Event List

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.

Do you have a Cricut, but aren’t sure what to do with it?  Are you considering getting one, but want to make sure it is something you will use?  Explore the creative possibilities of Cricut Design Space in this hands-on worksho

Join us in the Book Nook for stories, songs, and crafts!

Geared to ages 3-5 with a caregiver, but all are welcome. 

Share your recent genealogical finds with others! Get help using Ancestry Library Edition and other library resources to explore your family’s history.

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!

Wiggle and giggle with your toddler through stories, songs, and movement activities that inspire a love for reading! Every session ends with BUBBLES!  

Join our coding club and learn the skills to create websites, games, apps and more! We will use Fiero Code to build computer programming skills through a series of tutorials and projects.

Craving creativity? Need more color in your life? Try being an Art Spark! We’ll dabble with different mediums to create monthly masterpieces! Dress to get messy! 

This month's project is TBA!

Come create with your little one with Illinois Art Station at NPL!

Join us in the Atrium for a ukulele jam! Bring your ukulele (or borrow one of the library's) and join in, or feel free to watch and listen. You can bring copies of music you want the group to play, as well.

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

Enjoy a short story, songs, and BUBBLES intended to stimulate and enhance babies' development. Every session ends with playtime with new friends! 

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.

Whether you’ve played Dungeons and Dragons before or not, you are welcome to join us in our ongoing campaign as we fight evil and explore fantasy realms. This event is for teens.

Registration is required and space is limited.

Join us in the Book Nook for stories, songs, and crafts!

Geared to ages 3-5 with a caregiver, but all are welcome. 

Join us every month to build, build, build in the Community Room! Each month will have a new LEGO theme, but all children between the ages of 2 and 12 are welcome to build anything.

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

Wiggle and giggle with your toddler through stories, songs, and movement activities that inspire a love for reading! Every session ends with BUBBLES!  

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.

Come craft with us! We’ll provide the supplies, you provide the creativity. For ages 10-14.

March’s project: Painted wood slice keychains or charms

April’s project: Decorated mini flower pots

Join Miss Meghan of Communication Junction for stories, movement, rhymes, and bubbles! 

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.

Beginner-to-advanced level knitters, crocheters and weavers (of all ages) are invited to come to the library to work together. New to the craft? Willing to mentor a newcomer?

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!