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Program Guide Spring/Summer 2019

Explore all of the Library’s current programs in our Spring/Summer 2019 Program Guide. Download Now Read More

Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices

Lakewood Public Library and the Friends of Lakewood Public Library are proud to partner with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University to host Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices, an interactive exhibit including creative writing tools and activities. Acknowledging the unique experiences of immigrants in our community, this public display engages a dialogue through the […] Read More

Learn a Language from Home with Mango or Transparent Language Online

It is easier than ever to learn a foreign language with Mango and Transparent Language Online. Mango lets you learn foreign languages quickly and easily with an innovative suite of self-teaching, multimedia language courses. Master even the most difficult language from home. This instructional video shows how easy Mango is to use. Transparent Language Online […] Read More

Anisfield-Wolf Award Winning Books Now Available

The Anisfield-Wolf Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for […] Read More

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Blackout Poetry

For Students in Sixth through Twelfth Grade. Celebrate National Poetry Month by learning how to create Blackout Poetry. Focusing on the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States, use pages of old books or newspaper and isolate words of phrases to use in your poems. Materials will be provided. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For Teens,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film Series — The Big Sick (2017)

Directed by Michael Showalter. Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, The Big Sick tells the story of Pakistan-born comedian Kumail (Nanjiani), who connects with grad student Emily (Kazan). What they thought would be just a one-night stand blossoms into the real thing, which complicates the life that is expected […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Family Music and More: Nora the Explorer Animal Encounters

See a parrot, rabbit, chinchilla, bugs, snakes, lizards and more and learn interesting facts. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Weekend Programs For Families,

WordStage Performance ─ Give Me Your Tired: Expressions of Immigration

Poet Emma Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus”. Its most iconic line reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. Join us for this performance featuring immigrant stories through the poetic voice. The poems featured will come from community members and influential poets. WordStage is a chamber music reader’s […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Adapted Story Time

For you and your 3 to 7 year old child. Children with varying learning styles and abilities learn together in a safe, supportive environment where respect and appreciation for differences is encouraged. This thirty-minute story time, followed by a time for socialization, is designed for children who may not be successful in a typical story […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 3:30 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Toddler Treats

For you and your 2 to 3 1/2 year old child. Enjoy stories, songs and movements together with your toddler for thirty fun filled minutes. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Shake Rattle and Roll

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 1:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Pajama Party

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Put on your PJs and bring your best stuffed animal for an evening of good night stories and songs. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration Required. Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Toddler Treats

For you and your 2 to 3 1/2 year old child. Enjoy stories, songs and movements together with your toddler for thirty fun filled minutes. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Get Ready for Kindergarten

For you and your 3 1/2 to 6 year old child. Enjoy hands on activities together that help your child learn skills that will help him/her be prepared to start kindergarten. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Shake Rattle and Roll

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 11:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For Infants,

Pajama Party

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Put on your PJs and bring your best stuffed animal for an evening of good night stories and songs. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration Required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices Poetry Contest Reading

The Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices Poetry contest will culminate in a poetry reading featuring the winners and two runners up from each of the three age categories. The winners will be selected by a panel of local poets. Each submission is inspired by the Traveling Stanzas Exhibit, exploring the theme of immigrant voices and reflecting […] Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
More Programs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Toddler Treats

For you and your 2 to 3 1/2 year old child. Enjoy stories, songs and movements together with your toddler for thirty fun filled minutes. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Shake Rattle and Roll

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 11:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Happy Chinese: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop

For students in first through sixth grade. The art of Chinese paper-cutting is a traditional part of Chinese culture and one of the beautiful treasures of Chinese art. In this workshop, participants learn basic folding and cutting skills of Chinese paper-cutting. Participants will be guided step by step to create their own artwork, and will […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For Infants,

Pajama Party

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Put on your PJs and bring your best stuffed animal for an evening of good night stories and songs. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration Required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

Telling Our American Story: Immigrant Literature Series

Presented by Barbara Parr. Discuss the books Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín and West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary, two immigration stories, during this four-part course led by Barbara Parr, an instructor with Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Please read the first 125 pages of Brooklyn […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 9:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Just Baby N’ Me

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. Registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Programs For Infants,

Shake Rattle and Roll (Drop-In)

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. No Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Get Ready for Kindergarten

For you and your 3 1/2 to 6 year old child. Enjoy hands on activities together that help your child learn skills that will help him/her be prepared to start kindergarten. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 11:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,

Shake Rattle and Roll (Drop-In)

For you and your 2 to 6 year old child. Tune in to the magic of music. Enjoy stories that leap off the page with song, dance and rhythm instruments. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. No Registration required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 1:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,

