Event List

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

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

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 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.

Our Board of Trustees is a group of seven Normal citizens who are chosen through local elections for six-year terms. The Board meets once a month to discuss library issues and plans.

Join us in the new teen space on the first floor for writing exercises and games, prompts to help you get started or continue your writing, and a chance to share your work and provide feedback to others.

Come learn about the easy-to-use 3D design app TinkerCad! Each session you will have the opportunity to use TinkerCad to create your own 3D design to go along with that month’s theme.

Join Nomad Theatre throughout the first and second floors of the library in March and take a walk through HERstory. This unique immersive experience features live actors portraying incredible women who continue to move the world.

Join Nomad Theatre throughout the first and second floors of the library in March and take a walk through HERstory. This unique immersive experience features live actors portraying incredible women who continue to move the world.

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

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.

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 the Book Nook for stories, songs, and crafts!

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

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.

If you love crafting and creating, but think you’re no good at art, this is the art show for you.

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

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

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.

Feeling bored? Come out to the library and compete in Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros., or try your hand at a board game! Open to all ages, no registration required!

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!

Put on your pajamas and join us in the Book Nook for stories, songs, and BUBBLES! 

Intended for ages 0-5 with an adult, but everyone is welcome.