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Celebrate finishing the school year and another year of Teen Advisory Board with a small, socially distanced meet-up at Wordsmith Bookshoppe on Main St. We will have snacks, games, and teens can each pick out a book from the store’s selection to add to the library’s collection!

Open to any teen ages 12-18 or in grades 7-12 who has attended a Teen Advisory Board meeting in the last year. Registration is not required.

Are you interested in creating a butterfly garden in your yard? Looking for ways to attract or grow your own butterflies? Come learn how to begin from Rhonda Brady, a Master Gardener and butterfly conservation specialist. She will explain which plants have the most nectar to give adult butterflies energy, and which plants attract butterflies. She will also teach about host plants to help you grow butterflies through the entire life cycle, right in your own yard!

Class is free and open to all ages. During outdoor events, patrons, presenters, and volunteers must wear face masks. Space is limited, so registration is required. Please call the library at 309-343-6118 to reserve a spot! An NEA Big Read event.

Join us for a musical celebration of our Big Read book! Chicago Latin Groove, the Midwest’s premier tropical music band, will perform in Standish Park! Chicago Latin Groove has been delighting crowds since 2012. They play a large variety of Tropical music including Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Latin Jazz, and Cha-cha-cha.

Bring chairs, a blanket, and a picnic, and get ready to dance the afternoon away! Masks required when not at your seat. Free and open to all ages, no registration required. Copies of the Big Read book, In the Time of the Butterflies, will be given away to adults while supplies last.

Master Gardener and butterfly conservation specialist Rhonda Brady will teach how our environment and climate have helped to create the unique North American Monarch Migration Phenomena.

Class is free and open to all ages. During outdoor events, patrons, presenters, and volunteers must wear face masks. Space is limited, so registration is required. Please call the library at 309-343-6118 to reserve a spot! An NEA Big Read event.

This year’s NEA Big Read book, In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, is a historical novel is based on the true story of the four Mirabal sisters who participated in underground efforts to overthrow Rafael Trujillo’s three-decade-long dictatorial regime in the Dominican Republic.

Call 309-343-6118 or email reference@galesburglibrary.org to request your FREE copy of the book. Buzzwords will meet to discuss in the GPL Online Book Discussion group on Facebook. You will need to join this Facebook group to participate: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2599070423642738  Buzzwords is GPL’s Millennial book discussion group. Book selections are aimed at Millennials, but anyone is welcome!

An NEA Big Read event. The NEA is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. Contact the library to learn more about the NEA Big Read or to get a complete schedule of events.

A Chicago man investigating a mysterious lost manuscript written in 1929 New Orleans by a Dominican immigrant is caught in Hurricane Katrina. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library, through curbside or in person.

The discussion will take place outside in the library’s Storybook Garden. A Big Read Event. Click here to learn more about the Big Read: https://galesburglibrary.org/?page_id=368

Join the library and Galesburg’s Downtown Community Partnership for a volunteer community cleanup project! Volunteers will pick up trash, cover up graffiti, and other things to make the downtown area nicer for everyone. There will be a prize drawing just for teen library volunteers!

We will meet at the corner of Simmons St. and Kellogg St. You do not have to stay the whole time. No sign-up is necessary. Breakfast and cleaning supplies will be provided.

End this year’s NEA Big Read of In the Time of the Butterflies by meeting the author! Julia Alvarez will meet with us via Zoom to discuss her book and answer your questions. You can attend in person at the library or via Zoom! Call 309-343-6118 or email reference@galesburglibrary.org to register, and let us know how you would like to attend. Masks required for anyone attending in person. Registration suggested but not required. All are welcome.

This is a Big Read event. The NEA Big Read is a program on the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. Learn more about Galesburg’s NEA Big Read here: https://galesburglibrary.org/?page_id=368

Join us in the library’s Storybook Garden on Cherry St. (weather permitting) to discuss Before We Were Free, the teen tie-in book to this year’s Big Read. Before We Were Free tells the story of Anita de la Torre, a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic under the reign of dictator Rafael Trujillo. As her relatives emigrate to the United States to escape Trujillo or disappear all together, Anita struggles with her adolescence and her own personal fight to be free.

To request a free copy of the book, call the Reference Desk at 343-6118 or email reference@galesburglibrary.org. All ages are welcome at the discussion.

An NEA Big Read event. Find out more about the Big Read and the events going on at the library all month on our website by going to “Events & Programs” and choosing “NEA Big Read”.

Join us for a discussion of the Big Read YA tie-in novel Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez. Weather and safety permitting, we will meet outside in the library’s Story Book Garden on the Cherry St. side of the building to talk about the book.

Open to all ages. Call 309-343-6118 or email reference@galesburglibrary.org to request a free copy of the book while supplies last.

The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library, through curbside or in person.

For meeting link, please contact the Reference Desk. A Big Read Event. Click here to learn more about the Big Read: https://galesburglibrary.org/?page_id=368

Want to play Dungeons & Dragons from the safety and comfort of your own home? The library’s D&D club is moving online while the library is closed, using the platform Roll20! You do not need prior experience with either D&D or Roll20 to join, but you will need: a computer with internet access, the ability to voice chat, and an account on Roll20. 

Open to teens ages 12-18 or in grades 7-12. Space is limited, so email johnd@galesburglibrary.org for more information or to sign up.

Create your Roll20 account here: https://roll20.net/

The library will be closed in honor of Memorial Day.