Babytime Story time (3-12 mo) Fall 2023 9:00-9:45 AM, Mondays, Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 23, 30, & Nov 6 Babytime is for ages 3 – 12 months and begins @ 9:00 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required, click here to [...]
Monday Firststeps (12-24 months) Fall 2023 10:00-10:45 AM, Mondays, Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 23, 30, & Nov 6 Firststeps is for ages 12 – 24 months and begins @ 10:00 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required, click here to sign [...]
Calling all Belchertown Students for Afterschool D&D 2:30-4:00PM, October 16th, 23rd, 30th, November 6th, 13th, & 20th When a cosmic enemy threatens to destroy their world, brave heroes must do everything in their power to save it. This quest will take them across the teeming oceans of Wildspace to the silvery void of the Astral [...]
Our fiction book club, Clapp Critics meets every 4th Monday of the Month. Book Club members should email akuchieski@cwmars.org for meeting details. Clapp Critics is currently full. Please note, our the November meeting is on 11/20 not 11/27!
Tuesday Toddler Time (2-3 years) Fall 2023 9:30-10:30 AM, Tuesdays, Sep 19, 26, Oct 3, 24, 31, & Nov 7 Toddler Storytime is for children aged 2 years, and begins @ 9:30 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required, click here to [...]
Spooky stories and flashlight scavenger hunt at the School Gardens at SRE & CHCS Tuesday, October 24th 5:30 pm Join Debra Lapointe, a master gardener and Jennifer Whitehead, Head of Youth Services at the Clapp Memorial Library, for an evening of creepy stories and a dark scavenger hunt through the gardens. Costumes welcome, come dressed [...]
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 Naming Song / Jedediah Berry (1/27) The Children of Blood and Bone / Tomi Adeyemi (2/24) The Tainted Cup / Robert Jackson Bennett (3/24) [...]
Meet local author Jordan J. Hall and celebrate the launch of his new book, Mammoth, Massachusetts. Enjoy a refreshment while he reads from this collection of speculative short stories. After spending half his life on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin and half his life in film production in New York City, Jordan now resides [...]
Attention young writers, poets, playwrights, and novelists! Teen Write Nights, a weekly creative writing program for students in grades 7-12, will soon resume at the Clapp Memorial Library. This program celebrating National Novel Writing Month is a great opportunity for young writers to get feedback, build community, participate in writing exercises and grow their word [...]
Preschool Story Time (3-6 years) Fall 2023 9:30-10:30 am, Thursdays, Sep 28, Oct 5, 19, 26, Nov 2 & 9 Raising Readers Story Time is for ages 3-6 and begins @ 9:30 AM. Registration is required. Our story times feature age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays and art activities. Registration and confirmation required, click here to [...]