Drop in to the young peoples' library on Monday afternoons for a DIY craft! In April, come design and make your own unique bookmarks.  
All ages welcome.

All knitting and crocheting folks are welcome to join this group.

Our tried and true story time program for the tiniest of library people! Join us in the Community Room to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement, finger plays and more. Open play is available at the end of the program in the Community Room or out in the Pollinator Garden (weather dependent). RR&R is for children ages 0 - 2 years & their caregivers (siblings welcome).

Make some space to reclaim your peace. Join Youth Services Librarian and Hatha Yoga Teacher, MG, for gentle yoga practice to prepare your body and mind for silent meditation. Never done this before? Perfect! A beginner's mind is a gift. A few tips: arrive ten minutes early, wear comfortable clothes, bring your yoga mat and a blanket.

Registration required via googleform https://forms.gle/3A46WkNLmzWRJU95A or calling us at the library (860) 642-7763.

Beginners and all levels welcome. Free of charge

Enjoy centuries-old exercise and holistic health practices that help you feel alive and well. 

Each week we explore rejuvenating movements, simple wellness techniques and tranquil meditations

from classical Chinese healing and living arts. 

 with Joe Pandolfo, certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor, Reiki Master, Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and board director for the CT Society of Acupuncturists 

Adventurers ages 12-18 must come prepared with completed character sheet, ready for fast-paced and focused game play. Some DND campaign experience required.  
 
New or younger players and lovers of side quests are invited to join D&D: Side Quest, downstairs in the Story Room. Email Youth Services Librarian with questions: mgaier@lebanonctlibrary.org  
 
The world needs heroes! What courageous souls would dare to fight horrific monsters, evade traps, solve puzzles, and quest for treasure? Who among you shall free realms from the tyrannical rule of a dragon? To fight for peoples of a fantastical, magical world, and become their champions? Do you hear the call to be an adventurer? In the amazing worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, your imagination is your greatest weapon!

Are you a new Dungeons & Dragons player? Do you want to build your character and explore magical worlds? Join D&D's band of new adventurers and lovers of side quests!

Here you may learn how to construct a character sheet or put finishing touches on one you've already begun, practice world building basics, explore the Player's Handbook, and work your imagination muscles. When your skills are sharp, your interest is piqued for structured game play, and your mentor deems you ready, you'll be invited to join the fast-paced and focused D&D campaign. Ages 10+. This week, meet in Community Room.

Calling all homeschoolers, unschoolers, self-directed learners of all kinds! We'll take over the library to play, explore, and exchange learning ideas and pathways. We'll host special guests, play outside, create artwork, and read books. This program is for homeschooling kids of all ages and their caregivers (not a drop off program). Each week there will be a free play activity offered with caregiver support, and a more structured activity facilitated by MG. 

This week's guided activity: yoga inside, yard games outside.

Gather to play and discuss the lore of Warhammer 40,000 and other table games. Bring miniatures, rulebooks, and a friend. Ages 12-18. Warhammer 40k alternates Fridays with Magic the Gathering.

Join Tina Rice of Yoga Me Happy CT for yoga inside!
All classes are free of charge.
 
Please bring your own yoga mat, towel and water bottle.

Drop in to the young peoples' library on Monday afternoons for a DIY craft!
Start off May by making tissue paper flowers. 
All ages welcome.

Students create their own cartoon characters. Learn techniques for drawing heads and bodies, starting with typical proportions, and proceeding with creative variations. Put the figures in action poses and humorous situations. Designed for ages 7-12.
 
Register online at https://forms.gle/Me4grdfpDno873668 and join on Zoom Mondays at 4:00 pm.
 
For more info, email childrenslibrarian@lebanonctlibrary.org

All knitting and crocheting folks are welcome to join this group.

Join us in the library's community room, the best theater in town, for a movie and popcorn on the first Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm.

This month, we'll be showing The Miracle Club.
In this comedy/drama, there's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. (PG-13, 2023)

Join local poet and Airborne Veteran, Scott Ennis, for a Story Walk. We will meet in JTL's Pollinator Garden to start with a song, involve a walk on the  Lebanon Green, and conclude with a magnificent Story-tale. It's perfect for all ages. Bring a walking stick if you'd like!

