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Paws to Read: K9 Reading Buddies
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 07/03/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 3:00pm - 4:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Jacksonville Library<br> <p>Children are invited to share a story with a trained and registered therapy dog. Paws to Read at the Library provides a non-intimidating environment for budding readers to explore reading out loud. The dogs welcome a scratch on the head and the turn of the page from young readers.</p></div>
Make Your Own No Sew Cat & Dog Toy, 13+ YRS
Date: 02/03/2024 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Meyer Memorial Trust Community Meeting Room Library: Phoenix Library Adoption and identity is a main thread in Julia Alverez’s book Finding Miracles. Although we recognize that pet adoption does not carry the same weight as child adoption – helping animals in shelters is a lot more accessible for a broad range of people. In this program you will be given the supplies to create a no sew required cat or dog toy. Keep the toy for your furry family
Tween Movie Hangout 11-16
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 07/24/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 2:00pm - 4:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Gold Hill Library<br> <p>Bring your friends to the Gold Hill Library to enjoy a movie with other tweens and teens! There will be time to discuss a few movie options and vote for a favorite before the showtime at 2:00 PM. Popcorn provided!</p></div>
Preparing for your Digital Legacy
Date: 04/10/2024 Time: 10:00am - 11:00am Presenter: Leia Pastizzo & Nicole Vukcevic Location: Guanajuato Room Library: Ashland Library Have you ever wondered what happens to your digital accounts after death? Or how your loved ones will get access to those accounts to save precious data, such as photos and videos? Or how they would close them after you pass on? This program will help you, and your loved ones, take practical steps to prepare your digital legacy. The focus of this class will
Needle Felting: Snowpeople, 8+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 11/30/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 1:00pm - 3:30pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Eagle Point Library<br> <p>Join us and learn how to make a needle felted snowperson!</p>
<p>Pre-registration required.</p>
<p>Note: As this activity requires sharp needles, only ages 8+ may attend.</p></div>
Friends of the Library Book Sale, ALL AGES
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 11/29/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> All Day Event<br> <strong>Location:</strong> <br> <strong>Library:</strong> Shady Cove Library<br> <p>Check out the Friends of the Library book sale. Childrens, teens and adult books available at reasonable prices!</p>
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Cultivating Companions: Growing Connections Through Plants, 50+YRS
Date: 07/12/2024 Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm Location: Library: Shady Cove Library Cultivating Companions is a free seven week program to bring rural older adults together. Learn how to grow indoor plants, use them for art and cooking, and make new friends.
Join the Jackson County Master Gardeners in your local library branch to learn new skills and meet new faces. Space for the program is limited.
Please fill out the attached flier and return to Grace Florjancic, the Master Gardener Coordinator
Lego Club, 6+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 07/21/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 1:00pm - 2:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Storytime Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Medford Library<br> <p>Join us for weekly themed Lego building challenges, or make whatever you like! Let your creativity soar on your own or in collaboration with others!</p>
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No Fear Shakespeare: Uncursing The Cursed Play, 13-19 YRS
Date: 07/22/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Presenter: Ari Shaneyfelt Location: Adams Conference Room Library: Medford Library Teens are welcome to attend the un-cursing of Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth--or at least helping each other understand it! We'll be looking at the original text, and adaptations of particular scenes and then acting them out in ways that make sense to our modern ways of thinking!
Australian Didgeridoo Performance with Tyler Spencer, 6+ YRS
Date: 08/08/2024 Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Presenter: Allyson Beck Location: Meeting Room Library: White City Library Tyler Spencer's Didgeridoo Experience combines funky didgeridoo rhythms, worldly percussive beats, storytelling and audience participation. The didgeridoo has been played Aboriginal Australians for at least 1500 years, and it's known for its otherworldly sound. Tyler is a master didgeridoo player and crafter, based out of Newport. He has been performing, teaching and making didger
Kaleidoscope Play and Learn, 0-5 YRS
Date: 08/08/2024 Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm Presenter: Southern Oregon Early Learning Hub Location: Ruch Meeting Room (Full Room A+B Side) Library: Ruch Library Discover how children learn through play and daily activities: singing songs, telling stories, creating art, and having fun! Kaleidoscope Play and Learn is open to everyone — young children (ages 0-5) and their family, caregivers, and parents. No pre-registration required.
Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups are offered in collaboration w
Game Time, 10+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 08/08/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 2:00pm - 5:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Prospect Library<br> <p>Come join us in the Prospect Meeting Room on Thursdays this summer for open time to play board games and video games. Snacks included!</p>
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Color Like A Kid Again! 18+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 05/10/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 2:00pm - 4:00pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Community Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> Central Point Library<br> <p>Join us for some creative down time. Coloring provides a number of different health benefits for adults such as promoting mindfulness, reducing stress, and calming anxiety. Coloring sheets and art supplies will be provided, or bring your own. </p>
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Teen Movie Matinees, 10+ YRS
Date: 07/04/2024 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Location: Library: Medford Library All Summer the Medford Teen Library will be showing our FAVORITE Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMs)! Join us in discovering new--and old--favorites every Thursday!
June 6 - Adventures in Babysitting (G/120m/2016)
June 13 - Camp Rock (G/94m/2008)
June 20 - Freaky Friday (G/105m/2018)
June 27 - Double Feature
Teen Beach Movie (PG/125m/2013)
Teen Beach Movie 2 (G/104m/2015)
July 11 - Princess Protectio
Outlaws of the Old West, 18+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 01/16/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 5:00pm - 6:00pm<br> <strong>Presenter:</strong> Dan and Carole Nielson<br> <strong>Location:</strong> <br> <strong>Library:</strong> Shady Cove Library<br> <p>Join us for an interesting program about outlaws bankrobbers, and gunfighters like Jessie James, Doc Holiday, Black Jack and others who made the west popular with so many authors and producers. Presented by Dan and Carole Nielson.</p>
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Author Talk with Tisha and Tommy Richmond - authors of Dragon Smart, All Ages
Date: 01/17/2024 Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm Location: Storytime Room Library: Medford Library Join local author Tisha Richmond and her son, Tommy Richmond as they discuss their new book Dragon Smart. There will be a short reading, followed by a discussion on what it is like to be an author, and what it is like to co-author a book. There will be an opportunity for a Q&A after the discussion.
About the Authors
Tisha Richmond is a Canva for Education Learning Consultant and Global Education Com
Let’s Play: Monopoly, 8+ YRS
<div><strong>Date:</strong> 01/19/2024<br> <strong>Time:</strong> 3:30pm - 4:30pm<br> <strong>Location:</strong> Meeting Room<br> <strong>Library:</strong> White City Library<br> <p>Learn how to play monopoly, manage money, and strategize with this complex board game </p>
<p><em>RSVP's at the branch are appreciated but not required to attend. </em></p></div>
Creative Writing Workshop, 18+ YRS
Date: 09/23/2024 Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Location: Gresham Room Library: Ashland Library Have you been waiting for the right time to get back to work on that novel or short story that’s started collecting dust? Or maybe you just need some inspiration to kickstart a new writing project? Join us at the Ashland library for our biweekly peer support creative writing workshop! Each participant will choose an excerpt from their project to read aloud and receive feedback from the rest of the group to h
Positive Affirmation Cards, ALL AGES
Date: 12/02/2023 Time: All Day Event Location: Library: Ruch Library There is no doubting that the way we speak to, and about, ourselves affects how we feel. Affirmations can help children AND adults learn to speak kindly to themselves and to believe in their own abilities. Kids of all ages can come to their local library and grab a positive affirmation card to remind themselves of how amazing they are.
About Rogue Reads
Rogue Reads encourages everyone in Jackson County to read and discu
Gold Hill Cribbage Club, 18+ YRS
Date: 05/02/2024 Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm Presenter: Melia Biedscheid Location: Community Meeting Room Library: Gold Hill Library Join us for a friendly game of cribbage. Players of all experience levels are welcome from beginners to advanced. The moderators will teach you how to play, or you can join a more experienced group. The Cribbage Club meets the first and third Thursday of each month.