The Illustration Creation Art Show

Culminating Art Show for family and friends of participants in the six-week Illustration Creation program. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Just Baby N’ Me (Drop-In)

For you and your birth to 24 month old baby. Enjoy books, songs and finger plays while meeting other parents. Choose one day and time of the age appropriate eight week story time you would like to attend. No Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For Infants,

Local Author Panel Discussion

Moderated by Lee Chilcote, founder of Literary Cleveland. Join local authors Jill Grunenwald, Dana McSwain, James Renner and Amanda Uhl to discuss the blood, sweat and tears that make up the writing process. From first drafts to queries, these authors cover the gambit of memoir, true crime, romance and action adventure. Books will be available […] Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Meet The Author,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 03, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, May 03, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 03, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 03, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Music Therapy and More

For you and your birth to six year old child. For families and their children who are struggling in an area of development. Join us for a hands-on program designed to teach families how to use music to improve their child’s motor, communication and social skills as well as behavior. This program is led by […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film – Lady Bird (2017)

Directed by Greta Gerwig. Taking on the name she has chosen for herself, Lady Bird, Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is embarking on her senior year of high school. She is dreaming of college on the east coast and leaving her hometown of Sacramento. With emphasize on her extremely turbulent relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf), […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Concert – Rupert Wates

Rupert Wates is a UK-born artist who knows how to mix American folk with jazz and cabaret while featuring his trademark virtuoso acoustic guitar. Based in the United States since 2007, Wates is the winner of over forty songwriting and performing awards. At every performance he takes his listeners on an emotional journey that runs […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 05, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 05, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Art Connection

For Students in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. Art activities let you express your view of the world. Create your own unique piece of art to take home and show off to family and friends. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Documentary – I Am Evidence (2017)

Directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir. Presented by Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. I Am Evidence exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today. Produced by Mariska Hargitay, I Am Evidence follows stories of survivors with unresolved sexual assault cases, who have waited years for their kits to be tested. […] Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, May 07, 2019 - 6:30 p.m.
More Programs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Happy Chinese Celebration

For family and friends of Happy Chinese program participants and anyone who would like to see the accomplishments of the participants throughout the spring, 2019. Registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 08, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Telling Our American Story: Immigrant Literature Series

Presented by Barbara Parr. Discuss the books Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín and West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary, two immigration stories, during this four-part course led by Barbara Parr, an instructor with Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Please read the first 125 pages of Brooklyn […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 08, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Non-Fiction Book Club

Come and join the conversation with our newest book club. There are sure to be serious and thought-provoking discussions about many subjects inspired by these non-fiction works. Tonight we will discuss So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 09, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 10, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, May 10, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 10, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 10, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Tail Waggin’ Tutors (Drop In)

For School Age Children. Bone up on your reading skills by reading to a dog. Drop in for a one-on-one session with one of our dogs and owners that have been certified through Therapy Dogs International. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 11:00 a.m.
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Presented by Terry Meehan

Directed by John Frankenheimer. During the Korean War, a U.S. platoon is captured and taken to a mysterious location in Communist China. Somehow the men make it back to U.S. lines, and the platoon leader, Captain Marco (Frank Sinatra), declares Sergeant Shaw (Laurence Harvey) a war hero, but something is not quite right. Terry Meehan […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Adam Miller Folk Music ─The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie: American Balladeer

In his short life, Woody Guthrie wrote over 1,000 American songs – and he didn’t use an original melody for any of them! Folksinger, storyteller and autoharp virtuoso, Adam Miller, will perform an outstanding tribute, The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie: American Balladeer. It is the story of the man who wrote, “This Land […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Sensory Consults: Connecting For Kids

Register for a 15 min. time slot. Register online at www.connectingforkids.org/register, email info@connectingforkids.org or call (440) 570-5908. Does your child hate itchy clothes? Is your child bothered by noises or with busy environments? Are you concerned about your child’s frequent meltdowns and difficulty interacting with others? Does your child spin, jump and crash into things? […] Read More

  • Main Library
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 6:30 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Sensory Consults: Connecting For Kids

Register for a 15 min. time slot. Register online at www.connectingforkids.org/register, email info@connectingforkids.org or call (440) 570-5908. Does your child hate itchy clothes? Is your child bothered by noises or with busy environments? Are you concerned about your child’s frequent meltdowns and difficulty interacting with others? Does your child spin, jump and crash into things? […] Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 6:30 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Hand Sewing for Literacy

For Students in Kindergarten through Third Grade. Hand sewing is like a super power for developing young readers and writers as it promotes fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, self-confidence, patience and focus. In this two-part program, students will listen to a story showcasing sewing as the central theme, learn basic sewing skills and create a […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Telling Our American Story: Immigrant Literature Series

Presented by Barbara Parr. Discuss the books Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín and West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary, two immigration stories, during this four-part course led by Barbara Parr, an instructor with Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Please read the first 125 pages of Brooklyn […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Friends’ Book Sale Preview

There is a special members-only preview sale on Thursday, May 16, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  Memberships may be purchased at the door for as little as $3.00. The preview sale is not a bag sale. For more information, visit lakewoodpubliclibrary.org or call (216) 226-8275, ext. 110. Read More

  • Main Library
May 16, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.

