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SBA - Disaster Recovery and Resilience

9:00am - 5:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library: North Kenner Library
Room: Meeting Room
Purpose of Meeting

Disaster recovery efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Francine - SBA Loan Disaster Program  

This is not a library sponsored event.
Library: East Bank Regional Library
Room: Jefferson Room
Purpose of Meeting

An agency-wide meeting to educate and retrain our HR personnel and staff.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
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Library: Harahan Library
Room: Children's Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

This event includes stories and activities for children newborn to 5 years old. 

Book: Hoot: A Hide & Seek Book of Counting by Jonathan Litton 

Craft:    Handprint Owl Craft 

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Gardening Class

10:00am - 12:00pm
Adults
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Library: Old Metairie Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Gardening
Event Details:

info to come

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Northstar Basic Computer

10:00am - 12:00pm
Adults
Registration Closed
Required
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Library: West Bank Regional Library
Room: Computer Lab
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology Class
Required
Seats Remaining: 4
Event Details:

 Northstar Digital Learning is aimed at helping adults acquire the technology skills they desire in a low-pressure setting.

This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Arts and Crafts for Adults with Special Needs

10:15am - 11:30am
Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
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Library: Terrytown Library
Room: Children's Area
Age Group: Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Join us and the Clear Head Adult Day Care for a craft or art project each week! Caretaker must be present. 

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.

Read and Sing Storytime: Elephants

10:30am - 11:00am
Ages 0-5
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Library: Lakeshore Library
Room: Library Commons
Age Group: Ages 0-5
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

The “Read and Sing Storytime” includes stories, songs, and finger plays for infants and toddlers. 

Book: Elephants Cannot Dance! By Mo Williems

Craft:  Elephant and Piggie Paper Bag Puppets

This is not a library sponsored event.
Library: River Ridge Library
Room: Meeting Room
Purpose of Meeting

To educate the community on the various aspects of Medicare insurance.

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Fiber Friends - Gulf States Quilting

10:30am - 1:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library: Rosedale Library
Room: Meeting Room
Purpose of Meeting

Sewing group meeting 

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.

Storytime with Craft

11:00am - 11:30am
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
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Library: Lafitte Library
Room: Children's Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

This event includes stories and activities for children 3 to 7 years old.

Book: Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

Craft: Paper Strip Pumpkins

 

Disclaimer(s)

Large groups please call the Library for an appointment.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Family" group.

Read and Sing

11:00am - 12:00pm
Ages 0-5, Family
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Library: West Bank Regional Library
Room: Children's Stage Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Family
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Stories, songs, and activities for toddlers ages 0-3! Please call the Children’s Desk at (504) 364-3664 ahead for the latest information. 

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.

Storytime with Craft

11:00am - 12:00pm
Ages 0-5
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Library: East Bank Regional Library
Room: Children's Stage Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Join us for books, songs, and play! Our program starts with stories and songs before our weekly activity. This event is for toddlers and preschool children.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Yoga by the Books

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Adults
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Library: Gretna Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

This gentle yoga class is given by Registered Yoga Teacher Peter Spera every Wednesday & Thursday at the Gretna Library. Spera has 20 years of experience in yoga. Bring a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothes.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Meditation Session

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Adults
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Library: Old Metairie Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

info to come

This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library: Terrytown Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology Class
Event Details:

Learn the basics of your smartphone and ask questions about how to use it! Free, no registration required, refreshments will be provided.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.

Story and Art: Weather

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
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Library: River Ridge Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Storytime
Event Details:

This event includes stories and art activities for children ages 3 to 9 years old. Supplies are limited. 

Book: Wild is the Wind by Grahame Baker-Smith  

Art:  Pinwheel Windmills

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.

Storytime with Craft: Design Your Own Wand

3:30pm - 4:30pm
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
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Library: Live Oak Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Get witchy and wizardly at Live Oak and design your own wand!

