Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• April 6, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

All participants will walk away with useful and highly effective tips on using food-as-therapy, acupressure, and other lifestyle tools as well as info on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. This month’s topic focuses on tools for increasing fertility.

Ila Jhaveri is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist who has been practicing for 29 years on Oahu and the Big Island.

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.

• April 6, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Strategy! Mental exercise! Chess Club! Join us and learn to play or brush up on your skills. Both beginners and veteran players are welcome to challenge others in this classic game of strategy. Chess club meets on the first Monday evening of each month or the following Monday, in the event of a holiday. Children 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. All programs are subject to change.

• April 6, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join author Russell Fielding for a talk about his new book, Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree.

“Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree by Russell Fielding is a book that traces the history of the breadfruit (‘ulu) plant through three major global movements: its ancient spread across the Pacific by Polynesian voyagers, its forced introduction to the Caribbean for enslaved people, and its modern resurgence as a climate-resilient “superfood” for global food security. Fielding combines historical research with travelogues and interviews with local experts to explore the fruit’s cultural, culinary, and political significance, from its origins in Southeast Asia to its potential future role in sustainable development.“

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.

• April 8, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Wednesday at 10:00am for a fun-filled storytime! We’ll sing songs, read a few simple stories, then make a craft or do an activity. Great fun for 2 – 5 year-olds and their parents or caregivers. 

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.

• April 8, 2026 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• April 9, 2026 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Interested in the Pokemon Trading Card Game, but don’t know how to play? Join us in playing through your first Pokemon card game using the Battle Academy board game, generously provided by the Friends of the North Kohala Library. Learn about the different card types available to play during your turn, what you need to do to win, and what comes next in the hobby after your first games.

Already know how to play? Bring your deck and challenge other experienced players, or come talk about deck building and card collecting.

Program is for ages 6 and up

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.

• April 13, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Health & Wellness, Music
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Crystal Alchemy Singing Bowl Soundbath

A unique immersive experience of being “bathed” in the vibrations of eight 432 Hz Crystal Alchemy Singing Bowls made from 99.9% clear quartz, each fused with a unique alchemy of metals and gemstones that facilitates heart healing and empowerment. The tremendously powerful high frequencies instantly reduce stress and tension and create a relaxed and meditative state that supports healing and regeneration.

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.

• April 14, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join the discussion of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.

Excerpt from Goodreads.com:”In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry.

The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky.

Along her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those suspicious of her damselfly-blue skin and the government’s new book program. She befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands.”

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.

• April 14, 2026 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join local author Virginia Fortner for a workshop on writing. For those who want to become, and those who are, writers! Participants choose, sample, and practice aspects of good writing
This session’s topic: “Creative and Productive Thinking”
Submit topics for further sessions.

Interact with those who have never written, published authors, and folks who haven’t yet told their stories.

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.

• April 15, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Wednesday at 10:00am for a fun-filled storytime! We’ll sing songs, read a few simple stories, then make a craft or do an activity. Great fun for 2 – 5 year-olds and their parents or caregivers. 

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.