Connect with Tech: Northstar, Adult Book Discussion at Lawrence, Art Adventures, Play & Learn with Gymboree, Chair Yoga & Mindfu

About this event

Connect with Tech: Northstar

10:00am - 12:00pm

Central Library

Discover a new way to build your digital skills! Our open-lab sessions let you learn at your own pace with staff available to guide you as needed.

Northstar offers a wide range of learning topics such as:

Essential Computer Skills: Phone Basics, Computer Basics, Internet Basics, Using Email, Windows, and Mac OS

Essential Software Skills: Microsoft Office, Google Docs

Using Technology in Daily Life: Cybersercurity Basics, Social Media, Information Literacy, Career Search Skills, Your Digital Footprint, and Accessing Telehealth Appointment

Whether you’re learning computer and internet basics, building confidence with tools like Microsoft Office or Google, or strengthening everyday skills such as email, job searching, or managing your digital footprint, you can focus on exactly what you need to reach your goals. Throughout each session, you can take assessments anytime and earn certificates that demonstrate your digital skills.

**Lecciones de práctica y evaluaciones están disponibles en inglés y español.

This program is made possible by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

Adult Book Discussion at Lawrence

10:30am - 11:30am

Lawrence Branch

Never Caught! : The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Art Adventures

10:30am - 11:15am

Southport Branch

Made possible by Everwise Foundation through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

Play & Learn with Gymboree

10:30am - 11:00am

Franklin Road Branch

Participating in a diverse class of physical, social, and cognitive developmental skills creates a dynamic class where younger children benefit from watching older children and older children benefit from being leaders. This program is a great opportunity for siblings to experience class together, or for children and adults can grow together!

This program is made possible by Everwise Foundation through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

Chair Yoga & Mindfulness

11:00am - 12:00pm

Spades Park Branch

Chair yoga is a relaxation that also energizes body and mind by connecting breath to stretches and gentle movements. This activity improves posture, flexibility, balance, strength, and mind/body awareness. It helps to promote more steadiness and confidence in one’s body along with an overall sense of well-being and peace.

Learn more with this book list about Every Body Yoga or Fit Lit: Every Body Yoga.

Chair Yoga & Mindfulness

1:00pm - 2:00pm

West Indianapolis Branch

Chair yoga is a relaxation that also energizes body and mind by connecting breath to stretches and gentle movements. This activity improves posture, flexibility, balance, strength, and mind/body awareness. It helps to promote more steadiness and confidence in one’s body along with an overall sense of well-being and peace. We will have intermittent meditative music to accompany the class and close with a brief meditation.

Learn more with this book list about Every Body Yoga or Fit Lit: Every Body Yoga.

This program is made possible by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation with support from a contribution by Honda. Honda is dedicated to helping people reach their own life's potential.

Around the Stitching Table A Drop-In Crafting Community

2:00pm - 4:00pm

West Perry Branch

Drop in on Tuesday afternoons to hang with other crafters and work on your current projects. Be a part of our crafting community! Bring your own crafts, learn techniques from each other, and swap skills & stories.

Chair Yoga & Mindfulness

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Glendale Branch

Chair yoga is a relaxation that also energizes body and mind by connecting breath to stretches and gentle movements. This activity improves posture, flexibility, balance, strength, and mind/body awareness. It helps to promote more steadiness and confidence in one’s body along with an overall sense of well-being and peace. We will have intermittent meditative music to accompany the class and close with a brief meditation.

Learn more with this book list about Every Body Yoga or Fit Lit: Every Body Yoga.

This program is made possible by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation with support from a contribution by Honda. Honda is dedicated to helping people reach their own life's potential.

The Internet Toolkit: Series

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Nora Branch

Make your internet searches more effective and learn practical tips to find what you're looking for faster. Learn to use links, read internet addresses, and search the web. You must be experienced using a mouse and keyboard for this class.

The Internet Toolkit, Week 3: Browser Customization & Your Digital Footprint

Customize your browser with extensions and themes, learn how to print from the internet, and consider how your digital footprint is created and what that means for your privacy.

Each week has a separate session that you can register for. If you missed week 1 or week 2, see the calendar for more details about times, dates, and locations.

This program is made possible by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

Teen Zone

3:00pm - 4:00pm

East Washington Branch

Tweens and teens in grades 6-12 are invited to hang out and join us for art projects, games, studying, reading, and snacks.

Lego Block Party at Haughville

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Haughville Branch

Let your imagination guide you in making fun Lego creations! Participate in challenges or free-build whatever you want. Legos will be provided in the children's area of the library. Recommended for children ages 6-18.

Teen Zone at Lawrence

3:45pm - 5:00pm

Lawrence Branch

Teen Zone is followed by D&D club on select Tuesdays.

Career Center at East 38th Street

4:00pm - 7:00pm

East 38th Street Branch

Made possible by Office of Lawrence Township Trustee Steve Talley through a grant to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.

Teen Central Manga Book Club

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Central Library

Session Themes:

Join us at Teen Central on the 2nd floor! Feel free to come to one session or every week. No registration needed!

Teen Dungeons & Dragons Club at College Avenue

4:30pm - 6:00pm

College Avenue Branch

Pre-generated characters are available, you can bring your own character, or drop by a little early to make a brand new one! If it is your first time attending this club, we encourage you to come a little earlier than the start time, if possible!

