Events
Calendar of Events
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Join us this summer as we celebrate art, culture, fun, and the joy of reading! Our 2025 Summer Reading Program, Color Our World, invites readers of all ages to explore their creative sides through an exciting lineup of programs. Pick up a reading log and read three books between June 14 to August 16 and… 
Our theme for Summer Reading this year is Color Our World so let your creative juices flow with us all summer long in a variety of hands-on crafternoons, presentations, and writing and performance projects including our daily doodle challenge! Check out our art table in the main floor hallway for the daily prompt and see…
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Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize! On occasion special guest presenters attend, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and perhaps even… |
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By popular request, 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…
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As part of the influx of creativity overtaking us this summer reading program, we're inviting you to join us in the co-creation of "exquisite corpse" style collaborative art projects and other fun, immersive collaborative art games!
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Minecraft players ages 7-12 and their adults meet up to share their Minecraft knowledge and play together! Attendees should bring their laptop or tablet with Minecraft installed and account created. Each week we'll try something new, from building contests in a creative world to surviving a night full of zombies. There will be something fun… |
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Our regularly scheduled poetics continue these subsequent Wednesdays as we gather to lend our voices to wonderful poetry collections and anthologies, cold reading aloud through whole books for the first half hour, then sharing works in progress, poetic reflections, and beloved bits of verse for the second. Always, we end with take-home writing prompt. Drop-ins…
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Ready to make something weirdly satisfying and seriously cool? Come try your hand at string pull painting, an artsy mix of paint, string, and a little chaos. Create bold, colorful designs with mesmerizing results (and zero pressure to be “good” at art). It’s fun, it’s messy in the best way, and your final piece will…
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Canceled
Playback Theatre Practice Troupe
Canceled
Playback Theatre Practice Troupe
Continue to rehearse with this group of thespians, movers and artists in a bi-weekly practice of a unique improv form. Culminates in a big performance in August. Drop-ins welcome.
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We continue our big creative writing collaborative exercise, piecing together segments and writing new ones building up to the creation of a choose-your-own adventure style novela. Participants will collect copies of the book by summer's end. Drop-in's welcome! |
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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. Liz Buchanan will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
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You know what this summer needs? More SLIME! Spend a cool afternoon concocting sea-themed glops, beach-themed oozes, and classic green slimes to suit the season. To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124.
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This month we're giving our Poetry Salon over to the library's Noontime Poetry Society. Here what that illustrious group of patron creatives has been cooking up during their midday sessions and then stick around after to share poetic works of your own during this evening's open mic portion. |
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Join us for our second annual Drive-in Movie! Recommended for ages 2-7, build your own, one-of-a-kind cardboard box car, complete with wheels, safety belts, and working headlights! Then "drive" it on over to watch a short cartoon on the big screen and have snacks delivered right to your automobile! To register, please call the library… |
5 events,
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Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners (EMGs) and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices, native plantings, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you're facing. We'll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMGs are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices…
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Celebrate the joy of reading with Taffy, our certified therapy dog! Join our Read to a Dog program to enhance literacy skills in the delightful company of this furry friend. Taffy provides a supportive and nonjudgmental environment, making reading a rewarding experience for emerging readers. Boost confidence and fluency with Taffy by your side. Space…
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program is canceled. |
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4 events,
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Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize! Special guest presenters occasionally attend, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and perhaps even pointers!)…
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We're closing out our summer season with one more Life Drawing Practice session, this one in the early evening. No instructor but enjoy a series of short and long poses by our in-house model! |
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Join us for a fun series where toddlers show their creativity with fun and simple art projects.
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The first Tuesday of most months finds the Coffee & Convos crew slurping joe, munching donuts, and tackling the topics of today in a safe space to share and puzzle. Airing out hunches, wonders, facts, and feelings alike. Find community with this wonderful conversation group. This month, we're thinking about masculinity. So many violent actors…
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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…
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Another hands-on craft for the summer reading enthusiast! Express yourself with colorful beads and delightful charms in a necklace-making circle. Peaceful tunes and community await as you join other necklace crafters and walk home with the beads that best reflect you.
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Minecraft players ages 7-12 and their adults meet up to share their Minecraft knowledge and play together! Attendees should bring their laptop or tablet with Minecraft installed and account created. Each week we'll try something new, from building contests in a creative world to surviving a night full of zombies. There will be something fun… |
3 events,
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Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County—the Noontime Poetry Reading Society (NPRS)! Yes, every hump day at 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… |
5 events,
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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. Storyteller and musician Liz will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
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Come on down to read Daniel Pinkwater's classic picture book, The Big Orange Splot, in which Mr. Plumbean paints his ordinary house on his ordinary street to "look like all his dreams!" Kids indulge their imagination to create fantastical (and big!) cardboard playhouses using paint, glitter, and the occasional twinkle light to build a cozy magical space that…
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Practice Español most Thursday afternoons beginning August 7 with our wonderful group leader, Martha Stegner. A great place for beginners and seasoned Spanish speakers alike! Snacks will be provided. |
5 events,
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Whether you're a beginning writer or an old hand, find support at our monthly creative writing group. At every session we check where we're at in our process, participate in a generative writing exercise, workshop fresh pages (call in advance to get the latest pages emailed to you), and then work together in quiet community…
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Meet Shelburne Firefighters! Fire Chief Andrew Dickerson and members of Shelburne's amazing team teach us how to stay safe and provide an up-close look at all the amazing equipment and tools that help Shelburne's Fire Crew respond in an emergency. All ages welcome.
