Baby Lapsit
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Over the past decade, opioid misuse has risen to an epidemic level in the United States. Opioid overdose is now the leading cause of death for those under 50, surpassing motor vehicle accidents and firearms. Massachusetts has been hit particularly hard, and no community has been immune to the devastating consequences of this public health crisis. This foundational workshop will provide an overview of the opioid epidemic. Attendees will gain an understanding of the disease of addiction, how opioids work, the local impact, and learn about the important role that individuals have in helping to reduce the risk of substance misuse in their community.
Presented by Kelly E. Joseph:
Kelly Joseph, MS currently works as a Program Coordinator for the Framingham Health Department where she manages the MetroWest cluster of the Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative (MOAPC) – a Department of Public Health funded grant serving the communities of Framingham, Ashland, Hudson and Natick. In this role, Kelly leads a coalition and oversees the implementation of regional programs and initiatives aimed at preventing opioid misuse and fatalities.
Bond with your dad (and with donuts) through stories and songs and while discovering new friends and activities. This month we’ll tinker and enjoy another visit from Outdoor Rx. Mothers, siblings and other family members welcome!
All ages.
Drop in and make something creative with Keva Planks, Legos, Magnatiles, and more!
All Ages.
A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world.
All ages at parents’ discretion.
(2018) 1 hour 45 minutes, Rated PG
Greater Worcester Opera presents Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway.
The series is sponsored in part by Roche Brothers Supermarkets, Brookdale Cushing Park, Metro Credit Union, St. Mary’s Credit Union and Friends of the Framingham Library.
Get in the library habit! Drop in every week for age appropriate stories and and craft with your favorite Children's Librarian!
Ages 2-4
Join fitness instructor Laila Vehvilanen to awaken your body with a series of stretches and meditation. The class is designed to reduce morning stiffness, increase flexibility and improve joint range of motion.
If you need help with health insurance, finding shelter or housing, and other basic services, you can talk to SMOC staff in private every Tuesday (except the second Tuesday of the month) at the Main Library. All conversations are free and confidential.
Please check in at the Reference Desk on the 3rd floor.
Join us for an amazing twelve weeks as we discuss Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This international bestseller has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. In it, Julia Cameron takes readers on an amazing twelve week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.
This groundbreaking program includes:
• An Introduction to two of Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – “The Morning Pages and The Artist Date”
• Hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities
• Guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors
Program runs every Tuesday from January 8 - March 26.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Join us to discuss this celebrated, award-winning novel about a young couple who meet and fall in love as their city disintegrates into violence. This spare, allegorical novel is an intimate, poignant love story that explores the refugee and immigrant experience shared by countless people around the world.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3 accompanied by a caregiver.
Get in the library habit — come in every week for some age appropriate stories, school readiness activities, and a thematic craft.
Ages 3-5.
It’s a half day from school, and Endgame comes out in a month, so let’s catch up on the first half of what might be the last Avengers movie ever.
Grades 6-12
It’s a half day from school, and Endgame comes out in a month, so let’s catch up on the first half of what might be the last Avengers movie ever.
Grades 6-12
Explore your artistic nature, problem solve and engage in play with the deceptively simple KEVA planks. Come amaze us with your creations!
Grades K+
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Join us for an evening of coloring and music. Whether you love to color for fun or enjoy filling in all the details, coloring is relaxing and therapeutic! We will provide colored pencils and coloring pages for all levels. You are welcome to bring your own materials. No registration is required.
Presented by Dr. Yumi Park, Assistant Professor, Framingham State University
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Join us for tea, cookies and conversation in celebration of International Women’s Day. We will be selling slightly used jewelry as a fundraiser for Dignity Matters.
Sponsored in part by Middlesex Savings Bank.
Come hear about some very cool jobs! Are you interested in animals? Maybe you’d like to be a veterinarian! Do you like eating cake? Maybe you’d like to own a bakery! Soccer coach? Learn about these jobs and more! Check our Instagram and Facebook page in the month of March to see what specific jobs will be coming to visit.
