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Trading Card Game Club

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Teens, Tweens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens, Tweens
Program Type: Games
Registration Required
Event Details:
Bring your friends and your cards and challenge each other to a duel. Don't forget your duplicate cards for trading. Players of Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon Trading Card Game, Yu-Gi-Oh! and more are invited to join us for a night of f...

Wiggle Worms

10:30am - 11:30am
Children, Babies & Toddlers
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Storytime Room
Age Group: Children, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime & Early Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:
Ages 1-3 | Registration Required Join us for special storytime for your little wiggle worm. This storytime will be high energy and filled with songs, puppets, dancing, and more. Stay after storytime is over for playtime. Siblings are welcome. A...

CCALC - Jackknife (Movie)

1:00pm - 3:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Film, Special Event
Event Details:
The movie, filmed in Meriden in 1989, will have a showing on screen. It’s a story about a Vietnam veteran nicknamed “Megs” (Robert DeNiro) who visits war buddy Dave (Ed Harris) at his home shared with his sister (Kathy Baker). The home on scree...

Instructional Chess Program

6:00pm - 7:00pm
All Ages
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Games
Event Details:
An instructional chess program offered for an eight week fall session will feature a premier area instructor. The program is for players of all ages, beginners welcome. The program will include age and skill appropriate group lessons on strategy, inc...

Rainbow Roundtable

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Teens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: LGBTQ+
Registration Required
Event Details:
The Rainbow Roundtable is a LGBTQIA+ oriented club where we talk about what we are reading, watching, and listening to that’s LGBTQIA+ related. Come hang out in a welcoming environment with like-minded folks! This month we will be crafting butt...

Family Storytime

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Children, Babies & Toddlers
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Storytime Room
Age Group: Children, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime & Early Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:
Ages 0-5 | Registration Required Join Miss Melissa each week for stories, songs, and crafts. Older siblings are welcome. MM/AJ ...

Virtual Event - "Hollywood, Home, Heart, and Healing: A Conversation with Actor John Stamos"

8:00pm - 9:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Virtual Event Calendar
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Talk, Special Event
Event Details:
Register Here Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.  If you had told a young John Stamos flippi...

QPR Suicide Prevention Training

10:00am - 11:00am
Teens, Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Event Details:
Join Elizabeth DeMerchant of the Meriden Health Department on Thursday, November 2nd @10:00 - 11:00 AM for a FREE In-Person QPR Suicide Prevention Training. This training will be held in Multi-Purpose Room 6. What You'll Learn: How...

Tech Time

6:30pm - 7:30pm
School Age
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Program Room
Age Group: School Age
Program Type: Other, Special Event, STEAM, Technology Class
Event Details:
Grades K-5 | Drop-in Experiment and explore robots and other tech toys at the library! ...

Preschool Storytime

10:30am - 11:30am
Children, Babies & Toddlers
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Storytime Room
Age Group: Children, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime & Early Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:
Ages 3-5 | Registration Required This storytime is filled with songs, stories, puppets, and fun activities to develop your child's love of reading. Stay after storytime is over for playtime. Siblings are welcome. MM/AJ ...

Skill Series: Resume 101

2:00pm - 4:30pm
Teens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Teen Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Other, Special Event
Registration Required
Event Details:
Join Librarian Paige in the second session of this skill series dedicated to resumes. Please bring a draft of your resume to edit and refine. Teens will leave with a better understanding of resumes, their importance and a resume to use in the f...

Paths to Autistic Empowerment with Jeremy K. Farrell

2:00pm - 3:00pm
School Age, Teens, Tweens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: School Age, Teens, Tweens
Program Type: Health & Wellness, Special Event
Registration Required
Event Details:
Jeremy K. Farrell is a passionate Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Advocate and a proud person on the spectrum himself. He has been working with children with developmental disabilities, specializing in autism, since the age of 15. Since graduating fro...

