Upcoming Events

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

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

Book: 

Craft:

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

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

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 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.

Come join a professional artist at River Ridge Library to learn how to draw still lifes in color. Topics will include: color theory, use of charcoal and pastel, duotone drawing, layering color, texture and blending.

This class covers setting up an email account (using Gmail) and the basics of composing, sending and receiving emails. We also discuss uploading and sending an attachment.

This month’s book is They Called Us River Rats by Macon Fry. Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug! 

Come checkout a great interactive story to find the alliGator before he finds you! Including camouflage art. 

This event includes stories and activities for children up to 11 years old. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We journey once more to the world of True Crime this month! Find a new tale on the internet and be ready to share. Don't forget to bring your book.

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.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Howl's Moving Castle, join us at Westwego as we watch three of Studio Ghibli's most popular anime films: Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, and My Neighbor Totoro

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

For more information, please call 504-838-4375.

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