Teen Creative Club
Join us in the library meeting room while we hang out and create together! Each month we will have different supplies to use, with input from attendees. For teens ages 13-18 Sponsored by the Friends of the Lacey Library.
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Virtual Author Talk Watch Party: Rebecca F. Kuang
Join us at the Lacey library as we watch a live interview with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) in conversation with a moderator from the Library Speaker’s Consortium about her New York Times bestselling novel, Yellowface. Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. This virtual event will …
Storytelling Workshop with Elizabeth Lord
For ages 13 and up. Registration Required and Space is Limited. Register at tinyurl.com/storyoly Learn the basics of good live, oral, performative storytelling with local expert storyteller Elizabeth Lord. Learn how to shape a personal experience/memory into a compelling oral narrative and recall all its details without memorization. Learn what works when telling to an …
Playback Theatre Performance: Stories of Library Treasures
Join Olympia’s own Heartsparkle Players and the Thunders for an afternoon of stories and community! They will take your personal moments and create a spontaneous theatrical experience using a style of improvisation called Playback Theatre. They have been delighting local audiences for 33 years. Come tell your stories about what you treasure about libraries!
Teen Creative Club
Join us while we hang out and create together! Each month we will have different supplies to use, with input from attendees. This month we will do collage, button making, and Shrinky Dinks. We will also vote on what activity to do the following month. For teens ages 13-18. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lacey …
Kids Graphic Novel Club
Ages 8-12. Hang out, draw, read, eat snacks and talk about all things graphic novels. Enter a prize drawing for a gift card to Gabi’s Olympic Cards & Comics.
We Need Space! A Collaborative Zine Workshop
This zine making workshop explores themes from Window Seat Media’s Community Roots Oral History Project exhibit that will be on display at the library February 8-March 11. Our need for affordable spaces to live, work, and gather is a common thread in the oral history narratives collected for the project, and it continues today as …
Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Olympia’s annual Adult Winter Reading Challenge is back!! Read a variety of books from January 1 to March 30 for a chance to win local prizes — but most importantly to discover a lot of good books!! Challenge sheets are available at the Olympia or West Olympia library — or download by clicking here. We …
Lantern Records Presents: Electric Sweats with Fox Medicine
Join us for the first in a new series of free live music events at the Library for all ages, featuring the bands Electric Sweats (Olympia spunk) and Fox Medicine (Portland bubblegum doom).
Community Roots Oral History Project Exhibit Opening
Join Window Seat Media for the opening of its Community Roots Exhibit! Community Roots is an oral history project that shares stories about how people come together to make change and create new possibilities for themselves and their neighbors. Since January 2023, a small team of community researchers has been gathering oral histories about three important local …