Fridays, March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Ages preschool and up.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5570 x4 or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Lilah, Montana and Eloise listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
All ages
An upbeat, participatory program that includes mostly traditional and contemporary Irish and Irish American songs performed on multiple instruments! Audience participation may include singing, moving, dancing and spoon playing.
All Ages.
Get in the library habit! Drop in every week for age appropriate stories and and craft with your favorite Children's Librarian!
Ages 2-4
Join fitness instructor Laila Vehvilanen to awaken your body with a series of stretches and meditation. The class is designed to reduce morning stiffness, increase flexibility and improve joint range of motion.
If you need help with health insurance, finding shelter or housing, and other basic services, you can talk to SMOC staff in private every Tuesday (except the second Tuesday of the month) at the Main Library. All conversations are free and confidential.
Please check in at the Reference Desk on the 3rd floor.
Join us for an amazing twelve weeks as we discuss Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This international bestseller has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. In it, Julia Cameron takes readers on an amazing twelve week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.
This groundbreaking program includes:
• An Introduction to two of Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – “The Morning Pages and The Artist Date”
• Hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities
• Guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors
Program runs every Tuesday from January 8 - March 26.
Do you have a great idea for a small business or startup? Do you own a small business that you’d like to see grow? This workshop is for you! Learn the key steps and activities necessary to bring your dream idea to life with start-up veteran and Framingham State professor Mark Hardie. Please register for this program by emailing lkilburn@minlib.net or call 508-532-5570, x4357.
About Mark Hardie, Workshop Leader:
Mark Hardie is a serial entrepreneur and start-up veteran with a passion for innovation. The FSU Innovation Center’s hybrid model is similar to a startup incubator concept Mark developed and pitched to area venture capital investors. The son of two teachers, he has taught and lectured on technology issues at Harvard, MIT, University of Virginia, and University of Hartford. He is a career-long mentor at the MIT Sloan School and currently a Career Coach at Harvard Business School, working with start-up teams, founders and would-be entrepreneurs.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3 accompanied by a caregiver.
Starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Rock star John Norman Howard’s career is on the decline, thanks to his excessive drinking. He falls in love with talented young singer Esther Hoffman and helps her move into the spotlight. But as Esther’s success grows, his career continues its downward spiral.
We will be folding a variety of animals and geometric shapes. Led by Lucas Gustafson, a high schooler who started folding at the age of 6 and is a longtime member of the Origami Club at MIT.
Ages 7+.
This collection of stories about mad robots, mind-reading robots, and robot politicians is considered to be among the best of Asimov’s works. We will award a prize to anyone who can recite from memory the Three Laws of Robotics!
Get in the library habit — come in every week for some age appropriate stories, school readiness activities, and a thematic craft.
Ages 3-5.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Presented by Dr. Lawrence McKenna, Assistant Professor, Framingham State University
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Come hear about some very cool jobs! Are you interested in animals? Maybe you’d like to be a veterinarian! Do you like eating cake? Maybe you’d like to own a bakery! Soccer coach? Learn about these jobs and more! Check our Instagram and Facebook page in the month of March to see what specific jobs will be coming to visit.
Fridays, March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Ages preschool and up.
The famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, uses the practice of mindfulness to untangle complicated mysteries. Likewise, we can train our wandering minds to engage the world selectively and with a clarity that will ultimately bring us a sense of greater peace. Our book discussion will be followed by a short meditation.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5636 x5 or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy.
All ages.
9:30am-3:00pm: Open to Friends Members
10:00am-3:00pm: Open to the Public
We have books of all genres, a huge children’s section, and a selection of foreign books. Thanks to your support of the Friends, we are able to provide free movies, concerts, programs, museum passes, audio books, CDs, Children’s Room apps, and more.
Drop in and make something creative with our supplied LEGOs. Look through our LEGO idea books to make something super exciting or design your own structure! Leave your name with the creation, and we’ll display it on top of our shelves for a month!
Grades K+.
Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
All Ages at parents discretion. Bring your own snacks.
(2018) 1 hour 52 minutes. rated PG for some action and rude humor
Monthly sing-along featuring folk songs, rounds, hymns, gospel, show tunes and more. Watch the words on the big screen! Accompanied by live band Folk Stew.
