Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Foster Understanding with Virtual Reality (NWL)

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, dis......More

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, discrimination, and other challenges.Time Slots:4:00pm5:00pm6:00pm7:00pmSpace is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Foster Understanding with Virtual Reality (NWL)

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, dis......More

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, discrimination, and other challenges.Time Slots:4:00pm5:00pm6:00pm7:00pmSpace is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Teen D&D: Wild Beyond the Witchlight (NWL)

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Connecticut Screenwriters (NWL & Virtual)

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Teen Bad Art Competition (NWL)

Grades 6-12: Celebrate the "Color Our World" Summer Reading theme by making the worst art that you possibly can. Awards will be given for the bad, badder, and baddest submissions.Registration required.Questions? Contact the Teen Department at kkarp@westhartfordCT.gov.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

CANCELLED - Connecticut and Juneteenth (FX)

This event was originally scheduled for 6/10 at Noah Webster Library.The Militia Act of 1862 made it legal for African American men to enlist in state militias, ultimately leading to the creation of Connecticut’s 29th and 30th Colored Regiments during the Civil War. Dur......More

This event was originally scheduled for 6/10 at Noah Webster Library.The Militia Act of 1862 made it legal for African American men to enlist in state militias, ultimately leading to the creation of Connecticut’s 29th and 30th Colored Regiments during the Civil War. During this presentation, historian John Mills of the Alex Breanne Corporation will delve into the circumstances, events, and social conditions that shaped perspectives in Connecticut leading into Juneteenth.The Alex Breanne Corporation is an organization focused on promoting social clarity and informed context regarding the African-American experience through research, interrogation and presentation of lesser known stories representing the life experience of the American enslaved, presented from an African-American perspective.Registration required. Registration opens one month before the program at 7:00pm.This program is part of West Hartford's Juneteenth Celebration.

1073 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06110, US

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Foster Understanding with Virtual Reality (NWL)

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, dis......More

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, discrimination, and other challenges.Time Slots:4:00pm5:00pm6:00pm7:00pmSpace is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Foster Understanding with Virtual Reality (NWL)

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, dis......More

Ages 12 & up: Step into the virtual world with Oculus devices at the Studio 20 South! This hands-on program invites participants to explore a curated menu of immersive experiences intended to help you gain deeper understanding of people experiencing marginalization, discrimination, and other challenges.Time Slots:4:00pm5:00pm6:00pm7:00pmSpace is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Teen Silent Book Club (NWL)

Grades 6-12: Grab a book and blanket or beach chair and join us on the South Main Street lawn for Teen Silent Book Club! From 2:00-2:45pm we will read silently. From 2:45-3:00pm you can choose to talk about your book with the other attendees (or just keep reading on you......More

Grades 6-12: Grab a book and blanket or beach chair and join us on the South Main Street lawn for Teen Silent Book Club! From 2:00-2:45pm we will read silently. From 2:45-3:00pm you can choose to talk about your book with the other attendees (or just keep reading on your own!). Meet other bookish teens, get some good summer book recs, and enjoy the outdoors!Teen Silent Book Club will move to the Teen Room in the event of rain.No registration required.Questions? Contact the Teen Department at kkarp@westhartfordCT.gov.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Practice English at Faxon (FX)

1073 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06110, US

New Yorker Discussion Group (NWL & Virtual)

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Book It! For the Library: Children's Fun Run (Off-site)

Ages 2-12: Lace up your shoes and join us for our annual children’s fun run! All registered runners will receive a special gift! Races will include:Toddler Dash (100 meters) untimed race (starts approximately 10:00am)¼ mile untimed race (starts approximately 10:15am)1-m......More

Ages 2-12: Lace up your shoes and join us for our annual children’s fun run! All registered runners will receive a special gift! Races will include:Toddler Dash (100 meters) untimed race (starts approximately 10:00am)¼ mile untimed race (starts approximately 10:15am)1-mile untimed race (starts approximately 10:30am)Sterling Field is adjacent to Charter Oak International Academy, 356 Price Boulevard, West Hartford. This program is for the child and their caregiver. This program is generously funded by the West Hartford Library Foundation. Registration required.

