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The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear: Illustrated talk by Robert McCracken Peck
Tue, August 19, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
Edward Lear (1812-1888) is best known and much loved for “The Owl and the Pussycat” and other nonsense poetry. But Lear was also a fine painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes and an adventurous, world-wide traveler. During the golden age of natural history…
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Paper Craft Club
Sat, August 23, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Let’s craft together! Drop in between 10:30am-12:30pm. We’ll make paper crafts we enjoy or learn new ones from each other. This includes card-making, junk journaling, scrapbooking, and anything you can create with paper, scissors, and glue. Materials are provided…
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Clay, Play, Read with the Clay Studio
Thu, August 28, 2025
3:30 P.M.
Cecil B. Moore Library
Start the school year off with a clay workshop! Artists from the Clay studio will teach us how to make an item out of clay, fire it at their studio, and return it to you!
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Comix Club
Thu, August 28, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
We typically gather every third Thursday, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. to read, talk and draw comics but this month we'll meet a week later. Stop by with your comics project to work on or just hang out and read comics from the Philadelphia Comics Collection . This collection contains…
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Treasures from the Literature Vault
Thu, September 4, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Do you love old books? Then join us for Treasures from the Vault– a casual, hands-on book club program spotlighting items from the Literature vault! The vault, home to our closed reference collections, is a treasure trove of hundreds of fascinating pieces of literary history. This program…
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Treasures from the Literature Vault
Thu, October 2, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Do you love old books? Then join us for Treasures from the Vault– a casual, hands-on book club program spotlighting items from the Literature vault! The vault, home to our closed reference collections, is a treasure trove of hundreds of fascinating pieces of literary history. This program…
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Treasures from the Literature Vault
Thu, November 6, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Do you love old books? Then join us for Treasures from the Vault– a casual, hands-on book club program spotlighting items from the Literature vault! The vault, home to our closed reference collections, is a treasure trove of hundreds of fascinating pieces of literary history. This program…
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Treasures from the Literature Vault
Thu, December 4, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Do you love old books? Then join us for Treasures from the Vault– a casual, hands-on book club program spotlighting items from the Literature vault! The vault, home to our closed reference collections, is a treasure trove of hundreds of fascinating pieces of literary history. This program…