Events Calendar / May 2025
Alphabet Soup: Queer Teen Hangout
A twice monthly meeting for LGBTQIA+ and allied teens to hang out and do crafts. On the first Thursday, we’ll be at the Main Library, and on the third Thursday, we’ll meet at the McAuliffe Branch.
Grades 6-12
Baby Storytime at Main
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets!
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Saturday Matinee: Anora
A young stripper from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Watch the trailer here.
Rated R | 2024 | 2h 19m
中文读书会
中文读书会
3-6岁宝宝
绘本，儿歌，手工
时间：每周六 下午3-4点
Main Library:
1/4, 1/18; 2/15; 3/1, 3/15, 3/29; 4/12,4/26; 5/17
McAuliffe Branch Library:
1/11, 1/25; 2/8 (2pm) 春节特别活动, 2/22; 3/8, 3/22; 4/5,4/19; 5/3, 5/31 (2pm) 端午节特别话动
地点:
Main Library: 49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA 01702
McAuliffe Branch: 746 Water Street, Framingham, MA 01701
Monday Storytime at McAuliffe
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.
Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.
Mother Goose on the Loose
Only for registered participants. Check back in June for information on the next session. Ages 0-2.
Kids Chess Club
This Chess Club is an informal group welcoming everyone from new players to junior chess masters! Chess boards are provided, but you can bring your own. Staff are available to help with questions, but will not be teaching chess. For Elementary and Middle School students.
1st Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MAIN, HOMEWORK CENTER
3rd Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MCAULIFFE, COMMUNITY ROOM
Main Library Book Discussion: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
The Main Library Book Discussion meets on the first Tuesday of each month. Books chosen are generally literary fiction or narrative nonfiction. Participants take turns leading the discussion. This discussion currently meets online via Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/fpl-adultbookdiscussion.
May Book Discussion: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
- "Frederick Fifewas born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he’d return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is, at age eighty-two, there’s nobody left in Fred’s life to borrow from, and he's broke and on the brink of eviction. But Fred’s luck changes when he's mistaken for Bernard Greer, a missing resident at the local nursing home, and takes his place. Now Fred has warm meals in his belly and a roof over his head—as long as his look-alike Bernard never turns up.
Denise Simms is stuck breathing the same disappointing air again and again. A middle-aged mom and caregiver at Bernard's facility, her crumbling marriage and daughter's health concerns are suffocating her joy for life. Wounded by her two-faced husband, she vows never to let a man deceive her again.
As Fred walks in Bernard’s shoes, he leaves a trail of kindness behind him, fueling Denise's suspicions about his true identity. When unexpected truths are revealed, Fred and Denise rediscover their sense of purpose and learn how to return a broken life to mint condition.
Bittersweet and remarkably perceptive, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a hilarious, feel-good, clever novel about grief, forgiveness, redemption, and finding family."
Main Library Yarn Club
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Stretch & Relax
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, to improve balance, and to reduce stress.
If you haven't already, join our Exercise mailing list to receive email reminders of upcoming classes.
Yarn Social Hour
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Musicals at McAuliffe: My Fair Lady
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
Watch the trailer here.
Rated G | 1964 | 2h 53m
Baby Storytime at Main
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets!
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Hora de Cuentos en Español con Sohli y Raquel
2 de noviembre (a las 3 de la tarde), 21 de diciembre, 25 de enero, 8 de febrero, 8 de marzo, 5 de abril, 10 de mayo
Acompáñenos para escuchar historias divertidas y hacer manualidades temáticas. Todas las edades son bienvenidas. Se recomiendan las manualidades para niños mayores de 3 años.
Monday Storytime at McAuliffe
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.
Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.
Tone & Stretch
Join us on for a variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper, and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.
If you haven't already, join our Execise mailing list to receive email reminders of upcoming classes.
Mother Goose on the Loose
Only for registered participants. Check back in June for information on the next session. Ages 0-2.
McAuliffe Book Discussion (Evening): Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
The McAuliffe Branch hosts two book discussion groups to discuss various fiction and nonfiction, as well as contemporary and classic literature. You can join us anytime to discuss one particular book or become a regular. Register here: https://bit.ly/mca-bookdiscussions
May McAuliffe Book Discussion (Evening): Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
- "Pan's life used to be very small. Work in her dad's body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn't even matter that Tara was a princess... until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, when a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep, she finds that life may not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world... and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down."
Main Library Yarn Club
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
McAuliffe Matinee: Secretariat
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Watch the trailer here.
Rated PG | 2011 | 2h 3m
Yarn Social Hour
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Sci-Fi Book Discussion: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Sci-Fi Book Discussion reads and discusses both classic and contemporary science fiction, covering subgenres such as speculative fiction, alternate history, and apocalyptic. This discussion meets the second Wednesday of the month, from 7-8 pm. This group is hybrid, meeting at the Main Library and streaming to Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/fpl-scifidiscussion
May Sci-Fi Book Discussion: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
- "The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of anarchist Shevek, the “galactically famous scientist,” who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust."
Release, Relax, Reinvigorate: Meditation with Leslie
Join Leslie Gabriele of With Love and Gratitude on the third Thursday of each month for a half hour of guided meditation and other opportunities for carefree relaxation.
