East Providence Public Library

Join us at Riverside Library for songs, stories and playtime! Ages 0-3. Siblings welcome!

Have a question about your device or how to use it? Need help with email or learning how to use a computer? These one-on-one Tech sessions are designed to answer your questions and offer you individua...

Teens aged 13+ are invited to our Manga Book Club at Riverside Branch Library! Meeting weekly for 3 weeks, we'll discuss a new Manga series each week, watching an episode of that series and completing...

This program enables kids to choose whether they are going to follow the plan, or create something unique and original. All materials and instructions for a new craft will be available each week, but ...

Come enjoy this Thursday night series of family films featuring sign language interpretation thanks to SignUp, a free-of-charge Google Chrome Extension for content on streaming platforms, including Di...

Have a question about your device or how to use it? Need help with email or learning how to use a computer? These one-on-one Tech sessions are designed to answer your questions and offer you individua...

Book Sale Prices Hard & Soft Cover Books $1 Children's Books 50¢ Pocket-size Paperbacks 50¢ CDs, DVDs, & Audiobooks $1 Puzzles, Comic Books As priced Pay by Venmo, cash, or check. Proceeds benefit lib...

Book Sale Prices Hard & Soft Cover Books $1 Children's Books 50¢ Pocket-size Paperbacks 50¢ CDs, DVDs, & Audiobooks $1 Puzzles, Comic Books As priced Pay by Venmo, cash, or check. Proceeds benefit lib...

Creative and unstructured learning through play is essential to the development of young children. Bring your child to play at our informal play group so that you can connect with other families while...

Have a question about your device or how to use it? Need help with email or learning how to use a computer? These one-on-one sessions are designed to answer your questions and offer you individual hel...

Book Sale Prices Hard & Soft Cover Books $1 Children's Books 50¢ Pocket-size Paperbacks 50¢ CDs, DVDs, & Audiobooks $1 Puzzles, Comic Books As priced Pay by Venmo, cash, or check. Proceeds benefit lib...

Located in the side parking lot at Weaver Library. Two file box maximum. Shredded on site. Optional: Bring a non-perishable food item or monetary donation for the Hope & Faith Drive that will be there...

Celebrate the joy of art and community with April's selection, Maybe Something Beautiful by Isabel F. Campoy. Available all day, every day, on the Weaver Library Lawn. Our StoryWalk® is a self-guided ...

Book Sale Prices Hard & Soft Cover Books $1 Children's Books 50¢ Pocket-size Paperbacks 50¢ CDs, DVDs, & Audiobooks $1 Puzzles, Comic Books As priced Pay by Venmo, cash, or check. Proceeds benefit lib...

Join us for songs, books, and bounces aimed at our littlest friends! Enjoy bonding time with your small ones and time to chat with other new and experienced parents. Aimed at newborn to walking, but o...

Have a question about your device or how to use it? Need help with email or learning how to use a computer? These one-on-one sessions are designed to answer your questions and offer you individual hel...

Drop by Fuller Monday mornings for fun activities and socializing. Children can explore a variety of centers such as: sensory exploration, numbers, letters, fine motor, pretend play and more. Ages 3-5...

Drop-in to work on your sewing projects, get help with ongoing ideas, and use our new sewing machines!

Come play with beads! Sort them, or string them into bracelets or necklaces for you and your friends. For ages 5+

A zine is a small, handmade booklet; a medium making it easy and inexpensive to spread ideas. In this workshop, we will learn about the history of zines and see examples of these from the trans and no...

Join us to make quilts, bags, bibs and more for local charities! Beginner friendly. No registration required.

Fuse beads together to make your own fun creation! Registration required. Ages 5+

Let's talk civics! We'll learn about voting, how to do it, when to do it, why we do it! Get your questions asked and answered and earn community service credit while you're at it! For grades 6-12.

Every Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:30pm All skill levels and ages welcome! While it is not an instructed class, we are more then happy to teach. Drop in anytime, stay for as long as you can. Any questions or to...

The Borderlands: An untamed wild region far flung from the comforts and protection of civilization. A lone fortified Keep is the only bastion of Good desperately striving to maintain the forces of Cha...

