Martin Luther King Branch Library
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Friday July 11 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
LEGO® Club
Make your own creation or complete one of our design challenges! Then put your finished build on display in the Children's Department. LEGO bricks are provided. For kids 6 to 13. Accessibility Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for t......More
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Sunday July 13 1:30pm - 3:15pm CDT
Film Screening: One of Them Days (2025)
Join King Branch for a screening of One of Them Days. Best friends and roommates Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a......More
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Tuesday July 15 2:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Mindful Meditation with Cristina Puzio
Join us for a healing gathering at La Huerta Roots and Ray Garden that provides guided meditation, sound healing with a variety of instruments, voice singing and smoke limpias. Our meditation and sound healing co-creates a healing container with community and nature.......More
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Tuesday July 15 6:00pm - 7:00pm CDT
Start Your Own Garden
Join King Branch for a fun gardening activity. Participants will plant vegetable or flower garden starter kits at the library and then take these kits home along with instructions on how to keep their plants growing strong. Accessibility Need sign language interpreta......More
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Wednesday July 16 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Preschool Story Time
Join us for stories and songs followed by 30 minutes of coloring, crafts or open play. For children 2 to 5 with an adult. Accessibility Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email ......More
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Wednesday July 16 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Computer Basics Class
Are you interested in learning how to use a computer? Join us at King Branch for a basic computer skills class in which we use the online resource Chicago Digital Learn to build our digital literacy. Feel free to bring your own laptop. Accessibility Need sign languag......More
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Thursday July 17 2:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Agriculture and the Environment with Danyel Tharakan
Come to La Huerta Roots and Rays community garden to learn about sustainable farming practices! This workshop has hands-on activities to demonstrate the ways our current industrial farming practices are harmful to the environment. This workshop also shows how sustainab......More
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Thursday July 17 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Butterfly Observation
Drop in and see whether our caterpillars successfully transformed into butterflies! Illustrate one of our live butterflies, suggest a name for them, or check out some different species of preserved butterfly specimens. For ages 3 to 13. Accessibility Need sign langua......More
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Thursday July 17 4:15pm - 5:45pm CDT
Gamers' Zone: Teen Gaming
Join us for Gamers' Zone! Chill out with games for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, board games or card games. Snacks are provided. For tweens and teens 10 to 16. Accessibility Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Pl......More
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Saturday July 19 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Saturday Summer Stories and Craft
Celebrate Summer Reading at Chicago Public Library with stories about nature! Then make your own nature-themed craft to take home. Recommended for children 2 to 8 with their caregivers. Accessibility Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistanc......More
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Sunday July 20 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT
Film Screening: A Bug's Life (1998)
Join King Branch for a screening of A Bug's Life. When a bumbling ant accidentally destroys his colony's food supply, he recruits a band of insect circus performers to help fight off an army of greedy grasshoppers. Updated take on Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Gras......More
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Monday July 21 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Music Class with Little Parade
Little Parade offers engaging early childhood music classes that promote holistic development through interactive, bilingual songs. Our sessions encourage children to explore rhythm, melody, and dance, fostering creativity and parent-child bonding. Offered in English a......More