Youth Enrichment Program: Reaching Our Communities (R.O.C.)

9:30am - 12:30pm
South End Branch
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Library Branch: South End Branch
Room: South End ROOM HOLD
Age Group: Tweens (grades 5-8), Teens (grades 6-12)
Program Type: Community, Lectures & Workshops
Event Details:

Youth Enrichment Program: Reaching Our Communities (R.O.C.)

We Love a Parade Craft

11:00am - 12:00pm
Main Library
Full
Required
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Makerspace
Age Group: Kids (grades K-5)
Program Type: Books & Reading, Crafts, Games & Making
Required
Event Details:

Who doesn't love a parade?

Listen to stories about parades, then create your own musical instrument in time for the Memorial Day parade.

Grades K to 5.

Registration required.

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Friends-Sponsored

This program is brought to you by the generous support of the Friends of the Ferguson Library.

Silent Book Club Meeting

11:00am - 12:30pm
Harry Bennett Branch
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Library Branch: Harry Bennett Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Reading
Event Details:

Join us for our very own chapter of the Silent Book Club (SBC), a community of readers and introverts with 300 chapters around the world who gather in person and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.

Basic Microsoft PowerPoint

11:30am - 1:00pm
Main Library
Full
Required
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Third Floor Technology Center (w/ workstations)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology
Required
Event Details:

Learn how to create and save presentations, design slide shows, and insert images and text. Must have a basic familiarity with Windows and be able to use a mouse and keyboard. No experience with MS PowerPoint necessary.

AI for Dummies

2:00pm - 3:30pm
Main Library
Full
Required
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Library Branch: Main Library
Room: Third Floor Technology Center (room only)
Age Group: Tweens (grades 5-8), Teens (grades 6-12), Adults
Program Type: Technology
Required
Event Details:

What is artificial intelligence (AI), and why is everybody talking about it? Are machines becoming smarter than people? Will they be taking our jobs? Taking over the world?

An overview of AI and how it's changing our lives.

Panel Discussion: The Crisis of Instability in Haiti from 1804 to 2023 - A Haitian Heritage Month Program

2:00pm - 5:00pm
South End Branch
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Library Branch: South End Branch
Room: South End ROOM HOLD
Age Group: Families, Adults
Program Type: Author Events, Community
Event Details:

The Crisis of Instability in Haiti from 1804 to 2023, a panel discussion covering the Caribbean nation's history of plight. Is it possible to come up with a liberating consensual political strategy to face the existential threats Haiti faces?

Old Folkies Acoustic Singalong

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch
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Library Branch: Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Families, Adults
Program Type: Music & Concerts
Event Details:

An afternoon outdoors of toe-tapping, finger-snapping acoustic delights with Dr. Ev, who will take requests.