End the day with stories and songs. Come get cozy at the library! Bring your pjs, stuffed animals; whatever makes you feel cozy. Geared for ages 2-6.

For toddlers and preschoolers. Join us for a bilingual Portuguese/English storytime including stories, songs, and dancing, then time to play and socialize! No registration required. Siblings are welco...

Participants will be able to use colorful paper to make a mosaic to take home with them! This program is geared for adults with developmental disabilities but all are welcome. Registration opens April...

Have a question about your device or how to use it? Need help with email or learning how to use a computer? These one-on-one sessions are designed to answer your questions and offer you individual hel...

Kids will get a pot, soil, and seeds to pick from a variety of flowers to plant. Then take your pot home and watch your beautiful flowers grow! Ages 7+. Registration required.

Paint your own Welcome Mat Wednesday, April 15 at 6pm Registration Required, Registration begins March 4 at 9am PLEASE NOTE: This is an extremely popular class that always fills up quickly and always ...

Come enjoy this Thursday night series of family films featuring sign language interpretation thanks to SignUp, a free-of-charge Google Chrome Extension for content on streaming platforms, including Di...

Join us to learn how to make vegan Dynamite! (aka sloppy joes). John Keevan, lifelong library patron and vegan cook who has taught dozens of cooking classes at Fuller, returns to teach you about diffe...

Join us as you search your family history. All skill levels welcome! April 18 at 10am-12pm

Join us to learn how to make vegan Dynamite! (aka sloppy joes). John Keevan, lifelong library patron and vegan cook who has taught dozens of cooking classes at Fuller, returns to teach you about diffe...

IMPORTANT: Please be sure you are able to attend every day. When registering you will be registered for the whole week, so only one form is needed. ALL participants from one household can be registere...

As gender-affirming care comes under fire, this discussion seeks to empower trans and nonbinary individuals (as well as anyone else!) to find ways to feel more at home in their body. In this program, ...

Dr. Rosie Helps the Animals Interactive Reading and Hands-On Stuffy Vet Clinic Do animals get earaches? Sore throats? Stomach aches? Who helps them if they can’t talk? Meet the author and illustrator ...

Children ages 8+, teens, and adults may all register for this multigenerational painting course led by local artist John Irwin!

Postponed. This event will be rescheduled for another date. In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, join us for a community discussion of The Greates...

If you find yourself frustrated with your electric bill (whether how much it is or what everything in it means), join us for this workshop! This class will help homeowners reduce their monthly electri...

Do you enjoy writing but not sure how to begin? Positive Pens is a writing group that offers a time for you to write a memoir, or a short story, or maybe even that novel you have lingering in the back...

Join an educator from Casey Farm in a hands-on presentation about Dominique chickens and eggs, including a live chicken! They will also be setting up an incubator and eggs that will hatch into chicks ...

Using the streaming service Kanopy, accessible to those with East Providence Public Library cards, we will be showing the documentary: Born This Way Presents: Deaf Out Loud Executive produced by Acade...

The Rhythm Room presents a hands-on learning experience on percussion instruments. This program is for kids ages 2-3yrs old. All instruments provided. Registration is not required but space is availab...

*This event takes place outside on the Weaver Library Lawn and is weather permitting with a rain date of Wednesday, April 29 at 1pm. Come learn about Holi (which was celebrated this year on March 4) a...

Experience tutorials that show you how to navigate a virtual world and play multiple games installed. Children ages 7+ may register to use the headsets. Headset use will be first come first served. If...

Contact the Teen Librarian to inquire about joining this established D&D group!

Teens and Tweens aged 10+ are welcome to Weaver to bling up a book! Bring your own book, or pick from our available selection and get to blinging!

Come enjoy this Thursday night series of family films featuring sign language interpretation thanks to SignUp, a free-of-charge Google Chrome Extension for content on streaming platforms, including Di...

Steve Costa, owner and head chef at Rosa’s Tavern, will demonstrate his modern twist on Portuguese and Italian cuisine! Those registered will see Steve make one of his famous homemade dishes and get t...

