Week Calendar

Want to learn more about Florida-Friendly gardens, composting, or citrus trees? Need a plant or insect identified? On the first and third Monday mornings of every month, from 10:00 a.m.

Join other tweens this summer for Xbox and WiiU gaming. Play starts at 10 a.m. and runs until 1 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the program is restricted to youth ages 9-12 years old.

Free service to apply to the Affordable Care Act.  Application takes between one and one-half hour.  Only one person can be seen at a time.

This program will be held at the Venice Community Center located at 326 Nokomis Ave S, Venice, FL 34285.

Join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play. designed specifically for children up to age 5 and their parent/caregiver, this class is a chance to be a partner in your child's play.

For ages 0-5 with caregiver. Join us for a
fun interactive program of stories, songs, movement and
crafts.

Master Gardener Fred Thibault will offer gardening instruction.

Focus  will be on vegetable gardening skills.

YouTube videos will be used to illustrate examples and techniques.

Drop in to get assistance with and ask questions about downloading library books to your computer and other devices, such as the Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPod, iPhone and Android phones and tablets.

Want to learn more about Florida-Friendly gardens, composting, or citrus trees? Need a plant or insect identified? Homeowners can receive research-based lawn, landscape and pest management help from the University of Florida.

Join other tweens this summer for Xbox and WiiU gaming. Play starts at 10 a.m. and runs until 1 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the program is restricted to youth ages 9-12 years old.

Sign Language program for children 0 - 2 1/2 years old. Learn with Beebo the Signing Bear using songs, books, and toys. Older siblings welcome.

This program is geared toward babies from newborn to age 2 ½ years. The 45 minute program includes songs, baby sign language, a book and playtime. Older siblings are welcome.

join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play.

For mobile babies to 5 years old.

Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators.

Books, puppets, songs, dance, yoga, and more surprises for families with children ages birth-5.

Special guests include:

Adrianne Pezzella for Fun to Be Fit on June 5 and July 10,

Did you just finish a rockin' book? We want to hear about it!

Share what you have just read. Find some recommendations. Be on your way to your next great read!

Stay for 5 minutes, stay for an hour, it's up to you. 

Practice reading with a buddy or have someone read a book to you. Have fun while becoming a better reader. The volunteers are not trained experts, but someone to listen and help when needed.

Design and create an original necklace using exciting beads. The principles of design such as symmetry, patterns, focal point and color balance will be taught. Leave class wearing your own special creation!

For people who want to improve their French speaking skills and enjoy reading French-language articles and discussing them. Come practice speaking the romantic language of French.

Join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play. Your child can practice social and motor skills while you chat with trained parenting educators.

Learn to knit or crochet! All ages and skill levels welcome! It is recommended to bring your own yarn and needles. Instructor-supplied yarns remain with the instructor weekly until piece is completed.

Get into the adult coloring craze ! Join us for a fun and unique way to unwind, reduce stress, and express your creativity at the Shannon Staub Library. All supplies will be provided. Artistic talent is not required. Refreshments are included.

After completing Computer Basics, Parts 1 and 2, the student is ready to learn File Management. The basics of file creating and organizing will be demonstrated.

Socrates Café are gatherings around the world where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences while embracing the central theme of the Socratic method: that we learn more when we respectfully list

Come use our Adobe/ Mac software and sewing machines on your own personal projects. Time slots are filled on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Early literacy begins at birth. Bond with your baby through stories, songs, parachute time and peek-a-boo scarf songs. For ages 0-2 years old.

This program will be held at the Venice Community Center located at 326 Nokomis Ave S, Venice, FL 34285.

 Ask Bob, our local Windows expert, any questions about your PC or Laptop.

Join other tweens this summer for Xbox and WiiU gaming. Play starts at 10 a.m. and runs until 1 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the program is restricted to youth ages 9-12 years old.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

For mobile babies to 5 years old.

Recommended for up to 5 years with parent or caregiver.