Calling all outdoor enthusiasts and adventure seekers! Join us for a presentation by Lebanon local Marge Nichols, who will recount her trips kayaking throughout the northeast United States and Canada from 2016 to 2022.   

Marge, a veteran traveler and cyclist, will share lively and humorous tales from her kayak journeys exploring The 1000 Islands of St. Lawrence River (in Canada), The Adirondacks, the Saco River in Maine, The Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont, the Norwalk Islands in Long Island Sound, and Lake Aziscohos in Maine. As always, Marge's fascinating stories are accompanied by stunning photos taken along the way.

Our tried and true story time program for the tiniest of library people! Join us in the Community Room to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement, finger plays and more. Open play is available at the end of the program in the Community Room or out in the Pollinator Garden (weather dependent). RR&R is for children ages 0 - 2 years & their caregivers (siblings welcome).

The Friends of the Jonathan Trumbull Library meet quarterly on the second Wednesday of February, May, August, and November.

Beginners and all levels welcome. Free of charge

Enjoy centuries-old exercise and holistic health practices that help you feel alive and well. 

Each week we explore rejuvenating movements, simple wellness techniques and tranquil meditations

from classical Chinese healing and living arts. 

 with Joe Pandolfo, certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor, Reiki Master, Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and board director for the CT Society of Acupuncturists 

Adventurers ages 12-18 must come prepared with completed character sheet, ready for fast-paced and focused game play. Some DND campaign experience required.  
 
New or younger players and lovers of side quests are invited to join D&D: Side Quest, downstairs in the Story Room. Email Youth Services Librarian with questions: mgaier@lebanonctlibrary.org  
 
The world needs heroes! What courageous souls would dare to fight horrific monsters, evade traps, solve puzzles, and quest for treasure? Who among you shall free realms from the tyrannical rule of a dragon? To fight for peoples of a fantastical, magical world, and become their champions? Do you hear the call to be an adventurer? In the amazing worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, your imagination is your greatest weapon!

Are you a new Dungeons & Dragons player? Do you want to build your character and explore magical worlds? Join D&D's band of new adventurers and lovers of side quests!

Here you may learn how to construct a character sheet or put finishing touches on one you've already begun, practice world building basics, explore the Player's Handbook, and work your imagination muscles. When your skills are sharp, your interest is piqued for structured game play, and your mentor deems you ready, you'll be invited to join the fast-paced and focused D&D campaign. Ages 10+. This week, meet in Community Room.

The official recommended age for the game is 13+ because it is complicated, but we can help you learn the game. Magic the Gathering alternates Fridays with Warhammer 40k.

Join Tina Rice of Yoga Me Happy CT for yoga inside!
All classes are free of charge.
 
Please bring your own yoga mat, towel and water bottle.

Everyone’s different; let’s be different together. 
A monthly, meet-up group for multi-age neurodivergent, special needs, all-abilities children.
Join Occupational Therapist Miss Shaleen for open-ended play and activities for the children, community building with the parents, caregivers, and siblings. Each month, we will explore fine and gross motor skills as well as sensory activities connected to a monthly theme.
 
This All-Inclusive Playgroup meets the second Saturday of each month at 11 am.

Join Tina for a chair yoga class designed for people of all ages and stages. Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. This is a great practice for those who find a typical yoga session too challenging but would still like to improve fitness, flexibility, balance and coordination.

Drop in to the young peoples' library on Monday afternoons for a DIY craft!
Start off May by making tissue paper flowers. 
All ages welcome.

Enjoy yoga, mindful movement, and most importantly, play with your family and community! This is an all ages, all levels, not-so-quiet wild rumpus yoga program with MG. Never done this before? Perfect! A beginner's mind is a gift.

A few tips: arrive ten minutes early, wear comfortable clothes, bring your yoga mat and a blanket. Registration required via googleform https://forms.gle/7cQ6VdAuAzGxbN619 or calling us at the library (860) 642-7763.

