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Clubhouse at East Bay

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 11:00am - 1:00pm
East Bay Branch Library
Program Type:
Crafts/Games/Hobbies, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, All Ages, Families
Event Details:

Drop in to the Summer Reading Clubhouse in the yard at the East Bay Branch Library for games, snacks, prizes, free books and more!

Library Branch: East Bay Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, All Ages, Families
Program Type: Crafts/Games/Hobbies, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Drop in to the Summer Reading Clubhouse in the yard at the East Bay Branch Library for games, snacks, prizes, free books and more!

Image of the Gather 2 Grow icon, which is an open book, a brown sack bag, an apple, and a juice box with a straw, outlined in the color orange. Text reads "free bagged lunches" from Feeding America, June 4 to August 9.

Free Community Lunches

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:00pm
East Bay Branch Library
Program Type:
Cooking & Food, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Families
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond! At East Bay Branch Library, start...

Library Branch: East Bay Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, Families
Program Type: Cooking & Food, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond!

Image of the Gather 2 Grow logo, which includes an open book, a brown lunch sack, an apple and a juice box, all outlined in orange. Text reads "free bagged lunches June 3rd through August 9th."

Free Community Lunches

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Kingsley Branch Library
Program Type:
Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Teen, Families
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond! At Kingsley Branch Library, start...

Library Branch: Kingsley Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, Teen, Families
Program Type: Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond!

Sponge splash ball

Teen Sustainable Water Fight

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Front Lawn @ TADL Main Library at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Crafts/Games/Hobbies, Make, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
Teen
Event Details:

Learn to make reusable, sustainable, splash balls! After we make them, we will use them to cool off and have a water fight. Registration is required as supplies are limited.

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Front Lawn @ TADL Main Library
Age Group: Teen
Program Type: Crafts/Games/Hobbies, Make, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Learn to make reusable, sustainable, splash balls! After we make them, we will use them to cool off and have a water fight. Registration is required as supplies are limited.

plants growing out of a book with fresh vegatables as the background

East Bay Branch Library @ East Bay Corners Farm Market

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 3:00pm - 7:00pm
East Bay Branch Library
Program Type:
Bookmobile / Bookbike, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
All Ages
Event Details:

Visit the East Bay Branch Library while you're at the East Bay Corners Farmers Market! Library staff will be available with a selection of books, and various other offerings t...

Library Branch: East Bay Branch Library
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Bookmobile / Bookbike, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Visit the East Bay Branch Library while you're at the East Bay Corners Farmers Market! Library staff will be available with a selection of books, and various other offerings throughout the season including things like a seed library, free pla

A book sprouting flowers over a closeup picture of farm market vegetables

EBB @ East Bay Corners Farmers Market

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Offsite
Program Type:
Bookmobile / Bookbike
Age Group:
All Ages
Event Details:

Visit the East Bay Branch Library while you're at the East Bay Corners Farmers Market! Library staff will be available with a selection of books, a seed library, and various other ...

Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Bookmobile / Bookbike
Event Details:

Visit the East Bay Branch Library while you're at the East Bay Corners Farmers Market! Library staff will be available with a selection of books, a seed library, and various other offerings!

Let's Hunt! with flashlight

Tween Scavenger Hunt

Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Story Room - Youth Services at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Explore, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Tweens
Event Details:

Calling all Tweens! If you are 9-12 years old, stop by the Story Room to pick up a library scavenger hunt. To help learn more about the library outside of the youth department, you...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Story Room - Youth Services
Age Group: Youth, Tweens
Program Type: Explore, Summer
Event Details:

Calling all Tweens! If you are 9-12 years old, stop by the Story Room to pick up a library scavenger hunt. To help learn more about the library outside of the youth department, you will go on a search of specific areas.

lady doing yoga

Video Led Yoga

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Fife Lake Public Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Adult/Senior Video Led Yoga Every Friday from 9-10 a.m. This is beginner-friendly low-impact yoga. Yoga mats are available to borrow on-site.

Library Branch: Fife Lake Public Library
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Adult/Senior Video Led Yoga

Every Friday from 9-10 a.m.

