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Chocolate, Culture, and Creativity

6:00pm - 8:00pm
All Ages
Community Events, Education, Workshop
Waitlist
Registration
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Community Events, Education, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Did you know that chocolate is considered the “Food of the Gods”? Did your history teachers mention that Benjamin Franklin sold chocolate at his print shop back in the 1700s!

Staff In-service

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Petoskey District Library, Carnegie Building, Off Site
Description:

The Library will be closed all day on Friday, February 7, while all library staff hold their annual in-service day. The Library will resume normal hours on Saturday, February 8, at 10:00am.

Happy Vet-entine's Card Making

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Makerspace
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events
Event Details:

Join us in the Makerspace to express our appreciation for our local veterans. We will have card making materials and snacks for participants. 

Cards will be delivered to the local American Legion to share with the veterans.

Straits Area Amateur Radio Club

12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tweens, Teens, Adults
Community Events, Technology
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Tweens, Teens, Adults
Program Type: Community Events, Technology
Event Details:

Join us for an open house to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Straits Area Amateur Radio Club (SAARC) at the Carnegie Building on Saturday, Feb.

Adventure in Vietnam & Cambodia

7:00pm - 8:30pm
All Ages
Community Events, Education, Entertainment
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Community Events, Education, Entertainment
Event Details:

PDL library assistant Jane Mooradian and several friends spent three weeks in October 2024 traveling around Vietnam and Cambodia. Join us to hear them share stories about their experience along with photos.

"Sunrise on the Reaping": An All-Ages Hunger Games Event

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Community Events, Entertainment
Registration
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Community Events, Entertainment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

Attention all Hunger Games fans! The newest book, "Sunrise on the Reaping", will tell the story of Haymitch Abernathy's journey to victor of the 50th Hunger Games.

Creative Cafe

6:30pm - 9:00pm
Teens, Adults
Community Events
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

Do you sing? Play an instrument? Write poetry? Dance? Paint? Make cookies or have some other creative gift? Join us at the Carnegie Building for Creative Cafe - a free, unique open mic event to share your creative gifts with the community.

Teen Spring Staycation Week!

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

It's Spring Break...Enjoy your "staycation" at the library!

Teen Spring Staycation Week!

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

It's Spring Break...Enjoy your "staycation" at the library!

Teen Spring Staycation Week!

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

It's Spring Break...Enjoy your "staycation" at the library!

Teen Spring Staycation Week!

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

It's Spring Break...Enjoy your "staycation" at the library!

Teen Spring Staycation Week!

1:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

It's Spring Break...Enjoy your "staycation" at the library!

Minute to Win It!

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Makerspace
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

Teens and tweens...come on down to the Makerspace and try your luck at Minute to Win It! These games are timed, some are physical, some are mental, all are FUN! 

Allergy-Free Easter Egg Hunt

10:00am - 11:00am
Kids
Community Events
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Children's Program Room
Age Group: Kids
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

MSU Alumni and Emmet County 4-H are teaming up with PDL again this year for another food-free egg hunt, along with other activities, inside the Library. Intended for ages 2-6.

Closing at 3pm

3:00pm - 5:00pm
Closing
Branches:
Petoskey District Library

Easter

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Carnegie Building, Petoskey District Library, Off Site

Earth Day Poetry Challenge

All Day
Tweens, Teens
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Education
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Teen Space
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Education
Event Details:

Celebrate Earth Day AND National Poetry Month by creating a poem in honor of Mother Earth!

2025 PDL Chess Championship

1:00pm - 7:30pm
Tweens, Teens
Community Events
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

The 2025 PDL Chess Championship will take place on Saturday, May 3, at the Carnegie Building, beginning at 1:00pm.

Star Wars Day!

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Kids, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Open
Registration
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Classroom
Age Group: Kids, Tweens, Teens, Adults, All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Community Events, Entertainment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 25
Event Details:

May the 4th be with you! Join us for an all ages Star Wars Event!

There will be trivia, food, games, and an opportunity to make your own lightsaber!

Registration is appreciated, but not required to attend.

Rod Sadler Grim Paradise

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Teens, Adults
Community Events, Entertainment
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Community Events, Entertainment
Event Details:

Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer

Community Shred

8:00am - 11:00am
All Ages
Community Events
Offsite Event
Location: Off Site
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

Petoskey District Library is partnering with Encore Financial Group and Rasmussen, Teller & Caron, P.C. again this year to sponsor a Community Shred Day program on Saturday, May 17, from 8:00am to 11:00am.

Creative Cafe

6:30pm - 9:00pm
Teens, Adults
Community Events
Location: Carnegie Building
Room: Upper Carnegie
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Community Events
Event Details:

Do you sing? Play an instrument? Write poetry? Dance? Paint? Make cookies or have some other creative gift? Join us at the Carnegie Building for Creative Cafe - a free, unique open mic event to share your creative gifts with the community.

Memorial Day

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Carnegie Building, Petoskey District Library, Off Site

The Great Book to Movie Debate!

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Tweens, Teens
Community Events, Education, Entertainment
Location: Petoskey District Library
Room: Classroom
Age Group: Tweens, Teens
Program Type: Community Events, Education, Entertainment
Event Details:

Teens and tweens! Join us for the Great Book to Movie Debate!