Our tried and true story time program for the tiniest of library people! Join us in the Community Room to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement, finger plays and more. Open play is available at the end of the program in the Community Room or out in the Pollinator Garden (weather dependent). RR&R is for children ages 0 - 2 years & their caregivers (siblings welcome).

Adventurers ages 12-18 must come prepared with completed character sheet, ready for fast-paced and focused game play. Some DND campaign experience required.  
 
New or younger players and lovers of side quests are invited to join D&D: Side Quest, downstairs in the Story Room. Email Youth Services Librarian with questions: mgaier@lebanonctlibrary.org  
 
The world needs heroes! What courageous souls would dare to fight horrific monsters, evade traps, solve puzzles, and quest for treasure? Who among you shall free realms from the tyrannical rule of a dragon? To fight for peoples of a fantastical, magical world, and become their champions? Do you hear the call to be an adventurer? In the amazing worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, your imagination is your greatest weapon!

Beginners and all levels welcome. Free of charge

Enjoy centuries-old exercise and holistic health practices that help you feel alive and well. 

Each week we explore rejuvenating movements, simple wellness techniques and tranquil meditations

from classical Chinese healing and living arts. 

 with Joe Pandolfo, certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor, Reiki Master, Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and board director for the CT Society of Acupuncturists 

Are you a new Dungeons & Dragons player? Do you want to build your character and explore magical worlds? Join D&D's band of new adventurers and lovers of side quests!

Here you may learn how to construct a character sheet or put finishing touches on one you've already begun, practice world building basics, explore the Player's Handbook, and work your imagination muscles. When your skills are sharp, your interest is piqued for structured game play, and your mentor deems you ready, you'll be invited to join the fast-paced and focused D&D campaign. Ages 10+. This week, meet in Community Room.

The Lebanon Historical Society and the Jonathan Trumbull Library are looking forward to helping plan how our community will participate in America 250.

Please come and share your thoughts, ideas, questions and enthusiasms.

Help plan Lebanon’s observance of America 250 by joining us for a community conversation at the Jonathan Trumbull Library!  

Calling all homeschoolers, unschoolers, self-directed learners of all kinds! We'll take over the library to play, explore, and exchange learning ideas and pathways. We'll host special guests, play outside, create artwork, and read books. This program is for homeschooling kids of all ages and their caregivers (not a drop off program). Each week there will be a free play activity offered with caregiver support, and a more structured activity facilitated by MG. 

This week's guided activity: Live Music with Maya Rogers Sherman in the Pollinator Garden

Gather to play and discuss the lore of Warhammer 40,000 and other table games. Bring miniatures, rulebooks, and a friend. Ages 12-18. Warhammer 40k alternates Fridays with Magic the Gathering.

Join Tina Rice of Yoga Me Happy CT for yoga inside!
All classes are free of charge.
 
Please bring your own yoga mat, towel and water bottle.

Drop in to the young peoples' library on Monday afternoons for a DIY craft!
Start off May by making tissue paper flowers. 
All ages welcome.

All knitting and crocheting folks are welcome to join this group.

Trade, battle, and play Pokémon-themed games. 
For April's program, we will meet downstairs in the Children's Library.
 
A limited number of packs will be available to purchase on site for anyone getting started.

Come make tiny puffy stars with your friends. Paper and snacks provided. Ages 12+.

All readers are welcome to join our discussion in the community room.

This month's selection:
 
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer 

(Led by Amy Harris) 
 
 Copies of the book will be available at the library.

Our tried and true story time program for the tiniest of library people! Join us in the Community Room to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement, finger plays and more. Open play is available at the end of the program in the Community Room or out in the Pollinator Garden (weather dependent). RR&R is for children ages 0 - 2 years & their caregivers (siblings welcome).

Beginners and all levels welcome. Free of charge

Enjoy centuries-old exercise and holistic health practices that help you feel alive and well. 

Each week we explore rejuvenating movements, simple wellness techniques and tranquil meditations

from classical Chinese healing and living arts. 

 with Joe Pandolfo, certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor, Reiki Master, Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and board director for the CT Society of Acupuncturists 

Adventurers ages 12-18 must come prepared with completed character sheet, ready for fast-paced and focused game play. Some DND campaign experience required.  
 
