Week Calendar

Need extra food for you and your family? Pikes Peak Library District partners with Care & Share Food Bank to bring their “grocer on wheels” to patrons weathering life’s storms.

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Join local yoga instructor Svetlana Nudelman in this virtual yoga class for beginners and intermediate level practitioners. Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the class.

Babies from birth to 12 months, with a favorite adult, enjoy songs, bouncing action rhymes, and sharing a book together. This program lasts approximately 20 – 25 minutes.

Babies from birth to 12-months, with a favorite adult, enjoy songs, bouncing action rhymes, and sharing a book together. If an older sibling wishes to come along, they might want to bring their own baby doll so they can participate too. 

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

Children ages 3 and up, with a favorite adult, experience stories through books, flannelboards, puppets, songs, and activities.

ESL classes are for adults that want to improve the workplace and everyday language. Classes are focused on: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking.

The GED, HiSET and TASC are alternatives to a high school diploma. PPLD offer Adult Basic Education (ABE) and High School Equivalency (HSE) free classes that will help adults for such tests. We offer preparation for Language Arts, Social

Have you ever wondered what happens at the Library when it's closed? We will share our secret world with your stuffed animal friends at our Stuffed Animal Sleepover. Dolls and other "babies" are invited as well. One toy per child. Ages 3-7.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Come and join us for a fun Storytime featuring early literacy activities and stories signed in American Sign Language (ASL) by a Deaf role model, and spoken aloud in English!

Learn more about PPLD's Food Industry Training Program and take the mandatory pre-test for admission. 

Our 5-week intensive training program will help you learn the skills you need to enter a career in the culinary industry.

The GED and HiSET  are alternatives to a high school diploma. PPLD offer Adult Basic Education (ABE) and High School Equivalency (HSE) free classes that will help adults for such tests. We offer preparation for Language Arts, Social

One and two-year-old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Join local yoga instructor Svetlana Nudelman in this virtual yoga class for beginners and intermediate level practitioners. Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the class.

ESL classes are for adults that want to improve the workplace and everyday language. Classes are focused on: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking.

The GED, HiSET and TASC are alternatives to a high school diploma. PPLD offer Adult Basic Education (ABE) and High School Equivalency (HSE) free classes that will help adults for such tests. We offer preparation for Language Arts, Social

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult. 

Due to our fire code limit, we can only provide space to 35 patrons. Arrive early.  

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult. 

One and two-year-old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Join local yoga instructor Svetlana Nudelman in this virtual yoga class for beginners and intermediate level practitioners. Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the class.

Attendees of all ages are invited to attend the program wherein three outstanding women will tell the stories of their paths to each career and the impediments to their successes.  Opera singer Cecilia Violetta Lopez will perform as well as b

Take the first steps into designing graphics for laser cutting. Using Inkscape, a free Vector Graphics Software, we will create custom coaster designs to engrave and cut out of 1/8” wood. Don’t coast on your creativity with a laser engraver!

Join a certified yoga therapist for a specific low impact trauma-informed yoga class.

Babies from birth to 12 months, with a favorite adult, enjoy songs, bouncing action rhymes, and sharing a book together. This program lasts approximately 20 – 25 minutes.

Babies from birth to 12-months, with a favorite adult, enjoy songs, bouncing action rhymes, and sharing a book together. If an older sibling wishes to come along, they might want to bring their own baby doll so they can participate too.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Description: We're taking poetry off the page and creating poems and stories with building blocks. Use the building blocks with words and phrases attached to create a skyscraper of poems or a house of stories. Be creative and build with us!

It’s National Voter Registration Day! In partnership with PPLD, members from the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region will be on-site inside three libraries on Tue., Sept.

It’s National Voter Registration Day! In partnership with PPLD, members from the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region will be on-site inside three libraries on Tue., Sept.

It’s National Voter Registration Day! In partnership with PPLD, members from the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region will be on-site inside three libraries on Tue., Sept.

Join us for open-ended play! We'll have fun toys to enhance your child's early literacy learning. Meet new friends and have fun playing together. For ages 1 - 3 years old. No registration required.

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult. 

Stories and more for children with their favorite adult.

