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Adult Events and Calendar

This calendar displays events for adults at all CALS branches for the next 30 days. You may use the search features located to the left to limit or expand this list

Sat - Mar 13
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  Ladies Clothing Swap
Location: Fletcher Library
Upcycle and freshen up your wardrobe. Call 663-5457 for details.
Sat - Mar 13
1:00 PM
  Learn basic cake decorating techiques.
Location: Aerospace Library
Basic Cake Decorating
Tue - Mar 16
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  It's Always Something
Location: Main Library
Sit N' Stitch for knitters, crocheters, and crafters continues this year every third Tuesday of the month. All are welcome.
Tue - Mar 16
3:00 PM
  Adult Gamers Club
Location: Dee Brown Library
Wed - Mar 17
11:30 PM - 12:30 PM
  Lunchtime Book Group
Location: Fletcher Library
Group will discuss "Mountains Beyong Mountains" by Tracy Kidder. Bring your lunch; we'll provide drinks.
Sat - Mar 20
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Maumelle Diorama Card Workshop (adult program)
Location: Maumelle Library
Local artist Denise Felton demonstrates how to create some of her beautiful diorama cards.
Free. Registration required.
Sat - Mar 20
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Career Coaching with Kasha Casey
Location: McMath Library
Sat - Mar 20
3:00 PM
  Learn to Crochet
Location: Nixon Library
Beginners ages 10+ welcome. Registration is required.
Mon - Mar 22
1:00 PM
  Thompson's Knitting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Knitting Group for teens and adults at any skill level
Tue - Mar 23
7:00 PM
  Book Club Divas
Location: Nixon Library
This month's book is "Same Kind of Different As Me."
Copies of this book are available at the front desk.
Wed - Mar 24
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  Socrates Cafe'
Location: Fletcher Library
An open discussion about philosophical questions introduced by participants. Come be part of the conversation, or feel free to just listen.
Thu - Mar 25
12:00 PM
  Clothing Swap
Location: Nixon Library
Come choose some free used clothing and donate some of your own.
All-afternoon event.
Fri - Mar 26
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Pinnacle Piecemakers Quilting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Quilting Circle at the Thompson Library. All quilters and crafters welcome.
Sat - Mar 27
2:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  Zumba Fitness @ the Library
Location: Fletcher Library
Featured Events: Mar. 2010
Bonnie Robertson with the LR Athletic Club will teach a beginner's Zumba class. Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin dance steps with fitness exercise. Come shake, dance, and feel the music!
Sat - Mar 27
4:00 PM
  Learn to Salsa
Location: Dee Brown Library
Learn to salsa at our monthly salsa lesson.
Mon - Mar 29
1:00 PM
  Thompson's Knitting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Knitting Group for teens and adults at any skill level
Tue - Mar 30
  "It's Always Something"
Location: Main Library
Group-selected speakers will talk about various subjects. Please call 918-3032 or email mmurray@cals.org for specific details.
Thu - Apr 01
  Page Turner
Location: Sanders Library
Book Club meets at 10:30 am
Thu - Apr 01
  Fwiddle Stick
Location: Sanders Library
Bring your knitting and join us at 1:00 pm
Fri - Apr 02
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Pinnacle Piecemakers Quilting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Quilting Circle at the Thompson Library. All quilters and crafters welcome.
Mon - Apr 05
1:00 PM
  Thompson's Knitting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Knitting Group for teens and adults at any skill level
Tue - Apr 06
  Book Chats
Location: Sanders Library
Book club meets at 2:00 pm. Read what you want and share.
Tue - Apr 06
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  It's Always Something
Location: Main Library
Every first Tuesday of the month Sylvia Wilkes continues a yearlong art tutorial.
Bring your lunch to the East Room; drinks and cookies provided.
There is always something for you at the Main Library on Tuesdays.
Thu - Apr 08
  Fwiddle Sticks
Location: Sanders Library
Bring you knitting and join us 1:00 pm on each Thursday of the month
Thu - Apr 08
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  "Gathering of the Groups"
Location: Main Library
Featured Events: Apr. 2010
All book club members in CALS service area (Pulaski and Perry Counties) are invited to the "Gathering of the Groups."
Lunch - FREE TO YOU - will be provided by Jimmy's Serious Sandwiches, courtsey of the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative program at CALS.
Amanda Ferguson, educational site coordinator, for the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative, will be the featured speaker.
Please RSVP by Monday, April 5, to mmurray@cals.org or 918-3021.
Fri - Apr 09
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Pinnacle Piecemakers Quilting Circle
Location: Thompson Library
A Quilting Circle at the Thompson Library. All quilters and crafters welcome.
Sat - Apr 10
9:00 AM
  Maumelle First Time Home Buyers Workshop
Location: Maumelle Library
Free. Registration required.

"It's Always Something" Lunch Series

Join us every Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., beginning January 2010, for a new adult lunchtime series of events devoted to books, arts, crafts and more! Bring your own lunch; drinks and cookies provided. For more information, contact Maribeth Murray, Adult Programs Coordinator, at 501.918.3032.

Schedule of Events

February 2010

  • February 2: Sylvia Wilkes, artist and teacher at the AR Arts Center, continues her art class.
  • February 9: Book Group discusses The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • February 16: Sit N' Stitch continues social knitting and crafts.
  • February 23: We will take a tour of the Butler Center's beautiful image panels in the Arkansas studies Institute. We will meet in the East Room and go from there.

March 2010

  • March 2: Sylvia Wilkes continues her tutorial
  • March 9: Book Group discusses The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
  • March 16: Sit N' Stitch continues for knitters and crafters
  • March 23: Speaker on topic that Tuesday's groups suggest.