Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• July 3, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am
• Categories: Books, Community, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Are you a parent or caregiver to a little one, between the ages of 0 to 2 years old?

Bring your tiny reader to a special storytime program at the library just for babies and their caregivers.

Join us for age-appropriate stories, silly songs and rhymes, and top it all off with sensory play time.

It is sure to be fun for our smallest library users and their loved ones!

Recommended for ages 0-2.

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 3, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Learning, Poetry, Writing
• Contact: 808-241-3222

The First Thursday Memory Catchers is a poetry group dedicated to the art of “memory catching”. This group brings together the importance of memory in poetry and teaches how to use poetry as a memory keeper. All are welcome!

Bring writing materials.  A suggested prompt will kick off the relaxed storytelling or the letter writing format encouraged.

“Communication on this level creates peace & trust between people, increasing our self-awareness & happiness quotient.”

– Dawn Fraser Kawahara, Kaua’i Poet, Writer & Memoirist.

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 7, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Learning, Poetry, Writing
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Join the Lihue Live Poets Society for a relaxed poetry workshop at the Lihue Public Library. Open to new members of all skill levels!

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 9, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Entertainment, Music
• Contact: 808-241-3222

The Lihue Library is proud to welcome award-winning musician Abe Lagrimas Jr. for an evening of mele and musical entertainment. This program is generously sponsored by funding from Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i and the 2025 Summer Reading Sponsors.

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 10, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
• Categories: Books, Learning, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Do you have a wiggly, giggly 3 to 5 year old on your hands? Join us for Preschool Storytime as we listen to stories, shake our sillies out as we dance to funny songs and rhymes, and top it all off with a simple craft you can take home with you.

This month’s theme is red, white, and blue! Learn all about the United States, our flag’s colors, and make an American Flag to take home.

This program is recommended for ages 3 to 5 only. See our Baby & Me storytime for younger ages, and our Lego Club for older ages.

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 16, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• Categories: Games, Learning, Science
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Calling all upper elementary and middle school LEGO builders and burgeoning engineers!

Join us at the library for Lihue LEGO Club, where exciting building challenges using LEGO blocks await.

This event is recommended for children ages 8-12.

This month’s challenge focuses on building the skyscraper of your dreams! Will your tower be the tallest? Come try your skills at Lego Club!

See you there!

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 23, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Dance, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Celebrate the 2025 Summer Reading Challenge!

Without “mele”, there is no hula as the dance form is dictated by the poetry of the mele. Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang and his performers of Hālau Hula Ka No‘eau will take you on a historical journey of mele; from its foundation of tradition chant, ‘oli, to contemporary hapa haole music. Through their hula they will explore how the poetry generates movement; and the importance of understanding kaona (hidden poetic means) used in the mele and choreography of hula.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i and the 2025 Summer Reading sponsors. This is a production of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Outreach College’s Statewide Cultural Extension Program with additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the University of Hawai‘i.

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 29, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Games
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Meet at the library for an afternoon of fun board games fit for any age or skill level!

We have such a big collection of board games. You will find children’s games on the tables in the Children’s Room. Games for teens and young adults in the YA Section and games for adults (think Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble) in the adult reading area.

Bring the whole family, your friends, or make some new friends at this fun come-and-go gaming break for all ages.

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 30, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Learning
• Contact: 808-241-3222

Join us for afternoon of fun, freestyle arts and crafts! Let your imagination run wild and create something totally unique.

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.