Upcoming Events

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

Paper crafting is the art of making 3D objects out of paper. Supplies will be provided. Adults and teens are welcome. This event is held on the first Wednesday of each month.

Join us at Westwego for a Christmas card making class. We will create three different Christmas cards to send to your loved ones, so start making your naughty and nice lists now!

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break.

Watch & Learn Wednesdays is an evening to watch video tutorials on Creativebug, YouTube, and other sources, and explore the concepts with the group using materials in our collection. Bring a notebook to take notes.

Info to come

A new class every week as well as space to work on your own projects. Working on a beading or jewelry project? Crocheting or knitting something cool?

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.

Join us for Bridge Club in the Old Metairie Meeting Room! Beginners welcome!

Your local librarians are working on their fitness. Come join! We will be working out together using our collection of Zumba, Pilates, and Dance Cardio DVDs. All ages welcome!

Go on a holidate with Mario Lopez at Westwego Public Library. For the first three Thursdays in December, we'll count down to Christmas by watching Mario's Christmas romcoms. Adults and teens are welcome.

Bring a project you're working on, sewing, quilting, embroidery, crochet, or any type of creative needlework, and socialize with others with similar interests.

Cyril Lagvanec delivers a lecture on the First Austrian Republic, 1919-1938.

Create a customized fabric wreath. Materials provided, except for fabric. Bring (1) 1/2 yard cuts of coordinating cotton fabrics and (10) coordinating 8.5x11" sheets of felt.

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. Instruction will be available on occasions.

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Join us to create your own custom Christmas stocking. Some basic sewing knowledge is required for this project. Bring 2 different 1/4 yard cuts (NOT fat quarters). One will be the outside and one will be the inner lining and outer cuff.

Flavors of Health is a nutrition education and health program with a community focus.

Come celebrate the holidays “BestBank” style with holiday music from the Jerusalem Shrine Orchestra, storytelling, magic and a puppet show with Santa, a hot cocoa bar and crafts, and activities for the whole family!  

The Jefferson Parish Library, in conjunction with YMCA New Orleans, offers an intermediate English as a Second Language class.

Monday Knitters meets from 1 to 3 p.m. each Monday. Bev Madere, Craft Yarn Council of America Master Knitter, facilitates this group of adult knitters. All level of skills welcomed; basic knitting skills taught to beginners.

Join the Wetland Walkers on Monday evenings at 5:00p.m.