Have you ever wondered what happens at the Library when it's closed? We will share our secret world with your stuffed animal friends at our Stuffed Animal Sleepover. Dolls and other "babies" are invited as well. One toy per child. Ages 3-7.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

These informal gatherings for seniors offer information sharing, networking, discussions, and coffee. All are welcome.

Free. No registration required.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Learn how to maximize the Foundation Directory's tools to identify potential grants.  The database provides information including grant recipients, their location, dollar amounts granted, and suggested funders.  The class is designed for

Join us for open-ended play! We'll have fun toys to enhance your child's early literacy learning. Meet new friends and have fun playing together. For ages 0-5 years old. No registration required.

One and two-year-old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

Join us for a showing of "The Packy Puppet Show" presented by the Manitou Springs Heritage Center. The production is inspired by the book, Packy Climbs Pikes Peak written by locally renowned author, Maud M. Keithley. 

Join us and learn to use PPLD resources to improve your computer skills. This learning experience consists of three (3) in-person classes. 

There's no cost to participate. 

What you’ll need  

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

Due to our fire code limit, we can only provide space to 35 patrons. Arrive early.  

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult. 

One and two-year-old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year-old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

One and two-year old children, with a favorite adult, participate in nursery rhymes, music and movement, and listen to a few short books.

Join the Cousars to learn about drumming and participate in a drum circle. Learn about Balphons and Balongi, and other percussion instruments.

Homeschoolers: Sketch a composition for viewing with 3-D glasses! Turn your expert drawing into a three-dimensional anaglyph using transfer paper and markers. Then make the 3-D glasses and watch it POP!. 

Internet Basics 3

Speak English groups are fun English language conversation groups for adults with intermediate and advanced English skills.

Each group meets once a week for two hours to practice English.

Join this fun group of fiber friends for a couple of hours of working on projects. 

Stories and more for children and their favorite adult.

Stories and more for children ages 3 and older, with a favorite adult.

Did you know studies show that art making builds motor skills, reading readiness, and math concepts? Bring your little one to a special event made just for them where they will experience creative and playful adventures with art!

This informal gathering for seniors offers information sharing, networking, discussions, and coffee. All are welcome! No registration required.

Bring your friends and family to join PPLD and Hike It Baby for a Stroller Parade! We will read stories, decorate strollers, trikes, and mobility devices, and then take a stroll through the park to the play ground! 

Each month, we'll create a new quilt block together, drawing from classic American quilt designs. At the end of the year, join your blocks together to create a sampler quilt! In September we will make a Log Cabin block.

Celebrate fall with your neighbors at High Prairie Library's annual Harvest Festival. Join us for arts and crafts, food and music, children's activities and more.

10 a.m. - Falcon High School Marching Band
10:30 a.m. - Top Hogs

Did you know studies show that art making builds motor skills, reading readiness, and math concepts? Bring your little one to a special event made just for them where they will experience creative and playful adventures with art!

Join a certified yoga therapist for a specific low impact trauma-informed yoga class.

Need extra food for you and your family? Pikes Peak Library District partners with Care & Share Food Bank to bring their “grocer on wheels” to patrons weathering life’s storms.

This informal gathering for seniors offers information sharing, networking, discussions, and coffee. All are welcome! No registration required.

Stories and more for children and their favorite adult. 

Join us for open-ended play! We’ll have fun toys to enhance your child’s early literacy learning. Meet new friends and have fun playing together.

For ages 1-3 years old. No registration required

The Old Colorado City Library meets monthly in person (call about Zoom options) to discuss favorite popular and timely fiction and non-fiction.  See PDF link for upcoming book titles.  Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch.

A career search starts before you write a resume and begin applying for jobs.

For parents and caregivers with children 1-3 years old.

Simon Winchester, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Professor and the Mad

Do you have a child between the ages of 0-32 months? Do you wonder how much you talk with your child? LENA Start is a 11-week, virtual program that will increase your child’s language development.

Do you have a child between the ages of 0-32 months? Do you wonder how much you talk with your child? LENA Start is a 11-week, virtual program that will increase your child’s language development.

Check out the behind-the-scenes action in Collection Management! Learn how PPLD acquires and distributes the books and other material you find on Library shelves.