Booked for Murder Book Club

If you share a passion for mystery, join the group each month to discuss your favorites and selections made by group members. Tonight we will discuss The Tree of Hands: A Novel by Ruth Rendell. Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 16, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 17, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, May 17, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 17, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Friday Film – Precious (2009) Directed by Lee Daniels

Pregnant by her own father for the second time, illiterate sixteen-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo’Nique). Precious sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her […] Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 17, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 17, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Friends’ Prelude to Summer Book Bag Sale

Friends of Lakewood Public Library host the Friends’ Prelude to Summer Book Bag Sale at Lakewood Public Main Library, 15425 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, OH 44107 on Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There is a special members-only preview sale on Thursday, May 16, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  Memberships […] Read More

  • Main Library
May 18, 2019 - 9:00 a.m.

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film – Marigold (2007). Presented by Barbara Steffek-Hill

Directed by Willard Carroll. Hollywood actress Marigold Lexton (Ali Larter) lands in India to make a movie, but winds up in a Bollywood musical opposite film star Prem Rajput (Salman Khan) instead. It becomes obvious Marigold is faking the dance numbers. To rescue her, Prem takes her dancing, and they become more than co-stars. Next […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 18, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,

Concert – Wallace Coleman

As a youth in Tennessee where country and western music still prevails, Wallace Coleman was captivated by the sounds he heard on the radio at night. It was Nashville’s WLAC, and they were playing the Blues. The sounds haunted him by day where, he says, “I would be sittin’ in class and hear Howlin’ Wolf […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday With The Friends,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Lakewood LEGO League

For Students in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. Use your imagination and the Library’s collection of LEGO bricks to create fabulous new structures and designs. Meet other building fans and check out our large collection of LEGO books. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before each scheduled time. One ticket will be issued per child. […] Read More

  • Main Library
Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Documentary – Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices – Documented

Documented (2013) Directed by Jose Antonio Vargas and Ann Raffaela. Presented by American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay in New York Times Magazine. Documented chronicles his journey to America as a child and his journey through America as […] Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 6:30 p.m.
More Programs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Knit & Lit Book Club

Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress. Tonight we will discuss The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead. Read More

  • Main Library
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,

Hand Sewing for Literacy

For Students in Kindergarten through Third Grade. Hand sewing is like a super power for developing young readers and writers as it promotes fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, self-confidence, patience and focus. In this two-part program, students will listen to a story showcasing sewing as the central theme, learn basic sewing skills and create a […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Programs For School-Age Students,

Telling Our American Story: Immigrant Literature Series

Presented by Barbara Parr. Discuss the books Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín and West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary, two immigration stories, during this four-part course led by Barbara Parr, an instructor with Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Please read the first 125 pages of Brooklyn […] Read More

  • Main Library
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Book Clubs,
Traveling Stanzas: Immigrant Voices,

Author Event – Cleveland Then and Now

Book by Laura DeMarco. Cleveland Then and Now matches rare archive images with specially-commissioned contemporary color photos of the same scenes to reveal the past and present of Cleveland. It concentrates on landmarks that have stayed intact and adapted to survive. Tradition amid change is the story of Cleveland, then and now. Laura DeMarco is […] Read More

  • Main Library
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Meet The Author,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 24, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Madison Branch
Friday, May 24, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 24, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Friday, May 24, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 10:30 a.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 2:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Family Weekend Wonders Drop In Story Time

For the whole family. Make the Library a part of your family weekend time with programs featuring stories, activities, music and crafts. This program is offered every weekend throughout the year. No registration is required. Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 4:00 p.m.
Story Time Programs,
Weekend Programs For Families,

Film – The Selfish Giant (2013) Directed by Clio Barnard

Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) are best friends living in the poverty-stricken city of Bradford, England. They take up the task of collecting scrap for a dealer named Kitten (Sean Gilder). Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded. Arbor turns increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading […] Read More

  • Main Library
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 6:00 p.m.
Lakewood Public Cinema,