Join us for a cozy afternoon of paper crafting at the Library! Craft options include collage, junk journaling (BYOJ = bring your own journal), blackout poetry, and more.
Gather (in person or online) for casual conversations in Russian. Chat in your native language or get comfortable speaking in another language.
Gather (in person or online) for casual conversations in French. Chat in your native language or get comfortable speaking in another language.
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.
Mexican Slum Rats are a five-piece alternative band hailing from Granada Hills, CA. Comprising of bassist Sebastian Felix, drummer Raco Mendoza, guitarist Benjamin Schlesinger, saxophonist Matt Shulman and singer/songwriter Kevin Villalba, the band creates an atmosphere that is overwhelming with emotion. Los Angeles-based rock trio Love Letter will support the show.
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