Fun for all ages, and refreshments provided.
Get in the library habit! Drop in every week for age appropriate stories and and craft with your favorite Children's Librarian!
Ages 2-4
Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. Nominated for two Oscars.
(2018) 2 hr. 4 min. Rated R.
What to do with jigsaw puzzles you’ve completed? Swap them! Bring your puzzles to exchange with others. No puzzle to swap? Come anyway; we always have extras for you to try. All ages and levels welcome.
Join fitness instructor Laila Vehvilanen to awaken your body with a series of stretches and meditation. The class is designed to reduce morning stiffness, increase flexibility and improve joint range of motion.
If you need help with health insurance, finding shelter or housing, and other basic services, you can talk to SMOC staff in private every Tuesday (except the second Tuesday of the month) at the Main Library. All conversations are free and confidential.
Please check in at the Reference Desk on the 3rd floor.
Join us for an amazing twelve weeks as we discuss Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This international bestseller has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. In it, Julia Cameron takes readers on an amazing twelve week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.
This groundbreaking program includes:
• An Introduction to two of Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – “The Morning Pages and The Artist Date”
• Hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities
• Guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors
Program runs every Tuesday from January 8 - March 26.
If you are thinking of applying for U.S. citizenship, attend one of our monthly information sessions. Topics include:
Drop-in, no registration required.
Join members of the Seed Lending Library for a demonstration and discussion of seed-starting methods, from basic, no frills (i.e. on your window sill) to using grow lights and heating pads. The Seed Lending Library opens on Saturday March 2. Make a plan for the seeds you will start indoors this season.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3 accompanied by a caregiver.
One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle’s house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. When she returns to her uncle’s house ten years later, seeking a refuge from her unhappy life, she is inadvertently reunited with the woman who has been raising her abandoned child, Lucy Pear—a bright, bold girl with secrets of her own. This novel questions class, freedom, and the meaning of family.
Get in the library habit — come in every week for some age appropriate stories, school readiness activities, and a thematic craft.
Ages 3-5.
Make a magnet, keychain, backpack tag, or anything else you can think up with Perler beads.
Grades 6-12
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Join us for an evening of coloring and music. Whether you love to color for fun or enjoy filling in all the details, coloring is relaxing and therapeutic! We will provide colored pencils and coloring pages for all levels. You are welcome to bring your own materials. No registration is required.
GUEST SPEAKER: Jeffrey S. Cramer, Curator of Collections at Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Jeffrey S. Cramer will discuss his new book, Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cramer is considered the leading authority on Thoreau’s life and writings.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Come hear about some very cool jobs! Are you interested in animals? Maybe you’d like to be a veterinarian! Do you like eating cake? Maybe you’d like to own a bakery! Soccer coach? Learn about these jobs and more! Check our Instagram and Facebook page in the month of March to see what specific jobs will be coming to visit.
Fridays, March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Ages preschool and up.
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Nominated for 8 Oscars. Starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
(2018). 2hr.16min. Rated R.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Come celebrate the start of spring by creating a Rain Globe! We will be making snow globes but instead of snow scenes we will fill our globes with the colors of spring
Ages 5+.
Get in the library habit! Drop in every week for age appropriate stories and and craft with your favorite Children's Librarian!
Ages 2-4
Please note: The final class date has been changed from March 11 to March 25.
Are you thinking that America’s political discourses have become too shallow, too partisan, too angry? If so, perhaps it’s time that you step back and reacquaint yourself with the user’s manual for the U.S.—its founding documents, the philosophies and practicality they embodied and the compelling humans who authored them. The convener for this effort will be Paul Fideler, Professor Emeritus of History & Humanities at Lesley University.
Please contact Paul for more information and to register for this course at pfideler@lesley.edu.
Class size is limited and registration is required.
Mondays October 29, November 26, December 17, January 14, February 25 and March 25, 7-8:30pm
Join fitness instructor Laila Vehvilanen to awaken your body with a series of stretches and meditation. The class is designed to reduce morning stiffness, increase flexibility and improve joint range of motion.
