Sing and dance with Mr. Russell!

Join us for our new regular program for your kids, every second Saturday of the month form 10:30 to 11:30 am.

Mr. Russell is a preschool music, movement and instrument studies expert with over 10 years of experience! Experience the joy of music and join us!

Join us for Anime Night to watch and discuss some of our favorite anime!

Join us on the first Thursday of each month for a crafting session. We will have materials for open and/or led crafting. This event is great for anyone of any age who enjoys creating. This is a come and go event. Guests under 12 must be in attendance with an adult.

Have you always wanted to learn how to knit, crochet, or embroider? Do you already know how to knit, crochet, or embroider? Join us for a sewcial evening of learning, collaborating and sewcializing!

Bring your project or purchase a starter kit for only $5. Crochet kit includes yarn & hook. Embroidering kit includes canvas, hoop, floss and needle. Please email fairmountcommunitylibraryfw@gmail.com to reserve a starter kit.

Class is hosted on the 2nd Mondays of every month.

What is Silent Book Club and when do we meet?

Silent Book Club meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Bring your current read or check one out from our shelves!

This is a no-pressure gathering of bookworms, introverts, neighbors, and friends hosted in a cozy community library. Bring a book or check one out from our shelves! Nestle up on the couches amongst the bookshelves or enjoy reading outdoors on our patio. Either way, you'll be amongst friends.

FCL is a local Silent Book Club chapter

Join us for this class, led by members of Folx Worth Writing, which meets weekly on Tuesdays (except the 2nd Tuesday) from 7 pm - 9 pm at the Fairmount Community Library.

Register here - https://forms.gle/YzM2GXSGxiVcYPPR6

Folx Worth Writing is a queer writing group focused on creative self-expression in community. Please review the information below to see if we're a good fit for you, and be sure to complete the registration form if you'd like to participate.

- Open to folks ages 18+
- All levels of writing experience/confidence are welcome!

The format of each meeting will include time for whole group community building, independent writing, small group feedback, and an invitation for whole group sharing. If you have any additional questions, please include them below, and we'll get back to you soon.

Are you a new parent looking to connect with other new parents and their littles? Join us for Busy Babies!

This is a low-key chance for your little to meet other littles, a chance for YOU to meet other new parents over coffee, and a chance to practice those tummy time skills.

Busy Babies (Littles age 6weeks-18mo)
1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Library Main Lounge

Parents are encouraged to bring their own blankets and baby gear.
Questions? Email Becky Escher beckyescher127@gmail.com

Join us for a family movie night!

We’ll have pizza and popcorn but feel free to bring your own favorite snacks too!

Open to all ages. No registration required

November Movie: Arthur Christmas

Every 4th Wednesday of each month, we’ll explore, read, and discuss our latest reads. Ages 13-18 welcome!

November book selection: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

From Goodreads:

Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.

They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

Tellabrations are a free storytelling event held by members of the Tarrant Area Guild of Storytellers. This will be a family friendly event geared towards children,

Join us the third Friday of each month for a morning book club at the library.

----About this month's book selection----

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.

Goodreads

What is Silent Book Club and when do we meet?

Silent Book Club meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Bring your current read or check one out from our shelves!

This is a no-pressure gathering of bookworms, introverts, neighbors, and friends hosted in a cozy community library. Bring a book or check one out from our shelves! Nestle up on the couches amongst the bookshelves or enjoy reading outdoors on our patio. Either way, you'll be amongst friends.

FCL is a local Silent Book Club chapter

Join us for this class, led by members of Folx Worth Writing, which meets weekly on Tuesdays (except the 2nd Tuesday) from 7 pm - 9 pm at the Fairmount Community Library.

Register here - https://forms.gle/YzM2GXSGxiVcYPPR6

Folx Worth Writing is a queer writing group focused on creative self-expression in community. Please review the information below to see if we're a good fit for you, and be sure to complete the registration form if you'd like to participate.

- Open to folks ages 18+
- All levels of writing experience/confidence are welcome!

The format of each meeting will include time for whole group community building, independent writing, small group feedback, and an invitation for whole group sharing. If you have any additional questions, please include them below, and we'll get back to you soon.

Are you a new parent looking to connect with other new parents and their littles? Join us for Busy Babies!

This is a low-key chance for your little to meet other littles, a chance for YOU to meet other new parents over coffee, and a chance to practice those tummy time skills.

Busy Babies (Littles age 6weeks-18mo)
1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Library Main Lounge

Parents are encouraged to bring their own blankets and baby gear.
Questions? Email Becky Escher beckyescher127@gmail.com

Welcome to Sunday Sip & Stitch!

