Category: Events & Programs
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“Lemonade & LEDs” Lightbulb Exchange Comes to MCPL
Montgomery Energy Connection is excited to bring “Lemonade & LEDs” to MCPL. MEC is a network of County Government and community partners created to provide customized education on the benefits of energy efficiency, availability of programs, and opportunities for assistance. Find out how to keep more money in your pocket by reducing the amount of…
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Join Our June Tails & Tales Summer Read & Learn Events
Join us for this week’s Tails and Tales Summer Read & Learn Events! And don’t forget to sign up for the Summer Read & Learn Program at https://mcpl.link/summer-reading to start tracking books and activities now! All events are listed on our calendar at https://mcpl.events/summer-reading. Please click through and for registration and/or login information for each.…
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Outdoor Storytime at Aspen Hill Starts June 21
We’re excited to announce that outdoor storytime at the Aspen Hill library begins on Monday, June 21st! We will spread out our blankets and enjoy the summer weather during this lively storytime on the grassy lawn by the Aspen Hill library. This family storytime will feature books, songs and rhymes with Mr. Joe from the…
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MCPL Pride 2021 Storytimes and Crafts!
June is Pride Month, so join us for three different events for kids, plus the whole family! Saturday, 6/12, at 3:30pm, join us for a glamorous, imaginative, and exciting storytime presented by Drag Queen Story Hour of Montgomery County! DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity in childhood and gives kids glamorous,…
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Cartooning for Adults 50+ with Artist Leila Cabib
Create your own original characters, caricatures, one-panel gag cartoons, and comic strips in this five-week workshop with artist Leila Cabib, funded in part by a Wheaton Cultural Project Grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Adults 50+ can register at mcpl.events/cartooning, and experiment with pen-and-ink techniques and play around with all the…
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The Weekend @ MCPL: April 23-25
The weekend’s loading @ the library! Join us for these events: Friday, 4/24 3pm— #AspenHill & #Olney Knitting & Crochet Club 🧶 4pm— First Chapter Friday. Every Friday we read aloud the first chapter of a book for Grades 4-6. 📚 4:30pm— TeenHub Intermediate Python Programming Workshop 💻 5pm— Virtual Take, Make & Meet, Piggy…
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Day of the Record — Vinyl Day 2021
Featuring the Make Music Montgomery contest, a panel discussion, and a record-pricing workshop. The Friends of the Library, Montgomery County (FOLMC), Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL), and other sponsors have put the needle back on! Virtual Just for the Record – A Vinyl Day 2021 will spin in cyberspace on Saturday, April 17th from 12…
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April Events for Teens at Montgomery County Public Libraries.
Whether writing, reading, arts, crafts, or coding, April is full of events for teens at MCPL! Check out the descriptions, dates and times below, and join us at the event links! Bookmark our events calendar for a daily schedule of programs for everyone! Spring Vision Board, 4/13, 5pm 4/13, 5pmA vision board is a creative…
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National Financial Literacy Month at MCPL
April is National Financial Literacy Month — a time to focus on earning, managing, saving, and spending money wisely. MCPL offers a number of events this month on all kinds of money matters, and we hope you’ll join us! All events are virtual; registration and log-in information is available below. National Financial Literacy Month Events…
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Contemporary Conversations with Michelle Singletary at MCPL
Meet Michelle Singletary, prize-winning journalist and nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for The Washington Post. Michelle Singletary is well known for taking complicated financial terms and concepts and make them easy to understand. A frequent contributor to various NPR programs and a regular presence on all major networks, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS and MSNBS, Ms. Singletary…
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Join MCPL for Earth Month Events!
Earth Day is April 22 Join us for the annual celebration of all things Earth on Thursday, April 22. We’ll have a week of fun events, so join in! Planet Earth–Sand Art InstructableApril 19, 3 PM In honor of Earth Month, join us for a virtual meet up, where we will create awesome sand art…
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“Constitutional Patriotism, Partisanship and the Future of American Democracy ” with Congressman Jamie Raskin
Join Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday, April 5 at 1pm for Constitutional Patriotism, Partisanship and the Future of American Democracy. Congressman Jamie Raskin is the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. He recently served as the Lead House Manager during the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which ended with…