Join our Meditation mailing list to receive a monthly email with Zoom link.
McAuliffe Book Discussion (Morning): The Giver by Lois Lowry
The McAuliffe Branch hosts two book discussion groups to discuss various fiction and nonfiction, as well as contemporary and classic literature. You can join us anytime to discuss one particular book or become a regular. Register here: https://bit.ly/mca-bookdiscussions
May McAuliffe Book Discussion (Morning): The Giver by Lois Lowry
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"Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.
Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Gradually Jonas learns that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test—when he must try to save someone he loves—he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?
Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time."
Alphabet Soup: Queer Teen Hangout
A twice monthly meeting for LGBTQIA+ and allied teens to hang out and do crafts. On the first Thursday, we’ll be at the Main Library, and on the third Thursday, we’ll meet at the McAuliffe Branch.
Grades 6-12
Veterans At Ease Coffee Hour
Join us and your local, fellow veterans on the 3rd Friday of each month for free coffee and light refreshments.
This program is a collaboration between the Framingham Public Library and the City of Framingham Veterans Services.
Baby Storytime at Main
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets!
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Friends of Framingham Library Monthly Book Sale
Join us on the 3rd Saturday of each month (except for July and August) beginning at 10am for our monthly book sale at the Main Library.
Help support your local library! Learn more and join Friends of the Framingham Library.
NOTE: Prices are subject to change.
中文读书会
中文读书会
3-6岁宝宝
绘本，儿歌，手工
时间：每周六 下午3-4点
Main Library:
1/4, 1/18; 2/15; 3/1, 3/15, 3/29; 4/12,4/26; 5/17
McAuliffe Branch Library:
1/11, 1/25; 2/8 (2pm) 春节特别活动, 2/22; 3/8, 3/22; 4/5,4/19; 5/3, 5/31 (2pm) 端午节特别话动
地点:
Main Library: 49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA 01702
McAuliffe Branch: 746 Water Street, Framingham, MA 01701
Monday Storytime at McAuliffe
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.
Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.
Mother Goose on the Loose
Only for registered participants. Check back in June for information on the next session. Ages 0-2.
Kids Chess Club
This Chess Club is an informal group welcoming everyone from new players to junior chess masters! Chess boards are provided, but you can bring your own. Staff are available to help with questions, but will not be teaching chess. For Elementary and Middle School students.
1st Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MAIN, HOMEWORK CENTER
3rd Tuesday of every Month, 5PM | MCAULIFFE, COMMUNITY ROOM
Queer Reads: Gender queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
The Queer Reads Book Discussion celebrates queer authors, books, and themes. This discussion meets in person every third Tuesday of the month and alternates between the McAuliffe Branch Library and the Main Library. Register here: https://bit.ly/fpl-queerbookdiscussion
May Queer Reads Discussion: Gender queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."
Main Library Yarn Club
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
McAuliffe Matinee: Dunkirk
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Watch the trailer here.
Rated PG-13 | 2017 | 1h 46 m
Stretch & Relax
Join this class to maintain body flexibility, to improve balance, and to reduce stress.
If you haven't already, join our Exercise mailing list to receive email reminders of upcoming classes.
Yarn Social Hour
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Baby Storytime at Main
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets!
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
Monday Storytime at McAuliffe
Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.
Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.
Puzzle Swap: McAuliffe Branch
What to do with jigsaw puzzles you’ve completed? Swap them! Bring your puzzles to exchange with others. No puzzle to swap? Come anyway; there are always extras for you to take. All ages and levels welcome.
Main Library Yarn Club
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Yarn Social Hour
Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.
Tinker Thursdays
Join us the last Thursday of each month to create, using items from our makerspace! Every month we’ll bring out different materials and tools. Grades 4-8
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Baby Storytime at Main
Come sing and play with words, rhyme, and puppets!
Ages 0-2 and their caregivers, all welcome.
中文读书会
中文读书会
3-6岁宝宝
绘本，儿歌，手工
时间：每周六 下午3-4点
Main Library:
1/4, 1/18; 2/15; 3/1, 3/15, 3/29; 4/12,4/26; 5/17
McAuliffe Branch Library:
1/11, 1/25; 2/8 (2pm) 春节特别活动, 2/22; 3/8, 3/22; 4/5,4/19; 5/3, 5/31 (2pm) 端午节特别话动
地点:
Main Library: 49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA 01702
McAuliffe Branch: 746 Water Street, Framingham, MA 01701
中文读书会
中文读书会
3-6岁宝宝
绘本，儿歌，手工
时间：每周六 下午3-4点
Main Library:
1/4, 1/18; 2/15; 3/1, 3/15, 3/29; 4/12,4/26; 5/17
McAuliffe Branch Library:
1/11, 1/25; 2/8 (2pm) 春节特别活动, 2/22; 3/8, 3/22; 4/5,4/19; 5/3, 5/31 (2pm) 端午节特别话动
地点:
Main Library: 49 Lexington Street, Framingham, MA 01702
McAuliffe Branch: 746 Water Street, Framingham, MA 01701