Hawaii State
Public Library System

• May 22, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us Thursday mornings for stories, songs & crafts!

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.

• May 22, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

In preparation for our Summer Reading Challenge, Storytime will be postposed until May 29, 2025. Storytime will resume on June 3, 2025.

• May 29, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us Thursday mornings for stories, songs & crafts!

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.

• May 29, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

In preparation for our Summer Reading Challenge, Storytime will be postposed until May 29, 2025. Storytime will resume on June 3, 2025.

• May 31, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Music, Reading programs
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Kick off Summer Reading with music & magic! Performances by U.S. Pacific Fleet Band and Magician James Lee are sure to intrigue.

Join us for E Heluhelu Kakou: Mele! It’s all about celebrating music, reading, and community. Library Staff and volunteers will be available to assist patron registration for Summer Reading Challenge. Summer is the perfect time to discover new books and earn prizes along the way!

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hawaii

All ages welcome, children 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.

• May 31, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning, Music
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Enjoy the sounds of old Hawai’i with this hands-on experience.

Danny K Kila, Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar player & teacher, will be in the library’s central atrium sharing melodies and stories from John W. Troutman’s Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music.

Stop by and give it a try. Extra guitar available for patron use, but feel free to bring yours!

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.

• June 2, 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.

• June 3, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Learning, Poetry, Reading programs, Writing
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Come to a reading by Susan M. Schultz! We’ll have a poetry reading, Q&A session, and book signing.

Susan M. Schultz is Emerita Professor of English at UHM, where she taught for over 30 years. She is the author of many books of poetic prose, including most recently, More Lilith Walks, I and Eucalyptus (recently translated into Italian!), Meditations: December 2019-December 2020 and Lilith Walks. Earlier books include Dementia Blog and “She’s Welcome to Her Disease”: Dementia Blog, Vol. 2. She also loves taking photographs.

Schultz lives in Kaneohe with her husband, three cats, and Lilith, the dog, and is a life-long fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Sponsored in part by the Friends of Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library.

• June 5, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us Thursday mornings for stories, songs & crafts!

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.

• June 5, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-831-6831

Please join us Thursday mornings for stories, songs & crafts!

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.