A Reiman Gardens holiday tradition is back! Visitors of all ages will be enchanted by the RG Express Train from Sat., Nov. 8, 2025, through Sun., Jan. 18, 2026. This detailed garden scale display was created by Applied Imagination, an internationally recognized company whose train displays merge botanical design and architecture.
Calling all school-aged Poké-Kids! Come learn how to play the Pokémon Trading Card Game and use a Library-supplied deck to battle other players. You can bring your decks to talk and strategize with other players, but card trading will not be allowed.
Join the Ames Writers Collective on Sun., Nov 9 for the 2nd Sunday Swift Youth Writers Group held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Ames Public Library. We are scheduled to meet in the P.E.O. room, but check monitors incase the location changes. We supply notebooks, pens and other materials to prompt and inspire stories. This Sunday, Adela Solano Osmundson, a graduate of this program, will lead the Swift Youth Writers group. She looks forward to writing with those of you who can join her.
Join Story Theater Company for the classic fairytale Once Upon a Mattress.
Making God Laugh Auditions - Ames Community Theater, Sun., Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. and Mon., Nov. 10 at 7 p.m., casting 3 men and 2 women
This Milonga (dance party) is a multi-level class with lots of time to enjoy the music and dance. From 4 - 5 p.m, moves for beginners are introduced with a different figure each week, along with techniques for better dancing. From 5 - 7 p.m, the floor is yours for dancing under Valerie's guidance and for working with different partners. An intermediate-level figure will also be introduced during this time. Wear dancing shoes, smooth-soled shoes, or socks.
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Interdisciplinary artist Amenda Tate, a 2023 Iowa State University integrated visual arts graduate and current PhD student in human computer interaction, will unveil an interactive exhibition Nov. 10–13 at the ISU College of Design. In “Future Forest: Digital Echoes,” Tate invites visitors to wander through a paper-and-light ecosystem that reacts to presence — each visit […]
A Reiman Gardens holiday tradition is back! Visitors of all ages will be enchanted by the RG Express Train from Sat., Nov. 8, 2025, through Sun., Jan. 18, 2026. This detailed garden scale display was created by Applied Imagination, an internationally recognized company whose train displays merge botanical design and architecture.
Innovations in Materials and Colors
Solo Exhibition by Susan Hensel
Exhibition Dates:
November 3rd, 2025 – Exhibition Opening Day
November 15th, 2025 – Exhibition Closes