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Dec
2
Sat
December Art Show – Keys Quilters
Dec 2 – Dec 28 all-day
December Art Show - Keys Quilters

Florida Keys Quilters will display their quilts on the walls of the Community Center December 2-December 28.  Check their Facebook page for additional information.  https://www.facebook.com/p/Florida-Keys-Quilters-100069333853618/

 

Saturday Movie Matinees Holiday Edition @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 2 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Come watch movies with us on Saturday Afternoons from 2-4 PM!  This month will focus on Holiday movies!

December 2: Nightmare Before Christmas

December 9: The Illumination Grinch

December 16: Polar Express, that day we will also have a pajama party with some fun snacks and a craft!

December 30: Frozen, we are also mixing it up with Slime during the movie!

Dec
4
Mon
Cookie Decorating @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 4 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

December 4th is National Cookie Day and we are celebrating at the Marathon Branch by Decorating cookies!  Join us after school to decorate your own cookies!

Dec
5
Tue
Art exhibit – Treasure Village Montessori School @ Islamorada Library Branch, Community Room
Dec 5 2023 @ 9:00 am – Jan 5 2024 @ 5:00 pm

View the works created by students at the Treasure Village Montessori School. During a unit on peace projects, they studied the works of artists Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Romare Britto and Banksy.

Let’s Learn Libby! @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The Libby App allows you to borrow ebooks and audiobooks using your library card from the Monroe County Public Library System. Stop by the Islamorada Library on Tuesday, May 23 between 2:00 and 4:30 pm with your library card, smartphone, laptop or e-reading device to learn more.

 

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Art Exhibit opening reception – Treasure Village Montessori School @ Islamorada Library Branch, Community Room
Dec 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

From Dec. 5-Jan. 5, we are showcasing the aspiring artists at the Treasure Village Montessori School. The TVM students studied the works of Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Romare Britto and Banksy. Students explored peace projects, inspired by contemporary artists, using printmaking, paintings, graphite and ink. Each class studied a different artist, learning the background and art style.a palette with different colors of paint and a peace symbol painted on a piece of paper.

Dec
7
Thu
Feeding South Florida – Making Acai Bowls @ Key Largo Library
Dec 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Feeding South Florida - Making Acai Bowls @ Key Largo Library

Lunch anyone?  Join us for another presentation and food demonstration from Feeding South Florida.  This month, we’ll follow up with My Plate information and then participants will make their very own Acai Bowl with fresh ingredients.  Come hungry – leave happy.  All Ages welcome – all supplies provided.

Dec
8
Fri
Tech Help @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 8 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Islamorada Library offers basic tech help with laptops, tablets and e-reading devices. Drop in with your device on Fridays between 2 pm and 5 pm for help or schedule a one-on-one session by calling (305) 664-4645.

Gingerbread Houses! @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 8 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

December 12th is Gingerbread house Day, so we are celebrating early on Friday, December 8th at 3:30 PM, by making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers!  You bring your imagination and we will have the supplies to make your gingerbread house dreams come true!

Dec
9
Sat
Saturday Movie Matinees Holiday Edition @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Come watch movies with us on Saturday Afternoons from 2-4 PM!  This month will focus on Holiday movies!

December 2: Nightmare Before Christmas

December 9: The Illumination Grinch

December 16: Polar Express, that day we will also have a pajama party with some fun snacks and a craft!

December 30: Frozen, we are also mixing it up with Slime during the movie!

Dec
12
Tue
Re-use & Re-purpose Program With A Craft @ Islamorada Library Branch, Community Room
Dec 12 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join Melody Tuschel, the Monroe County recycling coordinator, as we discover new ideas in re-using and re-purposing items we might normally throw away. We will re-purpose provided supplies to create holiday ornaments. All supplies provided.

Have an item you can’t figure out how best to re-use or re-purpose? Bring it with you! If you can’t bring it in, come on in and tell us about it. With a little brainstorming, we will help you figure it out!

Let’s Learn Libby! @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The Libby App allows you to borrow ebooks and audiobooks using your library card from the Monroe County Public Library System. Stop by the Islamorada Library on Tuesday, May 23 between 2:00 and 4:30 pm with your library card, smartphone, laptop or e-reading device to learn more.

 

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Dec
13
Wed
QUIT SMOKING @ Key Largo Library
Dec 13 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
QUIT SMOKING @ Key Largo Library

Wednesdays @ 1:00 p.m.

Counselor Beth Dunlap, RN is here with advice, free products and plans to help you quit smoking. Sponsored by AHEC (Area Health Education Center).

