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Interactive Goat Play & Meet and Greet with Philly Goat Project!
Tue, April 15, 2025
12:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Please join us and our friends from Philly Goat Project on Tuesday April 15 at 12:00pm for a live, interactive performance - starring goats! - across the street at Fishtown Recreation Center, followed by a goat meet and greet! Participants will have an opportunity to meet and pet the…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, April 16, 2025
6:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join our beginner’s level workshop! Wednesday nights from April 16th to May 21st. RSVP for our step-by-step, six class series at tinyurl.com/uketroop We'll cover the basic chords, how to tune and hold the uke, and some basic strumming patterns. Players of all ages and abilities…
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"Guards! Guards!" Guided Group Reading with Fishtown Theatre Brigade
Sat, April 19, 2025
10:00 A.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Join local thespians from Fishtown Theatre Brigade from 10am-2pm for a guided group reading of Guards! Guards! the play by Stephen Briggs, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett. Script contains mild innuendo and profanity. Attendees aged 18 and up are welcome. Interested in getting…
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Monday Poets 30th Anniversary Season: Lawrence Dugan and Gabriel Ramirez
Mon, April 21, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literature Department in celebrating the 30th Anniversary season of Monday Poets. This year’s theme is Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah), a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get…
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Coffee & Conversations: Open Mic Spoken Word Night
Tue, April 22, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Join us for an evening of poetry and community at Coffee & Conversations: Words That Carried Us! Celebrate National Poetry Month with us as we explore the words that have lifted, comforted, and inspired us through life’s journey. Tonight's theme, Words That Carried…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, April 23, 2025
6:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join our beginner’s level workshop! Wednesday nights from April 16th to May 21st. RSVP for our step-by-step, six class series at tinyurl.com/uketroop We'll cover the basic chords, how to tune and hold the uke, and some basic strumming patterns. Players of all ages and abilities…
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Ants on a Log Earth Month Concert
Mon, April 28, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Celebrate E a r t h M o n t h with a special concert from Ants on a Log on Monday April 28 at 5:30pm! The Ants' Earth Month show features themes of climate justice and environmental education. This concert is the perfect way to acknowledge Earth Day which is less than a…
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Live Concert: Sing Slavic
Tue, April 29, 2025
5:15 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Sing Slavic (previously the Philadelphia Women's Slavic Ensemble ) is a choir interested in sharing Slavic languages and sounds with their community. Since 2011, the group has drawn inspiration from countries such as Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, and Serbia to perform ancient folk melodies as…
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Grid Books Celebration- A Poetry Reading
Tue, April 29, 2025
5:45 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A Grid Books Celebration! Join us in collaboration with Moonstone Arts Center in introducing a stellar lineup of poets representing Grid Books Press and their strong ties to the Philadelphia area and its more than two decades of independent publishing. The free event will take place in the…
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Showcase Your Talent at the Library!
Wed, April 30, 2025
3:00 P.M.
West Oak Lane Library
Join us for a poetry slam! Calling all poets, rappers, and songwriters... join us for an exciting competition where you can showcase your skills and compete for prizes. This event is open to all students, from Kindergarten through 12th grade, with categories based on grade. The…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, April 30, 2025
6:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join our beginner’s level workshop! Wednesday nights from April 16th to May 21st. RSVP for our step-by-step, six class series at tinyurl.com/uketroop We'll cover the basic chords, how to tune and hold the uke, and some basic strumming patterns. Players of all ages and abilities…
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Ants on a Log Earth Month Family Concert
Mon, May 5, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
The Ants' Earth Month show features themes of climate justice and environmental education. This concert is the perfect way to acknowledge Earth Day which is on April 22. Recommended for kids ages 3-11 and their families. Visit www.AntsonaLogMusic.com for…
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Philly Goat Project at the Pennypack Pier!
Tue, May 6, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Torresdale Library
Please join us and our friends from Philly Goat Project on Tuesday, May 6th for a live, interactive performance - starring goats! - outside on the Pier at Pennypack on the Delaware, followed by a goat parade and storywalk! Participants will also have an opportunity to…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, May 7, 2025
6:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join our beginner’s level workshop! Wednesday nights from April 16th to May 21st. RSVP for our step-by-step, six class series at tinyurl.com/uketroop We'll cover the basic chords, how to tune and hold the uke, and some basic strumming patterns. Players of all ages and abilities…
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“Mommy’s Khimar” Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company
Sat, May 10, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
A colorful, riveting theatre production of "Mommy's Khimar" by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is coming right to our library! A young Muslim girl takes her mother's headscarf &, with the power of her imagination, dreams of what she may become. Please note there is limited…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, May 14, 2025
6:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join our beginner’s level workshop! Wednesday nights from April 16th to May 21st. RSVP for our step-by-step, six class series at tinyurl.com/uketroop We'll cover the basic chords, how to tune and hold the uke, and some basic strumming patterns. Players of all ages and abilities…
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Meet the Animal Insects! With Insectopia
Sat, May 17, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Stop by the library to meet six different animals. These invertebrates (no skeleton!) will show off their most interesting talents and if you want to, you can hold them in your hands. Come for the special opportunity to meet one of our incredible Pennsylvania Native Species! Find us in Meeting…
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“Mommy’s Khimar” Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company
Sat, May 17, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Lillian Marrero Library
With expressive masks, life-size puppets, original music, and imaginative scenic effects, Enchantment Theatre Company brings to life “Mommy’s Khimar” by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. In this story, a Black, Muslim girl imagines all the things she can be in her mother’s…
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“Mommy’s Khimar” Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company
Mon, May 19, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Wyoming Library
With expressive masks, life-size puppets, original music, and imaginative scenic effects, Enchantment Theatre Company brings to life “Mommy’s Khimar” by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. In this story, a Black, Muslim girl imagines all the things she can be in her mother’s…
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Philly Goat Project!
Tue, May 20, 2025
2:00 P.M.
McPherson Square Library
Please join us and our friends from Philly Goat Project on Tuesday, May 20 2025 at 2 to 4pm for a live performace! Come out and meet these cuties. We will be in the back of the library by the playground. Rain date : Tuesday, May 27th, from 2:00-to 4pm Philly Goat Project is a…