Event List

It's a battle of the sweetest! 

Two plain cupcakes. Two different challenges. Your job is to use frosting, toppings, and your creativity to impress our judges. Win or lose, it's cupcakes for everyone!

Join us for an afternoon of tasty competition. In this program, we will break up into teams and try to create the best smoothie. Ingredients will be provided by the library.

Kids entering kindergarten and up and their families can enjoy an energetic fusion of Australian music, culture, comedy, character building, storytelling and audience participation.

Teens and Tweens entering grades 6-12 in the fall can learn a bit about the ancient art of henna and then get a henna design of their own.  It is educational and beautiful!  

Kids entering kindergarten and up and their families are invited to join Judi Jones, the Queen of Hoops, for interactive hoop dancing fun. Custom hula hoops will be provided for all. Get ready for a hoopin' good time!

Come join us in hearing from Assistant Professor Jordan Tewell about the Game Development & Design program at Sacred Heart University.

Showcase your creativity with Perler beads! Use patterns or your own imagination to create a design, then iron it to fuse the beads together. You'll have the option to turn your creation into a keychain. 

Rising 4th-7th graders can bid farewell to summer with a beach day at the library! How many ways can you have fun with a beach ball? Dodge them, dunk them, keep 'em up & plunk them. You can even help choose the tunes!

Lighthouse serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+ (LGBTQ+) teens and their allies with a welcoming, safe space. Lighthouse empowers LGBTQ youth to clarify issues, gain skills and resiliency, and envisio

Join Amy, Wilton Library‘s certified Zentangle instructor, as she guides us through a fun and relaxing Zentangle art session. This meditative art form uses simple steps to teach practitioners how to create beautiful patterns.

Please join us in the Brubeck Room for an eye-catching program on space exploration from the Planetarium Director at SHU's Discovery Science Center.

Commemorating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday on December 16, 2025, join author, former UK resident, and Anglophile Claire Evans for a look at Austen’s final, unfinished manuscript and its path from family heirloom to a fully imagined costume drama,

Based on Jeff’s latest book, Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England, plus his popular weekly podcast and his Emmy-nominated television series on PBS and Amazon Prime, the program prese