Dance Out! First Friday drop-in!

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

All are welcome! Just come and move to the music!

Create to the Music Program

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

The sessions will be led by Pam and Peter Colton, percussionists and founders of the Placitas Drumming Group and Shelley Miller, visual artist and teacher. Participants will be exposed to a variety of percussion instruments and will practice rhythms.  During the 2nd session, they will create their own instrument and will participate in their in […]

Pre-K Story Time

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

Join us for Stories the Wind Tells Us for ages infant - 5:  I Face the Wind, Like a Windy Day, and The Wind Blew. Make your own windsock and have a snack.

Create to the Music Program Part 2

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

The sessions will be led by Pam and Peter Colton, percussionists and founders of the Placitas Drumming Group and Shelley Miller, visual artist and teacher. Participants will be exposed to a variety of percussion instruments and will practice rhythms.  During the 2nd session, they will create their own instrument and will participate in their in […]

Let’s Make Tracks!

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

Let's Make Tracks!  Learn how to identify various wildlife tracks led by Elise Van Arsdale.  Elise will provide several fun and educational activities to help children identify mammal tracks.  The program will include making a t-shirt with wildlife tracks.  All materials will be provided including the t-shirt by Elise and the library, so we need […]

Geography: More than Meets the Eye by Drs. Daniel and Susan Arreola

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

Drs. Daniel and Susan Arreola will be speaking at the Placitas Community Library at 2 p.m. on March 29th about "The Geographer's Eye: Sight and Insight." They will explain, along with audience participation, how geographers view place and landscape. The audience will be asked to share their responses to a slide exercise so that we all learn […]

Dance Out! First Friday drop-in!

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

All are welcome! Just come and move to the music!

Spring Star Party

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

Placitas Community Library’s spring Star Party will be April 5, beginning at 6pm with Solar viewing. At 7pm The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS) own Star Master teach us about the multitude of star which will be in view that night---  First Quarter Moon, the planets Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, bright stars.....Sirius, Procyon, Rigel, Betelgeuse, Regulus, […]

Children’s Book Day

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

We will be celebrating  a special event called Dia.  This is the celebration of Dia de los libros y de los ninos, Children's Book Day.  We will celebrate by reading bilingual board books to your children and by letting them select a new book to take home. This program is for children ages infant - […]

Spring Fling Sale

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

We will have plants, baked goods, jewelry, books, puzzles, DVDs and more for sale!

Adventure of a Lifetime: Biking Across the US

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

In 1997, Dennis Bumgarner and his son, Jon, rode their bicycles 3196 miles over the course of thirty-two days, from the Pacific Ocean at Dillon Beach, California to the Atlantic at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.  Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, across the Great Basin, traversing the Rockies, across the plains and over the Appalachians and on […]

Children’s Earth Day Sun Prints!

Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

This Earth Day program is for children ages, 6-12 accompanied by an adult.  Ginnie Kirsch, artist and PCL patron will teach your children how to make a sun print.  Reservations required. See the post on the children's page for details.