Event List

Come garden with your neighbors and librarians as we work on our very first Community Garden! Learn what to grow and how to tend a vegetable and flower garden during this informal work hour. Open to all ages and experience levels. 

Join us for Chess Club! We welcome amateurs, novices, and dabblers of chess, who would like to play in a semi-competitive and/or social environment. No registration is required. We have chess sets and clocks available on a first-come basis.

This Excel Class is aimed at helping adults acquire the technology skills they desire in a low-pressure setting. This class takes what you learned in Part 1 and digs a little deeper.

Northstar Digital Learning is aimed at helping adults acquire the technology skills they desire in a low-pressure setting. This class takes what you learned in Part 1 and digs a little deeper.

The Jefferson Parish Library is participating in the 2025 annual Lawyers in Libraries program in partnership with the Louisiana State Bar Association, the State Library of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Library Association.

Ready to laugh, connect, and think on your feet? Join us for a fun and welcoming 4-week beginner improv course.

The purpose of the group is to encourage local writers to create works of fiction - novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, etc. Writers submit manuscripts to be critiqued by other group members.

Come try your skill, invent, and experiment in our Lego Club targeted for ages 5 to 10! Legos provided for you so you do not need to bring Legos from home. Younger siblings are welcome. Larger Legos provided for younger siblings.

"Let the Good Times Roll" at the library! Paintedwitlove's Brittani Landry is a Jazz & Heritage Community Partnership Grant recipient, and she’s agreed to give art classes for kids for Jefferson Parish Library! Ages 9 to 12.

This event will consist of an hour of one on one VR e

Introduction to sitting and walking Zen meditation. Please bring a cushion to sit on.

Please join us at North Kenner Library to free- play Backgammon and Chess! All ages. 

The Jefferson Parish Library is participating in the 2025 annual Lawyers in Libraries program in partnership with the Louisiana State Bar Association, the State Library of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Library Association.

If you are interested in learning the game of Mahjong, but are intimidated by the fast pace of traditional Mahjong clubs, then come join us for a relaxed learning experience.

Fun Take Home Craft for children.  Available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Join us for books, songs, and play! This event is for toddlers and preschool children.

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

Listen to a story read by one of our librarians and stay to do a fun craft together! This event is for children ages 3 to 10 years old. 

The Jefferson Parish Library is participating in the 2025 annual Lawyers in Libraries program in partnership with the Louisiana State Bar Association, the State Library of Louisiana, and the Louisiana Library Association.