Upcoming Events

If you think about it, ghosts make perfect pets. They take up no room, need no food, you don’t have to clean up after them, and they are always around!

If you think about it, ghosts make perfect pets. They take up no room, need no food, you don’t have to clean up after them, and they are always around!

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Create a summer memory and one-of-a-kind work of art using a collection of beach-inspired treasures. Bring your own favorite natural finds to personalize your frame. 

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Learn how to make your own pins! We’ll draw a design on shrink plastic, use heat to shrink it down, then add UV Resin to finish it off.

Do you like to sew? Join people who enjoy quilting and sewing at a casual “drop in” program anytime from 6:00 to 8:30pm in the Collaboratory the first Tuesday evening of each month. Bring your unfinished projects, either hand sewing or machine.

Do you ever get lonely while sitting at your desk? Invite a traveler from a different realm into your home!

Do you ever get lonely while sitting at your desk? Invite a traveler from a different realm into your home!

Join librarian Cindy Haiken on Zoom to watch and discuss a popular TED talk. Once registered, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting via email on the day of the event.

Learn how to needle felt by hand and create a small, decorative Loch Ness Monster. Needle felting uses a barbed needle to mat fibers together, typically in wool.

Learn how to needle felt by hand and create a small, decorative Loch Ness Monster. Needle felting uses a barbed needle to mat fibers together, typically in wool.

Grades 6-12 | Registration required

Learn the fundamentals of this popular, beginner-friendly programming language. This class will cover the syntax and structure of Python and some basic concepts such as variables, data types, and operators. 

Use polymer clay in a teacup to sculpt a Kraken devouring a ship. Unique cups will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own standard size teacup or demitasse cup (although it will no longer be suitable for drinking).  

This program was rescheduled from June 27th.

Bring the horrors of nature inside! We will be making a Scary Terrarium (a TERROR-IUM, if you will) using a glass jar, a soil mix, real live local plants, and fake plastic creepy crawlies.

Bring the horrors of nature inside! We will be making a Scary Terrarium (a TERROR-IUM, if you will) using a glass jar, a soil mix, real live local plants, and fake plastic creepy crawlies.

Do you like to sew? Join people who enjoy quilting and sewing at a casual “drop in” program anytime from 6:00 to 8:30pm in the Collaboratory the first Tuesday evening of each month. Bring your unfinished projects, either hand sewing or machine.

Paint and assemble a UFO suncatcher. You can also cut out an extra silhouette on the laser cutter of whatever you would like being “abducted” into the UFO!

Create a playful upcycled gnome using vintage teacups.

Enter the registration lottery from August 20th-22nd at: https://forms.gle/vbjzv5GxeKiHbPF68.

Paint and assemble a UFO suncatcher. You can also cut out an extra silhouette on the laser cutter of whatever you would like being “abducted” into the UFO!

Create a playful upcycled gnome using vintage teacups.

Make a custom set of dice for Dungeons and Dragons out of resin. The multiversal world of Dungeons and Dragons sparks the imagination like no other game does!