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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.
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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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Live! Critical Mass Early Music Ensemble
Sat, May 3, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us for a lively performance of Medieval and Renaissance choral music by Critical Mass, a student ensemble from Swarthmore College. After the performance, stick around for a showcase of music manuscripts, courtesy of the Rare Book Department! 3pm in the Lobby at Parkway Central
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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.
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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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Songs of Love and Other Struggles: Bethlehem and Sad Patrick Performance
Sat, May 10, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Overbrook Park Library
Join us for a free concert with local rising stars Bethlehem and Sad Patrick. Bethlehem and Sad Patrick perform songs of love and other struggles. Combining her soaring vocals and driving percussion with his sparse guitar, they deliver powerful songs about being in and out of love, keeping…
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Chicken Storytime
Wed, May 14, 2025
3:15 P.M.
McPherson Square Library
Chicken Storytime Join us for Chicken Storytime with Hartlane Farms chickens and Mural artist Zerbe at 3:15 pm for a fun afternoon and some creative art time. Chicken Storytime will take place in the playground behind the branch. No rain date.
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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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Moonstone Arts Center: New Voices Spring 2025
Thu, May 15, 2025
5:45 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Moonstone Arts Center New Voices Fall 2025 Poetry Reading Moonstone's Emerging Poets series is a program designed to support and uplift the voices of poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry…
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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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Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat, and Betty
Sat, May 17, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
What is the hardest unpaid job in the world? A President's wife! A play by Eric H. Weinberger and Elaine Bromka. Emmy Award-winning Elaine Bromka stars in this deeply moving and witty play. Enjoy this remarkable live one-woman performance brought to you by the Free Library of…
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Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat, and Betty
Sat, May 17, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
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Parkway Central Library
What is the hardest unpaid job in the world? A President's wife! A play by Eric H. Weinberger and Elaine Bromka. Emmy Award-winning Elaine Bromka stars in this deeply moving and witty play. Enjoy this remarkable live one-woman performance brought to you by the Free Library of…
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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…
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Uke Troop! Get Started on Ukulele!
Wed, May 21, 2025
6:30 P.M.
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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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Chicken Storytime
Sat, May 24, 2025
11:00 A.M.
McPherson Square Library
Chicken Storytime Join us for Chicken Storytime with Hartlane Farms chickens and Mural artist Zerbe at 11 am for a fun afternoon and some creative art time. Chicken Storytime will take place in the playground behind the branch. No rain date.
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“Mommy’s Khimar” Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company
Sat, May 24, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill 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
Thu, May 29, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Lovett Memorial 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…