solve a mystery. Costumes are allowed but not required. Pick-up begins promptly at 8:30.
Ages 0 - 3: Bring your baby or toddler to the library for stories, songs, dance, and activities from 10:00 am - 10:30 am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30 am - 11:00 am.
Create beautiful flyers, social media posts and more using this free online resource. You will need to bring your email address to sign up for this website.
In this class for beginners,
you will learn how to save, organize and delete documents and pictures on your
flash drive. Please bring a flash drive with you.
Ages 0-5: Join Mother Goose for an interactive storytime with books, songs, rhymes and musical instruments. You and your child will play together and develop early literacy skills.
Ages 12 & Up: Take your 3D printing to the next level at this demonstration of the new Raise 3D N2 with its dual extrusion, large heated build plate and the ability to use different types of filament including ABS and wood composites. Perfect if you have taken the Intro to 3D Printing.
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
It's a Frankenstein celebration! Come to one program or come to all. Each week will have a different activity, such as 3D printing monster pieces, coding with Sphero SPRK+, or designing your own monster character with Bloxels.
Ages 3-5: Bring your preschooler to the Library for interactive stories, songs, dancing, crafts and play from 10:00am to 10:30am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30am to 11:00am.
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
Learn to play the guitar and better understand basic music concepts like melody, rhythm and chords with the West Vigo Guitar Club. The club will meet as a group for free instruction from October through December. No music experience is required, but space is limited.
Explore the latest printing technology available at Haute Create. Learn how to properly and safely use the equipment and how to prepare a 3D design file for print. Customers who wish to use the Haute Create 3D printer independently must complete this class
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
Wear your pajamas for stories, songs, and crafts before bedtime! This event will vary each week from traditional story time, to art-based activities, to music-making, and everything in between!
25 years have passed since the
Sanderson sisters bewitched the town of Salem! Join us for this classic
Halloween film, in which a trio of young children joins forces with a cat to
break the spell and save their town.
Ages 6-11: Hang out with your friends at Distraction Attraction, an alternative to Books Before Bedtime that lets older children explore cool technology, games and activities.
Ages 0-5: Come dressed up for Halloween! Sing along to music, move your bodies with egg shakers and scarves, hear spooky (and not so spooky) stories and create a tasty craft. Each child will receive a special Halloween treat. Parents and caregivers are invited to participate with their children during this special storytime.
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
Fill
your trick or treat bag at the Westside Hometown Holiday Trunk or Treat
event. The Westside Hometown Holiday parade starts at 3:00PM at IGA and
ends at the VCPL, West Branch at 4:30PM where you can take part in the costume contest
and collect a variety of treats in a safe environment. Stop by the
library trunk for a free book, while supplies last.
Ages 0 - 3: Bring your baby or toddler to the library for stories, songs, dance, and activities from 10:00 am - 10:30 am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30 am - 11:00 am.
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
Join Mother Goose at Fresh Thyme Farmer's Market for an interactive storytime with books, songs, rhymes and musical instruments. You and your child will play together and develop early literacy skills. Children and parents will be provided with a breakfast bar by our host. Breakfast bar is 10:00 - 10:30, storytime starts at 10:30.
All ages: Save money, reduce waste and be creative with random accessories or gently used outfits this Halloween. Visit the West Branch to leave what you can and take what you need to create your perfect costume. Costumes for all ages will be accepted and available to take at no charge. Items will be first come first serve.
It's a Frankenstein celebration! Come to one program or come to all. Each week will have a different activity, such as 3D printing monster pieces, coding with Sphero SPRK+, or designing your own monster character with Bloxels.
Ages 3-5: Bring your preschooler to the Library for interactive stories, songs, dancing, crafts and play from 10:00am to 10:30am. There will be 30 minutes of free play offered from 10:30am to 11:00am.
Learn to play the guitar and better understand basic music concepts like melody, rhythm and chords with the West Vigo Guitar Club. The club will meet as a group for free instruction from October through December. No music experience is required, but space is limited.
