Event List

Join us Thursday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy anime, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week. Showings change monthly and may be rated up to TV-14/PG-13. Grades 6-12.

Join us for a Teen DIY Night, a hands-on event focused on sustainability and mending. Enjoy snacks while making reusable snack bags, repurposing old denim, creating a garden planter and more!

Looking for creative ways to be more sustainable? Join us for an afternoon of activities for all ages, including Citizen Science, microplastics education, crafts with reusable materials, 3D printing and more! All ages.

Want to learn how to needle felt and love dragons? This program is for you! Grades 6-12. Registration is required. 

Fellow teen crocheters, come hang out, and work on your crochet!  Registration is required. Grades 6-12. Presented by Central Library's Teen Advisory Group. 

Save your place while reading with a bookmark you created. Learn fun techniques to make your bookmark unique! All supplies provided. Planned and presented by the Teen Advisory Group. Grade 6-12. Registration is required.

Do you remember the game show?  Here is your chance to try random and wacky games, and see if you can win it in 60 seconds or less!  Who can do the challenge better?

Create your own secret message using a Binary Decoder, then put it in a bracelet (or another accessory) in this program! Grades 6-12. Registration Required. 

Rotating competition is organized by the club coordinator.  Knowledge of chess rules is required; limited instruction may be provided for beginners.  Chess equipment has been generously donated by Virginia Chess Federation, private donor

Join us for an hour of circuit activities! Grades 4-6. Registration is required.

Join us for a beginner-friendly workshop to create a birthday card using the Silhouette Cameo die cutting machine. Basic computer skills are required, and please bring a flash drive to save your work. All materials are provided.

In this Arts for Learning workshop, participants will create a simple Malian mud cloth, an earth-dyed cloth that reflected wealth and cultural status by women of Mali’s Bamana culture centuries ago.

Join us Tuesday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week.

Grades 6-12. Registration is not required, drop in any time!

Weekly Themes:

Calling all our teen "peeps" to get creative and make a home fit for a Peep!  Will it be a tent, a hut, a shed, or nest?  Those Marshmallow Peeps, love 'em or hate 'em, but you don't have to eat 'em.

Join us Tuesday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week.

Grades 6-12. Registration is not required, drop in any time!

Weekly Themes:

In this workshop, students will cut, fold, and draw to create their own mini-comic. An Arts for Learning teaching artist will guide students as they invent characters, plots, and settings for an adventure inside the pages of a mini-comic.

Teens -Make your own mandala window cling.  Grades 6-12.  Registration is required.

Come celebrate National Poetry Month with us and learn about all the different forms of poetry. You'll even get the chance to write your own poems. Grades 4-6. Registration is required.