Book: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Craft: Homemade Wands

Disclaimer(s)

Large groups please call the Library for an appointment.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.
This event is in the "Tweens (Ages 8-11)" group.
This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.
Cancelled

Project Power

3:30pm - 5:30pm
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11, Tweens (Ages 8-11), Teens (Ages 12-18)
Required
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Library: Rosedale Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11, Tweens (Ages 8-11), Teens (Ages 12-18)
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

The American Diabetes Association presents Project Power, a childhood obesity prevention program promoting health food choices, increasing physical activity and building family and peer support.  Registration is required.

Disclaimer(s)

Attendee MUST Give 24 HOUR Cancellation Notice to Allow Others on the Waiting List to Attend.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.

Storytime

4:00pm - 4:30pm
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
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Library: Rosedale Library
Room: Children's Area
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

This event includes stories for children ages 3 to 9 years old. This event is held in the Children's area.

This event is in the "Ages 0-5" group.
This event is in the "Ages 6-11" group.

After School Kid Zone

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
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Library: Belle Terre Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Ages 0-5, Ages 6-11
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Games, STEM/STEAM
Event Details:

Join us after school for an hour of crafts, games, and activities designed to help support reading, math, and other skills for kids of all ages. Programs will rotate weekly.

This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Advanced Crochet Classes

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
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Library: Lafitte Library
Room: Back Sitting Area
Age Group: Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Project: Finish projects and work on skills. Bring your own project to work on or work on one of ours. Teenagers and Adults, yarn and hooks provided or bring your own.

This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.

Teen Crochet and Collage Club

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Teens (Ages 12-18)
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Library: Terrytown Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens (Ages 12-18)
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Stop by after school and make something cool! Either learn to crochet and make your own blankets or clothes or learn to create collage art. All supplies will be provided. 

This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.

Teen Bingo

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Teens (Ages 12-18)
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Library: East Bank Regional Library
Room: Teen Center
Age Group: Teens (Ages 12-18)
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Hey teens, join us for an exciting Bingo afternoon at the library! Get ready to shout 'Bingo!' as you compete for awesome prizes. It's a fun way to hang out with friends, enjoy snacks, and win cool rewards.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Adult Tabletop Roleplaying Games

5:30pm - 8:30pm
Adults
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Library: East Bank Regional Library
Room: A/V Conference Room - 2nd Floor
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

This event is for players, experienced and new, to join adventures across different continents, fighting different villains, saving town’s people and slaying some dragons!

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Free Medicare Seminar

5:45pm - 7:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library: River Ridge Library
Room: Meeting Room
Purpose of Meeting

Free Seminar for Seniors to discuss Medicare, Medicare Supplements and Medicare Advantage

This event is in the "Teens (Ages 12-18)" group.
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Starting Stitches: Mini Candy Corn Bunting

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
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Library: Belle Terre Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Teens (Ages 12-18), Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Celebrate Fall by creating your own candy corn bunting. Supplies provided. Though children are welcome, for their safety and the safety of others, they must have an adult participating with them.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library: West Bank Regional Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

More info to come.

This event is in the "Family" group.

Family Halloween Movie & Craft

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Family
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Library: Westwego Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Family
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Movie
Event Details:

Join us at Westwego Library for a fun-filled, spooky Halloween movie & craft event for all ages! We will be screening:

 

10/02: Hocus Pocus

10/09: Halloweentown

10/16: The Addams Family (Animated)

This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library: Lakeshore Library
Room: Library Commons
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers." For more information, please call 504-838-4375.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

ESL Class

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Adults
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Library: North Kenner Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The New Neighbor Project will offer a series of in-person English as a Second Language classes. English as a second or foreign language is a language education program for people learning English.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Jefferson Genealogical Society

6:30pm - 9:00pm
Adults
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Library: Old Metairie Library
Room: Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Workshop
Event Details:

The mission of the Jefferson Genealogical Society is to promote genealogical research through meetings and activities which provide contact with professional genealogists and historians, the opportunity for members to share their experiences, and

This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library: East Bank Regional Library
Room: Jefferson & Napoleon Rooms
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Performance
Event Details:

Music