Watercolor Painting Workshop

5:00pm - 7:00pm

West Indianapolis Branch

Join us for a watercolor painting session at West Indianapolis! Local artist Jacqueline Collins will instruct a workshop for artists of all skill levels. Supplies will be provided.

Memory Workshop

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Martindale-Brightwood Branch

Maybe you want to preserve the stories of your life for your family, maybe you want to write them solely for yourself. Maybe you feel you have a story to tell that the wider world needs to know. Memory Workshop offers practical insights about memoir writing and a series of writing exercises to help you identify the moments of your life worth telling and find the voice to bring them to life on the page.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!

Instructor Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune, and About Grace, and a memoir, A Commotion in Your Heart. She is the the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times travel section. Shoup is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Art Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Currently, she is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center. and a creative writing faculty member of Art Workshop International in Assisi. She hosts the Substack newsletter Book Pilgrim.

Get ready for this writing workshop with some book lists about writing:

Medicare Basics: A Brief Look at the Parts of Medicare, Costs and Coverage

5:30pm - 6:30pm

East 38th Street Branch

Learn the real information from certified State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) counselors who provide unbiased information with no sales pitch.

The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) is a free and impartial counseling program for people with Medicare. SHIP is provided by the Administration for Community Living and the Indiana Department of Insurance. SHIP provides free, impartial information to help consumers make decisions regarding health insurance options related to Medicare.

Adobe Photoshop Series

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Central Library

Take your Photoshop skills to the next level in this intermediate course designed for those who have completed Photoshop – Level 1. You'll learn practical techniques for retouching photos, creatively manipulating color, and correcting common image issues like exposure and red-eye. This class also introduces essential photography terms and editing concepts to help you work more efficiently and confidently. Perfect for anyone looking to refine their workflow and bring a more professional finish to their visual projects.

This class requires an Adobe ID. Create a free account prior to class. You will need access to the phone number or email associated with your Adobe ID account during class to complete a two-factor authentication process.

Mahjong - Open Play

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Lawrence Branch

Drop in for a pick-up game of Japanese Mahjong!

American Mahjong – Open Play

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Central Library

Drop in for two hours of American mahjong open play. Registration is not required.

Yarnslingers at Glendale

6:00pm - 7:45pm

Glendale Branch

Knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists of all kinds are welcome to join monthly to meet, work on projects, share their recent creations, and discuss fiber arts. All skill levels are welcome.

Paws to Read at Southport

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Southport Branch

This in person program allows children to read to a registered therapy dog for 15 minute sessions.

Floss 'n' Goss Fiber Arts Club

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Central Library

Some supplies (spare fabric, embroidery thread and needles, yarn, sewing machine and accessories) will be available to aid you in your projects!

Floss 'n' Goss takes place on the 3rd Tuesday of every month, from 6-8 p.m. in the Maker Space. This is a drop-in club, you don't have to stay for the full two hours!

Pike Gardening Group

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Pike Branch

Gardens are essentially a place of sharing and gardeners know that we learn a lot from each other--whether you're just starting or experienced. Sessions will feature seasonal discussions, resources--like our Seed Library--and connections with other gardeners. Lead by a librarian/master gardener.

Bodies in the Library

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Central Library

Here's our whole schedule and reading list for 2026:

Paws to Read at Irvington

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Irvington Branch

Beginning or reluctant readers ages 6 - 11 are invited to take a turn reading to a registered therapy dog who loves to listen to stories. It's a great way to improve your reading skills and self-confidence. Kids may read from any book they choose.

Publishing Creative Nonfiction

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Decatur Branch

The instructor will provide resources, readings, strategies, and advice to help writers craft and polish creative nonfiction for publication, based on his experience as a nonfiction writer and editor.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!

Instructor Michael Gawdzik has worked as the creative nonfiction editor for the Indiana Writers Center's literary magazine Flying Island, as well as an editor for the sports-centered literary magazine Sport Literate. He covered the 2022 FIFA World Cup for The Comeback and has written book reviews for NUVO and Another Chicago Magazine.

Get ready for this writing workshop with some book lists about writing:

English Conversation Circle

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Lawrence Branch

This class focuses on casual conversation. We discuss topics on American culture, idioms, phrasal verbs, some grammar, and much, much more! Facilitators are TESOL trained.

Yoga & Meditation for Everyday People

6:30pm - 7:30pm

West Perry Branch

No special knowledge or experience needed. Please bring your mat if you have one. A few mats are available to borrow.

Indy Community Yoga is a local nonprofit that works to support our collective well-being by offering daily meditation and yoga practices, seasonal silent retreats, and community care projects that are always 100% free to participants. Learn more at Indy Community Yoga.

Movement: We’ll find ease and strength in the body through a series of gentle movements at a relaxed pace. This practice is suitable for a broad range of abilities and body types.

Meditation: Sitting in the quiet, returning to ease in the body and ease in the breathing. You are welcome to sit on the floor, in a chair, or lay down. There’s nothing to achieve or attain.

Sharing: At the end of practice, there is time to share reflections, feelings, and questions and hear what others have to share. It's ok to just listen, too.