Kung Fu Panda 1 + Pizza at Backdoor Theatre

Thursday, June 6, 5-8 pm

$25 per child

Proceeds go toward Nederland-Netherlands Student Exchange

Join us for Summer Arts and Crafts!

Drop by the Library on MONDAYS to try out a new project each week in June. We'll be having fun making travel journals, spiral sun-catchers, stone painting and making dragon eyes! Craft time will happen outside on the deck, weather and supplies permitting.

All ages welcome! Supplies provided! 

Tuesday, June 11, 7 pm

This month we are reading
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

In-Person or Online

Newcomers Welcome • Open to Readers ages 17+

Join this workshop to learn about Design Thinking and how to use it to create wonderful things, like stories. Participants will each need to bring a writing journal and a sense of adventure!  Everyone will leave with the first in-depth brainstorms (and possibly even a draft) of their first story designed for a specific reading audience. 

For ages 9-13 years old. Wednesday, June 26, 4:30-5:30pm

FREE MOVIE!  RAFFLE!

Thursday, June 27, 7 pm  -  Backdoor Theatre

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones star as agents of a secret agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. They must stop a shape-shifting alien from stealing a powerful device in this action-packed and hilarious film based on a comic book.

Through the use of children’s literature, an animal ambassador, hands-on activities, and short presentation-based environmental ed, kids and their parents will learn more about a species native to Nederland, why it’s important to our ecosystem, and how they can adapt positive environmental behaviors to benefit this species. 

Best for ages Pre-K to 3rd grade

Friday, June 28, 4-5 pm. This is going to be fun!

During the month of June
for 2D & 3D art

To be displayed October 2024 to March 2025

Eric Davis is a Meditation Instructor with the Boulder Shambhala Center and has been teaching and hosting a weekly meditation group at the Shambhala center for several years.

Free  –  No Experience Necessary  – 16 and older

Mondays, 5:30-7 pm

It's not too late to join!

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Meet our Sister Library

DUTCH EXCHANGE STUDENTS AND LIBRARIANS

after the 4th of July parade at Chipeta Park

BBQ + old tyme games

There will be sack races, old-fashioned treats, and music!

with Donna Mayo

Join us for an introduction to this ancient Chinese game, followed by time to sign up for hands-on workshops.

See if this game of skill, strategy, luck, and courtesy is the game for you!

Sunday, July 21, 5-7 pm

Just in time for Nederland's 150th celebration! Meet Goldie Griffith Cameron, a cowgirl who worked for Buffalo Bill as one of the country's first professional female athletes and then became a successful business woman in Nederland. She was married at Madison Square Gardens with 8,000 people in attendance, but when she discovered the truth about her no-good husband she got out her show gun, aimed it at him, and pulled the trigger. Meet Goldie in a presentation by Kay Turnbaugh, author of The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls: A True Story.

Thursday, August 1, 7 pm
Nederland Mining Museum

Learn about advancements in current pain neuroscience
and techniques for rewiring the neural pathways
in the brain to deactivate pain.

Presented by Zoe Lewis, LCSW

Registration Required

Sunday, August 11, 4-5:30 pm

Would you be interested in checking out a single-burner induction stovetop kit?  Please take our survey and let us know.

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