So you’ve decided to participate in Curiouser & Curiouser: An Alice Inspired Art Contest for Teens but you want to guarantee that you win that Wacom Tablet. Don’t forget to sign up for our Artist Workshop, hosted by Kendall College of Art & Design’s Drawing Club, Vitamin D. Bring your in-progress submissions for the competition [...]
Your kids or grand kids brought home a Summer Reading Program flyer from school. You saw the blue SRP t-shirts and the lawn signs. You attended one or more of the 88 programs offered for youth this summer. It was fun, but do you realize that according to the results of The Dominican Study: Public [...]
Looking for a leg up on the competition for the upcoming contest, Curiouser & Curiouser: An Alice Inspired Art Contest for Teens? Then sign up for our Artist Workshop, hosted by Kendall College of Art & Design’s Drawing Club, Vitamin D. Bring your in-progress submissions for the competition and Vitamin D members will be there [...]
For regular Atrium readers, you may be sick of me talking about it, but the final installment of The Hunger Games trilogy is almost here! Mockingjay will be released on Tuesday, August 24. I kept joking with my co-workers that I was going to take the day off just so I could read it. Then [...]
Calling all teens! Do you have an artistic streak? Or possibly a great love of all things Wonderland related? If you answered yes to both then the library has the perfect contest for you! The Grand Rapids Public Library is proud to present Curiouser & Curiouser: An Alice Inspired Art Contest for Teens. Here’s [...]
OK…some of you might already know this but there has been some changes with the GRPL’s got Talent showcase. It was decided that instead of having separate nights of different types of performances we are going to just have one mind-blowing evening of total teen talent! So… scratch the “Wow off” from your calendar and [...]
Let us know you’ve been reading by turning in your reading record! August 7 is the last day to get your t-shirt, coupons, and be registered for drawings. It’s important to us to know that you’ve been reading during the summer. Parents and community members, we keep track of how many youth in the [...]
`Tis shipmate tides at th’ Main Library. We`ll be showin’ each o’ th’ Gentleman o’ Fortune o’ th’ Caribbean (that would be Pirates of the Caribbean for those of you don’t speak Pirate) movies plus Stardust throughout th’ week. Th’ movies will start each night at 6. We dasn’t e’en mind if ye come dressed [...]
Be on the look out for a crazy science dude in a white lab coat. He’ll be making the rounds to every library location to teach teens to solve mysteries and mix up mysterious slime – all using the power of water! Check out the Mad Water Science schedule online. He even showed up on [...]
So, if you’re a kid or teen and you’ve been reading ever so diligently….uh, ever so much, just waiting for that t-shirt, guess what? They’re here! If you have finished your water slide reading record or your first teen raffle, you can now go to your local branch to pick up your t-shirt and other [...]
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