 

Tools to Quit is a group designed to address all aspects of nicotine addiction, in addition to helping people develop a quit plan and identify a quit date. Free nicotine replacement is available/provided to address a person’s physical dependence to tobacco. Studies show that group counseling combined with nicotine replacement can more than double a person’s chances of quitting and staying quit. Led by Beth Dunlap, RN.

Dec
15
Fri
Quilt Show and Demonstrations @ Key Largo Library
Dec 15 – Dec 16 all-day

Join the Florida Keys Quilters for a Quilt Show and demonstration throughout the day on Friday and Saturday.

Tech Help @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 15 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Islamorada Library offers basic tech help with laptops, tablets and e-reading devices. Drop in with your device on Fridays between 2 pm and 5 pm for help or schedule a one-on-one session by calling (305) 664-4645.

Santa Party! @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 15 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The Monroe County Public Library in Marathon is hosting a Santa Party!  Bring your camera or cell phone up to the Activity Center in the Library to grab a Selfie with the big man himself before he takes his annual flight. We will also have additional activities including a story time with Santa!

Dec
16
Sat
Saturday Movie Matinees Holiday Edition @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Come watch movies with us on Saturday Afternoons from 2-4 PM!  This month will focus on Holiday movies!

December 2: Nightmare Before Christmas

December 9: The Illumination Grinch

December 16: Polar Express, that day we will also have a pajama party with some fun snacks and a craft!

December 30: Frozen, we are also mixing it up with Slime during the movie!

Dec
18
Mon
Afternoon Matinee – The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) @ Islamorada Library Branch, Community Room
Dec 18 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

movie poster with a man sitting at a desk and other figures behind him. Text reads The Man who invented christmas.

In 1843, despite the fact that Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads – until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind: an old, lonely, embittered man (Christopher Plummer) so vivid, so human that a whole world grows around him. A story so inspiring that it changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Dec
19
Tue
Let’s Learn Libby! @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The Libby App allows you to borrow ebooks and audiobooks using your library card from the Monroe County Public Library System. Stop by the Islamorada Library on Tuesday, May 23 between 2:00 and 4:30 pm with your library card, smartphone, laptop or e-reading device to learn more.

 

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Dec
20
Wed
QUIT SMOKING @ Key Largo Library
Dec 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
QUIT SMOKING @ Key Largo Library

Wednesdays @ 1:00 p.m.

Counselor Beth Dunlap, RN is here with advice, free products and plans to help you quit smoking. Sponsored by AHEC (Area Health Education Center).

 

Tools to Quit is a group designed to address all aspects of nicotine addiction, in addition to helping people develop a quit plan and identify a quit date. Free nicotine replacement is available/provided to address a person’s physical dependence to tobacco. Studies show that group counseling combined with nicotine replacement can more than double a person’s chances of quitting and staying quit. Led by Beth Dunlap, RN.

Dec
22
Fri
Wrap Party @ Monroe County Public Library Marathon
Dec 22 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Gift Wrapping and Crafting Party!

It is early dismissal day today, so what better way to spend the day than at the library.  Wrap up your holiday shopping by bringing your gifts in to get help wrapping.  We will provide the wrapping paper, bows, tape, scissors and a few crafts that you can gift!

 

Tech Help @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 22 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Islamorada Library offers basic tech help with laptops, tablets and e-reading devices. Drop in with your device on Fridays between 2 pm and 5 pm for help or schedule a one-on-one session by calling (305) 664-4645.

Dec
25
Mon
Christmas – Library branches are closed
Dec 25 all-day

All branches of the Monroe County Public Library are closed on Monday, Dec. 25, in observance of Christmas.

With a Monroe County Public Library card, you can get eBooks and eAudiobooks any time at www.keyslibraries.overdrive.com.

More online offerings, like movies, online courses and more, are available at our website, www.keyslibraries.org.

You can also get books and DVDs from our Library Lending Machines 24/7 at the Murray Nelson Government Center, 102050 Overseas Highway, Key Largo or from 7 a..m. to 10 p.m. daily at Bernstein Park, 6751 Fifth St., Stock Island.

If you have questions about library services, please visit or call your local branch or email info@keyslibraries.org.

 

Dec
26
Tue
Let’s Learn Libby! @ Islamorada Branch Library
Dec 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

The Libby App allows you to borrow ebooks and audiobooks using your library card from the Monroe County Public Library System. Stop by the Islamorada Library on Tuesday, May 23 between 2:00 and 4:30 pm with your library card, smartphone, laptop or e-reading device to learn more.

 

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