Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• July 16, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Community, Learning
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Join us for creative instruction, inspiration, or just freestyle your art skills.

Library provides supplies, you bring inspiration

No need to register, just show up!

Children under the age of 5 must be accompanied by an adult.

Sponsored by Friends of Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library

All programs are subject to change.  Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. 

• July 19, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us for stories, songs & crafts! The new storytime series will happen every 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Best suited for 2 – 5 year olds.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged but not required. Program schedule is subject to change.

• July 19, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Health & Wellness, Reading programs
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Read to a therapy dog!  All dogs participating in this program are specially trained and can help patrons practice reading aloud without judgment. The minutes spent reading to a dog applies toward your Summer Reading Challenge goal!

All Ages Welcome! If you want a comfortable setting to practice your reading fluency or reduce stress, this is the event for you. Bring your favorite book or choose from the many available titles on hand.

Registrations can be made on July 19 by phone 831-6831 or in person. Sessions with a therapy dog are 10 minutes long. Walk-ins welcome as space permits.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required.

• July 21, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• Categories: Entertainment, Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Children’s Monday movies are back at the library and we’re providing the popcorn! Check with us for movie titles and ratings.

Appropriate for children 5+, younger children are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible.  Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required.  All programs are subject to change.

• July 25, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Are you a chess aficionado who would like to up your game a bit? Come to Salt Lake-Moanalua!

Matthew Washington has coached chess at Pearl City Elementary School and Highlands Intermediate School. Skills that will be worked on: Critical thinking, Decision-making, Sportsmanship, Time management and Pattern recognition.

Sponsored by the Friends of Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.See a schedule of upcoming events on the HSPLS Events Calendar.

• July 26, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Films & Movies, History, Learning, Music
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Note: This event has been rescheduled from July 28, 2025.

Join us as we celebrate Mele with a free local documentary film screening!

Those Who Came Before: The Musical Journey of Eddie Kamae pays tribute to three remarkable teachers that have guided Eddie Kamae: the great author and translator Mary Kawena Pukui, the “Songwriter of Waipiʻo” Sam Liʻa, and “Aloha Chant” author Pilahi Paki. One by one, they entrusted Eddie with key pieces of Hawaiʻi’s heritage – inspiring him to understand, perform, and pass that heritage on to the children of Hawaiʻi. This 57-minute film is suitable for ages 7 and up.

Free documentary copies will be provided, while supplies last.

Mahalo to The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation for generously sponsoring this film screening event and for their gracious donation of film copies.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. Program schedule is subject to change.

• July 28, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Health & Wellness, Reading programs
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Read to a therapy dog!  All dogs participating in this program are specially trained and can help patrons practice reading aloud without judgment. The minutes spent reading to a dog applies toward your Summer Reading Challenge goal!

All Ages Welcome! If you want a comfortable setting to practice your reading fluency or reduce stress, this is the event for you. Bring your favorite book or choose from the many available titles on hand.

Registrations can be made on July 28 by phone 831-6831 or in person. Sessions with a therapy dog are 10 minutes long. Walk-ins welcome as space permits.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required.

• August 2, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us for stories, songs & crafts! The new storytime series will happen every 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Best suited for 2 – 5 year olds.

All children must be accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged but not required. Program schedule is subject to change.

• August 2, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Join us for a reading by Donald Carreira Ching!

There will be light refreshments, Q & A, and book signing.

Against a backdrop of economic hardship, housing instability, cultural transition, and environmental loss, Carreira Ching’s new collection, Blood Work and Other Stories, focuses on the complexities of identity, family, and belonging. His characters live in a Hawai’i far removed from tourist postcards, navigating grief, displacement, and intergenerational trauma. Still, in the overlooked corners of the islands, they hold tight to the connections that root them in community.

Donald Carreira Ching was born and raised in Kahaluʻu on the island of Oʻahu. His debut novel, Between Sky and Sea: A Family’s Struggle, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 2015 and was awarded the Ka Palapala Poʻokela award for excellence in literature, honorable mention, and is listed by Honolulu Magazine as one of Hawaiʻi’s “essential books.” His collection, Blood Work and Other Stories, was released this year. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Writing at Leeward Community College.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events on the HSPLS Events Calendar.

• August 4, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Join us for a LEGO challenge! We provide the LEGOs … and a challenge. No need to register, just show up!

Children under the age of 5 must be accompanied by an adult.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. Program schedule is subject to change.