Our free all-ages summer reading games are back in person! Read for fun, complete activities, and attend events to earn prizes! Pick up a game board beginning May 23 at the Downtown Library, Ellettsville Branch, or on the Bookmobile! This year, the Friends of the Library Foundation will donate $1,000 to the Community Kitchen of Monroe County when we meet our registration goal of 1,000 people! Learn more at mcpl.info/summerreading. 

Looking for something fun to explore? Come view the 3" x 3" painted tiny art masterpieces at the Ellettsville Branch Art Gallery, painted by local kids, teens, and adults! All ages. Drop in throughout the month of June.

We’re teaming up with Vintage Phoenix Comic Books for our annual celebration of comics and manga, and a challenge to create a piece of sequential art from start to finish in one day! Art supplies are provided, as well as prizes, lunch, and snacks. Come by for an hour or stay for the entire day, but don't miss the special anime drawing program from 1–2 PM presented by artist Carlos Nieto III of Anime Your Way. Age 7 & up.

Families with babies play, sing, read, and talk together! Ages birth–3. Please register.

Explore your creativity with different materials and techniques at this fun, open-ended art experience. Dress to mess. For ages 3–6 and their families.

Intermediate English skills suggested. If you do not speak English, please fill out the VITAL Services form to learn about programs for beginners.

VITAL Summer Session classes meet for 8 weeks, May 29-July 23. 

Join us as we learn about water-based process art––paper marbling, abstract watercolors, and more! Play with the materials and learn how they interact with these crafts that use various media suspended on water and transferred to paper to create beautiful artwork. Age 16 & up. Please register.