1900 East Third Ave. Contact: 375-3380, www.durangopubliclibrary.org.
Tuesdays 2-3 p.m.: Tech Tutoring. Free one-hour tutoring sessions with a member of the IT staff. To register, contact Dan Goldman at dan.goldman@durangogov.org.
Thursdays 10:30-11 a.m.: Family Storytime. Stories, songs, rhymes and other fun activities for children ages 0-5 and their parents and caregivers.
Thursdays 3-5 p.m.: Summer Chess Club. Drop-in chess games in a friendly environment. For ages 7-15. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own set or use one of ours.
Fridays 10:30-11 a.m.: Baby Storytime. For infants to 18 months. Music, stories, fingerplays, counting rhymes and playtime. Babies should bring their parents or caregivers.
July 4: Closed for holiday.
July 7, 2-3 p.m.: Together We Give. Create care bags to be donated to community members in need. Spread friendship by creating unique friendship trail mix.
July 11, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.: Summer Reading Show – Will Parker. Special Summer Reading Program performance. Will Parker performs music for everyone.
July 12, 2-3 p.m.: Summer Teen Zone – Creative Writing workshop. Find your voice and express yourself creatively with words, whether those take the form of poems, songs, raps or stories real or imagined.
July 12, 4:30-6 p.m.: Great Garden Series – Bonsai in the Southern Rockies. Bonsai, the art and horticultural practice of joining a plant and a confined container, is not limited to a single species of tree or even tree species typically seen in examples from Japan. In fact, bonsai in Colorado has a long history dating back to the unfortunate period of Japanese internment camps in the state. In this talk, we will explore the use of native tree and shrub species as Bonsai subjects.
July 12, 6-7:30 p.m.: Word Honey Poetry Workshop. Join us at The Hive's indoor skatepark (1150 Main Ave. Suite A) for a poetry workshop.
July 14, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.: Friends of the Library Summer Reading Book Sale. Score some great deals and stock up on books to read this summer.
July 14, 2-3 p.m.: LEGO Club. Build, create and play with the library’s LEGO collection.
July 15, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.: Friends of the Library Summer Reading Book Sale. Score some great deals and stock up on books to read this summer.
July 18, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: “All Together Now” Community Dance Party. Boogie down at the library. Bring your friends and make new ones.
July 19, 1-3 p.m.: How to Letter like a Sign Painter. A fun course on the art of lettering with Heather Leavitt Martinez, visual practitioner, lettering artist, author, teacher, visioneer and Neuland ambassador. Beginners welcome, markers included. Seating is limited, registration required.
July 19, 2-3:30 p.m.: Summer Teen Zone Brighten-a-Day Bookmarks. Create bookmarks and shelf markers with positive messages and colorful images.
July 20, 1-2 p.m.: Mixing Mocktails. Join Lucas Hess, owner of High Desert Hospitality, to learn all about the art of blending and crafting mocktails (nonalcoholic cocktails). This will be a demonstration and a tasting for adults. Two sessions are available and seating is limited. Register online or ask a staff member for help.
July 21, 2-3 p.m.: Together We Play. Puppet Building Workshop. Create a character and give them a personality. Perform a scene with your puppet. Playing and creating with puppets helps build empathy and develop social interactions.
July 25, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.: Rocky Mountain Puppets: A special Summer Reading Program performance. Rocky Mountain Puppets will present a show full of ventriloquism and laughs.
July 26, 2-3:30 p.m.: Summer Teen Zone – Bath Bombs & Sugar Scrub. Make some sweet sugar scrub and comforting, fizzy bath bombs.
July 26, 4:30-6 p.m.: Great Garden Series – Lavish Spring Color using Bulbs. Mike Smedley will share the secrets for incredible bursts of stunning color from late winter all the way through mid-May using bulbs. He will show you how it’s done, on a small scale or massive one like his garden of 14,000 bulbs.
July 26, 6-7:30 p.m.: Word Honey Poetry Workshop. Join us at The Hive's indoor skatepark (1150 Main Ave. Suite A) for a poetry workshop.
July 27, 5-6 p.m.: Mixing Mocktails. Join Lucas Hess, owner of High Desert Hospitality, to learn all about the art of blending and crafting mocktails (nonalcoholic cocktails). This will be a demonstration and a tasting for adults. Two sessions are available and seating is limited. Register online or ask a staff member for help.
