Upcoming Events

Name: Custom Groove Jazz Concert
Start: 2024-04-27T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-27T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Meriden Public Library

Featured Events

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Custom Groove Jazz Concert

Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Meeting Room 1+2+3 at Meriden Public Library

Program Type:

Music

Age Group:

Community

Event Details:

Custom Groove mixes great instrumental and vocal jazz tunes by the likes of Bob James, Spyro Gyra, and Chuck Mangione, with arrangements of classic pop songs and timeless stan

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Community

Program Type: Music

Registration Required

Event Details:

Custom Groove mixes great instrumental and vocal jazz tunes by the likes of Bob James, Spyro Gyra, and Chuck Mangione, with arrangements of classic pop songs and timeless standards. Please note this concert will be filmed for publicity....

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Pipe Cleaner Flowers

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Children's Project Room at Meriden Public Library

Program Type:

Art & Crafts

Age Group:

Children, School Age

Event Details:

Create a beautiful bouquet of flowers including daffodils, daisies, hyacinths and tulips.

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Children's Project Room

Age Group: Children, School Age

Program Type: Art & Crafts

Registration Required

Event Details:

Create a beautiful bouquet of flowers including daffodils, daisies, hyacinths and tulips. ...

Historic Meriden

Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Meeting Room 1+2+3 at Meriden Public Library

Program Type:

Civics & Community, Education, History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults, Community

Event Details:

Since its inception over 300 years ago, Meriden has influenced the world in a variety of aspects, from manufacturing to sports and from art to politics. Join Meriden historian,

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Adults, Community

Program Type: Civics & Community, Education, History & Genealogy

Registration Required

Event Details:

Since its inception over 300 years ago, Meriden has influenced the world in a variety of aspects, from manufacturing to sports and from art to politics. Join Meriden historian, Justin Piccirillo, as he takes you on an astounding journey into the o...

Take Great Photos with your Smartphone

Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Multi-Purpose Room 6 at Meriden Public Library

Program Type:

Art & Crafts, Education, Technology Class

Age Group:

Teens, Adults, Community

Event Details:

Take Great Photos with your Smartphone – The quality of smartphone cameras is improving rapidly. Their capabilities extend far beyond what some people primarily use them for... tak

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6

Age Group: Teens, Adults, Community

Program Type: Art & Crafts, Education, Technology Class

Registration Required

Event Details:

Take Great Photos with your Smartphone – The quality of smartphone cameras is improving rapidly. Their capabilities extend far beyond what some people primarily use them for... taking selfies. In many situations, they work quite well as stand-ins for...

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Nutmeg Newts Book Club

6:00pm - 6:45pm

Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Children's Storytime Room

Age Group: Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join us for our all new monthly book club the Nutmeg Newts! The Nutmeg Newts Book Club is for children with a 4th through 6th grade reading level. This month we are reading The Beast and the Bethany Book 1 by Jack Meggitt-Phillips. Read the book o...

Booktok Book Club

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Teens, Adults

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Teens, Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join us for BookTok Book Club where we discuss books that have trended on social media platforms including TikTok and Instagram. Share thoughts on your latest read or gather ideas for the next one! April Book: The Half Burnt House by A...

Classics Clique Movie

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Adults

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Film

Registration Required

Event Details:

This club is for people who love classics, or who just want to try reading more of them. There will be a group book to read every month, as well as a viewing of the movie adaptation. In this meeting, we will be watching the movie The Taming of the...

Classics Clique Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Adults

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

CCALC - Necessary Trouble by Drew Gilpin Faust

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Adults

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Castle Craig Adult Learning Center, Other, Special Event

Event Details:

A memoir by the first woman President of Harvard University (2007-2018). In the 1950s, a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. Dre...

What’s Next? Book Club

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Adults

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true fronti...

Beyond the Book Club

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Teens

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Love reading but struggle to pick out or finish a book? Join Beyond the Book Club to read fantastic YA stories and discussions. This month’s options are Kween or Today, Tonight, Tomorrow. Each meeting will involve dis...

BookTok Bookclub

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Adults

Open

Registration

Open

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Nutmeg Newts Book Club

6:00pm - 6:45pm

Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Children's Storytime Room

Age Group: Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join us for our all new monthly book club the Nutmeg Newts! The Nutmeg Newts Book Club is for children with a 4th through 6th grade reading level. This month we are reading Wilderlore The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody. Read the book on you...

Classics Clique Movie

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Film

Registration Required

Event Details:

Classics Clique Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Beyond the Book Club

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Love reading but struggle to pick out or finish a book? Join Beyond the Book Club to read fantastic YA stories and discussions. This month’s options are War Girls or So Let Them Burn. Each meeting will involve di...

Nutmeg Newts Book Club

6:00pm - 6:45pm

Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Children's Storytime Room

Age Group: Children, School Age, Tweens (Ages 8-12)

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join us for our all new monthly book club the Nutmeg Newts! The Nutmeg Newts Book Club is for children with a 4th through 6th grade reading level. This month we are reading The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm. Read the book on your own and then j...

Classics Clique Movie

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Film

Registration Required

Event Details:

Manga Club

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Do you love manga? Join the manga club to talk about your favorite manga, watch anime, meet like-minded people and work on fun projects. ...

Classics Clique Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Read Around the World

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Teens, Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6

Age Group: Teens, Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Travel

Registration Required

Event Details:

Quarterly Reading Group featuring global literary fiction. Our July selection is My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, set in Naples, Italy. ...

YA Yabbies Book Club

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Love Reading but struggle to pick out or finish a book? Join YA Yabbies to read fantastic YA stories. Snag next month's pick, Something More by Jackie Khalilieh to celebrate Disability Pride Month. ...

Graphic Godzilla Book Club

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join YA Graphic Godzilla to read fantastic YA comics, graphic novels and manga. Snag next month's pick, The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang. ...

Queer Quetzals Book Club

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club, LGBTQ+

Registration Required

Event Details:

Join YA Queer Quetzals to read fantastic YA with LGBTQIA+ representation. Snag next month's pick, She Gets the Girl by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick. ...

Summer Reading Book Discussion

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 5

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Special Event

Registration Required

Event Details:

Book Discussion of “The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store” by Cait Flanders. In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consu...

Classics Clique Movie

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Meeting Room 1+2+3

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club, Film

Registration Required

Event Details:

Manga Club

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Teens

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Teen Room

Age Group: Teens

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

Do you love manga? Join the manga club to talk about your favorite manga, watch anime, meet like-minded people and work on fun projects. ...

Classics Clique Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Adults

Registration

Library Branch: Meriden Public Library

Room: Multi-Purpose Room 6

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Book Club

Registration Required

Event Details:

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