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Headline: Community is the common thread. 

Looking for a weekly creative escape? Grab your needles, hooks, and hoops and join Chat & Chain, West University’s fiber arts and portable crafts club!

From intricate embroidery to cozy knits, we celebrate all things handmade. It’s the perfect hour to make progress on your projects while making new friends.

The Details:

Come make a craft! This is for children ages 2 and up. 

Where: Upstairs in the kids' area or outside. 

Note: First come, first served. We hope and aim to have enough supplies for everyone to join the fun.

The bird world is full of fascinating species! Participants will learn bird biology, act out common bird behaviors, and investigate how unique adaptations help birds thrive in their habitats. Touchable biofacts such as bones, talons, and feathers add new layers of fun as we learn about our feathered friends.
This program is geared for ages 5 and up. 
Space is limited. First come, first served. 

Practice reading aloud in English with other adult learners this summer on Thursday mornings in June and July. 

Focus is on pronunciation, fluency, and confidence through shared reading in a supportive library setting.

For adults who can read in English and have some language experience; not for beginning learners.

Join us for an interactive early literacy experience for toddlers and their caregivers. This program is geared toward toddlers ages 18 months-3 years old and features songs, books, and crafts each week!

Join us for an English-Spanish bilingual Toddler Time on the last Thursday of every month!

Space is limited. Please pick up your free tickets at the Children's Reference Desk the morning of the program to gain entry to Little Seedlings story time.

Join Gaby for a guided painting session! Kids will learn how to create their masterpiece, from start to finish in one session. Kids will also discuss basic color theory concepts, such as mixing, matching and contrasting as well as using art to evoke emotions. Every month will have a different theme.

This month’s painting will be evening camp scene, just in for the Summer Reading Program! This year’s theme is “Unearth a Story”, sign up for the program here.

Use advanced Excel features to understand and create Relative and Absolute formulas, If-Then functions and filters/sorting capabilities, conditional formatting, and assorted tips and tricks using Excel.

Please bring a USB to class if you would like to save your work.

Prerequisite Recommended: Microsoft Excel: Level 1

Bring seeds, plant cuttings, and potted plants to swap with other plant lovers! Restock and curate our community seed library. 

Stay and talk with new friends about gardening and nature. Tea and cookies will be provided for your chat!
(first come, first serve).

Bring seeds from your garden or store seed packets to the Plant Swap to add to our new Seed Library. The Seed Library will offer free seeds for the community. Share your gardening knowledge!

Are you struggling with a stitch or technique?

Don't know where to start?

Swing by the Robin Bush Room on the third Saturday every month between 3:00 and 5:00 for a helping hand!

Bring your project and questions and we will use library resources to help!

Use advanced Excel features to understand and create Spin Button charts, self-calculating budgets, attendance lists, linked spreadsheets and assorted tips and tricks using Excel.

Please bring a USB to class if you would like to save your work.

Prerequisite Recommended: Microsoft Excel: Level 1