CCALC - Acoustic Blend - Crossing Musical Boundaries

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Acoustic Blend - Crossing Musical Boundaries The guitar crosses all musical boundaries and so do Judy and Mark during this wonderful program. You’ll hear their own unique arrangements of swing, Broadway, 60s-70s pop, gypsy, Celtic, Spanish, French...

Rhyme Time

10:30am - 11:30am
Children, Babies & Toddlers
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Storytime Room
Age Group: Children, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime & Early Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:
Ages 0-12 months | Registration Required This storytime is your baby's introduction to the library! Join us for songs, stories, and rhymes with repetition for baby's growing mind. Stay after storytime is over for baby playtime. AJ/MM ...

Twice-a-Month Craft Night – Gratitude Tree

6:00pm - 7:00pm
School Age, Teens, Tweens, Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: School Age, Teens, Tweens, Adults
Program Type: Art & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:
It’s easy to twist a paper bag, forming a trunk and branches! Write something for which you are grateful on an autumn-colored leaf and affix it to your tree. Just in time for Thanksgiving! Tuesday, November 7th, 6:00pm in Multi-purpose Room ...

Wiggle Worms

10:30am - 11:30am
Children, Babies & Toddlers
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Children's Storytime Room
Age Group: Children, Babies & Toddlers
Program Type: Storytime & Early Learning
Registration Required
Event Details:
Ages 1-3 | Registration Required Join us for special storytime for your little wiggle worm. This storytime will be high energy and filled with songs, puppets, dancing, and more. Stay after storytime is over for playtime. Siblings are welcome. A...

CCALC - Photography as Art

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Art & Crafts, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Special Event
Event Details:
Paul Ott will talk about his passion for black/white photography as an art form and how his photography has evolved in subject, theme, and use of photographic tools to create desired effects. Mr. Ott will also display his digital works on screen a...

History of "Quinnetukut" Beading Workshop

3:00pm - 4:30pm
Teens, Tweens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1
Age Group: Teens, Tweens
Program Type: Art & Crafts, History & Genealogy, Other, Special Event
Registration Required
Event Details:
Learn about the history of “Quinnetukut” along with Native beading techniques from an Indigenous beading artist to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. ...

Instructional Chess Program

6:00pm - 7:00pm
All Ages
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Games
Event Details:
An instructional chess program offered for an eight week fall session will feature a premier area instructor. The program is for players of all ages, beginners welcome. The program will include age and skill appropriate group lessons on strategy, inc...

What's Next ? Book Club

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Meeting Room 4
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:
Our wonderful group will be discussing, “The Address”, by Fiona Davis. It’s a quality piece of historical fiction, centering on the history of NYC’s famous Dakota. We will meet at 6:30pm on Wed, Nov 8th. ...

Virtual Program - "Get Good with Money and Reach Your Financial Goals with Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche"

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Virtual Event Calendar
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Talk, Special Event, Tax & Finance
Event Details:
Register Here Tiffany Aliche was a successful preschool teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescu...

Traditional Woodworking with Rick Liegl

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Teens, Tweens, Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: Teens, Tweens, Adults
Program Type: Art & Crafts, Other, Special Event
Registration Required
Event Details:
Rick Liegl is a woodworker who collects and works with antique tools. The wood for his chairs, benches, spoons and bowls all come from locally sourced trees, very much the way wood work was done in the 1800’s and before. Rick will demonstrate his ...

Veterans Day

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Meriden Public Library, Bookmobile
Description:
Closed for Veterans Day ...

Teen Movie Matinee

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Teens
Registration
Library Branch: Meriden Public Library
Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Film, Other, Special Event
Registration Required
Event Details:
Vote to pick which movie screens at the biweekly Teen Movie Matinee! Vote in person the day of. This week is Wes Anderson appreciation with: Asteroid City, Isle of Dogs, Moonrise Kingdom, or Fantastic Mr. Fox. Snacks and drinks will be provi...