Library Events

Read, sing, move and rhyme along with Miss April and your storytime friends! Families with children of any age are welcome. Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Bounces and rhymes, stories and songs for little ones. Parents/caregivers to be are also invited to develop an early literacy repertoire and meet peers. We'll be sure to save time to play and chat at the end of the program! Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Join us for our monthly book club where we discuss mysteries and historical fiction. This month, we will be discussing The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont. Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation desk beginning May 3rd.New members always welcome! Light refreshments serve...read more

Join us in the Community Room for an engaging watercolor program for adults of all skill levels!  Nancy Roman will generously provide all materials for this painting program, but registered participants must bring in a 5x7 photograph/print of their furry, scaly, or feathered friends for re...read more

Read, sing, move and rhyme along with Miss April and your storytime friends! Families with children of any age are welcome. Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Join us in the Community Room for our monthly adult Trivia Corner!  Each month we choose a different trivia theme, and this month the spotlight is on Disney movies.  Work alone, in pairs, or as a group of no more than four people against other patrons and test your know...read more

Read, sing, move and rhyme along with Miss April and your storytime friends! Families with children of any age are welcome. Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Let's get the Summer Reading party started! Kick off our 2023 program with an ultimate game night featuring Apples to Apples and Superfight! Prizes to our players with the highest scores.Snacks served.This program is for students entering grades 5-12. 

Join us for our monthly morning book club. This month, we will be discussing When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown. Copies will be available at the Circulation desk beginning May 16th.New members always welcome! Light refreshments served.

It's the most wonderful time of the year -- summer at the library!! Come and learn what's happening this summer while you check out our new sensory walk and enjoy games, crafts and more. If that's not enough, there will be cotton candy provided by Burlington's own D.J. Sugar Spinners...read more

Bounces and rhymes, stories and songs for little ones. Parents/caregivers to be are also invited to develop an early literacy repertoire and meet peers. We'll be sure to save time to play and chat at the end of the program! Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Learn to make a delicious frozen banana snack and enjoy some monkey stories (because, you know...bananas!) Registration required. Please use child's name when registering.

Join us for our monthly clubs for fiber artists! Whether you knit, crochet, felt, or sew, join in with others as we work on our individual projects and chat about all things crafty. We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30, alternating between the Burlington Public Library, and the Canton...read more

Register for an afternoon of crafting where will be making backpack charms! Choose from a variety of styles to up your backpack game at the start of the next schoolyear.This program is for students entering grades 5-12. 

Join us in the Community Room for our monthly Adult Craft Night!  This month we will be making painted patriotic luminaries for the Fourth of July.  All materials will be provided for this program!

Stop by the library and plant a pumpkin seed. Take your pumpkins home and nurture them and bring them back carved or decorated for our annual Pumpkin Pageant in October. No registration necessary.

Three, four, and five year olds can dance, enjoy a story, and have their picture taken with a real ballerina when the Hartt School Community Division brings their introductory dance class to Burlington. Registration required; please use child's name when registering.

Join us in the Community Room for a Saturday Movie Matinee!  This month we will be featuring “Where The Crawdads Sing”, a brilliant movie from 2022 based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens!

Read, sing, move and rhyme along with Miss April and your storytime friends! Families with children of any age are welcome. Register online for each week you'd like to attend.

Use our sticker collection to beautify a mini-notebook or create scenes on the pages. Bring along some stickers to share or just use ours! Registration required. Please use child's name when registering.

Watch out for banana peels when we battle it out on the race track in Mario Kart! We'll find out who is the ultimate Kart champion - who will not only receive bragging rights, but a bonus prize!This program is for students entering grades 5-12. 

Bring your sense of wonder and your funny bone -- the whole family will ooh, ahh, and laugh along to Ed Popielarczyk's interactive magic show.  Registration required.

Drop in between 1:30 and 3:30 and enjoy art for all ages -- adults included! No registration necessary.

Register for an afternoon of BINGO where you will have a chance to win your movie snacks!BINGO will run from 1-2 PM with a movie starting up right after.We will be showing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (PG, 1 hour, 57 minutes)Grades 5 & up.Light refreshments served.

In this first event in our Community Quilting Series, funded by a generous grant from IMLS and the Connecticut State Library, author Lizzy Rockwell joins us to tell the story of the Norwalk Community Quilt Project and the picture book it inspired, The All-Together Quilt. This event is appropria...read more

Drop by the library courtyard and enjoy creating bubbles of all sizes! No registration required.

Children, tweens and teens reading on their own at any level are invited to share a story or two with the world's best listener, registered therapy dog Holden, and his human, Ms. Kady (who's pretty great herself!)  In addition to books, Holden also loves snuggles and pats. Reserve a tim...read more