Registration required - register here!

Sewing is so much more fun (see what I did there?!) shared with others! Join us once a month on Sunday morning for a quilt-along, or just open sew if quilting isn't for you. We'll enjoy coffee or tea while we work our way through a pre-selected quilt pattern in the company of other amazing sewists. If quilting isn't your jam, grab your W.I.P (work in progress) and hang out with us while we fill our metaphorical cups with crafts and out literal cups with coffee.

Feel free to stay the entire time or come and go as you please.

Please note that this is NOT a quilting class. Our events do not include instruction but we are happy to offer advice and assist with troubleshooting or decision making!

Attendees will need to bring their own sewing machine, notions and materials for quilting. We will have communal pressing and cutting areas (but feel free to bring a tabletop mat and iron and your own cutting mat if you'd like) and a selection of scrap cotton.

Tiffany, our co-host, was gracious enough to create a spreadsheet of the needed fabrics (there are a lot of colors in this quilt) with a fat quarter conversion so you can get a feel for how much of each color you need. If you'd like a copy of that spreadsheet just shoot me or Tiffany a message and we'll get it to you!

If quilting is not your thing, or if this pattern doesn't tickle your fancy - please feel free to come and work on whatever your heart desires. Our intent is to create a welcoming, collaborative, communal sewing space for anyone interested.

Sewing can be a solitary hobby, but it doesn't have to be!

Do you love to craft? Do you also love to watch movies while you craft? Then you have found your people. We are a group of craft enthusiasts who get together to enjoy our hobbies, watch a great movie, eat some snacks, and perhaps do a little socializing. I'm sure your couch/chair is very, very comfortable, but why not spend a few hours on a different couch/chair and share space with the best folks on the planet, CRAFTERS!

November movie is Son in Law

Register here!

Join us the 3rd Saturday of every month from 2-5pm

Featuring a variety of board games with various levels of complexity. Depending on number of attendees multiple games may be played in different groups.

Examples of games include - Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Agricola, Wingspan, Sequence, Ingenious and more.

Attendees are also welcome to bring their own games to play! Bring a favorite snack or drink to enjoy or share.

Sing and dance with Mr. Russell!

Join us for our new regular program for your kids, every second Saturday of the month form 10:30 to 11:30 am. (In November, we will meet on the 3rd Saturday)

Mr. Russell is a preschool music, movement and instrument studies expert with over 10 years of experience! Experience the joy of music and join us!

Join us for Anime Night to watch and discuss some of our favorite anime!

Have you always wanted to learn how to knit, crochet, or embroider? Do you already know how to knit, crochet, or embroider? Join us for a sewcial evening of learning, collaborating and sewcializing!

Bring your project or purchase a starter kit for only $5. Crochet kit includes yarn & hook. Embroidering kit includes canvas, hoop, floss and needle. Please email fairmountcommunitylibraryfw@gmail.com to reserve a starter kit.

Class is hosted on the 2nd Mondays of every month.

Join us for fun, games, and good company! Seasoned Scramblers meets every 2nd Sunday of the month. Free and open to all.

NEW Book Club! Ages 9-12, registration required for drop off, includes book discussion and craft.

November book: The Clackity by Lora Senf.

Register here.

About the book

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows ) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.

Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight Harbor—the seventh-most haunted town in America—with her Aunt Desdemona, the local paranormal expert. Des doesn’t have many rules except Stay out of the abandoned slaughterhouse at the edge of town. But when her aunt disappears into the building, Evie goes searching for her.

There she meets The Clackity, a creature who lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse. The Clackity makes a deal with Evie to help get Des back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier. Evie reluctantly embarks on a journey into a strange otherworld filled with hungry witches, penny-eyed ghosts, and a memory-thief, all while being pursued by a dead man whose only goal is to add Evie to his collection of lost souls. Will she ever find Des, or is The Clackity planning something far more sinister?

from Goodreads

November Craft: Light Catchers

Join us on the first Thursday of each month for a crafting session. We will have materials for open and/or led crafting. This event is great for anyone of any age who enjoys creating. This is a come and go event. Guests under 12 must be in attendance with an adult.

What is Silent Book Club and when do we meet?

Silent Book Club meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Bring your current read or check one out from our shelves!

This is a no-pressure gathering of bookworms, introverts, neighbors, and friends hosted in a cozy community library. Bring a book or check one out from our shelves! Nestle up on the couches amongst the bookshelves or enjoy reading outdoors on our patio. Either way, you'll be amongst friends.

FCL is a local Silent Book Club chapter