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Join us for Songs, Fingerplays & Stories.

Please join us for the Environmental Book Club! Each month, we'll choose a topic related to climate change, sustainability, and/or what we can do to lessen our footprint. This month we'll be discussing the book "Thicker Than Water: the quest for solutions to the plastic crisis" by Erica Cirino.

Each child will be given a box filled with an assortment of Lego blocks to build a creation using only what's inside the box within the 45 minute time limit. Caregivers please stay in the room with the kids as they work on their creations. The finished creations will be displayed in the Children's Room for a few weeks.

Bring your knitting or crocheting project to our casual gathering where you can work, talk, and share ideas together. Watch the library calendar for special Saturday Workshops once per month.

Come join us for an evening of card making with Jan. We will learn stamping and card making techniques using our huge stash of supplies. Jan will teach embossing, die cutting, proper stamping, and use of equipment individually and group techniques of creating unique cards.

Due to instructor illness, this week's session is canceled. We hope to see you next week!

For ages 5 and under. A parent and child group offered by the Metrowest YMCA and the Early Childhood Alliance of Ashland & Framingham. A structured program to help prepare children for socialization and a school experience.

Come in your pajamas, and bring your favorite stuffed animals! We will read stories about a different one of Ryan's stuffed animals every week.

Live and in person with Brookline Booksmith, at Coolidge Corner Theatre! Celebrate the release of Things We Left Behind with author Lucy Score. She'll be in conversation with APL Director (and lifelong romance fan), Meena Jain.

Join us for Songs, Fingerplays & Stories.

Stop into the children's room for a program that is geared toward pre-school aged children and their caregivers. We will read a story and do a related craft project.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Mystery Book Club for tonight has been canceled. Hope to see you next month!

This is a hybrid meeting. For convenience view agenda for zoom link.

Solar Houses - Each participant will attach a mini solar panel to a house and use copper tape to connect it to a light inside the house. Kids will be able to take their houses home at the end of the program.

We are so excited that Nancy Atkinson, a long time fan of the Ashland Library, is going to help us be our best artists in this monthly series! Every month, Nancy will teach us drawing techniques with different mediums, papers, and ideas. We hope you can join us and up your artistry game.

We're excited to start writing our stories - so we can share them with our kids, grandkids, friends, and family. We don't want to lose these stories to the elements of time so join us to put into writing your story or come to commune with other budding authors as we learn how to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard :).

Bring your knitting or crocheting project to our casual gathering where you can work, talk, and share ideas together. Watch the library calendar for special Saturday Workshops once per month.

We're thrilled to be partnering with Theresa Cerullo to bring English as a Second Language Conversation to Ashland! This group is created to help improve your English conversational skills, meet new people, and learn new English vocabulary. In each meeting, you will bring topics you want to discuss. In addition to your own topics, we will discuss current events, issues, and interests. We welcome anyone who wants to join. If you hope to improve your English skills then this is the group for you!

For ages 5 and under. A parent and child group offered by the Metrowest YMCA and the Early Childhood Alliance of Ashland & Framingham. A structured program to help prepare children for socialization and a school experience.

Come in your pajamas, and bring your favorite stuffed animals! We will read stories about a different one of Ryan's stuffed animals every week.

The class is open to adults who want to learn more about floral design. The class will include, ideas on basic floral designs, sustainable mechanics, and floral conditioning. We will provide a vase, and you will be able to select and share flowers from the flower table for greens/filler flowers/focal flowers/and branches. You will be able to take home your finished arrangement in a box.

Join us for Songs, Fingerplays & Stories.

For this month's Biography/Memoir Book Club we'll be discussing "The Smallest Lights in the Universe" by Sara Seager.

Stop into the children's room for a program that is geared toward pre-school aged children and their caregivers. We will read a story and do a related craft project.

This month we tackle a new needle felting project, cute little owls!

Each child will be given a box filled with an assortment of Lego blocks to build a creation using only what's inside the box within the 45 minute time limit. Caregivers please stay in the room with the kids as they work on their creations. The finished creations will be displayed in the Children's Room for a few weeks.

If you are curious, have passionate opinions about politics, social and cultural norms, historical precedents and national and foreign policy, the Great Decisions Discussion Program created by the Foreign Policy Association of America is the perfect discussion group for you.

Due to an All Staff Meeting and Training, the Ashland Library will be opening at 12pm today instead of 10am. Thank you for your understanding.

Stop into the children's room for a program that is geared toward pre-school aged children and their caregivers. We will read a story and do a related craft project.

Bring your knitting or crocheting project to our casual gathering where you can work, talk, and share ideas together. Watch the library calendar for special Saturday Workshops once per month.

For ages 5 and under. A parent and child group offered by the Metrowest YMCA and the Early Childhood Alliance of Ashland & Framingham. A structured program to help prepare children for socialization and a school experience.

Come in your pajamas, and bring your favorite stuffed animals! We will read stories about a different one of Ryan's stuffed animals every week.

NATyA Dance Collective presents an original suite of Indian classical and folk dances that explore and interpret how water pervades our bodies, our everyday lives and our environment. The dances invite the audience to embody water with gesture and movement, and to reflect on traditions of the past and present that have protected our water supply and healed our collective sorrows. All ages welcome.

Join us for Songs, Fingerplays & Stories.

Stop into the children's room for a program that is geared toward pre-school aged children and their caregivers. We will read a story and do a related craft project.

Drop in to the Children's Room for a different craft each week! Craft projects will be aimed at children 4 and older.