Event List

Join us for a fun-filled story time for children ages 2-5. This high-energy story time features stories, songs, and bubbles!

Builders are invited to construct and create with LEGO and KEVA blocks. Activities will include both challenges and free play. Geared to K-5th graders. 

Join us for this 15-minute story and song program for newborns to three-year-olds, followed by a 45-minute playtime.

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.

Join us for a beginner level chair yoga class. Instructor Tammy Bayer will adapt the class as needed to fit your needs and mobility levels. 

Stop by every other Thursday for various STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, & math) projects, while supplies last. Activities subject to change.

This strong fabric shopping bag will hold your fruits and vegetables, your groceries or your favorite project when you are out and about! It is easy to make and reduces plastic waste. Learning to make this basic bag will provide you with

Each week this summer we show a different classic Muppets or Jim Henson film. Join us and your favorite Jim Henson creations for a summer of adventure, mystery, and laughs. This week: "Muppet Treasure Island" (1996).

Play some friendly games of Magic: The Gathering. We have tables for any format you wish. Looking for a Commander pod? Trying to meet fellow Pauper and Pioneer players? Bring your deck and bring it on!

In this 45-minute one-man show, actor Tom Milligan portrays Grant Wood. Wood chats with the audience as if talking to an old friend across the backyard fence, or maybe at his home at Five Turner Alley in Cedar Rapids.

See a marvelous display of what magnets and conductors can do with energy. You will be amazed at how this show seems to defy logic, as if it was made with magic.

See a marvelous display of what magnets and conductors can do with energy. You will be amazed at how this show seems to defy logic, as if it was made with magic.

Join us for a fun-filled story time for children ages 2-5. This high-energy story time features stories, songs, and bubbles!

Teens assemble their own shaker bag charm cut with the library's laser cutters. Designs available will include stars, hearts, four leaf clovers, and moons. They will have a variety of inserts to fill their charms.

Join us for this 15-minute story and song program for newborns to three-year-olds, followed by a 45-minute playtime.

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.

Join us for an evening on the library's roof for this uplifting sound meditation with Natalie Brown of Sounds Heal Studio and feel calmness and freedom from worries and stress. Registration required.

The Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra Sextet will feature women jazz composers and arrangers in this show for all ages. 

The Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra Sextet will feature women jazz composers and arrangers in this show for all ages.