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This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Coffee Break Cafe

10:30am - 11:30am
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Other
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Adult Department
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Do you enjoy specialty coffees, teas, and treats? Join us each week as we sip these delectable concoctions, mingle with like-minded individuals, and learn about what else the library has to offer!

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.

Daycare Storytime

11:00am - 11:30am
Baby-Pre-K
Storytime
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Discovery Quarters
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12

This storytime is for daycares with 6 children and under. Daycares with over 6 children may call the library to schedule a separate storytime.

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Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

This event is in the "Grades K-5" group.

Mi Casita Spanish Storytime

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Grades K-5
Arts & Crafts, Storytime
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Brick Room
Age Group: Grades K-5
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12

Engage your kids in an enriching bilingual experience.  We will be reading a book in Spanish and English followed by a fun activity.

Acompáñenos para una experiencia bilingüe divertida y enriquecedora. Leeremos un libro en Español e Inglés seguido de una actividad divertida.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Tasty Trivia!

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Games
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Games
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 9
Event Details:

Grab your squad or just yourself and join us each month for food and fun as we challenge your brain with different themed subjects and feed your stomach with delicious local food options!  Registration required.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.

Easterseals

9:30am - 1:30pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Training meeting. 

This event is in the "Grades 6-12" group.

Minecrafting

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Grades 6-12
Arts & Crafts
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Grades 6-12
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Minecraft just became real! Come make pixel art, craft your own personal Minecraft skin, or sketch out a scene from your dream base.

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.

Pajama Storytime

6:00pm - 6:30pm
Baby-Pre-K
Storytime
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Read good night books and sing lullabies to prepare your little ones for bed.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

HRC

6:00pm - 7:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Monthly meetings

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Criminally Good

10:00am - 11:00am
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Discussion
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Discussion
Event Details:

Pick up a copy of the book a month before the discussion, read, and discuss a different book each month.

The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Craft Masters

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Arts & Crafts
Registration Closed
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Love making crafts? Craft Masters is the ideal program for you! This adult crafting class takes ideas from Pinterest and allows you to make them free and with others! 

 

 

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.
This event is in the "Grades K-5" group.
This event is in the "Grades 6-12" group.
This event is in the "Family" group.

Irish American Story

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Baby-Pre-K, Grades K-5, Grades 6-12, Family
Special Event
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K, Grades K-5, Grades 6-12, Family
Program Type: Special Event
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

This hands-on experience combines food, history, and friendly competition to make learning about Irish heritage both exciting and memorable!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

En-Roads Climate Simulator

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Presentation
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Presentation
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 29
Event Details:

Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan have worked together to build a simulator with most of the variables in a worldwide climate model. It is interesting to see what is needed to solve the problem and what factors make the biggest

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.

Kindergarten Ready

9:45am - 11:00am
Baby-Pre-K
Special Event
Registration Closed
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Discovery Quarters
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K
Program Type: Special Event
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:

Open to children of Lansing residents, this free 10-week program will help the whole family get ready for kindergarten. Kindergarten Ready is open to 4-year-olds who are starting kindergarten within a year.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

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

Monthly Meetings

This event is in the "Grades K-5" group.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Grades K-5
Arts & Crafts, Storytime
Waitlist
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Grades K-5
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Come enjoy a nice glass of milk with cookies as we read along to “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” and make your very own pet mouse to take home!

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

Monthly meeting

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.

Music and Movement

11:00am - 11:30am
Baby-Pre-K
Storytime
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Discovery Quarters
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12

Reading to babies is an important foundation for early literacy skills! There will be books, movement, songs, and more!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Gentle Tai-Chi & Meditation

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Health & Wellness
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Start your afternoon strong with the right mind-set. Instructor Brian Thompson from BNEW4LIFE, teaches gentle Tai-Chi & Meditation to help you stay focused, alert, pain-free and anxiety-free! 

This event is in the "Grades 6-12" group.

Women's History Bingo

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Grades 6-12
Games
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Grades 6-12
Program Type: Games
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

In what year was the WNBA created? How many Grammys has Beyoncé won? Fill up your brain (and your bingo sheet) with trivia about female trailblazers, past and present!

This event is in the "Grades K-5" group.

Journal Club

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Grades K-5
Arts & Crafts
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Teen Island
Age Group: Grades K-5
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

A creative space to learn the different styles of journaling. We will go over traditional diary journaling, bullet journaling, common place journaling, scrap journaling etc… 

Lansing Garden Club

6:30pm - 7:15pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Monthly meetings.

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.

Family Storytime

10:00am - 10:30am
Baby-Pre-K
Storytime
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
Event Details:

Enjoy books, movement, songs, and more! Kids will learn important things like motor and literacy skills. After storytime, children can do a craft or play in the Youth Services play area and make new friends. Ages 3-5.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

This event is in the "Adults Age 18+" group.
This event is in the "Seniors" group.

Coffee Break Cafe

10:30am - 11:30am
Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Other
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Adult Department
Age Group: Adults Age 18+, Seniors
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Do you enjoy specialty coffees, teas, and treats? Join us each week as we sip these delectable concoctions, mingle with like-minded individuals, and learn about what else the library has to offer!

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.

This event is in the "Baby-Pre-K" group.
This event is in the "Grades K-5" group.
This event is in the "Grades 6-12" group.
This event is in the "Family" group.

Family Bingo/Loteria

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Baby-Pre-K, Grades K-5, Grades 6-12, Family
Games
Registration Open
Registration
Library Branch: Lansing Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Baby-Pre-K, Grades K-5, Grades 6-12, Family
Program Type: Games
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 3

Head to the library for a fun night of family BINGO/LOTERIA (Mexican BINGO) and a chance to win a tasty treat!

¡Diríjase a la biblioteca para una noche divertida de BINGO/LOTERIA familiar y la oportunidad de ganarse algo delicioso!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Food Allergy Alert

Food or drink will be served at this event. Please consult staff at the event regarding ingredients if you have food allergy concerns.