If you need help with health insurance, finding shelter or housing, and other basic services, you can talk to SMOC staff in private every Tuesday (except the second Tuesday of the month) at the Main Library. All conversations are free and confidential.
Please check in at the Reference Desk on the 3rd floor.
EVENT FULL, BUT WAITLIST IS OPEN
Mandy Roberge will be joining us to teach an intro to sewing. Learn how to thread/operate a sewing machine; how to sew a button, and how to hem clothing! This is the first in our new Make It! program series focusing on art and creativity. Space is limited, and registration is required. Please click on the event listing, and fill out the form at the bottom of the page to sign up. When doing so, please put the grade of the person/people attending in the "Message" box, as well as the names of any additional registrants.
Grades 6-12
"This program is supported in part by a grant from the Framingham Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency."
Join us for an amazing twelve weeks as we discuss Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This international bestseller has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that inhibit the creative process. In it, Julia Cameron takes readers on an amazing twelve week journey to discover the inextricable link between their spiritual and creative selves.
This groundbreaking program includes:
• An Introduction to two of Cameron’s most vital tools for creative recovery – “The Morning Pages and The Artist Date”
• Hundreds of highly effective exercises and activities
• Guidance on starting a “Creative Cluster” of fellow artists who will support you in your creative endeavors
Program runs every Tuesday from January 8 - March 26.
Led by Alan Feldman, Professor Emeritus at Framingham State University
This drop-in class welcomes serious poets of all ages and levels of experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry leading to a brief in-class assignment. Poets who wish to have their work discussed should bring copies.
Alan’s collection, Immortality, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry in 2016.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Ages 0-3 accompanied by a caregiver.
We will be folding a variety of animals and geometric shapes. Led by Lucas Gustafson, a high schooler who started folding at the age of 6 and is a longtime member of the Origami Club at MIT.
Ages 7+.
Enjoy reading by meeting with friends to choose, read, and discuss books together. You’ll increase your comprehension, discuss what you know, and turn reading into a social activity that encourages more reading.
Grades 3-5.
Featuring women composers, Women In World Jazz bring together women of different nationalities with extensive experience in performance and education. All members of the group are accomplished musicians playing a variety of music ranging from Jazz to World/Ethnic. The group highlights music from the US, Cuba, Brazil, Cape Verde, Japan, and the Middle East.
Get in the library habit — come in every week for some age appropriate stories, school readiness activities, and a thematic craft.
Ages 3-5.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Helen Heineman, President Emerita, Framingham State University
Winner of several prizes in poetry, Alan has been writing for more than 40 years chronicling subjects like traveling on land and sea, home, workplaces, parents and children, marriage, friendship and love. This lecture will cover selections from The Happy Genius through his most recent work, The Golden Coin.
Please Note: This lecture will be at the Christa McAuliffe Branch Library.
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets at Baby Lapsit! Parents can network while babies pick up phonological awareness, one of six foundations of future reading success.
Ages 0-2 with caregiver.
Drop in to play with the additional, rotating stations in our new Play Space. Check out our Facebook page to discover which rotating station we will showcase each week.
Preschool aged children.
Come hear about some very cool jobs! Are you interested in animals? Maybe you’d like to be a veterinarian! Do you like eating cake? Maybe you’d like to own a bakery! Soccer coach? Learn about these jobs and more! Check our Instagram and Facebook page in the month of March to see what specific jobs will be coming to visit.
Fridays, March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Ages preschool and up.
Registration required. Call 508-532-5636 x5 or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy.
All ages.
AniManga club is for everyone who enjoys all things Anime and Manga. We’ll be watching an assortment of your favorite anime TV shows, and eating some delicious Japanese snacks.
Grades 6-12
Registration required. Call 508-532-5570 x4 or drop by to sign up for a 15 minute slot.
Improve your reading skills the fun way by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Certified Reading/Therapy Dogs Lilah, Montana and Eloise listen as children read aloud from a book of their choice.
All ages
Sam Ou and Chi- Chen Wu will perform on piano and cello:
The series is sponsored in part by Roche Brothers Supermarkets, Brookdale Cushing Park, Metro Credit Union, St. Mary’s Credit Union and Friends of the Framingham Library.