Teens and Tweens ages 12+ are welcome to join us for our first Magic the Gathering meetup! No experience required, all materials provided. Leave with your own deck! If you have experience playing Magi...

Teens and Tweens aged 10+ are invited to the Riverside Branch Library to craft some Spring flowers with pipe cleaners!

Give old books new life! Piece together bits of different books to create your own 'Franken-Book'. Families of all ages are welcome.

Are Deaf people disabled or are they simply people who use a different language? We will let the history of Martha's Vineyard answer this question. The story of what happened there in a period of 250 ...

We will be reading Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and discussing virtually on Zoom. Stop by Weaver Library to pick up a copy or download the title from eZone. Registrants will receive the Zoom lin...

We will be reading Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and discussing it in person at Weaver Library. Stop by Weaver Library to pick up a copy or download the title from eZone. Registrants will receive...

Drop by Fuller to see our new 3D printer in action! You'll get to learn how it works, how you can request 3D prints, and leave with your very own 3D printed tulip. Ages 7+.

Teen garden crew get ready! It's planting time! Join us for drop in teen community service and get your hands dirty! We'll be transplanting all of our seedlings into our raised garden beds for the Ful...

Through Me To You Puppetry invites you to join Newton and the gang for Puppet Story Time! Newton and his puppet friends take turns reading stories and singing songs with the children. At the end of th...

Make your very own aroma therapy pouch for National Stress Awareness Month with us. Registration required. Ages 7+

Come enjoy this Thursday night series of family films featuring sign language interpretation thanks to SignUp, a free-of-charge Google Chrome Extension for content on streaming platforms, including Di...

Join us at Fuller as EP Urban Forest leads our first ever Spring Talk & Walk! Community will gather at Fuller for 6pm before heading outside and walking the Kent Heights neighborhood. Members of EP Ur...

Get hands-on with layers of modern and vintage ephemera with CCRI alumni Jason Bartlett! Make three different starter pages and use washi tape, hidden pockets, and personalized accents. No experience ...

This program is for any and all children, but is particularly aimed at those with autism or other sensory processing differences. There is no expectation of sitting still and being quiet. Children are...

Join us for fun, light refreshments, and a chance to win some greats books! This program is for adults ages 18+. Registration is required. This registration is for the entire spring session: April 6, ...

IMPORTANT: Please be sure you are able to attend every day. When registering you will be registered for the whole week, so only one form is needed. ALL participants from one household can be registere...

Wearable art! Bring a dark clothing item (sweatshirt, shirt, sweatpants, hats etc as long as they are very dark in color!) to get crafty with! Weather permitting. Ages 10+, please register.

This free, interactive workshop, led by Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), university educator, and mother Amber Yui, MPH, RDN, LDN, CHES, is an opportunity to explore how best to feed and paren...

Open to all levels, beginner dancers to advanced. The Haus of Glitter specializes in dance lineages that come from Africa and Latin America. Explore a journey through Traditional West African Dance, A...

We will be reading The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters and discussing it virtually on Zoom. Stop by Weaver Library to pick up a copy or download the title from eZone. Registrants will receive the Zoom ...

We will be reading The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters and discussing it in person at Weaver Library. Stop by Weaver Library to pick up a copy or download the title from eZone. No registration required...

Open to all dance levels, beginner and experienced, this program will cover the history and cultural significance of drag, and interactively explore the basics of drag performance. In the style of HBO...

Interested in sourdough bread but just a little overwhelmed by all the contradicting information? Join us to learn all about sourdough bread starters, how to maintain them, and how to bake a basic loa...

Teens in grades 6-12 are welcome to RI Youth Pride's LGBTQ 101 program! Topics covered will be the history and persecution of the LGBTQ community, this fight for equal rights, acronyms and difference ...

A pizza party with a side of history! In celebration of America's 250th, join us to watch Hamilton (singing along is totally allowed!) while enjoying a SLICE, or two! Ages 13+

This program is for any and all children, but is particularly aimed at those with autism or other sensory processing differences. There is no expectation of sitting still and being quiet. Children are...