August Events for Adults: Create, Explore Nature, Gain Insights & Get Support
Posted on July 17, 2024 at 5:00 am
August is a great time to explore new things, see what you can create, and even get your taste buds dancing. All of this you can do for free at the library.
Creative & Entertaining
For a tasty experience, spice experts recommend flavors to tempt tastebuds during Popcorn Seasonings & Movie Pairings. Movie suggestions that you can pair with each flavor create a delectable experience for home viewing.
Explore a timeless skill used to create pieces of decorative and functional art. During Cross-Stitching for Beginners, learn the basics of cross-stitching and make your own beautiful works of art in no time. All supplies are provided.
The library’s Glowforge 3D laser printer is making the trek from North Spokane to Spokane Valley Library for the Glowforge Basics program. Learn how to convert your 3D ideas into design files, including which design software to use, material selection, safety measures, and ways to book an appointment to use the library’s Glowforge.
Add pizzazz to your table-top board and roleplaying games with a custom, laser-printed dice tower. See how the laser printer works, and discover how you can personalize your design during Glowforge: Create a Dice Tower. At the end of the session, you can set up a one-on-one appointment with Glowforge staff to make your creation a reality.
During 3D Printing: Dice Roller, kids and parents pair up to create a customized dice roller for use with board games, role-playing games, or other games of your own making. Each duo learns how to create their dice roller using the Tinkercad software.
Create a Watercolor Landmark Accordion Book of a Spokane street front with your favorite iconic buildings and landmarks. We draw and paint them in a fun and whimsical style with watercolor paints.
For Your Business
See how to streamline your workflows, enhance collaboration, and effectively manage your tasks and projects in an online workshop with SCORE Business. Discover the possibilities of Google Workspace for Your Business, including invaluable skills to optimize your productivity, both personally and professionally. An in-person, follow-up session at Spokane Valley Library offers personalized, hands-on assistance and is available to all registrants.
Gardening & Nature
Bring in your extra produce (fresh only) to our Produce Swap, and take home something different from another garden in three communities throughout August and September. Any leftovers will be delivered to a local food bank in the community. During the talk A Walk Through a Night Garden, discover what you need to create a night garden, including fragrant plants, white flowers, lighting, and moon gardening.
Stop by the WSU Extension Master Gardeners Plant Clinic at Cheney Library for help with a wide variety of horticulture issues, including plant selection, installation, and maintenance; plant problem diagnosis and treatment; environmentally sound gardening practices; pest identification and management; and effective landscaping practices.
Walk along the trail around Medical Lake with Chad Pritchard, professor of Geology at EWU. During Medical Lake Geo-Walk & Water Sampling, learn about the lake’s history and natural science. Walkers assist in gathering water samples for stormwater research and picking up trash along the way.
Karie Lee Knoke, a contestant on TV series Alone and writer for Primitive Skills and Out There Outdoors magazine, leads you through trails during Medicinal & Edible Plants Hike: Liberty Lake Regional Park. Learn about these plants that grow wild along the route as well as tips for locating them in other contexts.
Health, Wellness & Support
You can be a Dementia Friend and help create a dementia-friendly community. Learn about dementia in the hour-long Dementia Friends Information Session, and then turn that understanding into action. You can also volunteer to make Spokane more dementia friendly by attending a Dementia Friends Champion Training and learning how to lead Dementia Friends Information Sessions.
If you are an unpaid or a professional caregiver of people living with dementia, you can increase your familiarity with dementia by attending a Dementia Caregivers Professional Training session. Topics include effective communication strategies, understanding and responding to dementia behaviors, a strengths-based approach to dementia behaviors, and emergency situations.
The weekly Tuesday Memory Café is a comfortable way to connect with other caregivers and people experiencing memory loss while socializing and building new support networks. Activities include music, crafts, and more.
A Matter of Balance: Preventing Falls sessions are designed for older adults who are concerned about falling. Learn the strategies you need to set realistic goals for increasing activity and to identify environmental adjustments to reduce risk factors. Discover how gentle movement can increase flexibility, strength, and balance and how a shift in viewpoint can make falls more controllable.
Helping Community
You can help Vitalant save lives this summer! Sign up for the Vitalant Blood Drive taking place at Spokane Valley Library to donate. Donors receive a gift card from Vitalant.
Learn how you can help a child improve their reading skills and gain confidence as a reader during Reading Buddy Volunteer Orientation. We go over the Reading Buddy volunteer program, including what to expect when visiting an elementary school and meeting a student, how to choose a book that’s a good fit for the reader, and how to read with your student.
Medicare & Consumer Education
During Reading Medicare Summary Notices & Being Aware of Medicare Fraud, learn how to review these forms that are part of your Medicare Advantage or Part D plan. We cover how to handle denied claims and answer Medicare questions. We also go over ways to spot and avoid healthcare fraud.
Get free and unbiased Medicare One-on-One Counseling that is specific to you and your Medicare questions with a trained volunteer from SHIBA. Learn more information about Medicare, Medigap (Medicare Supplement) and Medicare Advantage plans, prescription drug programs, and low-income programs to help pay for your Medicare.
The Medicare-Related Cost Saving Programs presentation is free and unbiased. We go over the options to see if you qualify for programs that could save you money on your Medicare costs. We also discuss wellness and preventive benefits and durable medical equipment (DME).
Attend a free Homebuyer Education Seminar to explore all of the major aspects of the home-buying process in an unbiased format with SNAP Spokane instructors certified by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. SNAP is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency.
SCLD Online Authors Series
Check out these engaging talks:
- Your All Access Pass Behind the Scenes at the Space Station with Smithsonian Curator Dr. Jennifer Levasseur
- The Golden Ticket to College Admissions Is Not What You Think: Redefining Success for Parents of Teens with Irena Smith, PhD
- An Exploration of Friendship, Reckoning, and Hope with novelist Shelby Van Pelt
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