Join us every Tuesday evening for open chess play in the Bellevue Teen Room.
Players of any skill level are invited to hone their skills or learn to play in an informal and welcoming environment. Learn the fundamentals or practice for the next tournament with other teenage king slayers!
Best-selling author Sarah Dessen will speak about her new book The Moon and More. In her 11th novel, Dessen returns to Colby, the beach town that is the setting for some of her best-loved books, in a story of summer love, self-discovery, striking out to new horizons and saying goodbye.
The event is held in partnership with Politics & Prose Book Store. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Come join us for some food, fun and music as we kick off Books & Bites -- a limited engagement with some of D.C.'s tastiest food trucks in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
And if you can't make it out on Wednesday, the trucks will be back next week. But this food truck special is only for a limited time, so don't dally.
Do you have mad videogame skillz? Come test them out during our Wii Wednesday program, running twice monthly in the MLK Teen Space.
Show your platforming prowess in a Mario game, bust a move in Just Dance 3, or have some fun fencing in Wii Sports Resort.
The possibilities are endless...
Dominique Parris of SMYAL presents a peer led workshop about boys, girls, birds, bees, and relationships. Have questions about sex? Get them answered by other teens who have been trained to give you real advice. For ages 12-18.
Learn more about SMYAL here: http://www.smyal.org/
The Francis A. Gregory Library Chess Club meets weekly on Wednesday nights from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We welcome players of all ages and abilities.
Head to the Teen Space for board games and Wii games.
Ages 12 - 19.
Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!
Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.
Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.
Need a place to sit and chat with friends, play games, or just chill?
Come to the teen café at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library.
Meet-up with books that go Beneath the Surface and discuss your favorites with fellow teens.
Join us at Northwest One for Wii game night.
We provide the Wii, Games and controllers, all you need to do is show up! Game nights are for an hour on Thursdays.
Brood 2 of the 17 year cicadas are coming to the East Coast.... soon and very soon. These flying, red-eyed creatures will quickly be upon us, and the creative minds at WNYC's Radiolab have made a cicada tracker to follow the emergence of the brood.
Join other Capitol Hill residents in contributing to this crowdsourced information about the cicadas in D.C.
Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 p.m., a Southeast Branch staff member will be available to help you submit your cicada sighting to the tracker.
By mid-June, you may have to wade through the cicada shells to get up to the library, but it will be worth it.
Join us at the MLK Teen Space for a great movie in our Teen Lounge every Friday afternoon.
We show many popular movies as soon as they are released on DVD and in the library collection, and the fourth Friday of every month we show an anime show or movie to tie into the Manga Club program at Teen Space.
Teen Game Night is every Friday until 4:30 p.m. in the Teen Space.
Teens can participate by playing video games, board games and trading card games.
Games played during Teen Game Night are appropriate for teens ages 12-19.
Play a variety of Wii games in the teen room and enjoy books and snacks.
June is Pride Month and we will celebrate by screening the funny teen movie Saved (PG-13).
Join us for the 2013 Summer Reading Kick-Off until 3 p.m.!
This is a family program with activities, including crafts, snacks and stories. We also have a special guest gardener from the Takoma Horticultural Club who will talk to kids about gardening.
Come register to participate in Summer Reading for children, teens or adults and learn about the great programs ahead!
Do you have the skills with a Wii or Xbox controller?
Come every Monday until 6 p.m., starting April 1, in the large meeting room on the first floor.
Wii and Xbox games will be played, so come with friends ages 12-19 years old.
Beginning Monday, April 2, 2013, Chess Instruction for children and teens will be held on Mondays at 5:30 p.m.
There is no change for chess instruction for younger children ages 2- 6 on Thursdays.
Best for ages 7-16.
Beat Club is a digital music workshop that gives participants the opportunity to create music together in a welcoming environment.
No previous musical experience is necessary. Using touch-screen digital synthesizers, they play different instruments to create and record songs on the-fly. Recordings are made available afterwards for free from dcbeatclub.com.
For ages 13-19.
Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!
Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.
Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.
Need a quiet place to study and do homework?
Join us every Tuesday until 5 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library for a Homework Café for middle schoolers and teens. Librarians and staff are on hand to help and group projects and study are welcome!
Join us at Shepherd Park Library as we use comic book images to make a necklace or keychain.
This workshop addresses the theme “Beneath the Surface.”
Each participant will be asked to reflect on a challenge that he or she has faced, and write an essay about how he or she overcame that obstacle. They will learn how to use their past experiences to continue to persevere and to be resilient.
This writing workshop is designed to reflect the process of writing an essay for a college application.
For ages 13-19.
Brood 2 of the 17 year cicadas are coming to the East Coast.... soon and very soon. These flying, red-eyed creatures will quickly be upon us, and the creative minds at WNYC's Radiolab have made a cicada tracker to follow the emergence of the brood.
Join other Capitol Hill residents in contributing to this crowdsourced information about the cicadas in D.C.
Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 p.m., a Southeast Branch staff member will be available to help you submit your cicada sighting to the tracker.
By mid-June, you may have to wade through the cicada shells to get up to the library, but it will be worth it.
Beat Club is a digital music workshop that gives participants the opportunity to create music together in a welcoming environment.
No previous musical experience is necessary. Using touch-screen digital synthesizers, they play different instruments to create and record songs on the-fly. Recordings are made available afterwards for free from dcbeatclub.com.
For ages 13-19.
Join us every Tuesday evening for open chess play in the Bellevue Teen Room.
Players of any skill level are invited to hone their skills or learn to play in an informal and welcoming environment. Learn the fundamentals or practice for the next tournament with other teenage king slayers!
Come join us for some food, fun and music as we kick off Books & Bites -- a limited engagement with some of D.C.'s tastiest food trucks in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
And if you can't make it out on Wednesday, the trucks will be back next week. But this food truck special is only for a limited time, so don't dally.
The Francis A. Gregory Library Chess Club meets weekly on Wednesday nights from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We welcome players of all ages and abilities.