Event List

Join us for Dungeons & Dragons, the world renowned table top role-playing game. Our tables meet weekly for adventure and excitement. Handbooks (2014) and dice are provided.

Join the all-ages meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chess Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm weekly on Wednesdays at the Downtown Library for a relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game.

Children and caregivers are invited to a story time that is designed for attendees with multi-sensory needs, including low lights, reduced sounds, and opportunities for social interaction and play.

Trained, certified therapy dogs provide companionship to emerging readers as they earn a free library book and bookmark. Everyone is welcome to read to the dogs. Stay for a performance at 7 p.m.! 

Enjoy an interactive showing of the spook-tacular family film "Hocus Pocus." Three child-hunting witches from the 17th century are brought back to life in 1990s Salem, Massachusetts and wreak Halloween havoc on the unsuspecting town in their bid t

Join us for Family Art Night this fall! Different art supplies will be provided each program for families to experiment and learn new concepts with.

Join us for Dungeons & Dragons, the world renowned table top role-playing game. Our tables meet weekly for adventure and excitement. Handbooks (2014) and dice are provided.

Join the all-ages meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chess Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm weekly on Wednesdays at the Downtown Library for a relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game.

Children and caregivers are invited to a story time that is designed for attendees with multi-sensory needs, including low lights, reduced sounds, and opportunities for social interaction and play.

Arts, movement, and music for youth and their caregivers. This program is geared to pre-K to second graders. 

Did you know you could walk on a 375-million-year-old ocean floor here in Iowa? The fossils and limestone bedrock of the Devonian Fossil Gorge date back almost 200 million years before the dinosaurs!

Join us for Family Art Night this fall! Different art supplies will be provided each program for families to experiment and learn new concepts with.

Join the all-ages meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chess Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm weekly on Wednesdays at the Downtown Library for a relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game.

Children and caregivers are invited to a story time that is designed for attendees with multi-sensory needs, including low lights, reduced sounds, and opportunities for social interaction and play.

Purchase new and gently used books for all ages and interests from the Friends of the Cedar Rapids Public Library during their big fall book sale.

Arts, movement, and music for youth and their caregivers. This program is geared to pre-K to second graders. 

Purchase new and gently used books for all ages and interests from the Friends of the Cedar Rapids Public Library during their big fall book sale.

Did you know many cultures celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)? For example, in Guatemala people honor their ancestors by flying kites, or barriletes. Learn about multiple traditions surrounding this special day.

Purchase new and gently used books for all ages and interests from the Friends of the Cedar Rapids Public Library during their big fall book sale.

Join us for Dungeons & Dragons, the world renowned table top role-playing game. Our tables meet weekly for adventure and excitement. Handbooks (2014) and dice are provided.

Join the all-ages meeting of the Cedar Rapids Chess Club from 5:30 to 7:30 pm weekly on Wednesdays at the Downtown Library for a relaxed, casual session playing this great universal game.

Children and caregivers are invited to a story time that is designed for attendees with multi-sensory needs, including low lights, reduced sounds, and opportunities for social interaction and play.

Arts, movement, and music for youth and their caregivers. This program is geared to pre-K to second graders. 

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" with activities inspired by the novel such as camp cabin buttons, an Olympus photo opportunity, and Greek mythology-inspired games and crafts.