Week Calendar

The Building Connections Book Club is for Advanced English learners who want to develop their English reading and communication skills in a diverse, inspiring and encouraging environment. The group will meet once a week for ten weeks to discuss a wor...

WONDERFUL ONES Ages 13-23 Months This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Energetic storytime to match the energy of beginning walkers! For active one-year olds with books, songs, and rhymes with emphasis on repetiti...

MOTHER GOOSE on the LOOSE Ages 18 months - 4 years This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Music, movement, visual literacy and language development in a fun class that teaches social skills, taking turns, and how t...

Preschool ART Explorers Ages 3-5 This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Let’s explore our world through movement, art, and sensory materials. Children will strengthen fine and gross motor muscles while creating wit...

STAY and PLAY Ages 18 months - 4 years Remain after Mother Goose on the Loose to play or just come at 10:45 AM! (No registration required.) Meets on Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 & April 4 at 10:45 AM. Please note: Child must be the r...

MOTHER GOOSE on the LOOSE Ages 18 months - 4 years This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Music, movement, visual literacy and language development in a fun class that teaches social skills, taking turns, and how t...

TERRIFIC TWO'S Ages 2 This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Join us for this story time geared just for twos! A fun combination of stories, music, and movement awaits your two year old! Meets on Wednesdays, Mar...

If you are a speaker of a language other than English and you would like to learn to practice English, please contact Pramod Pradhan, Community Engagement Librarian, at the Faxon Branch Library at (860) 561-8202. Classes are scheduled at Faxon every ...

MOTHER GOOSE on the LOOSE Ages 18 months - 4 years This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Music, movement, visual literacy and language development in a fun class that teaches social skills, taking turns, and how t...

BOUNCING BABIES Ages birth - 18 months This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Welcome BC babies! We will read a brief story, sing a few interactive songs, and have playtime for babies and adults to make some new fr...

MINI MOVERS Ages 1-5 This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Spend a fun filled morning of music with toddlers and preschoolers. Dance to great children’s music, play musical instruments, and swing scarves. Meets...

BABYTIME Ages birth - 15 months Informal gathering for conversation and play. Parent or caregiver must accompany each child. No registration required. Meets on Fridays, March 10, 17, 24 & 31 at 11:00 AM. Please note: Child must be the...

The New Yorker magazine discussion group first met on May 2, 2014 at the Noah Webster Library, and has been meeting weekly ever since. Currently, the group meets virtually every Friday at 11 a.m. in a hybrid format, both in-person and on Zoom. A...

Grades 6-12: Join TAB as we host our first ever "Bad Art" program. We will provide a plethora of arts and crafts materials and give you a time limit to create the worst art that you can. Prizes will be awarded for the most terrible designs.  ...

FAXON TWEEN DEN Grades 5-7 This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. The Faxon Meeting Room is the place to hang out after school for chess, VR, art cart, beads, and board games. Parents can drop children off after co...

Book Voyagers: K is for Kindness For grades 1-3 Share some kindness in March! Join Book Voyagers for a children's book club featuring books on Kindness on Monday, March 6, Wednesdays, March 15, 22 & 29 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Each participant...

Learn Chess! For students in grades 1-4 Calling all children in grades 1-4 *NEW* to chess! John Sherman, local resident and retired educator, is bringing his love for the "Game of Kings" to the West Hartford Public Library. Learn how to play on...

TWEEN TUESDAYS: Marchmallow Madness! For students in grades 4-7 This program requires registration - this is not a drop-in class. Tuesdays are for Tweens! Join us on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 4pm for some baking, crafting, tech’in...

Registration for this program is full. Please contact whpldnd@gmail.com for more information. Visit us! https://www.westhartfordlibrary.org/teens/dungeons-and-dragons/  ...

Grades 3-5: Join us for a 7-week experience celebrating coding, computational thinking, literacy, sisterhood, and self esteem!   Interested students must join our West Hartford Libraries Girls Who Code club (CT41718) and sign a permissio...

The continuing campaign in the Out of the Abyss D&D 5e setting. 7th to 12th grade teens only. We can accommodate walk-ins, however as the campaign is ongoing, some preparation is recommended. Interested in joining? Or perhaps volunteering with D&...

Come join us for an evening of fun, conversation, and food. ...

Please note that this is an in-person program at the Noah Webster Library. A celebration of black female printmakers. Artists highlighted include Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, and Kara Walker. Their visual representations, pictorial studies ...

This course provides a broad understanding of the data analytics field, technologies and opportunities. Provides the basics of data analytics including an understanding of structured and unstructured data, data ingestion/storage and consumption. It a...

The Atlantic Discussion Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7pm on Zoom. For information on the group and instructions on how to join, please email atlantic@westhartfordlibrary.org. ...

If notes are the way to read/write music, SQL is the language of data bases. SQL plays an important role in data analysis. SQL is the standard querying language for all the relational databases. The course will introduce the concepts of SQL and then ...

There are many programming languages available, but Python is popularly used by statisticians, engineers, and scientists to perform data analytics because Python is easy to learn and understand and has a simple syntax and has a vast collection of lib...