This is beginner-friendly low-impact yoga. Yoga mats are available to borrow on-site.

Drawing of children dancing together underneath the text Sing & Stomp

Sing & Stomp

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
East Bay Branch Library
Program Type:
Play/Just for Fun, Storytime
Age Group:
Babies, Preschool, Families
Event Details:

Experience stories through music, movement and books with Mr. Matt, on the lawn outside the library. (If it's raining, we will be in the North Conference Room of the Township of...

Library Branch: East Bay Branch Library
Age Group: Babies, Preschool, Families
Program Type: Play/Just for Fun, Storytime
Event Details:

Experience stories through music, movement and books with Mr. Matt, on the lawn outside the library.

(If it's raining, we will be in the North Conference Room of the Township offices, across the parking lot.)

 

Librarian reading to children outside

Adventure Stories on the Front Lawn

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 11:00am - 11:45am
Front Lawn @ TADL Main Library at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Storytime, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Babies, Preschool, Elementary
Event Details:

Join Miss Michele on the front lawn for Adventure Stories storytime. This is a family storytime (up to age 6). Feel free to bring a blanket to get comfy.

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Front Lawn @ TADL Main Library
Age Group: Youth, Babies, Preschool, Elementary
Program Type: Storytime, Summer
Event Details:

Join Miss Michele on the front lawn for Adventure Stories storytime. This is a family storytime (up to age 6). Feel free to bring a blanket to get comfy.

Health & Wellness

Chair Yoga

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
McGuire Community Room at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Join us and Janet Weaver from Traverse Bay Yoga Therapy for chair yoga.  Chair yoga is a practice that is beneficial for everyone.  It is especially suited for those w...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: McGuire Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Join us and Janet Weaver from Traverse Bay Yoga Therapy for chair yoga. 

Civics & Community

Free Feeding America Sack Lunches - Kids & Teens

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:30pm
Lobby @ TADL Main Library at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Tweens, Teen
Event Details:

Our friends at Feeding America West Michigan are providing free sack lunches for any child or teen in need this summer - starting with Summer Reading Club! We will be handing out l...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Lobby @ TADL Main Library
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teen
Program Type: Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Event Details:

Our friends at Feeding America West Michigan are providing free sack lunches for any child or teen in need this summer - starting with Summer Reading Club! We will be handing out lunches in the lobby each weekday from 11 am to 12:30 pm.

Image of the Gather 2 Grow icon, which is an open book, a brown sack bag, an apple, and a juice box with a straw, outlined in the color orange. Text reads "free bagged lunches" from Feeding America, June 4 to August 9.

Free Community Lunches

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 11:30am - 1:00pm
East Bay Branch Library
Program Type:
Cooking & Food, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Families
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond! At East Bay Branch Library, start...

Library Branch: East Bay Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, Families
Program Type: Cooking & Food, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond!

Health & Wellness

Tai Chi

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
McGuire Community Room at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Join us for an introduction to Tai Chi. During the winter months, we'll meet in the McGuire Community Room and when the weather gets nicer, we'll move out to the Library's Front La...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: McGuire Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Join us for an introduction to Tai Chi. During the winter months, we'll meet in the McGuire Community Room and when the weather gets nicer, we'll move out to the Library's Front Lawn.

Image of the Gather 2 Grow logo, which includes an open book, a brown lunch sack, an apple and a juice box, all outlined in orange. Text reads "free bagged lunches June 3rd through August 9th."

Free Community Lunches

Friday, July 19, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Kingsley Branch Library
Program Type:
Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Teen, Families
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond! At Kingsley Branch Library, start...

Library Branch: Kingsley Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, Teen, Families
Program Type: Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond!