July 28, 2-3 p.m.: LEGO Club. Build, create and play with the library's LEGO collection.
July 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Ann Lincoln’s Foam Party. Celebrate the completion of summer reading with a giant foam party along with other outdoor activities.
395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield. Contact: 884-2222, www.prlibrary.org.
A kindness-themed Summer Learning Program that runs in June and July featuring live animal visits, weekly programs for all ages and two outdoor movies. There will be storytimes for the youngest participants, twice weekly STEAM programs for kids and weekly activities for teens. Adult events include a beginning fly fishing class, kitten yoga, pottery fairy house making and more. And there will be prizes. Participants will get an entry to the weekly drawings for every activity they complete, including attending a program, committing an act of kindness, completing the StoryWalk and reading a book.
For more information, visit: prlibrary.org.
Free snack packs from Pine River Shares. All children can pick up a free snack pack at the library park from Pine River Shares every Tuesday through Aug. 8 (except July 4).
For the youngest patrons
Thursdays, 11-11:30 a.m.: Bumble Bees Story Buzz. Storytime and craft, then stay after to play and meet other families. All ages welcome. This program will be held in the library park, weather permitting.
For elementary ages
Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 a.m.-noon: Busy Bees Adventure Hour. Kids, families and caregivers, participate in special activities, like tie-dying, animal visits, honey tasting and a rock swap. Open to all, but younger children will need assistance with the projects. This is a drop-in event and participants may come and go as they please, no registration required. This program will be held in the library park or garden, weather permitting.
Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m.: Teen Time. Crafts, movies, outdoor games and more.
Saturday, July 8 and 22, 1-3 p.m.: Teen D&D. For all teens 13 and older. No experience necessary. Snacks provided.
Saturday, July 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: Model Train Open House. The Silver San Juan Division of National Model Railroad Association will host a Model Train Open House. The group will have an HO Scale railroad set up all day in the Community Room. You can even learn how to operate trains. All ages are invited.
Friday, July 14, 11 a.m.-noon: Say Hello to a Horse. July 15 is National I Love Horses Day. Hang out with a horse and learn more about these impressive animals.
Friday, July 21, 11 a.m.-noon: Wolfwood Visit. Learn all about wolves, wolf rescue, rehabilitation and preservation.
Friday, July 28, 11 a.m.-noon: LPC Humane Society Adoption Event. Meet some of La Plata County Humane Society's adoptable pets looking for their fur-ever homes. Learn about humane education and being an attentive pet parent from the LPCHS team members. When you adopt, you are not only finding a new family member, but you are giving an animal a second chance at a new life.
Friday, July 28, Sunset: Outdoor Movie “Puss in Boots The Last Wish.” A free outdoor showing of the 2022 DreamWorks movie “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.” The movie will start around sunset. Bring your own blanket or chair and enjoy a night at the movies under the stars.
Sunday, July 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Summer Learning Final Foam Party. Let’s end this year’s program with a giant family foam party to finish off the summer’s fun. We will be transforming the library park into a dance floor with several feet of foam.
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9-10 a.m.: Yoga for all. Combines the cool stillness of yin yoga and heat and flow of movement to create a balance that can be modified to work for every body. All you need is a yoga mat and a water bottle. Some yoga tools such as blocks, a blanket and a strap are encouraged. These classes are on a donation basis. Taught by Colleen Theobald and Robin Rogers. For more information, email colleen1yoga@gmail.com or robin53174@gmail.com.
Mountain Top Movement Fitness Classes
Hosted by local fitness instructors Brian and Tammy Williams. Follow them on the Mountaintop Movement Facebook page for more information.
Full Body Fit Class: Monday-Thursday, 8:15-8:50 a.m. Work out using your own body weight or light hand weights to work all of the body parts. The free classes are always similar in style but always different moves. You’ll need a yoga mat and light hand weights. If you don’t have them, there are extras that can be used. All ages and fitness levels.
Sundays, 2-4 p.m.: Community Knitting and Crochet Group. All are welcome. Whether you have been knitting and/or crocheting for years or you would like to learn, we will do our best to help you get started.
Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Open Art Studio. All mediums. All ages. Work on your projects in a group setting.