New or younger players and lovers of side quests are invited to join D&D: Side Quest, downstairs in the Story Room. Email Youth Services Librarian with questions: mgaier@lebanonctlibrary.org  
 
The world needs heroes! What courageous souls would dare to fight horrific monsters, evade traps, solve puzzles, and quest for treasure? Who among you shall free realms from the tyrannical rule of a dragon? To fight for peoples of a fantastical, magical world, and become their champions? Do you hear the call to be an adventurer? In the amazing worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, your imagination is your greatest weapon!

Are you a new Dungeons & Dragons player? Do you want to build your character and explore magical worlds? Join D&D's band of new adventurers and lovers of side quests!

Here you may learn how to construct a character sheet or put finishing touches on one you've already begun, practice world building basics, explore the Player's Handbook, and work your imagination muscles. When your skills are sharp, your interest is piqued for structured game play, and your mentor deems you ready, you'll be invited to join the fast-paced and focused D&D campaign. Ages 10+. This week, meet in Community Room.

Calling all homeschoolers, unschoolers, self-directed learners of all kinds! We'll take over the library to play, explore, and exchange learning ideas and pathways. We'll host special guests, play outside, create artwork, and read books. This program is for homeschooling kids of all ages and their caregivers (not a drop off program). Each week there will be a free play activity offered with caregiver support, and a more structured activity facilitated by MG. 

This week's guided activity: Last meet-up before summer break, dress for outside play!

The official recommended age for the game is 13+ because it is complicated, but we can help you learn the game. Magic the Gathering alternates Fridays with Warhammer 40k.

Our tried and true story time program for the tiniest of library people! Join us in the Community Room to share songs, rhymes, musical instruments, movement, finger plays and more. Open play is available at the end of the program in the Community Room or out in the Pollinator Garden (weather dependent). RR&R is for children ages 0 - 2 years & their caregivers (siblings welcome).

Make some space to reclaim your peace. Join Youth Services Librarian and Hatha Yoga Teacher, MG, for gentle yoga practice to prepare your body and mind for silent meditation. Never done this before? Perfect! A beginner's mind is a gift. A few tips: arrive ten minutes early, wear comfortable clothes, bring your yoga mat and a blanket.

Registration required via googleform https://forms.gle/3A46WkNLmzWRJU95A or calling us at the library (860) 642-7763.

Adventurers ages 12-18 must come prepared with completed character sheet, ready for fast-paced and focused game play. Some DND campaign experience required.  
 
New or younger players and lovers of side quests are invited to join D&D: Side Quest, downstairs in the Story Room. Email Youth Services Librarian with questions: mgaier@lebanonctlibrary.org  
 
The world needs heroes! What courageous souls would dare to fight horrific monsters, evade traps, solve puzzles, and quest for treasure? Who among you shall free realms from the tyrannical rule of a dragon? To fight for peoples of a fantastical, magical world, and become their champions? Do you hear the call to be an adventurer? In the amazing worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, your imagination is your greatest weapon!

Are you a new Dungeons & Dragons player? Do you want to build your character and explore magical worlds? Join D&D's band of new adventurers and lovers of side quests!

Here you may learn how to construct a character sheet or put finishing touches on one you've already begun, practice world building basics, explore the Player's Handbook, and work your imagination muscles. When your skills are sharp, your interest is piqued for structured game play, and your mentor deems you ready, you'll be invited to join the fast-paced and focused D&D campaign. Ages 10+. This week, meet in Community Room.

Beginners and all levels welcome. Free of charge

Enjoy centuries-old exercise and holistic health practices that help you feel alive and well. 

Each week we explore rejuvenating movements, simple wellness techniques and tranquil meditations

from classical Chinese healing and living arts. 

 with Joe Pandolfo, certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor, Reiki Master, Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and board director for the CT Society of Acupuncturists 

Gather to play and discuss the lore of Warhammer 40,000 and other table games. Bring miniatures, rulebooks, and a friend. Ages 12-18. Warhammer 40k alternates Fridays with Magic the Gathering.

The Friends of the Jonathan Trumbull Library meet quarterly on the second Wednesday of February, May, August, and November.