 Featuring great stories, singing, dancing, and movement activities young children learn valuable skills and enjoy being with other children. For ages 2-3.

Interact and participate with your child in a variety of early literacy activities that include music, movement, crafts and school readiness activities.

ESOL Conversation Group for intermediate to higher level ESL learners.

Students MUST first be registered with the Literacy Council

Contact:  Sue Bergstrom 941-955-0421

Join Alyssa Lopez as she leads the discussion of the book "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y.K. Lee.

Continue your summer learning through ABCmouse, iReady, or other educational websites! Bring your account login information, if needed.

Prescription Medication & Health Care Assistance for those that are uninsured and qualify financially.

Join other tweens during the summer for Friday Tween Movie Days. Movie titles are listed on the monthly tween flyer available at the library. This event is for ages 9-12 years old and refreshments will be provided. 

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Preschoolers, ages 2 ½ - 5 and their parent, guardian or caregiver are invited to join us for a variety of activities throughout the summer. Drop by the youth department to get a detailed list of activities that will be offered.

Learn about genealogy research through Ancestry, Heritage Quest, and other databases. Students need names, dates, and locations of people to be researched on the databases. Bring your own thumb drive for articles to be printed.

Come use our Adobe/ Mac software and sewing machines on your own personal projects. Time slots are filled on a first-come-first-serve basis.

The Plant Clinic meets in the library lobby.

Practice speaking English in a group setting. Sponsored by the Literacy Council of Sarasota. Please call 941-955-0421 to register as an ESOL learner with the Literacy Council of Sarasota.

This program is for children entering kindergarten in the fall. Join us for a morning of games, activities, stories, and learning designed to build skills to help children succeed in school.

Join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play. designed specifically for children up to age 5 and their parent/caregiver, this class is a chance to be a partner in your child's play.

Join us for our summer tradition with Giving Tree Music. Families of all ages are invited to create music and memories with our special drum circle event.

Drop in for assistance using library technology including e-Books and audiobooks from Overdrive and the Cloud Library.

Infant Feeding Support Group Community group open to WIC moms and the public to receive support and information about infant feeding including breast feeding. No registration required.

Join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play.

Come explore music with local business, Troll Music! They will be bringing a wide variety of instruments to explore with kids and tweens. Recommended for kids ages 5-12, but families of all ages are welcome.

A six-part class to help children stay more focused and to concentrate better, important skills that can lead to enhanced student performance.

 Learn the basics of using your iPad and iPhone. Class will cover the buttons, navigating and understanding the settings menus/options, connecting to the internet, navigating internet menus (Safari), and basic sharing features.

Join Forty Carrots for a time of sharing and meaningful play. Your child can practice social and motor skills while you chat with trained parenting educators.

 Join us for a fun-filled morning of reading, songs, dancing, learning Kindergarten readiness skills and craft activities. For ages 3-6.

Join our resident technology expert to learn digital art, coding, and web design.  Be sure to sign up for the series as these programs build on one another.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

For mobile babies to 5 years old.

Participate with your child in singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening and playing simple instruments while developing a strong musical bond with your child.

Get ready to move this summer with an official instructor from Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company. In this free workshop, children will learn how to dance contemporary style! For children ages 5-12.

A six-part class to help children stay more focused and to concentrate better, important skills that can lead to enhanced student performance.

For mobile babies to 5 years old. Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Kids and Teens ages 6 and up. Combine Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, and Math to create your own ex-STREAM bookmarks! Projects include light-up LED bookmarks, heat-laminated bookmarks, and magnetic bookmarks.

For mobile babies to 5 years old.

Drop in to enjoy special play time with your child, meet our friendly Parenting Educators and discover how Forty Carrots Family Center can help you enjoy parenting even more.

Free lunches for anyone up to age 18 will be served in the youth program room June 4-Aug. 3 excluding July 4.

The Chess Club meets every Tuesday from 12-4 in the computer lab. No registration required. 

Free lunches for anyone up to age 18 will be served in the youth program room June 4-Aug. 3 excluding July 4.

Free lunches for anyone up to age 18 will be served in the youth program room June 4-Aug. 3 excluding July 4.

Free lunches for anyone up to age 18 will be served in the youth program room June 4-Aug. 3 excluding July 4.

Free lunches for anyone up to age 18 will be served in the youth program room June 4-Aug. 3 excluding July 4.

Join us every Monday through the summer for family movies and refreshments! Stop by the youth department for a full list of movie titles.

Ask an E-Help volunteer for all your technology-related questions and predicaments. Held every Tuesday in the public meeting area.

Enjoy a leisurely lunch on the library and at 2 p.m. Professor Peter Carney from State College of Florida will tell us How Soul Music became Motown. 

Use your imagination and creative abilities to make things. Each session will be a different do-it-yourself activity.

Socrates Café is a gathering where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences while embracing the central theme of Socratic method: we learn more when we respectfully listen to and debate ideas wit

Want to learn more about Florida-Friendly gardens, composting, or citrus trees? Need a plant or insect identified?

Audience members will learn that exercise is not only important for our bodies, but for our minds as well.  Living an active lifestyle can and should be fun.   This class will show how it is "Fun To Be Fit" for ages 5 - 10.

Want to learn more about using a computer or your device?

Sign up for your 30 minute session with one of our librarians.

Sessions are set up for Wednesdays starting at 1:00 pm.

Call 941-861-1360 to sign up.

Loss of friends and family, work, physical ability or a sense of identity ... these realities signal critical life changes, but can also be catalysts for personal growth.

Come to our Rockin' Luau and enjoy lots of fun activities! Make your own lei! Learn the hula! Visit the Hawaiian Islands without leaving the library!

A Sarasota Chiropractor teaches ways to restore movement to the skeletal system that you can perform on yourself.

This event occurs only on April 19, May 17, and June 21 at 1 p.m. for one hour.

Kids ages 6-12. Each week we'll explore different musical forms via special performances, instrument show-and-tell, and creating musical instruments with everyday materials. Check with the library to learn more about each week's activities.

Sarasota County Extension Services Master Gardeners are here to help folks identify plants, flowers, etc. as well as care for them.  Get expert advice on your landscaping needs.

Teens are invited to come out and learn Hip Hop and Break Dancing with the experts from Sarasota Contemporary Dance.  Be prepared to dance!

From the first medieval pigs abandoned in Florida in 1521 through the invasion of lionfish, this presentation looks at how these escaped or introduced species have impacted the indigenous flora, fauna and sealife of

Learn about genealogy research through Ancestry, Heritage Quest, and other databases. Students need names, dates, and locations of people to be researched on the databases. Bring your own thumb drive for articles to be printed.

Jack, The Computer Guy, will explain how your computer works and why it doesn't.

Come in and craft using washi and duct tapes.  Make your own creations such as: flowers, wallets, or folders. Personalize items you bring with you, for example journals or earbuds.  The possibilities are endless!

Drop in to play and create with different materials each week.
June 11: Brain Flakes
June 18: Gears! Gears! Gears!
June 25: Pipe Cleaner Creatures
July 9: Tissue Box Guitars
July 16: Crafty Percussion Instruments

Do you carry a song in your heart and a tap in your toes? Then join us on Monday afternoons all summer long for Musical Monday Matinée! Each Monday we'll be screening a different musical in our Juliano Room at 2:30 p.m.

Every week, we will focus on a form of tech, such as Coding Games, Let's MakeyMakey music games, and Introduction to 3D Design! Ages 11-18. Click the titles below to go to register for the specific event.

New movies every Tuesday in the meeting room. Movie schedules are published bimonthly and available at the front circulation desk. 

Recommended for children and teens. Join the circle and learn how to play traditional drum music with Steve Turner. Drums provided.

