Events

The Summer Reading Program is ONLINE and VIRTUAL for 2020! It is a FREE program for children grades K-6 and anyone age 13 and up! Prizes will be awarded when you complete the reading challenges! To participate, go to https://newflorencelibrary.beanstack.org/ or check out the Beanstack app in your app store!   You can also access Beanstack through your browser:

World-renowned Russian dance and music ensemble returns with more dancing, songs, and music!  Barynya will present Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Jewish and Gypsy Roma traditional dancing, music, songs, and virtuoso performances on instruments including the balalaika, garmoshka (Russian folk button accordion) and balalaika contrabass.  Registration is required for this all-ages program.  Please visit https://bit.ly/WLNRUS to register.

School-aged children and adults are invited to join national touring and award winning storyteller Megan Wells for a virtual storytelling experience that explores firebird mythology, northern European folklore and the extended summer sunlight that holds over the luscious land of Sweden.  Registration required.  Visit https://forms.gle/pQoFo85fZNqcqkMe7 to register.

Did you know that Beethoven Lives Upstairs? That’s right, famous composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, lives upstairs! Join your friends from the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in reading this great book about how music, perceptions, and understanding other people come together. Musicians from the symphony will join to bring the music in the book to life as we read through the book penned by Barbara Nichol. This live-virtual event (held via Zoom) will be a chance to see that musicians and those…

Join our friends from the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for Dance the Story at Home!, a live, 30-minute up-on-your-feet story time that explores movement and dance through a beloved children’s story.  Registration required.  Visit https://forms.gle/TSwdaVfbofHC95wn6 to register.

School-aged children and adults are invited to join national touring and award winning storyteller Megan Wells for a virtual storytelling experience that explores myth and folklore from around the world.  Registration required.  Visit https://forms.gle/zDeCo5QiKKbrVtRF9 to register.

World-renowned Russian dance and music ensemble returns with more dancing, songs, and music!  Barynya will present Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Jewish and Gypsy Roma traditional dancing, music, songs, and virtuoso performances on instruments including the balalaika, garmoshka (Russian folk button accordion) and balalaika contrabass.  Registration is required for this all-ages program.  Please visit https://bit.ly/WLNRUS to register.

Join our friends from the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for Dance the Story at Home!, a live, 30-minute up-on-your-feet story time that explores movement and dance through a beloved children’s story.  Registration required.  Visit https://forms.gle/TSwdaVfbofHC95wn6 to register.