July 3, 6-8 p.m.: Typeset Writers’ Group. No rules, just writing. Each month, a member of the group will bring an article for discussion. Participants also have the option to bring two pages of their own writing to read aloud, but it’s not required. If you’d like to read your own writing, bring it in manuscript format.
July 4: Library closure. Library closed for Fourth of July holiday.
July 6, 4-6 p.m.: County Commissioner Office Hours. Matt Salka will hold in-person office hours. Members of the public are invited to meet with Salka to discuss county issues of interest or concern. For more information, call 382-6219.
July 6, 6-7:30 p.m.: Postpartum Care. Postpartum and birth doula Leah Ryder is hosting a free “Postpartum Prep” course. During this class, we will discuss significant points in postpartum planning such as breastfeeding, sleep, supplies, postpartum depression and more. You will also gain access to a list of local resources and professional support. Bring yourself and your support system whoever that may be.
July 11 and 25, 6-8 p.m.: Intro to Jamming. One of the joys of learning a musical instrument is eventually playing with other people. Whether it’s with your friends who also play, or with people you’ve never met, how do you get started? You know a few songs, you’ve practiced them for hours, and most of the time, you can nail them when you’re by yourself. But playing in public – that’s a whole different thing. If this describes your situation, then this workshop is for you. In this free, interactive two-session workshop, you’ll learn how a jam session works, how to prepare for one and some simple session etiquette. Session one will be an introduction to what goes on at a jam session and some actual jamming. Then, during session two, we’ll jam on tunes we handed out at the first session. The workshop will be led by Glen Tinnin and John Scammon, both lifelong musicians who have attended and led countless jam sessions. This event is co-sponsored by Pine River Arts. To register, visit: pineriverarts.org.
July 11, 10-11 a.m.: Card Making at the Pine River Senior Center. Create two beautiful handmade cards. 100% free.
July 12, 6-7:30 p.m.: BookMarks Book Club. Open to all adults in the Pine River Valley. The library provides the books, the discussion leader and a place to meet each month. Stop by the front desk to check out a copy of this month’s title, “The Paper Palace,” by Miranda Cowley Heller
July 18, 1-2:30 p.m.: Death Café. Pine River Library is one of many groups in 79 countries across the world that host Death Cafés, a time and place where people come to share food, drink tea or coffee, and discuss death openly and honestly. The aim is to increase awareness about death in order to help people make the most of their (finite) lives.
July 19, 5-6:30 p.m.: Community Art Show Reception. Meet the artists, admire the art and enjoy refreshments.
July 19, 6:15 p.m.: Library Board Meeting. Regular monthly meeting of the library’s Board of Trustees.
July 27, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Spanish Conversation. Practice your Spanish in an informal setting. All ages and language levels welcome.
July 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Pine River Senior Center Outreach. Books and DVDs available for check out, delivered to you at the Senior Center with an extended loan period (four weeks, rather than the standard one to three weeks) each month.
470 Goddard Ave. Ignacio. Contact 563-9287, www.ignaciolibrary.org.
Repair Café: Thursday, July 6 at 6 p.m.: Bring your broken items and let’s see if we can help you fix them. Don’t have a broken device but want to learn repair techniques? You’re quite welcome. Just want to socialize and help us with the Repair Café? Join in. We will have snacks and refreshments for all.
Hummingbird Feeder Craft Class: Friday, July 14 at 2 p.m.: Use recycled wine bottles to make feeders for hummingbirds that you can decorate and paint. This is a free class, but sign up in advance by calling us at 563-9287.
Summer Music Series: Friday July 14 at 5:30 p.m.: Free live music at the library. Our second guest of the summer is the Rock’n Horse Band. A fun ’60s and ’70s cover band. Food trucks and vendors will be on hand, along with the Friends of the Library selling books and chocolate.
Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.: Open Art Studio. Work on art projects, receive help and advice from other local artists. Guests and new members always welcome.
Wednesdays at 10 a.m.: Summer Reading. June 7-July 26. Crafts, games, special guest entertainers and more.
Wednesdays at noon: Electronics Hour. Electronic-based projects and more.
Thursdays at 1 p.m.: Knitters Group. In the Community Room.
Fridays at 9 a.m.: Don-Nuts for Books. Coffee and doughnuts. Check out new books and have a sneak peek of what is coming in. Chat with library staff members.
Fridays at noon: Sewing Group. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, you're invited for some fun around sewing projects and crafts.
