Simsbury Public Library

Wondering what Libby is all about? Come learn how to use the Libby app where you will have access to thousands of free e-books, audiobooks and magazines! This class will provide information on how to set up an account, navigating the app and some troubleshooting issues. We will have tech help available for those who want to set up an account at the class. 
Please note that you must have an active library card in order to use Libby. You can get a library card the same day as the class, at the circulation desk. If you plan to renew or get a new library card, please arrive early so that your card is ready before class starts.

Local Event: Libby 101

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Libby 101

Wondering what Libby is all about? Come learn how to use the Libby app where you will have access to thousands of free e-books,...

The Simsbury Camera Club is proud to present David DesRochers. This presentation will focus on photo editing techniques that will transform your RAW image into a landscape photo that communicates your unique vision. David will discuss image capture and will demonstrate the power of Adobe Camera RAW, Photoshop and&nbsp;<a href="https://topazlabs.com/ref/660/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Topaz</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://nikcollection.dxo.com/?utm_source=affiliation&amp;utm_medium=awin&amp;utm_campaign=NIK5&amp;awc=18170_1676315113_094becba025a34a2d49652c805e37ebe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DXO NIK</a>&nbsp;plugins.
To learn more about David's photography, please visit <a href="https://www.desrochersphotography.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.desrochersphotography.com/</a>.

Local Event: VIRTUAL - Simsbury Camera Club Speaker Series: Landscape Photography - Editing Techniques with David

VIRTUAL - Simsbury Camera Club Speaker Series:...

The Simsbury Camera Club is proud to present David DesRochers. This presentation will focus on photo editing techniques that...

VIRTUAL - Simsbury Camera Club Speaker Series: Landscape Photography - Editing Techniques with David

Curriculum Night is back! Bring in as much or as little of your materials to share with others and/or come in to learn more about other curriculums that are out there. There will also be a comprehensive list of curriculums (with secular options noted) for you to take home. We will also have Education Station, our online curriculum resource, available for exploring.
If you have any questions, please email Kai at kpietraroia@libraryconnection.info

Local Event: Homeschool Club for Parents: Curriculum Night

Homeschool Club for Parents: Curriculum Night

Curriculum Night is back! Bring in as much or as little of your materials to share with others and/or come in to learn more...

Come catch a Friday matinee at the library! This week, catch Bob Trevino Likes It (2024), popcorn and water included. You may also bring your own snacks and closed-top beverage.
Synopsis: When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the exact same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life for the better. Inspired by a true story.

Local Event: Friday Matinee: Bob Trevino Likes It

Friday Matinee: Bob Trevino Likes It

Come catch a Friday matinee at the library! This week, catch Bob Trevino Likes It (2024), popcorn and water included. You may...

<h6>Registration Open 12/20/2025!</h6>
A very special ONE DAY ONLY class! Join Maker-in-Residence, Ava Rodrigues, to create your 2026 Vision Board in Canva. Limited to adults and teens 13+ years of age.
Ava will not only teach you some basics like adding and editing text, colors, and shapes, you will visualize your 2026 goals to set yourself up for success! 
A free or paid Canva account is required prior to taking this class and bring your login/password to class to sign in and save your own projects. No mobile devices using Canva please.

Local Event: Celebrate National Vision Board Day with Ava and Canva!

Celebrate National Vision Board Day with Ava...

Registration Open 12/20/2025!
A very special ONE DAY ONLY class! Join Maker-in-Residence, Ava Rodrigues, to create your 2026...

Celebrate National Vision Board Day with Ava and Canva!

Looking for a space to play Magic the Gathering? Or are you a new player looking to try it out? Come to the library to battle fellow Magic enthusiasts!
All skill levels and play styles welcome. The library will have a limited number of 60 card decks available to use during the meet up!

Local Event: Magic the Gathering Meetup

Magic the Gathering Meetup

Looking for a space to play Magic the Gathering? Or are you a new player looking to try it out? Come to the library to battle...

Join Kori Burkholder, Career Clarity &amp; Reinvention Coach, for this interactive session that helps aspiring entrepreneurs brainstorm self-employment paths using their existing skills, passions, and life experiences. Participants will walk away with potential business ideas and clarity on which ones are worth exploring. 
Perfect for: Professionals craving freedom and flexibility but unsure where to start. 
Come explore your entrepreneurial options!

Local Event: Work for Yourself (Even If You Don’t Know What You’d Do Yet) with Kori Burkholder

Work for Yourself (Even If You Don’t Know What...

Join Kori Burkholder, Career Clarity & Reinvention Coach, for this interactive session that helps aspiring entrepreneurs...

Work for Yourself (Even If You Don’t Know What You’d Do Yet) with Kori Burkholder

Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and, in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.
<a href="https://libraryc.org/simsburylibrary/104875/register" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Please click here to register.</a>

Local Event: VIRTUAL - The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

VIRTUAL - The Creative and Compassionate Art of...

Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a...

VIRTUAL - The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

Your immune system starts in the kitchen! Learn how to nourish your body with colorful fruits, veggies, lean protein, and healthy fats.
Lisa Cooperman is a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist and owner of Vital U LLC. With 25+ years of experience, she has helped hundreds of people manage food allergies, lower blood sugar, improve cholesterol and lose weight.

Local Event: Boost Your Immunity Through Good Nutrition w/ Lisa Cooperman

Boost Your Immunity Through Good Nutrition w/...

Your immune system starts in the kitchen! Learn how to nourish your body with colorful fruits, veggies, lean protein, and...