Learn to cook simple, healthy and delicious meals with a professional chef. Space is available on a first come, first served basis. Pick up a ticket at the youth desk starting 30 minutes before the program.

Learn all about the traits and behaviors of reptiles in this fun, engaging presentation by John Storms and his live reptilian assistants. Children and families of all ages welcome!

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Ages 5-12. Please pick up free ticket at the youth desk half hour before the program. 

In this three-week class, you will create your own tote bag from scratch! Ages 12 and up, participants must attend each session. Registration is required, limit six participants. 

Drop in to get assistance with and ask questions about downloading library books to your computer and other devices, such as the Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPod, iPhone and Android phones and tablets.

Come see the movie where a hero played by Kevin Bacon shakes up a small town, and teaches everyone that dancing is the greatest thing on Earth!

Train to be a teen volunteer at Selby Public Library to get hours for school and scholarships. Please fill out the online application and select "LSEL-Teen Team Volunteer" as your opportunity preference.

Loose lecture-oriented discussion group for people who are relatively familiar with their Apple devices. Make the most out of your iPhones and iPads!

For people who want to improve their Spanish speaking skills. Come practice your pronunciation and oral understanding through conversation and instruction of this romantic language. Everyone is welcome.

Have you ever wanted to make your own custom jewelry? Come to our workshop taught by Judy Levine to learn how!

Celebrate the new “Jurassic World” movie with your family and friends by watching the Blu

Have you seen any colorful rocks hidden throughout Sarasota? Explore the latest trend of painting and hiding small rocks as a way to brighten the day of a stranger. Join us at the library to make some rock creations of your own.

Are you a movie buff? Interested in watching critically acclaimed films and learning a little bit about the movie industry as well?

Experience interactive experiments, puppetry and comedy about the science of sound. Recommended for elementary-aged children. Space is available on a first come, first served basis.

Want to know how to get 5 free music downloads per week? Come to this How-To session to learn how to download music to your device with the database Freegal! 

Isha Yoga and Meditation for Beginners

Come join us for an exploration of mindfulness and find your inner peace.

Learn the basics of using a sewing machine. Presented by Jill Pannill. Registration required and limited to 8 participants.

The Power of Improvisational Drama-Bringing Out the Creative You as an Adult! 

Coloring pages, markers, color pencils, and crayons will be provided.

Drop in to play board games with your friends and other people in the library, and have the chance to win prizes. Friday, July 13 will feature "Dead of Winter!"

Drop in and make anything out of pipe cleaners, beads, buttons and more! Recommended for ages 5 and up.

All skill levels welcome at this friendly, drop in chess club.

Children will get the opportunity to use a 3d Doodler pen and bring their drawing to life! Templates will be provided.

*Registration required*

Children are invited to read with certified pet therapy dogs.

This program encourages conversation and develops reading and communication skills.

The dogs love the attention and the kids love the interaction.

Looking for something a little more advanced than basic Spanish lessons? Every Monday from 3-5:00 join an open group of intermediate Spanish speakers for a small discussion-oriented lecture.

Children are invited to read to Suncoast Humane Society pet therapy dogs who are patient and understanding listeners. Register at the youth desk upon arrival.

Teens and tweens will get to use a 3d Doodler pen to bring their creativity to life. They can choose from templates or create something of their very own.

*Registration required*

Come make beautiful beaded jewelry with artist Judy Levine as part of our Artists in the Library summer program. Seating is limited. Registration is required.

Children, tweens, and teens can drop in and learn how to play chess!

Drop in to get assistance with and ask questions about downloading library books to your computer and other devices, such as the Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPod, iPhone and Android phones and tablets.

Come ready for fun!  We have games galore for your family to enjoy!  Check in at the Youth desk for a fun game to play with your family in the Storytime Room.  Space is limited, so come early!

Learn to knit or crochet! All ages and skill levels welcome! It is recommended to bring your own yarn and needles. Instructor-supplied yarns remain with the instructor weekly until piece is completed.