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Julia Davenport is back at the Pierson library to share the relaxing and forgiving art form that is Zentangle. With few tools and a small scale, she will guide us in a 90-minute tangle to find creativity and calm our neural networks! To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124. |
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Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize! Special guest presenters occasionally attend, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and perhaps even pointers!)… |
4 events,
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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…
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As part of the influx of creativity overtaking us during Summer Reading Program, we're inviting you to join us in the co-creation of exquisite corpse-style collaborative art projects and other fun, immersive collaborative art games! |
4 events,
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Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County—the Noontime Poetry Reading Society (NPRS)! Yes, every hump day at 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…
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Due to an unforseen technology issue, this program has been canceled. |
4 events,
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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. Storyteller and musician Liz will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
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Practice Español most Thursday afternoons beginning August 7 with our wonderful group leader, Martha Stegner. A great place for beginners and seasoned Spanish speakers alike! Snacks will be provided. |
4 events,
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The Exhibitionists are back with another great book club series pairing wonderful books with exhibits currently on display at Shelburne Museum. This August we're pairing Carrie Brownstein's rock ‘n’ roll memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (copies available at the library’s front desk), with the museum's exhibit of Higher Ground gig posters: Sound, Art,…
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Canceled
End-of-Summer Dance Party
Canceled
End-of-Summer Dance Party
Hey teens and tweens. Celebrate the end of summer! Join us at Town Hall for music, dancing, and good vibes at our End-of-Summer Dance Party. We'll be spinning your favorite tracks in a space to chill with friends and plenty of pizza. Dress to impress or come as you are, just don’t miss this chance… |
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Join UVM Extension Master Gardeners (EMGs) and local volunteers in the library and town campus gardens this summer. Learn about sustainable garden practices, native plantings, and discuss the garden and landscape issues you're facing. We'll work in and tour the gardens with a specific focus each meeting. EMGs are dedicated to sharing science-based best practices…
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Canceled
Read to a Dog
Canceled
Read to a Dog
Due to unforeseen circumstances, today's Read to a Dog session has been canceled. Stay tuned for future dates to read to Taffy!
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Run away to the circus at the library! Actor, circus artist, and teacher Tristan Cunningham performs, and teaches amazing circus skills here at the Pierson.
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This Shelburne Day come hang out with some raptors! Might there also be an owl? Falcon? Maybe an adorable possum or two? Who knows?! Come find out and spy amazing…
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This Shelburne Day come hang out with some raptors! Might there also be an owl? Falcon? Maybe an adorable possum or two? Who knows?! Come find out and spy amazing…
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If you’re reading this before 5:00pm on August 16, then it’s not too late to turn in your summer reading logs! Read just three books between 6/14 and 8/16 (back date… |
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Join us for a discussion of Geraldine Brooks’s Horse. The novel follows the story of an enslaved groom and a racehorse named Lexington, whose bond leads to record-breaking victories across…
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Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to… |
5 events,
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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…
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Have a tech problem you just can’t figure out? Have an app that’s giving you trouble? Does your smartphone leave you flummoxed? We can help. Book a 30-minute appointment with…
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Minecraft players ages 7-12 and their adults meet up to share their Minecraft knowledge and play together! Attendees should bring their laptop or tablet with Minecraft installed and account created.…
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Join us for a discussion of A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell, a true story of heroism, espionage, and resistance. In 1942 the Gestapo called her “the most…
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You're a middle-aged grandmother, library assistant, recently broken up with, and estranged from your children. You're working late one night when WHAM! Three sparrows collide with the library’s windows. What… |
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Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County—the Noontime Poetry Reading Society (NPRS)! Yes, every hump day at 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… |
2 events,
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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. Storyteller and musician Liz will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
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Practice Español most Thursday afternoons beginning August 7 with our wonderful group leader, Martha Stegner. A great place for beginners and seasoned Spanish speakers alike! Snacks will be provided. |
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Shelburne celebrates our rising kindergartners! Join us as we dedicate a new book in honor of each new student, celebrate with snacks, music, and a special guest author to welcome the next generation of readers in their step up! As an added perk, kids 5 and up are eligible for their first library cards!
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Death Cafes are opportunities to gather and increase awareness of death so that we might make the most of our finite lives. Shelburne resident and optometrist Nick Marconi has been leading local death cafes for more than 10 years (most recently at Village Wine and Coffee). Now he's here at the Pierson Library in a… |
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Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize! Special guest presenters occasionally attend, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and perhaps even pointers!)… |
2 events,
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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…
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The Exhibitionists are back with another great book club series pairing great books with exhibits currently on display at Shelburne Museum. You might remember Carrie Brownstein as half of the comedy duo that made up the sketch show Portlandia, but punk rockers remember her from the riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney. We think her memoir pairs… |
3 events,
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Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County—the Noontime Poetry Reading Society (NPRS)! Yes, every hump day at 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…
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Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens. No advance registration is necessary.
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Love to read? Help us build a library collection that truly reflects the interests and ambitions of our community! Assist Katie in finding exciting new publications and recent releases, identify gaps in our collection, create eye-catching displays, and plan events! Snacks provided. Recommended for ages 11-15. |
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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. Storyteller and musician Liz will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
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Practice Español most Thursday afternoons beginning August 7 with our wonderful group leader, Martha Stegner. A great place for beginners and seasoned Spanish speakers alike! Snacks will be provided.
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As part of our Democracy in Our Time series, we invite you to join us for a discussion of Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here. Written in 1935 during the rise of fascism abroad and economic despair at home, Lewis's work remains relevant today. Blending sharp political satire with a chillingly realistic scenario, the… |
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