Boost Your Immunity Through Good Nutrition w/ Lisa Cooperman

Wondering what Libby is all about? Come learn how to use the Libby app where you will have access to thousands of free e-books, audiobooks and magazines! This class will provide information on how to set up an account, navigating the app and some troubleshooting issues. We will have tech help available for those who want to set up an account at the class or to troubleshoot issues.
Please note that you must have an active library card in order to use Libby. You can get a library card the same day as the class, at the circulation desk. If you plan to renew or get a new library card, please arrive early so that your card is ready before class starts.

Join Kirsten Hocker at Gather on Hopmeadow for a Paint Pouring Workshop with Emily Pacheco of Emi-Sue Creations! You must register for a spot in the class.&nbsp;
Gather on Hopmeadow and the Simsbury Library are partnering every few months for Meet the Maker events at their spot on Hopmeadow Street. Join us for this workshop where we will create art on 8x10 canvases using a paint-pouring technique.
There is a $5 materials fee (cash-only) for this workshop. Please bring this with you on the night of the event.

Local Event: Meet the Maker Paint Pouring with Emi-Sue Creations at Gather on Hopmeadow!

Meet the Maker Paint Pouring with Emi-Sue...

Join Kirsten Hocker at Gather on Hopmeadow for a Paint Pouring Workshop with Emily Pacheco of Emi-Sue Creations! You must...

Meet the Maker Paint Pouring with Emi-Sue Creations at Gather on Hopmeadow!

Come catch a movie at the library! This month, catch&nbsp;Bob Trevino Likes It (2024), popcorn and water included. You may also bring your own snacks and closed-top beverage.
Synopsis: When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the exact same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life for the better. Inspired by a true story.

Local Event: Wednesday Movie Night: Bob Trevino Likes It

Wednesday Movie Night: Bob Trevino Likes It

Come catch a movie at the library! This month, catch Bob Trevino Likes It (2024), popcorn and water included. You may also...

Join banjoist Kent Besocke for a fun and easy introduction to the banjo! Perfect for absolute beginners, this workshop provides the banjos, so you can dive right in. You'll learn basic strumming, picking, chords, and even a few simple tunes to get you jamming. By the end, you'll be ready to join a jam session and start your banjo journey.
Please register as space is limited and plan to attend all 3 sessions. If you have previously taken the Beginner Banjo series please refrain from registering so we can accommodate others.

Local Event: Beginner Banjo Class

Beginner Banjo Class

Join banjoist Kent Besocke for a fun and easy introduction to the banjo! Perfect for absolute beginners, this workshop provides...

Looking to read more parenting books and want someone to talk to about it? We've got you covered! Join us for our new Parenting Book Club group that will meet on the third Thursday of the month. You can come in person or via zoom! 
Each month we will discuss a different book. This month we will be discussing The Danish Way of Parenting by Jessica Joelle Alexander and Iben Sandahl. You can check out a physical copy at the circulation desk. You can also check Libby for e-book or audio versions.

Local Event: Parenting Book Group

Parenting Book Group

Looking to read more parenting books and want someone to talk to about it? We've got you covered! Join us for our new Parenting...

Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”&nbsp;
As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.
<a href="https://libraryc.org/simsburylibrary/105450/register" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Please click here to register.</a>

Local Event: VIRTUAL - Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

VIRTUAL - Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine...

Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The...

VIRTUAL - Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

Do you love to cook and try new recipes?&nbsp;
Come join Cookbook Club at the Library every third Tuesday of the month. We will explore new cuisines each month, share techniques and expand our culinary skills. At this meeting, we will have cookbooks and information available to discuss the cuisine we will be cooking for next month. This month we will be exploring Chocolate. Chocolate dishes will be made and shared at the beginning of next months meeting.&nbsp;
At each Cookbook Club Meeting:&nbsp;
<ul><li>You must bring a dish to share in order to attend.</li><li>Cookbooks will be available to checkout.</li><li>All dietary restrictions welcome.</li><li>There will be at least one gluten free/vegan option.&nbsp;</li></ul>
If you are unable to attend this month, but would like to participate in next months meeting, you may pick up a cookbook at the circulation desk and email the recipe you plan to bring to Kai at kpietraroia@libraryconnection.info.&nbsp;
*** PLEASE NOTE: From 6:30pm to 7pm there will be the potluck for last months Vietnamese dishes. If you do not plan to bring in a Vietnamese dish, please arrive at 7pm for the start of Chocolate. ***

Local Event: Cookbook Club: Chocolate

Cookbook Club: Chocolate

Do you love to cook and try new recipes? 
Come join Cookbook Club at the Library every third Tuesday of the month. We will...

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Libby 101

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7:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

VIRTUAL - Simsbury Camera Club Speaker Series: Landscape Photography - Editing Techniques with David

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7:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Homeschool Club for Parents: Curriculum Night

JAN

8

7:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Friday Matinee: Bob Trevino Likes It

JAN

9

1:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Celebrate National Vision Board Day with Ava and Canva!

JAN

10

10:00 AM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Celebrate National Vision Board Day with Ava and Canva!

JAN

10

11:15 AM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Magic the Gathering Meetup

JAN

10

2:30 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Work for Yourself (Even If You Don’t Know What You’d Do Yet) with Kori Burkholder

JAN

12

6:30 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

VIRTUAL - The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

JAN

13

2:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Boost Your Immunity Through Good Nutrition w/ Lisa Cooperman

JAN

13

6:30 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Libby 101

JAN

14

1:30 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Meet the Maker Paint Pouring with Emi-Sue Creations at Gather on Hopmeadow!

JAN

14

6:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Wednesday Movie Night: Bob Trevino Likes It

JAN

14

6:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Beginner Banjo Class

JAN

14

7:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

Parenting Book Group

JAN

15

7:00 PM

Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow St, Simsbury, CT

VIRTUAL - Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz