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Art Club for Tweens

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts

Art Explorers: Art Club for Tweens

Unleash your inner-artist by exploring fun art concepts. Create new projects every week… Painting, zines, mixed media, still life, portraits—you name it, we’ll do it! Ages 9-12. No pre-registration required.

Event Details:

We will be making animal collages.

 

Teens4Teens

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Large Conference Room
Age Group: Teens
Event Details:

Teens 13-17 meet Tuesdays at 5-6pm in order to share experiences and show their support for one another in a safe space. This group will be facilitated by Utahna Payne, certified life coach and library volunteer.

Creative Writing Group

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Writing Group
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Large Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Writing Group
Event Details:

BPL is the place to come and write alongside others and share your ideas!  Bring your favorite writing tools (laptop, tablet, or notebook & pen) and join us for informal, bi-weekly meetings.

Senior Bookmobile at Affinity

9:30am - 10:30am
Other
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Bookmobiles
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Senior Bookmobile will be at Affinity from 9:30 am to 10:30 am.

Adventures in Story Time - Toddler Time

10:00am - 10:45am
Story Time
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Story Tower
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Story Time

Adventures in Story Time

Adventures in Story Time introduces young children to books, rhymes, crafts, and other fun interactive activities. Each session is a chance to practice reading readiness skills like listening during stories, letter awareness and predicting. These skills build the foundational knowledge to prepare children to learn to read.

Junior Adventurers - Adventure Scuba

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Presentation
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Presentation
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Join us Wednesday afternoons at 3pm in the Community Room (unless otherwise noted) for fun and hands-on full of adventure.

BPL Turning Page Book Group

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Book Club
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Yellowstone Board Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

The Turning Page selects titles from the Library's Book Club Kits.  Grab your cup for some decaf coffee and join us! 

Story Time Adventurers - Princess Story Time

10:00am - 10:45am
Presentation, Story Time
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Babies, Children
Program Type: Presentation, Story Time
Event Details:

Join us for an enchanted Story Time featuring Belle. Enjoy a story and craft and photo op with our favorite book reading princess!

This program is brought to you by Golden Carriage Parties

Books & Babies: Classic

3:15pm - 4:00pm
Books and Babies
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Story Tower
Age Group: Babies
Program Type: Books and Babies

Books and Babies

Want to foster a love of reading at an early age and build important early literacy skills for your young child (ages 0-2)? Join us for stories, rhymes, and finger plays intended for our littlest pre-readers!

Hablar Conmigo

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Other
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Large Conference Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

A safe place to come and use your Spanish speaking skills! All levels welcome! Your presenter is not fluent, but working towards that goal. 

Qigong & Tai Chi Open Practice

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Health & Wellness
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Qigong & Tai Chi are very similar "internal arts" that confer an astonishing raft of health benefits.  Slow-moving & graceful.  Balance. Strength. Coordination. Digestion. Circulation. Concentration. Bones.

Game On!

3:00pm - 4:45pm
Gaming
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Join us Friday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:45 pm for games and Legos in the Craft Corner.

 

Books & Babies: Musical

10:15am - 11:00am
Books and Babies
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Story Tower
Age Group: Babies
Program Type: Books and Babies
Event Details:

Introducing the musical edition to our ever popular Books and Babies program! Music creates a positive connection to literacy and language between your child (ages 0-2) and you!

Dungeons and Dragons for Teens

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Gaming
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Teen Study 1
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Teens 13-17 can join DM Victor for an exciting campaign!  

Our campaign is currently full. Please keep an eye out for future opportunities! 

D&D for Grownups

12:00pm - 4:00pm
Gaming
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Large Conference Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

This week's campaign: Pathfinder 1.

Sketching with John Kennedy

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Arts & Crafts, Fine Art, Presentation
Registration
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Popular Materials
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Fine Art, Presentation
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Join us for an urban sketching demonstration with renowned local artist John Kennedy! During this short presentation John will demonstrate and talk about some of the ways he embraces his creative self though art, and hopefull

Tween Dungeons and Dragons

2:30pm - 4:30pm
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Teen Study 1
Age Group: Tweens
Event Details:

Tweens 10-13 can join one of our teen DM's for an exciting campaign! 

This campaign will take place in Teen Study Room 1. 

Email teens@billingsmt.gov for more information. 

Game On!

3:00pm - 4:45pm
Gaming
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Craft Corner
Age Group: Children, Tweens
Program Type: Gaming
Event Details:

Join us Saturday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:45 pm for games and Legos in the Craft Corner.

 

Take and Make Craft Water Bottle Bird Feeder

All Day
Arts & Crafts
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Virtual Event 2
Age Group: Babies, Children, Tweens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Let’s recycle and reuse and help feed neighborhood birds.  Pick up a Water Bottle Bird Feeder kit at the Children's desk.  Each Kit includes materials create one bird feeder  Stop by the Childre

Chalk the Walk

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Arts & Crafts
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Parking Lot
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Help us decorate our sidewalk. Stop by the children's desk and pick up some chalk, color the sidewalk and earn points in your Summer Reading Account.

Daycare Story Time

9:15am - 9:45am
Story Time
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Teen Corner
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Story Time
Event Details:

Daycare Story Time - Adventures in Story Time introduces young children to books, rhymes, crafts, and other fun interactive activities. Each session is a chance to practice reading readiness skills like listening during stories, letter awaren

Senior Bookmobile at The Springs

9:30am - 10:30am
Other
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Bookmobiles
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Senior Bookmobile will be at The Springs at Grand Park from 9:30 am to 10:30 am.

Adventures in Story Time - Preschool

10:00am - 10:45am
Story Time
Library Branch: Billings Public Library
Room: Story Tower
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Story Time

Adventures in Story Time

Adventures in Story Time introduces young children to books, rhymes, crafts, and other fun interactive activities. Each session is a chance to practice reading readiness skills like listening during stories, letter awareness and predicting. These skills build the foundational knowledge to prepare children to learn to read.