Upcoming Events

Name: How to Plan Your Garden for Seed Saving
Start: 2025-04-05T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-05T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Central Library

Featured Events

How to Plan Your Garden for Seed Saving

Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (CEN) at Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

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Library Branch: Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (CEN)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Crafts, Hobbies, & DIY, Gardening & Food, STEM

Event Details:

If you are considering saving seeds from your garden to plant next year or give away, experienced Master Gardeners will share things to know in advance:

audiobook cover of Homelessness is a Housing Problem

Homelessness is a Housing Problem: National Data, Local Plans & Progress

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Auditorium (CEN) at Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

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Library Branch: Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

Room: Auditorium (CEN)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Books, Authors & Writing, Current Events

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Why do some metropolitan areas of the U.S., such as Boston and Seattle, have much higher rates of homelessness than others, such as Chicago and Detroit? In a 30-minute virtual presentation, author and researcher Dr.

Football Fan-O-Rama

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:00am - 1:00pm

Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (CEN) at Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

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Library Branch: Central Library - Downtown Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (CEN)

Age Group: Adults, All Ages, Children, Tweens & Teens

Program Type: Current Events, Just for Fun

Event Details:

Celebrate all things football at this family-friendly event! Interactive and hands-on activities for all ages including:

Aquatic Invasive Species in NE Wisconsin

Monday, April 28, 2025 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Wrightstown Branch

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Library Branch: Wrightstown Branch

Age Group: Adults, All Ages, Tweens & Teens

Program Type: General Interest

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Chris Acy, Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator, of Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, dives beneath the surface of local waters to explore and identify plant invaders. Learn how they arrived and how they can be controlled.

Author Annelise Ryan with her newest release "Death in the Dark Woods"

Local Author Visit: Annelise Ryan

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA) at East Branch - Green Bay

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Library Branch: East Branch - Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts & Culture, Books, Authors & Writing

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Annelise Ryan, local Wisconsin mystery writer and author of A Death in Door County and the Mattie Winston Mysteries series, will discuss her path to publication and more!

Man with long gray hair and goatee in a green feathered hat and black vest over a white shirt holding a Great Horned Owl on a gloved hand.

Renaissance Faire

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 11:00am - 3:00pm

Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (WH) at Weyers-Hilliard Branch - Howard

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Library Branch: Weyers-Hilliard Branch - Howard

Room: Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (WH)

Age Group: Adults, All Ages, Children, Tweens & Teens

Program Type: Arts & Culture, Crafts, Hobbies, & DIY, Exhibit, General Interest, Just for Fun, Live Music/Performance

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Hear ye, hear ye! Join us to experience magic and merriment at the 5th annual Brown County Library Renaissance Faire. Step back in time for a mix of history, fantasy, and arts.

Learn Through Play Literacy Day: Loose Parts

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am

Meeting Room (PUL) at Pulaski Branch

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Library Branch: Pulaski Branch

Room: Meeting Room (PUL)

Age Group: Children

Program Type: STEM, Storytime & Early Learning

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Help your child get ready to read with hands-on activities designed to promote early literacy skills. Learn through play with wooden blocks, magnetic tiles, and so much more!

For ages 3-5.

VA S.A.V.E- Helping a Veteran in Crisis

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Meeting Room (PUL) at Pulaski Branch

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Library Branch: Pulaski Branch

Room: Meeting Room (PUL)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Health & Wellness

Gain an understanding of the scope of veteran suicide and how to act with care and compassion if you identify a Veteran who is in crisis or having thoughts of suicide. Learn the important steps in suicide prevention - Signs, Ask, Validate, and Encourage and Expedite (S.A.V.E.). Presented by Kylene Occhietti, LICSW, Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Green Bay VA and Cleveland VA Clinics.

Magnificent Monarchs

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA) at East Branch - Green Bay

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Library Branch: East Branch - Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Gardening & Food, General Interest

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Explore the significance of the Monarch butterfly. Delve into the multi-generational migration patterns of North American populations, their sanctuaries, and the essential aspects of their life cycle.

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Learn Through Play Literacy Day: Sports

10:15am - 11:15am

Children

Ashwaubenon Branch

Library Branch: Ashwaubenon Branch

Room: Meeting Room (ASH)

Age Group: Children

Program Type: Arts & Culture, Crafts, Hobbies, & DIY, Just for Fun, STEM, Storytime & Early Learning

Event Details:

Help your child get ready to read with hands-on activities designed to promote early literacy skills. Learn through play with balls, hoops, and so much more! Ages 3-5

Creating Art with Clay Studio 1242

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Adults

Ashwaubenon Branch

Library Branch: Ashwaubenon Branch

Room: Meeting Room (ASH)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts & Culture

Event Details:

Meet the owners of the new Clay Studio 1242 with a wheel demonstration. Learn about the classes offered, art available for purchase and the great story of turning the building into a working studio.

Local Author Visit: Annelise Ryan

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Adults

East Branch - Green Bay

Library Branch: East Branch - Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts & Culture, Books, Authors & Writing

Event Details:

Annelise Ryan, local Wisconsin mystery writer and author of A Death in Door County and the Mattie Winston Mysteries series, will discuss her path to publication and more!

Artist Meet & Greet: Naomi Moes

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Adults

Southwest Branch - Green Bay

Library Branch: Southwest Branch - Green Bay

Room: Meeting Room (SW)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts & Culture, General Interest

Event Details:

National award-winning sculptor Naomi Moes-Jenkins shares her creative journey and the evolution of her art. View examples of her work, with a demonstration and discussion to follow.

Renaissance Faire

11:00am - 3:00pm

Adults, All Ages, Children, Tweens & Teens

Weyers-Hilliard Branch - Howard

Library Branch: Weyers-Hilliard Branch - Howard

Room: Combined Meeting Room 1 & 2 (WH)

Age Group: Adults, All Ages, Children, Tweens & Teens

Program Type: Arts & Culture, Crafts, Hobbies, & DIY, Exhibit, General Interest, Just for Fun, Live Music/Performance

Event Details:

Hear ye, hear ye! Join us to experience magic and merriment at the 5th annual Brown County Library Renaissance Faire. Step back in time for a mix of history, fantasy, and arts.

CLOSED for Staff Development Event

All Day

Wrightstown Branch

Closing

Branches:

Wrightstown Branch

Description:

Wrightstown Branch is CLOSED all day for a staff development event.

Library CLOSED until NOON

9:00am - 12:00pm

Some Branches

Closing

Branches:

Central Library - Downtown Green Bay, Ashwaubenon Branch, Denmark Branch, East Branch - Green Bay, Kress Family Branch - De Pere, Pulaski Branch, Southwest Branch - Green Bay, Weyers-Hilliard Branch - Howard, Bookmobile, Off Site

Description:

All library locations will be CLOSED for a staff development event from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

All libraries (except Wrightstown) will reopen and resume regular hours at 12:00 pm. Wrightstown will be closed all day.

Native American Beading

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Adults

East Branch - Green Bay

Library Branch: East Branch - Green Bay

Room: Combined Meeting Room East & West (EA)

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Arts & Culture

Event Details:

Jennifer Jordan will demonstrate Native American beading and discuss its history and cultural significance. She is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and has been beading since she was 18.