A yoga class for all, focusing on linking breath and movement.  The practice introduces traditional yoga sequences where one pose "flows" into the next.  Perfect for beginners, but leaves lots of room to incorporate more challenging pose

A career search starts before you write a resume and begin applying for jobs.

Come and enjoy a movie based on a Banned Book.

Celebrate All Pikes Peak Reads (APPR) by making a personalized Library Book Tote! Using blank canvas totes and fabric markers, stencils, and other decorations, you will make a personalized and fun tote to carry all of your library books.

THIS IS A ZOOM MEETING. Please set up your computer with the Zoom client app prior to the meeting, so that you are not delayed getting into the meeting.

Silver Key Service Extension (Grab N' Go Meals Calhan) provides delicious and nutritious meals to eligible diners, promoting good health.  

Silver Key Service Extension (Grab N' Go Meals Falcon/High Prairie) provides delicious and nutritious meals to eligible diners, promoting good health.  

Rockrimmon Friends Group

Speak English groups are fun English language conversation groups for adults with intermediate and advanced English skills.

Each group meets once a week for two hours to practice English.

Homeschoolers: Sketch a composition for viewing with 3-D glasses!  Turn your expert drawing into a three-dimensional anaglyph using transfer paper and markers.  Then make the 3-D glasses and watch it POP!

Join us and learn to use PPLD resources to improve your computer skills. This learning experience consists of three (3) in-person classes. 

There's no cost to participate. 

What you’ll need  

Origami has been around for over 1000 years! Let’s look at origami under a different light. The art of paper folding was once considered a child’s activity, but now it attracts mathematicians, designers, engineers, and artists all over the world.

Homeschoolers, come explore your creativity with the laser cutter! You will learn how to make cool custom charms and keychains and then cut them out on the laser.

Celebrate All Pikes Peak Reads (APPR) by making a personalized Library Book Tote! Using blank canvas totes and fabric markers, stencils, and other decorations, you will make a personalized and fun tote to carry all of your library books.

Toss it? No Way! Fix it at Repair Cafe! 

Practice reading aloud and improve fluency by sharing a story with one of our lovable Paws to Read therapy dogs.

Celebrate Banned Books Week by making a Reading Progress Jar.  In this program, you will make tiny representations of the banned books you have read, and will get to leave with some materials to add more books (banned or not) to your reading

Did you know studies show that art making builds motor skills, reading readiness, and math concepts? Bring your little one to a special event made just for them where they will experience creative and playful adventures with art!

This virtual class is an introduction to help you discover your Ayurvedic body type (dosha). Knowing your dosha can help you maximize your health through individualizing your diet and lifestyle.

A career search starts before you write a resume and begin applying for jobs.

The Ruth Holley Book Club meets on the 4th Friday of the month to discuss a book in person or over Zoom. Please send an email to Stacey Marin (smarin@ppld.org) if interested in participating virtually. 

Have you ever wanted to 3D print your own designs but not known how to make them?

This session will provide a basic overview on how to create and modify 3D designs using TinkerCAD, a free browser-based 3D modeling platform.

Origami has been around for over 1000 years! Let’s look at origami under a different light. The art of paper folding was once considered a child’s activity, but now it attracts mathematicians, designers, engineers, and artists all over the world.

Make magical designs by scratching away the black paint to reveal mystery colors!

Explore gravitational potential energy, engineering, and problem solving as you use recycled materials to create a marble run. For ages 5-12.

Practice reading aloud and improve fluency by sharing a story with one of our lovable Paws to Read therapy dogs.

Practice the skills learned in the Computer Basics series.

Children may practice reading skills by reading to a Canine Good Citizen certified dog.

For parents and caregivers with children 1-3 years old.

Need math help? Come work with our community volunteer tutors. All grade levels welcome. No reservations necessary. Tutors available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Practice reading aloud and improve fluency by sharing a story with one of our lovable Paws to Read therapy dogs.

Practice reading aloud and improve fluency by sharing a story with one of our lovable Paws to Read therapy dogs.

Use your creativity to make your own fossil print with clay and some fun plants and mini animals! Ages 5 - 12.

In this lockbox escape room, participants will be given a series of clues that they must solve to unlock the box! The program encourages teamwork and using problem-solving skills.