Week Calendar

Join us for a fun and interactive story time designed for children ages 18 months to 3 years. 

Story time room capacity is 40 people. Please arrive early to secure a spot. 

Every Wednesday morning, we open up the children's programming room to give kids and families time for free play with our stash of puppets. Children must be under the supervision of a parent or guardian.

An interactive story time for the whole family featuring books, rhymes, and songs in Spanish and English.

A fun and interactive story time designed for children ages 18 months to 3 years. 

Play with other babies and meet other caregivers! Babies 4 months-18 months and their caregivers are welcome to come play in our Community Room. There will be mats and things to roll on, bounce on, and climb.

A lively language enrichment story time featuring songs, rhymes, bounces, and books designed for children ages 0-18 months.

Explore endless creative possibilities using paper with hands-on stations led by artist JD de Wit. Featured activities include no-cut collage, bleeding tissue paper shapes, and windsocks. 

Enjoy books, songs, and movement activities with Sadie from 10:30-11am. Appropriate for 18 months to 3 years old. Kids and caregivers can stay to play and socialize afterward until 11:30am!

Join us for a fun and interactive story time designed for children ages 18 months to 3 years!

Join us on the first and third Saturday of each month! Build unique LEGO architecture and display your own LEGO creations at the library. *Please leave your personal LEGOs at home, we have plenty!

A lively language enrichment story time designed for children ages 4 to 18 months. 

Join us for stories and fun every Saturday morning! Get ready to dance and sing as well as listen to stories with an accompanying craft happening the second half of Story Time!  All ages are welcome.

Join Ms. Brandon at the Swannanoa Library for a fun Yoga class for children ages 1-3 & their caregivers. A fun combination of movement, songs, and stories along with yoga poses and learning breath techniques--good for everyone!

A lively language enrichment story time featuring songs, rhymes, bounces, and books designed for children ages 0-18 months.

Registration is required. Please call West Asheville Library at 828-250-4750 to register. Join Ms. Brandon at the West Asheville Library for a fun Yoga class for children ages 1-3 & their caregivers.

Travel the globe exploring different world cultures through story and song with bilingual performer Jon Sundell. Take home a colorful balloon animal! 

Join Ms. Brandon for a fun combination of movement, songs, yoga poses, and breath techniques! This program is designed for children 1-3 and their caregivers.  Ms. Brandon is a local yoga instructor who specializes in working with children.

Happy Solstice!! Come celebrate the beginning of a new season with resident Astrologer Julia Hudgins. Julia will cover the houses, sister signs, and begin to explain chart aspects with oppositions, conjunctions, and stelliums.

Come make some amazing, colorful terrariums with us! 

Join us for a book discussion sponsored by the Friends of the Skyland/South Buncombe Library! 

Make your own polymer clay earrings! Advance registration is required; sign up at the front desk of the North Asheville branch. For ages 12-18.

Create a variety of simple puppets out of paper bags, paper shapes and google eyes. Regular (unheated) gluesticks will be used so this activity is suitable for all ages! 

Join us to discuss this month's book: James by Percival Everett

The North Asheville Book Club meets in-person on the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

Travel the globe exploring different world cultures through story and song with bilingual performer Jon Sundell. Take home a colorful balloon animal!
 

The Enka History Book Club reads historical fiction and non-fiction on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

The book club pick for June is The Wager by David Grann.

There’s a lot you can learn from leftovers! This raptor-based program will teach the basics of owl biology, as well as have them work in pairs or small groups to dissect a pellet collected from one of the Nature Center’s birds of prey!

Engage with Fairview Firefighters as they talk about fire safety in the home, see a big fire engine up close, and eat free ice cream! Best day ever!

Come play Magic the Gathering at Pack Library. 

Magic the Gathering is a collectible card game with hundreds of millions of players all over the world.

All players aged 9-14 are welcome. No experience necessary.

Come down the Pack Memorial Library and play with LEGOs!
Show off your building skills and make new friends with other LEGO maniacs.

Please leave your personal LEGOs at home, because we've got plenty.

Join us for a lively language enrichment story time designed for children ages 4 to 18 months.

With a bit of imagination and creativity, transform an ordinary sock into a unique character of your design. All materials, embellishments and crafting supplies will be provided.

Bring your needles or your hooks and join us for some friendly company as you work on your current project.  No registration necessary; just come by the Skyland Library community room with a love of yarn!

Trying out your new reading skills in front of other people can be intimidating! But dogs always listen and never judge, even when we make mistakes.

Come out to learn about ecoEXPLORE and the wide world of herptiles with the NC Arboretum!

Join other veterans in exploring series of writing prompts to help you write about your experiences in the military.

Join us for an educational program with the North Carolina Arboretum to learn all about the many different herptiles that call Western North Carolina their home! What's a herptile you ask? Herptiles are reptiles and amphibians!

Join us for this educational and fun guided hand drum session. No drumming experience is needed. This one hour workshop will establish and reinforce the the foundations of rhythm and experiment with various concepts from there.  

Calling all adventurous teens! Join us for Dungeons & Dragons at Pack Memorial Library!

All players aged 13-17 are eligible.

This program is free, but you do need to register.

Come learn to play the ukulele with the Asheville Ukulele Society. Lessons are free, but space is limited. To register, sign up at the library front desk or call 828-250-4738.

IN HONOR OF NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK, JUNE 16-22, 2025 --