Category: Programs

We miss our teens! We are so sad about this hiatus from teen clubs and hanging out. But we are so happy to have some great programming to offer for the month of July. Call us at 687-9227 to sign up as we have limited spots for each program, except for the End-of-Summer Party.

Sip & Paint – July 11, 3-4:30pm

Get your paint on with BHSU art students Hope and Katie. We are talking legit artists here. Check out their Instagram pages if you don’t want to just take our word for it.

https://www.instagram.com/hopechristofferson/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/kbhwolff/

We’ll provide the supplies: paint, canvases, brushes, and beverages. Limited to 8 participants.

Trivia Tuesday – July 14 & 28, 1:30pm

Bring your mythology knowledge July 14^th and your sports knowledge July 28^th  and compete for yummy prizes. Limited to 8 participants per challenge.

Fantasy Makeup – July 16 & 27, 1:30pm

Tim and Sarah Bessette of the Gillette Drama Guild will teach you the tricks of the trade in applying dramatic fantasy makeup. Each session limited to 8 participants. You may only sign up for one session. All supplies will be provided.

Escape Room – July 22, 1:30-4pm

Our Greek mythology inspired escape room is sure to test your logic, puzzle and problem solving skills. Four sessions available, 1:30pm, 2:15pm, 3:00pm and 3:45pm. Limit 5 participants per session.

End-of-Summer Party – July 30, 1:30pm

We are thinking human tic-tac-toe, a Lego build challenge, charades, and a frozen t-shirt contest, but you’ll just have to come to find out exactly what we plan for this bash. All activities will be outside, including the drawings for our summer reading prize baskets.

TED Talks are awesome. They inspire and motivate and inform. They connect us with ideas and people and ourselves. They give us new perspective and insight and validation. They are like books …. books that have been condensed into 20-minute time slots.

This is what birthed the idea for TED and Talk, a book club-type encounter in which participants watch a TED Talk instead of reading a book. Reading a book is a major time commitment and time is a precious resource. Watching a TED Talk commits a fraction of the time a book does but provides equal opportunity for discussion and wonder and growth. And these are exactly the kinds of opportunities we strive to facilitate for you, the teens that we serve here at the library.

So please join us for our trial run of TED and Talk on January 21^st at 1:30pm. We will be watching a talk by Sarah Kay, discussing the ideas, and, of course, enjoying snacks. If you’d like to check Ms. Kay’s talk out in advance, follow this link:

Welcome back to school, teens! We hope everyone is enjoying their first weeks of school! For those of you who are new to the Teen Room, we have a lots of activities and projects to look forward to! This year, we’re so excited to resume the Bring Your Own Book Club!

BYOBook Club

This year, we’re starting a Bring Your Own Book Club! Rather than having everyone read the same book, we decided it would be fun if we had a “theme of the month” on the months where we’re having book club. Then, you can choose whatever book you want to bring as long as you can relate it to the theme. The first BYOBook Club we’ll be having is Friday, September 27, at 3:30pm in honor of Banned Books Week. What effect does banning books, or other forms of censorship, have on us today? Bring a banned or challenged book and let’s talk about that!

Did you miss our Hogwarts Escape Room?

Never fear! The awesome staff in the Teen Room has decided to do it again and soon! Join us Wednesday, July 31 for our Hogwarts Escape Room redo! Sessions start at 2pm and run for 30 minutes; our last session will start at 5pm.

Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! You’ve been given detention by Professor Vector; the last student who had detention with him went missing after Professor Vector went to a Quidditch game. The student was never seen again; this will be your fate if you and your team do not successfully escape his classroom. Will you escape or will you fade away?

October 9 –October 15 was Teen Read Week. Teen Read Week started in 1998 as a way to promote “reading for the fun of it.” The theory was that teens have a lot of free time, and instead of reading, they go outside, play video games, or do a number of other activities. By giving them a week during which libraries and bookstores encourage reading for fun and reading what teenagers love, it was hoped that teens would start reading more. The movement has helped.

This year for our TRW program, we decided to hold a book club. This book discussion would not be a typical “here’s a book read it, discuss it” meeting; instead, we asked the teens to bring a favorite book to talk about. We had a pretty great turn out with eight young adults coming. They each brought a different book, and as the particpants lit up when they started talking about the book they had brought. One of the fun parts was when a young man started talking about his book, Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. His book talk spiraled the group into a conversation about just how generic the main character was and how much better the book would have been without him.

The point of the book discussion was to help teens find books they may not have seen or heard of. One girl brought Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger, and by the end of her talk another teen commented that  he had seen the book and thought it sounded boring but after hearing her talk about it, he had to give it another chance. Book club success? I think yes!

All in all, the program was successful. . Everyone participated, and everyone had a good time.