Event List

Youth Chess is a weekly chance for school age youth to continue to improve their critical thinking skills through the game of chess. While playing the game with other youth, new techniques, strategies, and tricks are introduced.

Read an author of your choosing from a predetermined country. April's nation is Argentina. We will meet each third Thursday of the month to discuss your author, their works, and any themes they explore.

Paint your own rock—perfect to decorate your patio or garden!

Saturday mornings with Santa Fe Poet Laureate emeritus Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

For families with kids. Make your own felt needle book for storing sewing tools. We'll also learn about folk embroidery and practice embroidering our own designs on the needle book covers. 

Join Lauren Camp, former New Mexico Poet Laureate (2022-25), as she discusses her 2026 release, Is Is Enough.

Practice reading aloud to a friendly therapy dog from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter Pet Outreach Program! Our dogs are patient, cuddly, and love to hear stories!

Join us for a panel discussion and readings by some students from the creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. 

Writing workshops with Santa Fe Public Library every first and third Tuesdays of the month. Join the creative writing group and drop in for your workshopping needs!

Teens are invited to decompress after school with tea and snacks, art supplies, board games, a reading nook/nap zone, wifi, and more. 

Hang out space for teens to relax with games, crafts, snacks, study and use wi-fi.

Youth Chess is a weekly chance for school age youth to continue to improve their critical thinking skills through the game of chess. While playing the game with other youth, new techniques, strategies, and tricks are introduced.

Join us at the library to create your own bird or bug friend using construction paper, markers, and glue!

Saturday mornings with Santa Fe Poet Laureate emeritus Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Come use your imagination to build your newest creation with Legos and blocks! 

El día de los niños / El día de los libros

Children's Day / Book Day

• Bilingual Storytime with Local Author Nancy Perez Fugere & Illustrator Issa Nyaphaga
• Bilingual Book&nb

Practice reading aloud to a friendly therapy dog from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter Pet Outreach Program! Our dogs are patient, cuddly, and love to hear stories!

Open to high school students in grades 9 to 12, this FREE two-part course will help students identify their interests, learn about college and career options, and discover tools to explore post-graduation pathways that fit their goals. 

Teens are invited to decompress after school with tea and snacks, art supplies, board games, a reading nook/nap zone, wifi, and more. 

Hang out space for teens to relax with games, crafts, snacks, study and use wi-fi.

Youth Chess is a weekly chance for school age youth to continue to improve their critical thinking skills through the game of chess. While playing the game with other youth, new techniques, strategies, and tricks are introduced.

April 30, 1926 was the day that the numerical designation for U.S. Route 66 was assigned. This year April 30, 2026 will mark the official kick-off for 100th anniversary.