03/15/25 @ 1:00pm - 03/15/25 @ 3:00pm Craft Room (Rockwell Foundation Children's Art Room) Cooper-Siegel Drop-ins welcome as space permits. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (SCL). Registration is required. Registration starts: 02/25/1970 @ 7:00pm Registration end: 03/15/2025 @ 1:00pm It's Pokémon time! Drop in anytime between 1:00 and 3:00 and show off your cards, trade cards, or play the Pokémon card game! For kids ages 6-11. The trading of Pokémon cards will be monitored by a librarian or teen volunteers to make sure the trades are fair. Please note that there is no Pokémon Club in May.

03/16/25 @ 3:00pm - 03/16/25 @ 4:00pm Craft Room (Rockwell Foundation Children's Art Room) Cooper-Siegel Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (SCL). Registration is required. Registration starts: 02/25/1970 @ 6:00pm Registration end: 03/16/2025 @ 3:00pm Join us for a special book club featuring Cat Kid Comic Club! This month's book club is for grades K-5 as we celebrate this fun series by Dav Pilkey.How does it work?Read the book before coming to book club. We are happy to help you order a library copy if you wish.During book club we will:Discuss the book or book series over snacksExplore the books further through games, crafts, and other activitiesWhat books are we reading?Oct. 20: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (either the chapter book or the graphic novel)Nov. 17: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (either the chapter book or the graphic novel)Dec. 15: CancelledJan. 19: Max & the Midknights by Lincoln PeirceFeb. 16: Rescheduled to March 2nd due to weatherMarch 2: Special Grades K-5 Book Club! Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav PilkeyMarch 16: Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamilloApril 27: Wishing Spell by Eoin ColferPlease note: the April date is the 4th Sunday due to Spring holidays. Here is the link for the April Reading Rockets.Attend any or all of the dates. 

03/17/25 @ 12:00am - 03/22/25 @ 12:00am Sharpsburg bailz (bailey zembower) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and advocate. Their work is inspired by observing cycles in nature and Self to create about connection, transformation, and imperfection. With early training focused on music, dance, and sewing, bailz has been primarily self taught in their visual art practices. They have experimented with media over the years as a way to communicate and process lived experience as a queer, mad, disabled person. bailz primarily works with found or upcycled materials - intending to ask viewers to rethink consumption as well as to heal the parts of themself that felt disposable while surviving seasons of life inside hospital systems. bailz is committed to empowering young people and communities via equitable access to the arts and by creating brave spaces to express and learn. Through their work as a teaching artist and performer, they hope to provide the communities they are a part of with varied access points for visibility, support, and resources as we move together beyond survival.yet. explores the journey from protection to empowerment and is an expression of gratitude for the support and witnessing from creative community. bailz has maintained a visual journaling practice for decades, often finding that it was safer and more accurate to document their experience in colors, patterns, and multimedia collages. Many of the pieces in this show are collaborations with themself from 10-15 years ago, when they were making choices out of survival and protection. in creating this show, they returned to sketchbooks from the past to continue or rework their own art while in healing conversation with their past selves - bringing them into the present and giving themself what they would have needed to feel empowered back then. Early in their experience of surviving the mental health system, someone told them that “yet is a word of hope” - when something hasn’t happened yet, we have the power and space to influence the outcome. To celebrate and honor the community that has empowered them, yet.yet will be on view daily through Saturday 3/29. 25% of each sale will benefit the library.A closing reception with bailz will be held on Saturday 3/1, 12pm-1:30pm. Prior to the reception, bailz is hosting a community choreography class and movement parade at Art in Motion (1001 Main Street Floor 2). More information may be found at bailzjustbeing.com

03/17/25 @ 10:00am - 03/17/25 @ 12:00pm DIY Lab Formats our lab supports: photographs, documents up to 8.5″ x 11″, negatives/Film ( 35mm, 4” x 5”, medium and 8” x 10”), 35mm slides, audio cassette tapes, VHS cassette tapes, Hi8, 8, and Digital8 video cassette tapes.The DIY Lab does not support: betamax, reel to reel audio, 8mm and 16mm film, and slides in any format other than 35mm. Adults 18+ only please. Registration is required. Registration starts: 11/25/2024 @ 10:24am Registration end: 03/18/2025 @ 10:00am This event is for a 1-on-1 Digitize It Yourself (D.I.Y.) Lab appointment. During the appointment, you can transfer and store your analog memorabilia, such as photos, slides, audio and video cassettes, into a digital format for safekeeping.Before making your appointment, please review our late/cancelation/no-show policy.Our volunteers donate their personal time to this work, thereforeyou are expected to arrive for your lab appointment at the appointment time or to notify the library at least 24 hours in advance of your appointment if you cannot keep it.if you arrive 20 minutes or more after your scheduled time, your appointment will be canceled. Please call the library if you are running late or need to cancel your appointment. if you fail to show up twice, within 12 months, you will be dismissed from the opportunity to use our DIY Lab.Click here for information on formats and equipment.