Week Calendar

Storytime featuring stories, rhymes and movement activities.

Ages 2 and younger with an accompanying caregiver. 

Registration appreciated.

Storytime featuring songs, stories, rhymes and movement activities.

Learn language and life skills through reading, speaking and writing during this six-week interactive English course based on the Side by Side TV program by Steven Molinsky and Bill Bliss.

Registration required.

Drop in for a song and dance party featuring rhymes and great children's music.

Ages 18 months to 4 years.

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Storytime featuring songs, rhymes, bounces and special books. Free play and tummy time afterwards.

This program is only for pre-walking babies 12 months and younger with an accompanying caregiver. 

A participatory storytime for the whole family that includes songs, fingerplays, stories and movement activities. Puppets will be featured. 

Ages 18 months to 5 years with an accompanying caregiver.

Registration required.

An interactive storytime with picture books, songs, rhythm chants, fingerplays and movement activities. Stay to read board books, build with blocks, and play with others. 

Ages 3 months to 3 years with an accompanying caregiver.

Learn language and life skills through reading, speaking and writing during this six-week interactive English course based on the Side by Side TV program by Steven Molinsky and Bill Bliss.

Registration required.

Representatives from Access Health CT will be at the library every Friday to enroll members in the health insurance marketplace.

Register here to make an appointment.

A program geared for babies featuring traditional verses, bouncing rhymes, board books and more.

Ages 18 months and younger with an accompanying caregiver. 

Registration required.

Storytime featuring songs, stories, rhymes and movement activities. Costumes welcome!

Ages 3 and younger with an accompanying caregiver.

Registration required.

Drop in and stomp along while enjoying stories, songs, and movement in this fun storytime.

All ages.

Award-winning memoir writer Gabi Coatsworth, author of Love’s Journey Home, returns to share strategies and tips on starting to write a memoir and how to restart one that’s stalled.

An interactive and inclusive storytime that includes freedom of movement, visual aids and sensory experiences. 

Ages 3 to 6 with an accompanying caregiver. 

Registration required. 

Stories read-along and craft with Ms. Ibsen.

Ages 2 to 5 with an accompanying caregiver.

Newly independent and developing readers will build the skills needed to become lifelong learners. We will focus on vocabulary development, print and phonological awareness and letter knowledge, rounding out the activity with a brief craft.

Support the library by bringing your gently used books to the Friends Book Shop.

New students will be assigned to a group.

A brief discussion about meditation practice, a guided meditation, and a chance to share and reflect.

Appropriate for all levels of practice.

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A Spanish-language storytime featuring picture books, rhymes and movement activities.

Ages 2 and younger with an accompanying caregiver. Siblings welcome.

Registration appreciated.

Dance your way to fitness at this weekly class with instructor Pamela Arenas. No excuses!

Bring your own water bottle.

Teens and adults.

Work on your own knitting and crocheting projects in the company of others.

Do you need a benefits check-up? Wondering about your eligibility for a senior program?

Join a friendly group discussion of the latest articles from The New Yorker. 

Registration appreciated.

Holiday fun, treats, crafts, music, spooky stories by special guests, including Mayor Caroline Simmons and State Rep. Hubert Delany, and free books for your home library.  

Halloween costumes encouraged.

Drummer Joe Corsello returns for an afternoon of jazz, featuring saxophonist George Garzone, pianist Robert Marullo and bassist Peter Slavov.

Registration required.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics presents an opportunity to learn more about robotic telescopes, astrophotography, image analysis, space exploration and science/STEM careers.

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Learn about prolific artist Louise Bourgeois and make a textured glow-in-the-dark painting to celebrate Halloween.

Supplies will be provided.

Ages 2 to 7.

Registration required.

Start the week with stress-reducing activities like reading, arts, crafts, and building projects. 

Supplies will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Snacks will be served.

All ages.

Use iPads and the Quiver app to create an augmented reality coloring sheet that you can see in 3D.

Grades 5 to 12.

Registration required.

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Drop in and play Chess, Checkers, KerPlunk or Nintendo.

All ages.

Registration appreciated.

Bring your imagination to an exciting night of adventure joining a band of fantastical heroes who brave dangerous situations with swords, spells and wits.

Ages 12 and older

Registration appreciated.

Enjoy picture book videos of beloved children’s classics.

Ages 18 months to 5 years.

Snacks will be served.

Registration appreciated.

Screening of a family-friendly movie that’s more silly than spooky. Whether the stories are about haunted houses with happy endings, silly monsters or magical adventures, this is a perfect way to kick off the weekend.

Meet some live animals that use colors, from camouflage to warning colors, to help them survive.

Test yourself on great animal patterns, hues and camouflage and discover the science of color in nature.

Ages 5 to 14.

Community volunteers will lead a special storytime featuring rich and enchanting tales that celebrate Italian Americans and Italian-American Heritage Month.

All ages.

Registration appreciated.

A Spanish-language experience with Ms. Gloria featuring stories, music, movement and fun that promotes native literacy.

Ages 1 to 4 with an accompanying caregiver.

Practice your conversational skills in a group.

All levels welcome.

Grades 2 to 5.

Homework help is here.

Stitch, crochet, needlepoint or quilt with the Ferguson Library Yarn Squad. Learn how to knit, too.

Bring your own materials or use ours.

Ages 12 and older.

Registration required.

Design and build your own amazing creations using Lego®.  We can take a photo of your masterpiece before you disassemble.  

Ages 5 to 10.

Learners of all levels are invited to practice and improve their English conversational skills through peer interaction.

Grades 6 to 12. 

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Fans of the blockbuster film Jaws are invited to meet Christopher Shaw Myers, the nephew of actor Robert Shaw and author of Robert Shaw: An Actor's Life on the Set of Jaws and Beyond.

Book sale and signing.

Come dressed in your Halloween costume to celebrate the holiday during our second annual Trunk-or-Treat celebration at the branch parking lot.

TechXel Stamford Venture Expert Series
Eric J. Anahory, Chief Technology Officer, Fairfield University
Cybersecurity

A six-part series of dialogues uniting Stamford residents, where we will learn about each other and look at our community through the lens of racial equity.

Attendance at all sessions is required; sessions conclude November 10.

Back by popular demand, bestselling cookbook author and celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich returns to the Ferguson Library to discuss her new cookbook

Practice your conversational skills in a group. 

If your case involves Landlord/Tenant, Immigration, Family, Employment or any other areas of legal concern, a volunteer attorney is available to meet with you for 20 minutes.

Please bring any relevant paperwork regarding your case.

Close out our month of spooky films by exorcising the haunts through a lively discussion of series with fellow film viewers.

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Screening of The Librarians, a documentary about librarians who have emerged as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.