Celebrate Library Giving Day with a story stroll, throughout Downtown Fort Collins. Visit your favorite local businesses and read Nikki Giovanni's "A Library" all to support Poudre Libraries!
We're shining a light on the Month of the Young Child with an interactive coloring banner for the young and the young-at-heart. Add your mark to the community cityscape coloring banner on your next visit to Harmony, and celebrate the kids in our community!
El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. Celebrate children and books with a Story Stroll in the children's area. See the story unfold in front of you as you make your way through the library. This is a fun, interactive, family-friendly activity.
Evie will be in Stove Prairie for all of your book checkout and return needs. We will park at the elementary school, but this visit is open to the whole community.
Outreach Fort Collins hosts office hours where you can drop in for consultation and resources related to housing, food, healthcare, and other critical issues.
Outreach Fort Collins is a street-based outreach program to maintain our downtown as a safe and welcoming place while connecting our community’s most vulnerable to the services and supportive networks they need. It is a professionally staffed, on-the-street team who will build relationships with community members, service providers, businesses and city services as a means to address and deescalate disruptive behaviors downtown.
Discuss books with other ESL students twice per month in a supportive learning environment. We'll read a single book over the course of several sessions to provide lots of time to read the book.
Meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
Our April/May book is "Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordninary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt" by David McCullough. Next books will be "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande, and "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos" by Dominic Smith. Join us for any meeting - we'll help you catch up if needed!
For intermediate to advanced English speakers. Limited copies of the book are available upon request. Check your email after registering to learn how to request a copy.
Explore stories through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing! Storytime supports reading readiness while celebrating all people.
This storytime is for children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.
¡Explora historias a través de la conversación, el canto, la lectura, la escritura y el juego! La hora del cuento favorece el aprendizaje de la lectura mientras celebra a todas las personas.
Esta hora del cuento es para niños desde recién nacidos hasta los 5 años y sus cuidadores.
A STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, Math) program for you and your little ones ages 3-6! Program may include cool step-by-step science projects, color theory, experiments, crafts, and more. Wear clothes that can get messy. Registration required.
Explore stories through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing! Storytime supports reading readiness while celebrating all people.
This storytime is for children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers.
¡Explora historias a través de la conversación, el canto, la lectura, la escritura y el juego! La hora del cuento favorece el aprendizaje de la lectura mientras celebra a todas las personas.
Esta hora del cuento es para niños desde recién nacidos hasta los 5 años y sus cuidadores.
Do you want to move Fort Collins and northern Colorado forward? Join a movement for civic unity, community strength, and hope. Help build a stronger Fort Collins together. Registration required.
Join renowned community engagement speaker Rich Harwood, founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. This event aims to engage active citizens and community leaders to move past division and catalyze community action.
Drop in to receive one-on-one family history research and genealogy assistance from Larimer County Genealogical Society volunteers. No registration required.
Exercise your freedom to read and pick up a free book by joining our book club featuring banned and challenged books.
This month we will be reading Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. This bestselling memoir in verse is a companion to Speak, Anderson's award winning novel about a teenager who struggles to find her voice after being sexually assaulted. Shout has received both multiple starred reviews and multiple challenges since it's publication in 2019.
Registration required. For high school students and adults.
Speak, listen, connect, and learn. Conversations build community at Old Town Library. “Conversations in English” offers a friendly, informal setting for English language learners to practice their English and connect with others. A volunteer facilitator, who is a native-English speaker, guides conversations on relevant, every day topics like family, work, school, sports, and daily life. Participants can also suggest topics to discuss. For adults. All levels of experience and ability are welcome. Registered participants will receive a link to the Zoom meeting by email.
Connect with stories, music and movement in ways that help lower stress, release energy, promote well-being and strengthen mind and body.Designed for kids and their caregivers to enjoy together. All ages welcome!
Connect with stories, music and movement in ways that help lower stress, release energy, promote well-being and strengthen mind and body.Designed for kids and their caregivers to enjoy together. All ages welcome!
Outreach Fort Collins hosts office hours where you can drop in for consultation and resources related to housing, food, healthcare, and other critical issues.
Outreach Fort Collins is a street-based outreach program to maintain our downtown as a safe and welcoming place while connecting our community’s most vulnerable to the services and supportive networks they need. It is a professionally staffed, on-the-street team who will build relationships with community members, service providers, businesses and city services as a means to address and deescalate disruptive behaviors downtown.
A resource navigator from the Murphy Center can help people experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness to:
Complete a Murphy Center intake.
Prepare for employment, including resume building, interview preparation, job search, and acquiring necessary work clothes and equipment.
Order a new or replacement in-state of out-of-state identification.
Apply for Medicaid, SNAP (also known as food stamps), AND (Aid to Needy Disabled), OAP (Old Age Pension), or TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Connect you to local resources for case management, employment services, housing navigation, medical referrals, and other needs.