Summer

Teen Lock-In! (FLPL)

07/19/2024 @ 7:00pm to 07/20/2024 @ 8:00am
Fife Lake Public Library
Program Type:
Summer
Age Group:
Teen
Library Branch: Fife Lake Public Library
Age Group: Teen
Program Type: Summer
Story Walk 2024 - family walking

Storywalk @ TADL Main - We're Goin' on a Bear Hunt

07/20/2024 @ 9:00am to 07/26/2024 @ 6:00pm
Southwest Garden @ TADL Main Library at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Summer
Age Group:
Youth
Event Details:

Take a walk around the library and read a book with your family. This is a great way to get outside, be active, and get some reading in. We'll post a new children's book each week ...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Southwest Garden @ TADL Main Library
Age Group: Youth
Program Type: Summer
Event Details:

Take a walk around the library and read a book with your family. This is a great way to get outside, be active, and get some reading in.

Hobby Group with the Grand Traverse County Senior Center Network

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Thirlby Room at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Crafts/Games/Hobbies
Age Group:
Seniors
Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Thirlby Room
Age Group: Seniors
Program Type: Crafts/Games/Hobbies
Miriam Pico, singer-songwriter

Finale Party - Pre-Readers - Summer Reading Club

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Offsite
Program Type:
Celebrate, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Babies, Preschool, Families
Event Details:

Families of Pre-Readers (ages 0 - 5) enrolled in our Summer Reading Club are invited to join us for a Finale Party! There will be games, activities, crafts and books- as well as en...

Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Youth, Babies, Preschool, Families
Program Type: Celebrate, Play/Just for Fun, Summer
Event Details:

Families of Pre-Readers (ages 0 - 5) enrolled in our Summer Reading Club are invited to join us for a Finale Party!

Civics & Community

Free Feeding America Sack Lunches - Kids & Teens

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:30pm
Lobby @ TADL Main Library at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Tweens, Teen
Event Details:

Our friends at Feeding America West Michigan are providing free sack lunches for any child or teen in need this summer - starting with Summer Reading Club! We will be handing out l...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: Lobby @ TADL Main Library
Age Group: Youth, Tweens, Teen
Program Type: Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Event Details:

Our friends at Feeding America West Michigan are providing free sack lunches for any child or teen in need this summer - starting with Summer Reading Club! We will be handing out lunches in the lobby each weekday from 11 am to 12:30 pm.

Image of the Gather 2 Grow logo, which includes an open book, a brown lunch sack, an apple and a juice box, all outlined in orange. Text reads "free bagged lunches June 3rd through August 9th."

Free Community Lunches

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Kingsley Branch Library
Program Type:
Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Teen, Families
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond! At Kingsley Branch Library, start...

Library Branch: Kingsley Branch Library
Age Group: Youth, Teen, Families
Program Type: Civics & Community, Cooking & Food, Summer
Event Details:

Gather 2 Grow is Feeding America West Michigan’s summer lunch program serving youth at local libraries across Grand Traverse County and beyond!

Summer

Duct Tape Workshop (FLPL)

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Fife Lake Public Library
Program Type:
Make, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, Teen
Library Branch: Fife Lake Public Library
Age Group: Youth, Teen
Program Type: Make, Summer
Adventure Begins at Your Library - Summer Reading Club

Finale Party - All Ages - Summer Reading Club

Monday, July 22, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Offsite
Program Type:
Celebrate, Summer
Age Group:
Youth, All Ages, Families
Event Details:

It's all adventure as we celebrate the end of our Summer Reading Club with an outdoor experience not to be missed! Our friends from East Bay, Kingsley and Fife Lake libraries, TADL...

Offsite Event
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Youth, All Ages, Families
Program Type: Celebrate, Summer
Event Details:

It's all adventure as we celebrate the end of our Summer Reading Club with an outdoor experience not to be missed!

Travel Tuesdays @TADL - Let's Visit Budapest!

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
McGuire Community Room at Main Library - Traverse City
Program Type:
Explore
Age Group:
Adults, Seniors
Event Details:

Adventure Begins at Your Library! In celebration of our Summer Reading program and theme, join us every Tuesday mid-June through the end of July for a live journey through anoth...

Library Branch: Main Library - Traverse City
Room: McGuire Community Room
Age Group: Adults, Seniors
Program Type: Explore
Event Details:

Adventure Begins at Your Library!