Spring Egg Hunt

All teens and kids are welcome to come anytime we are open between the 6th and 18th to find the numbered eggs in our kids section. There will be a prize for finding them all!Happy spring!All kids and teens welcome.

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Ink & Watercolor Class

Presenter Nancy Roman returns to lead this 2 hour Pen & Ink with Watercolor workshop. Learn the “Line & Wash” technique, popular in book illustrations, which combines a pen and ink drawing with a watercolor overlay. Participants will practice the technique first, then c......More

Presenter Nancy Roman returns to lead this 2 hour Pen & Ink with Watercolor workshop. Learn the “Line & Wash” technique, popular in book illustrations, which combines a pen and ink drawing with a watercolor overlay. Participants will practice the technique first, then complete a window box portrait working from photo inspirations. This FREE program is open to ages 12 and up. No experience is needed and all supplies will be provided. Even if you’ve never considered yourself “artistic” you will be amazed at the beautiful results Nancy can help you produce. Space is limited. Please register.Sponsored by the Harwinton Library Friends – Thank You!

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Library Friends Meeting

Monthly Library Friends Meeting

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Chess Club

Join out weekly chess club. All ages are welcome.

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Meditation

Weekly meditation group. All are welcome

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Teen Spring Chicken Craft

Come enjoy this folding book craft that anyone can do! Create a spring chicken out of an old book and take it home when you’re done.The last time we did a book folding craft, we made hedgehogs, and they came out so cute!Listen to music and hang out with friends as you f......More

Come enjoy this folding book craft that anyone can do! Create a spring chicken out of an old book and take it home when you’re done.The last time we did a book folding craft, we made hedgehogs, and they came out so cute!Listen to music and hang out with friends as you fold.Ages 11+.

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Craft & Chat

We have a monthly craft club. We all bring a project we are currently working on & spend some time being productive, chatting & enjoying some snacks. Join us!

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

April Book Sale

Get a head start on Spring with a special April Book Sale from our Library Friends. Shop unbeatable prices on gently used books for all ages. And mark your calendars for our Annual Plant, Book & Bake Sale on Saturday, May 16th!

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Evening Book Discussion

This month’s book selection is: This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan.  In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium, caffeine, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking abo......More

This month’s book selection is: This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan.  In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs–opium, caffeine, and mescaline–and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively–as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States

Chess Club

Join out weekly chess club. All ages are welcome.

Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States