Event List

Join the NPL Knitting and Crocheting Club to work on your current project, as well as share tips and information.

No registration is required - please drop in!

Interested in true crime and mysteries? Join us for NPL’s Crime Club! Each session features an expert speaker in that date’s theme.

Take a break from your busy day to join us for a beginner-level yoga class over your lunch hour in the Community Room. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat or beach towel.

No Yoga March 23 or May 25.

Drop in any time between 4 and 6 pm to speak with staff from the Center for Human Services. You can ask questions about services, get connected with resources, or just ask their staff about what they do.

Paper crafters, please join us  for an opportunity to work on your projects.

Stranger Than Fiction book club meets once a month to discuss memoirs, biographies, true crime and other nonfiction titles. Copies of each month’s book will be available to pick up at the library front desk.

Normal Public Library, Next to Normal Story Slam, and Bloomington Public Library join forces to bring children’s stories to adults! While we may be forced to grow up, we’re not forced to grow out of our love for picture books.

Do you love browsing through cookbooks and trying new recipes? Do you enjoy sampling and sharing those recipes? Grab your apron and join our cookbook club!

Take a break from your busy day to join us for a beginner-level yoga class over your lunch hour in the Community Room. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat or beach towel.

No Yoga March 23 or May 25.

Are you interested in putting in a garden this spring? Get ready with an opportunity to exchange seeds at a seed swap.  Network with other growing-enthusiasts and dream of what's possible this growing season.

Experience guided meditation with a certified meditation facilitator, in a beginner-friendly environment.

Join the NPL Knitting and Crocheting Club to work on your current project, as well as share tips and information.

No registration is required - please drop in!

An Inside Look is a collaboration between Normal Public Library and Heartland Theatre, giving the audience a chance to meet the director and designers of each production.

Join us in-person or via Zoom at 10 am on the fourth Tuesday of the month at in the Community Room to discuss what you're reading for this month's Adult Reading Challenge.

Experience guided meditation with a certified meditation facilitator, in a beginner-friendly environment.

Do you create with a needle and thread through cross stitch, embroidery or crewel? However you use your needle, please feel welcome to come and share your time and experience with other needle workers.

Rachel Crothers was renowned for her ability to command all aspects of a stage production—unusual for playwrights and even more so for a woman of this time period. Rachel Crothers: Broadway Innovator, Feminist Pioneer celeb

Explore art techniques with the help of Illinois State University Art Education students!

Check out NPL's romance book club! We'll be discussing a romance fiction book in NPL's newly-refurbished Board Room on the fourth Thursday of the month at 6.30 pm.

Calling all makers! Come learn how to create 3D models using the easy-to-use 3D design app TinkerCad. Each session you will be issued a challenge to use TinkerCad to create a 3D design. 

Take a break from your busy day to join us for a beginner-level yoga class over your lunch hour in the Community Room. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat or beach towel.

No Yoga March 23 or May 25.

Experience guided meditation with a certified meditation facilitator, in a beginner-friendly environment.

Join the NPL Knitting and Crocheting Club to work on your current project, as well as share tips and information.

No registration is required - please drop in!

Join fellow fans at NPL’s new horror club. We will meet to discuss a different book, movie or other creepy, spooky material each month. Movies screened might be rated R and we are likely to encounter violent or disturbing images.