Events

PreK Story Hour Aug 2024

Pre-K Story Hour

Please bring your little ones and enjoy our theme of ADVENTURE! We will welcome Placitas mom, Amanda Longley, who wrote Remi’s Adventure. Remi will also be here! We will also read another adventure book, Roll, Roll Little Pea by Cécile Bergame and Magali Attiogbé. There will be songs and a coloring activity. Did we mention […]

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Hampton Sides Author Reading: The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides will share his new work, The Wide Wide Sea. This work of narrative non-fiction is at once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration. Read More About This Event >>   

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PLACITAS COMMUNITY LIBRARY BENEFIT CONCERT

A concert in support of Placitas Community Library.  Listen to three Placitas singer-songwriters as they perform original compositions, each in their unique style.

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August Reception: “Sacred Spaces: Honoring Chacoan Culture”

Photography by David Haigh

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Children’s Summer Reading Program: iExplora Science for the Whole Family

An iexplora! Family Science Event! Reading prizes and gift bags will be given out. And cake!

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Children’s Summer Reading Program: Class With Glass

Glass art with Karen Shatar. Kids will paint a design of their own choosing on glass.

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July Art Exhibit: “Sacred Places: Honoring Chacoan Culture”

Artist Reception: August 2, 5:00 -6:30 pm Chaco Culture National Historical Park is considered to be the sacred ancestral homelands of the Hopi and Pueblo people. Las Placitas Association sponsored an artists’ adventure in Chaco Canyon in late 2023.  Sacred Places will feature works inspired by that trip, and is open to any artists similarly […]

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Children’s Summer Reading Program: Beads!

A beading party where kids will make several friendship bracelets with the help of the library beading group.

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Summer Reading Program STEM goes to the Olympics

Explore the relationship between science and sports with Stephanie and Walt Witkowski.

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Lost Birds Flyer Pdf

Anne Hillerman in Conversation with Ron Franscell

Placitas Community Library is delighted to host a conversation between two of our favorite authors, Anne Hillerman and our own Ron Franscell, on Sunday, June 23 at 2pm.  Over the last 14 years Anne has become a dear friend of this Library and she honors us with a visit with each new book. Lost Birds […]

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