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Library Events Calendar

Family Storytime

Family Storytime celebrates the Freedom to Read!

Craftytown! Make a Superhero

Make your own Poseable Superhero!

Barbie Zombification!

Barbie Zombification!

Dad Guild Library Play Group

Dad Guild Play Group at the South Burlington Public Library

Half Day Craftytown!

Arts & Crafts for Elementary students

Half Day Craftytown!

Arts & Crafts for Elementary students

The 2nd Annual Great Jigsaw Puzzle Race

Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts

Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!

Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts

Bring a friend and join us for some arts and crafts fun!

CANCELED: Solve the Mystery~ "A Who-Dun-It?" Adventure!

Can you Solve the MYSTERY? "A Who-Dun-It?" Adventure for kids in grades 4 and up!

Stuffy Sleepover Drop-off

Stuffed animals have their own sleepover adventure in the library!

Stuffy Sleepover Pick-Up

Stuffed animals have their own sleepover adventure in the library!

Game Changers!

Game Changers! Board Games for grades 4 and up!

CANCELED-Farmers' Ball for ages 3-7

Farmers' Ball- A tea party for farmers, gardeners and growers! Ages 3-7

Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session

Adventure Boxes

Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session

Bird Books

Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session

Seed Bombs!

Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session

Bird Books

Summer Reading Craftytown! 10am Session

Rock Bags

Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session

rock bags

Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session

seed bombs

Summer Reading Craftytown! 4pm Session

Adventure Boxes

Summer Reading Craftytown!

Rock On! Geology in our Green Mountain state with Master Naturalist Fred Kosnitsky

Summer Reading Craftytown!

Natural Dyeing with Indigo and Local Color Farmer Karen Cornish!

Summer Reading Craftytown!

Bug Hotel

Summer Reading Craftytown!

Joe Frogger cookies for Juneteenth!

Summer Reading Program Kick-Off Event!

Author Event ~How to Make a Mountain: In Just 9 Simple Steps and Only 100 Million Years! by Amy Huntington

Classical Encounters: Chamber Music Fellows' Recital

Green Mountain Chamber Music presents Classical Encounters in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium

Friday Movie: Big Kids Productions & Vermont Story Works’ Let’s Go to the Farm

Big Kids Productions & Vermont Story Works’ Let’s Go to the Farm

Friday Movie: Walt Disney Pixars' A Bug's Life

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

Friday Movie: Walt Disney Pixars' Wall E

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Friday Movie: Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film based on the book by Mary Norton.

Natural Resources Committee Wildlife table

The Library is hosting the Natural Resources Committee in sharing information about spring wildlife and babies in your yard and what to do with them.

Build a Kinetic Sculpture for the Bike Path!

Middle and High School students are invited to build a kinetic sculpture with artist and educator Katie O'Brien!

Space Movies Saturday: Wall-E

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives

See the objects that mark milestones in Vermont's queer history and hear the stories that go with them.

Summer Babytime -9:15am

Babytime for non-mobile infants and their adult caregivers.

Babytime

Babytime for non-mobile infants and their adult caregivers.

Paper Bag Princess Day!

Stand up to Dragons on Paper Bag Princess Day!

Baby Dedication Books and Brunch

Welcome to all new South Burlington babies

Toddler Stay and Play

Free play and social time just right for Toddlers and their caregivers.

Musical Storytime with Ms. Liz

Musical Storytime for infants to age 4!

Read to a Dog!

Read to Emma the Therapy Dog

Read to a Dog!

Read to Emma the Therapy Dog

Christmas Storytime

Chanukah "Pajama" Storytime

Babytime CANCELLED- 8/28 & 9/4 2024

Storybook Craftytown

Storybook Craftytown

Storybook Craftytown

Storybook Craftytown

Storybook Craftytown: Crafts Inspired by favorite kids books

Storybook Craftytown

Vacation Craftytown! Yarn Collage Painting

Paint with colorful yarns!

Vacation Craftytown! Air Dry Clay Dish

Vacation Craftytown! Puzzle Piece Art

Make art with a mix or puzzle pieces

Vacation Craftytown! Doodle and Paint

Free Play Doodle and Watercolor Painting

Vacation Craftytown! Spiral Flower Weaving

Create your own woven flower!

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Princess and the Frog

Disney's Princess and the Frog

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Sword in the Stone

Walt Disney's Sword in the Stone

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Polar Express

Warner Brothers Polar Express

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Willy Wonka

Warner Bros. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Winnie the Pooh

Disney's Winnie the Pooh

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: March of the Penguins

It took one year for the two isolated cinematographers Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison to shoot the documentary, which was shot around the French scientific base of Dumont d'Urville in Adélie Land.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney's Meet the Robinsons

Walt Disney's Meet the Robinsons based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Walt Disney Pixar's Cars

Walt Disney Pixar's Cars is set in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic vehicles.

Friday Movie in Kids' Activity Room: Universal Studio's Despicable Me

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn.

Pop-Up Halloween Family Storytime

Miss Alexa Leads a not-too-spooky Halloween Storytime for kids and caregivers

Game On!

Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!

Game On! is Canceled 7/31

Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!

Game On! Holiday Hours

Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switch on the big screen!

Game On CANCELED

Join us in the Activity Room for some gaming with our Nintendo Switches on the big screen!

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. WE ARE AT CAPACITY Author event with Tracey West!

New York Times Bestselling Author Tracey West comes to Vermont!

Author event with Joe Roman!

Eat, Poop, Die; How Animals Make Our World- NAMED A TOP-TEN BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Author event with Angela Burke Kunkel!

