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  • Music and Movement with G-Raph

    Musician extraordinaire G-Raph (a.k.a. Raphael Groten) brings weekly kids concerts to the Pierson Library! Raphael's exuberant music and radiating kindness bring sunshine to every event, as he plays a variety of original music and familiar classics on a variety of musical instruments. These fun, high energy mornings are sure to get you and your crew…

  • Molly Johnsen Book Launch: Everything Alive

    Join the Pierson Library, The Flying Pig Bookstore & Rootstock Publishing for the launch of Molly Johnsen's debut poetry collection: Everything Alive. With desperate longing, raw vulnerability and surprising humor, the collection confronts trauma and disability like long-lost relatives. Johnsen relies on the power and shortcomings of language to highlight the ways “we are manhandled…

  • Noontime Poetry Reading Society

    Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County, the Noontime Poetry Reading Society! Every Wednesday during the lunch hour, the hip cats of the NPRS gather to lend their voices to wonderful poetry collections and anthologies, cold reading aloud through whole books for the first half…

  • After School Hangout

    Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens.

  • Teen Advisory Group: Haunted House Planning

    This month, the library’s Teen Advisory Group is hard at work planning our annual haunted house and everyone’s invited to join the fun! Are you a teen or tween who loves scary vibes, scare tactics, and bringing creepy ideas to life? Team up with like-minded peers to help design, build, and orchestrate a haunted house…

  • Thursday Morning Story Time

    Experience the magic of music and storytelling at our weekly musical story time! Join us for an adventure where stories come to life with the power of music. Musician and storyteller Liz Buchanan transports young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination.

  • The Mahjong Playing Society

    Join us for a new way to have fun, make friends, and build community! Mahjong is a tile-based game of skill, luck and strategy akin to Gin Rummy. Players draw tiles and form melds. We will be joined by Pauline Nolte who can instruct players in both Chinese and American mahjong (following the hands and…

  • Spanish Language Conversation Group

    Welcome to the Pierson Library's weekly Spanish Conversation Group! Whether you're a native Spanish speaker, an expert talker, or a beginning speaker, find community and conversation with group leader Martha Stegner of Colombia. ¡Bienvenido al grupo semanal de conversación en español de la Biblioteca Pierson! Ya seas hablante nativo de español, un experto en la…

  • Poe: An Adaptation

    Celebrated author Edgar Allan Poe delivers a public lecture to a darkened theater and at last faces the question, “What has been the inspiration for your life’s work?” In response, the master of terror will guide his audience on a dreamlike and ghastly journey of love and obsession, vengeance and horror. Written by and starring…

  • Multicultural Movie Night: Coco

    Join us for our first Multicultural Movie Night of the new school year with a screening of Coco. Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of…