Grab your popcorn for this program series! Tuesdays in June we’re showing a series of films for Pride Month in our Activity Room! Features include a Hayes-code era classic, a teen coming of age, parents helping their son propose, and a documentary. Snacks provided, no registration required. Stonewall Uprising (2010), TV14, 1hr 22min In the [...]
The Clapp Memorial Library hosts a bi-weekly writing group for adults aged 18+. Whether you write romance, mystery, fantasy, non-fiction, poetry, children’s books, or screenplays, you’re welcome to join us! Come meet with other writers and share what you’ve been working on over the past month, work on your writing, and more. If you are [...]
Join us for a reception and awards ceremony on Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm at Clapp Memorial Library for the winners of the ViewFinder: Belchertown Nature Photography Contest. This contest, sponsored by the Clapp Memorial Library, Friends of Lake Wallace, Quabbin Photo Group, and the Belchertown Creative Economy Committee, showcases local photographers capturing the natural [...]
Join us to create your own zen masterpiece with crayons! All experience levels welcome. Marie Tucker will lead you step by step to make your own beautiful work of art. Registration required. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/mNY9SWHF3niWJhv78 Due to the high popularity of the program and limited capacity, seats will be filled by lottery drawn from [...]
Strum along with the Ukulele Play Along on the first Monday every month! Grab your ukulele and play along - because playing your ukulele is more fun when you do it with others. We'll be focusing on 3 and 4 chord songs, with lyrics and chords provided on screen. Participants will be muted, so don't [...]
Our Mystery Book Group is held on the second Wednesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. Join us as we discuss a different mystery novel each month. Copies of the current month's pick available at the library. Email mmarszalek@cwmars.org with any questions.
Are you ready to puzzle? Sign up in a team of two for a speed puzzling competition where pairs of contestants race to finish a 500 piece puzzle. The 1st place finishers receive a puzzle. Registration required - sign your team up here for our July 8th Puzzle Competition: https://forms.gle/eDR9wxHVh4g5GquF7 The puzzles for this program [...]
The library's What "YA" Readin'? Book Group, a group for adults who read Young Adult books, will meet Thursday, July 9th at 7:00PM in the Select Board Meeting room at the Town Hall to discuss The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the circulation desk. [...]
Join us for Magic the Gathering in the Activity Room. Bring your own deck or use one of our learning decks. Everyone is welcome, however players must be fluent readers. Players under the age of 10 must have a caregiver who is at least 14 years old on the Library premises. Join us for every [...]
Wednesday, July 15th from 4:00-5:30PM Teens and their adult loved ones are invited to the library on Wednesday, July 15th from 4:00-5:00PM for an Intergenerational Stitched Journal Workshop with Lisa Hersey of Antler Editions! At this beginner class, participants will make two blank journals with pockets in the back. Materials, tools, and instruction will be [...]
The Clapp Memorial Library hosts a bi-weekly writing group for adults aged 18+. Whether you write romance, mystery, fantasy, non-fiction, poetry, children’s books, or screenplays, you’re welcome to join us! Come meet with other writers and share what you’ve been working on over the past month, work on your writing, and more. If you are [...]
Join Amanda of Morning Glory Bread to learn how to make sourdough bread using a basic and intuitive approach. You will learn simple strategies for maintaining a sourdough starter, a straightforward method for mixing and working with dough, and various methods to bake your own sourdough bread. All attendees leave the class with bread dough [...]
Join us for Magic the Gathering in the Activity Room. Bring your own deck or use one of our learning decks. Everyone is welcome, however players must be fluent readers. Players under the age of 10 must have a caregiver who is at least 14 years old on the Library premises. Join us for every [...]
Join us at the Clapp Memorial Library on Monday, July 20 at 6pm for Emily & J.G., a lively conversation that will touch the heart. For much of her life, Poet Emily Dickinson corresponded with Belchertown’s own J.G. Holland and his wife, sharing the intimate moments of their lives through language—currents of the 19th century, [...]
Bring a plant (or not!) to the library and swap it for a new one. The program takes place on the library lawn. Monthly on the third Tuesday of the month from May to September. This program is funded by the Belchertown & Around Plant Swap
Join us for Magic the Gathering in the Activity Room. Bring your own deck or use one of our learning decks. Everyone is welcome, however players must be fluent readers. Players under the age of 10 must have a caregiver who is at least 14 years old on the Library premises. Join us for every [...]
A monthly book group for lovers of high fantasy, hard science fiction, fable, far future, and all of the speculative fiction options. We meet online via Google Meet. Upcoming reads: The Last Hour Between Worlds / Melissa Caruso (6/23) Sunward / William Alexander (7/28) A Letter to the Luminous Deep / Sylvie Cathrall (8/25) Kaiju [...]
Join us for Magic the Gathering in the Activity Room. Bring your own deck or use one of our learning decks. Everyone is welcome, however players must be fluent readers. Players under the age of 10 must have a caregiver who is at least 14 years old on the Library premises. Join us for every [...]