Read & Paint with Local Author Angela Kunkel

Free Play Art!

Free Play Art!

Free Play Art!

Craftytown! Still Life Watercolor Painting

Looking closely at flowers and painting with watercolors.

Craftytown! Name Bunting

Make a paper Name Bunting to hang on your wall.

Craftytown! Ribbon Fairy Wands

Welcome Summer with your own Ribbon Fairy Wands

Craftytown! Make a Woodland Gnome

A Woodland Gnome peg doll with an acorn cap and gunnysack

Craftytown! Weaving

Craftytown! Beaded Key Chains

Craftytown! Make Toadstool house and Pegdoll

Make a Pegdoll that will live in a Toadstool house

Craftytown! Sew a Candy Corn Stuffie!

A Soft Squishy Candy Corn that won't give you cavities.

Craftytown! Make a Yarnbird

A fanciful bird to hang inside

Craftytown! Make a Solstice Angel

Craftytown! Owl Peg Doll

Craftytown! Sew a Heart Sachet

Hand-sew a Heart Sachet filled with fragrant dried herbs.

Craftytown! Sew a Bird

Hand-sew a Bird

Craftytown! Clothespin People

New friends await to meet you! Come on in and make a couple of Clothespin People.

Kids Book Club for K-2- CANCELED FOR TODAY

A book club for our young readers and their parents!

Kids Book Club for K-2

A book club for our young readers and their parents!

Kids Book Club for K-2

A book club for our young readers and their parents!

Firefighter Storytime

Craftsbury Chamber Players

Join members of the Kompass Quartet to explore what makes the classical string quartet such a magical and enduring ensemble. The program includes music of multiple eras and styles from the quartet's beginnings to current trends. This interactive performance includes music of Beethoven, Haydn, Coleridge-Taylor, and more. Light refreshments to follow.

August Pop-Up Activities! LEGOpalooza

August Pop-Up Activities! Perler Beads

Perler Bead Craft

August Pop-Up Activities! Space and Solar System Activities

Space and Solar System Activities

August Pop-Up Activities! Storytime

Spanish Playdate with Lainie

Join us for Citas de Juego.

Classical Encounters: Chamber Music Fellows' Recital

Green Mountain Chamber Music presents Classical Encounters in the South Burlington Public Library Auditorium

Litter Pick-Up

Pick up litter and make our community a little brighter.

802 Reptiles

A live python experience in the SBPL Community Room

See It Sketch It Bird It: Draw & Learn

In this interactive program, Birds of Vermont Museum staff will use bird carvings and other items to teach you techniques for sketching birds that will ultimately help you become a better birder (and sketcher!)

Fancy Pants Tea Party

Princes and Princesses welcome! Bring your fanciest manners and wear your best dress-up outfit.

Dance Party in the Auditorium!

Bring a friend and wear your dancing shoes!

Readers' Theater

Using scripts and simple props, we will perform a folktale in one afternoon! For able readers in grades 2-5.

Kazoo Jam Band

Drop in for some community Music making!

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Puzzle Pieces

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Our Four-Legged Friends

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Kindness Rocks

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Friendship Bracelets

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Art from the Heart

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Pretzel Love Knots

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper. Today we will be making homemade pretzels.

Summer Reading Craftytown! - Field Guide to YOU!

Weekly Summer Program for kids grades Kindergarten and up with an adult helper. Today we will be making books.

Baby Social Time

Baby Social Time for infants birth to 12 months and their caregivers.

Family Storytime

Family Storytime for ages infant-5 with adult caregiver

Lyric Theater presents Elephant and Piggie "We are in a Play!"

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” will have the entire family dancing and cheering!

Lyric Theater presents Elephant and Piggie "We are in a Play!"

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” will have the entire family dancing and cheering!

Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts - Kindness Rocks

Middle School Makers for students in Grades 5-8

Middle School Makers: Arts & Crafts - Painted Sunflower Pot

Today we will be painting a pot for a sunflower. Participants will take home soil and a sunflower seed to plant.

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 4 & up

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Cooking for Middle school students grade 4-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Middle school students grade 5-8 cook mac 'n cheese

Middle School Makers: Cooking - Tacos

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking - World Peace Cookies

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Pizza and a Movie: The Princess Bride

Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Pizza and a Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking -Apple Popover

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Pizza and a Movie: Onward

Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Middle school students grade 5-8 cook Spring Rolls

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Middle school students grade 5-8 Make Maple Bacon Popovers

Middle School Makers: Cooking

Middle school students grade 5-8 Make Creamy Spinach Parmesean Orzo

Middle School Makers: Cooking - Pot Stickers

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Pizza and a Movie: Inside Out

Pizza and Movies for Middle school students grade 5-8

Middle School Makers: Cooking - Pretzel Love Knots

Cooking for Middle school students grade 5-8

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Tale of Despereaux

The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux Tilling, as he sets out on his quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats. The book won the 2004 Newbery Medal award.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Muppets take Manhattan

The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Frank Oz and the third theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Ratatouille

Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's restaurant.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Toy Story

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Shrek

Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book of the same name by William Steig.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Secret Garden

A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life.

Friday Movie in the Auditorium: Frozen

Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio behind "Tangled" and "Wreck-It Ralph," presents "Frozen," a stunning big-screen comedy adventure.

Friday LEGO Builders

Come and check out our massive collection of LEGO!

Friday LEGO Builders CANCELED TODAY

CANCELED TODAY Come and check out our massive collection of LEGO!

First Thursdays: Music and Movement with Miss Emma

Miss Emma music and movement for kids. Singing, scarf play, movement and jam session.