356 Price BLVD , West Hartford, CT, 06110, US

Framed in Nature: Upcycled 3D Filament Collages (NWL)

This program has been postponed. New date TBA!Give discarded 3D printer filament new life in this hands-on workshop where art meets sustainability! Participants of all ages will cut and shape colorful scraps of filament to create stunning floral and nature-themed collag......More

This program has been postponed. New date TBA!Give discarded 3D printer filament new life in this hands-on workshop where art meets sustainability! Participants of all ages will cut and shape colorful scraps of filament to create stunning floral and nature-themed collages. To complete the "old meets new" look, each piece will be framed in a classic-style frame—ready to hang like a museum masterpiece. No experience needed—just bring your creativity and help turn waste into art!Space is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before the program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Teen D&D: Curse of Strahd (NWL)

This campaign is currently full.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Paint-a-palooza (FX)

Ages 4 & up: Color your world with an outdoor paint party at Faxon using salad spinners, squirt guns, brushes and more. Please dress for a mess! This program is for the child and their caregiver. Registration required.

1073 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford, CT, 06110, US

Night Owls Book Group (Virtual)

Teen D&D: Wild Beyond the Witchlight (NWL)

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Author Talk: Laura Delano and "Unshrunk" (NWL)

Laura Delano, author of UNSHRUNK, in conversation with Dr. Javeed SukheraIn UNSHRUNK, Laura Delano recounts her first psychiatric diagnosis and her subsequent experience as a decade-plus patient in the mental health system. Weaving Delano’s medical records and doctors’ ......More

Laura Delano, author of UNSHRUNK, in conversation with Dr. Javeed SukheraIn UNSHRUNK, Laura Delano recounts her first psychiatric diagnosis and her subsequent experience as a decade-plus patient in the mental health system. Weaving Delano’s medical records and doctors’ notes with an investigation of modern psychiatry and illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk questions the dominant, rarely critiqued role that the American mental health industry, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, plays in shaping what it means to be human.After a reading from her book, Delano will be joined by Dr. Javeed Sukhera, Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living and Chief of Psychiatry at Hartford Hospital, for a conversation about the complexities of psychiatric care today. Together, they will explore psychiatric drug prescribing and deprescribing, the importance of informed choice in mental health treatment, and how clinicians and laypeople can come together to collaborate on alternative pathways to well-being. Their conversation promises to be a rare meeting of expertise on taking and safely tapering off psychiatric medications: one gained from many years of clinical training and experience, and the other gained from many years of having lived it firsthand.About the SpeakersLaura Delano is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a charitable organization that she founded to help people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses and drugs. She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who’ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized offerings of the mental health system to build something different. Laura works with individuals and families around the world seeking guidance and support for the withdrawal journey and life post-psychiatry. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with her family.Dr. Javeed Sukhera is the Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living (IOL) and Chief of Psychiatry at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Research on Racial Trauma and Community Healing. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In his role as Chair/Chief, Dr. Sukhera is responsible for advancing the IOL's clinical, research, and educational missions including training programs in psychiatry, psychology, social work, and nursing, as well as several endowed research centers. He is an internationally recognized health professions education researcher and thought leader. His research program explores novel approaches to addressing stigma and bias among health professionals and he has also been involved in advocacy and cross-sectoral work in education, policing, and community services.Registration required. Registration opens one month before the program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

Closed: Independence Day

Jazz Guitar 101 (NWL)

Ages 12 & up. Ready to take your guitar playing to the next level? Join us in this hands-on workshop to learn the basics of jazz guitar. Topics covered include vocabulary, harmony, standard repertoire, and chord-melody playing.PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is geared toward......More

Ages 12 & up. Ready to take your guitar playing to the next level? Join us in this hands-on workshop to learn the basics of jazz guitar. Topics covered include vocabulary, harmony, standard repertoire, and chord-melody playing.PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is geared toward intermediate to advanced guitar players; concepts and practices covered are not meant for beginners. Participants are required to bring their own instrument.Space is limited. Registration required. Registration opens 3 weeks before the program at 7:00pm.

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US

West Hartford Anime Club (NWL)

20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT, 06107, US