30+ Library Events: Get Creative, Empowered & Informed in February

Posted on January 22, 2025 at 6:00 am

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Art Show Submissions & Creative Programs

Create art and share it with your community. Learn more about how you can submit your art to the Community Art Show in this news post or when you visit any SCLD library in February.

Teens (age 16+) and adults can explore their creativity when they sign up for 3D Printing: Token Boxes and Art Journaling for Beginners or when they drop in during Maker Open Hours in The Lab.

Junior Maker Hours in The Lab is a new offering for tweens and teens ages 8–16. Use our Glowforge to create a laser-engraved wood project, or try out a paper design with the Cricut cutting machine. You can even build a project that we’ve set out to get your creative ideas flowing.

Tweens ages 8–12 can sign up for LEGO Stop-Motion Animation to create and edit video of their LEGO characters moving, jumping, and talking to each other.

Arte: Pintura en Azulejos / Art in Spanish: Tile Painting is for kids ages 6–10 and their families and for those who understand spoken Spanish and are willing to try speaking some during this creative program.

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For Adults

The five-part series Empowered Caregiver Workshop Series teaches caregivers how to navigate the responsibilities of caring for someone with dementia, while taking care of their own well-being. The first session is January 27.

A Matter of Balance: Preventing Falls classes take place over several weeks and the next one starts on January 27. Learn strategies for setting realistic goals for increasing activity and identifying environmental adjustments to reduce risk factors. Plus, discover how gentle movement can increase flexibility, strength, and balance and how a shift in viewpoint can make falls more controllable.

The popular Ice Age Floods Institute presentations return with new topics in 2025. In February, the presentation Google Earth & the Field Notes of Bretz & Pardee takes a look at 16 years of J. Harlen Bretz’s field notes about the historic ice age floods and 30 years of Joseph Pardee’s USGS field notes, now publicly available and visible through Google Earth.

Make your next read a delicious occasion when you attend Chocolate Tasting & Book Pairing. Sign up to try different flavors from Halletts Chocolates and get suggestions for books that pair well with them.

Gardening and urban farming enthusiasts, as well as anyone curious, can stop by the library for Chicken Keeping Basics and Pruning & Planting Fruit Trees. Grow your knowledge this season.

During AARP Free Tax Aide, you may be able to get help filling out and filing your taxes at four SCLD locations: Argonne, Cheney, Moran Prairie, and Spokane Valley Libraries. Help is by appointment only.

Knowing the numbers that make up financial statements is important to the health and success of all small businesses. Learn more during the online workshop Financial Statement Basics for a New Business, presented by SCORE Spokane.

February’s online author talks include Smithsonian Curator Samantha Sholts, award-winning author Waubgeshig Rice, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Lee Hawkins. Sign up today to send your questions in for the live events.

Our community partners offer useful information and helpful ideas at these programs: Homebuyer Education Seminar, WorkSource Drop-In Help, CHAS Mobile Clinic, Dementia Friends sessions and Memory Cafés, plus Medicare sessions.

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For Tweens & Teens

Drop in anytime during Swifties Celebration: Friendship Bracelets, our Taylor Swift party for tweens and teens ages 10–14. Have fun creating and exchanging friendship bracelets, testing your Taylor Swift trivia knowledge, and trying out other fun crafts and activities.

Teens can help plan programs and work on other projects with a wonderful team of other teens during the monthly Teen Leadership Council. Every week, Teen Hang Out & Create offers a space to hang out, study, and/or try out a new creative activity.

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For Kids & Families

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) programs for kids and/or families include LEGO Free Play, Terrific Tuesdays, Wonder Wednesdays, STEAM-Themed Thursdays, and Homeschool Hodgepodge.

Young children and their caregivers can enjoy stories and activities to build early literacy skills, all while having fun, at our weekly Play & Learn Storytime programs at nine SCLD libraries. Watch Picture Book Chat to see some of the best new books to read with the early learners in your life.

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