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Painting Local: Paintings by James Hamm

All Day 11/18 - 11/23
Sharpsburg
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Over the past few years, local artist James Hamm has focused on painting local scenes en plein air or from photos taken in the Pittsburgh region and Western Pennsylvania area.

DIY Lab Appt (Kari)

12:00pm - 2:00pm
DIY Lab
Full
Registration
Library Branch: DIY Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

This event is for a 1-on-1 Digitize It Yourself (D.I.Y.) Lab appointment. During the appointment, you can transfer and store your analog memorabilia, such as photos, slides, audio and video cassettes, into a digital format for safekeeping.

Disclaimer(s)

Accepted DIY Lab Formats

Formats our lab supports: photographs, documents up to 8.5″ x 11″, negatives/Film ( 35mm, 4” x 5”, medium and 8” x 10”), 35 mm slides, audio cassette tapes, VHS cassette tapes, 8, Hi8 and digital 8 video cassette tapes

Formats our lab cannot support: betamax, reel to reel audio, 8 and 16mm film and slides in any format other than 35 mm

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

1-on-1 Tech Help

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
Full
Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Hearst Room (William Randolph Hearst Study Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Make a 60 minute appointment to get some help with your technology questions.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Fall Code Club for Tweens

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
Full
Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: DIY Lab
Age Group: Kids, Teens
Program Type: STEAM, Technology
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 3

Code Club

Event Details:

Learn to Code this fall with our game style learning software, Fiero Code!

Disclaimer(s)

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Crochet n' Things

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room)
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

Come hang out with us as we crochet, knit, or do any other fun yarn craft!

Disclaimer(s)

After Library Closes

This program occurs after the library closes.

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Supplies

All supplies provided.

Spanish & English Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 35
Event Details:

Join us for a playful storytime in both Spanish and English with interactive books, rhymes, and songs.

Disclaimer(s)

Parent/Caregiver

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults; please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

1-on-1 Tech Help

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: McLaughlin (Harry W. McLaughlin Jr Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 1
Event Details:

Make a 60 minute appointment to get some help with your technology questions.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Saturday STEM

10:30am - 11:30am
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Kids
Program Type: STEAM
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

Join students from Fox Chapel Area High School's Society of Women Engineers (SWE NEXT) for 3 different programs that explore various STEM concepts.

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Painting Local: Paintings by James Hamm

All Day 11/25 - 11/27
Sharpsburg
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Over the past few years, local artist James Hamm has focused on painting local scenes en plein air or from photos taken in the Pittsburgh region and Western Pennsylvania area.

Simple Movement Through Somatics

10:30am - 12:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

Join certified person trainer, Tom Capriotti for a 1-hour somatics session.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Young Architects

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Sharpsburg
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Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Kids
Program Type: STEAM
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

Young architects are invited to design, build, and tinker with Ms. Alison in this building program for grades K-5. Sessions meet monthly on the 4th Monday.

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Supplies

All supplies provided.

Art After Dark

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Sharpsburg
Waitlist
Registration
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Art is for everyone! Art After Dark is our monthly adult art workshop series with Alison -- all skill levels welcome! We aim to create a space where adults feel safe to play, try, fail and succeed.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Supplies

All supplies provided.

Evening Book Group

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 18

Evening Book Group

This long-standing monthly book group is always looking for new members! We read mostly adult fiction and have a great time learning what we liked and didn’t like about each month's book. Stop in or call the library to get a copy of the current month's book.

Event Details:

This month we're reading The Leavers by Lisa Ko. Stop in to get a copy of the book.

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Wiggle Storytime

10:15am - 11:00am
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 80
Event Details:

Get up and get moving during our toddler storytime (for children ages 18-36 months) and their caregivers. This interactive storytime features books, fingerplays, bounces, scarves and shakers.

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Parent/Caregiver

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults; please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program.

Sing Me a Storytime

11:15am - 11:45am
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 28
Event Details:

Join us for snuggly, giggly fun that features songs, rhymes, and stories for babies (ages 0-18 months) and their caregivers.

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Parent/Caregiver

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults; please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program.

Poetry Workshop

12:30pm - 2:30pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: McLaughlin (Harry W. McLaughlin Jr Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Literacy
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 5
Event Details:

This meets every other week and focuses on nourishing and sustaining your creative practice. No experience writing or workshopping poetry? No problem!

Disclaimer(s)

Adults Only

Adults 18+ only please.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Little Hands Art Storytime

2:00pm - 2:45pm
Sharpsburg
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Registration
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Preschool
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Literacy, Storytime
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 12
Event Details:

Our youngest friends are invited to imagine and create with Ms. Alison at this weekly arts-integration storytime for PreK children and their caregivers. Each session will include stories and a hands-on developmentally appropriate art activity.

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Parent/Caregiver

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults; please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program.

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).

Supplies

All supplies provided.

Make-n-Take

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Registration
Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room)
Age Group: Kids
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, STEAM
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 75
Event Details:

Join us for fun, hands-on projects that explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts through arts and crafts that you get to take home with you. For kids in grades K-6.

Weekly Activities:

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Solo DIY Lab Appt

10:00am - 12:00pm
DIY Lab
Library Branch: DIY Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology

Mid-Week Knitters

1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cooper-Siegel
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Library Branch: Cooper-Siegel
Room: Reading Room (Scott Family Reading Room)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

Join a group of knitters and crocheters for 2 hours of crafting and chatting. New knitters and crocheters welcome! 

We also have donated yarn and other supplies if you so need!

Disclaimer(s)

Drop-Ins

Drop-ins welcome as space permits.

Supplies

All supplies provided.

Sharpsburg Closing Early

5:00pm - 7:00pm
Sharpsburg
Closing
Branches:
Sharpsburg
Description:

Sharpsburg Community Library will be CLOSING EARLY at 5pm for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Both Locations Closed

All Day 11/28 - 11/29
Some Branches
Closing
Branches:
Cooper-Siegel, Sharpsburg, DIY Lab
Description:

Both locations will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Painting Local: Paintings by James Hamm

All Day
Sharpsburg
Library Branch: Sharpsburg
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Over the past few years, local artist James Hamm has focused on painting local scenes en plein air or from photos taken in the Pittsburgh region and Western Pennsylvania area.

Breakfast with the Grinch

10:30am - 12:00pm
Off Site
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Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Babies & Toddlers, Preschool, Kids, Adults
Program Type: Fundraiser
Registration Required
Payment Required
Seats Remaining: 14
Event Details:

The, the, the, the, The Grinch!

Disclaimer(s)

Registration

Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL).