Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• June 12, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Reading programs
• Contact: 808-483-7333

This program is designed to give people a chance to enjoy reading aloud with no pressure and no judgment. However, if you don’t want to read to the dog, you can just visit. The registered therapy dogs of K9 Therapets Hawaii visit every 2nd Thursday of the month!  All the dogs that participate are specially trained and can help kids of all ages practice reading aloud without judgment.  If you want a comfortable setting to practice your reading fluency, reading comprehension, or comfort with canines in general, this is the event for you.

A sign-up sheet for 20 minute sessions with a dog will be available on the meeting room door on the day of the program. 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.
All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events on the HSPLS Events Calendar.

• June 12, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Films & Movies, History, Learning, Music
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Just 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.

• June 14, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Books, Reading programs
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Celebrate your super dude and read with your Dad and o-fish-ally say how great a catch he is.

Read some stories from our display about dads, do some crafting, and grab a donut hole before you go.

Target audience: Children ages 2 – 8 years old, but all are welcome.

All 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.

• June 14, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Dance
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Join K-pop dancer GwangCheol Seo and learn a K-pop dance! He will be teaching us how to do the dance for “TTYL” by Loossemble, step by step. Gwang has been doing K-pop dances since 2008, and has been featured at several local events.

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.

• June 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 10:30 am
• Categories: Books, Learning, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Celebrate the importance of early literacy and come together to nurture pre-reading skills in your child. Listen to a few stories, enjoy a  magnet activity, and sing a few songs. Take home a take-away craft. Space is limited to 20 children and their accompanying adult, all children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

Best for an audience of children ages 3—5 but all are welcome

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.

• June 19, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Add extra pizzaz to premade slime to celebrate adventuring with Moana 2. Add colors, glitter, confetti or shells and let out a Chee Hoo then stay for Aiea Library’s showing of the movie.

All supplies provided by the Friends of the Aiea Library. This make and take is best for children 8 -years and older, but all are welcome with adult supervision. There will be a limit of one project per person.

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.

• June 19, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Entertainment, Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Aiea Library’s regular Movie Nights continue with Moana 2!  Here is a description of the movie from Movie Licensing USA (www.movlic.com):  “Moana 2” reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.  This movie is 100 minutes long and is rated PG.

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.

• June 21, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Add extra pizzaz to premade slime to celebrate adventuring with Moana 2. Add colors, glitter, confetti or shells and let out a Chee Hoo then stay for Aiea Library’s showing of the movie.

All supplies provided by the Friends of the Aiea Library. This make and take is best for children 8 -years and older, but all are welcome with adult supervision. There will be a limit of one project per person.

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.

• June 21, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Entertainment, Films & Movies
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Aiea Library’s regular Movie Nights with Saturday encore continue with Moana 2!  Here is a description of the movie from Movie Licensing USA:  “Moana 2” reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.  This movie is 100 minutes long and is rated PG.

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.

• June 24, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
• Categories: Learning
• Contact: 808-483-7333

Calling all babies 18 months and below, crawl on in to the library’s meeting room for an hour of play time and socializing with others in your age range. Don’t forget to bring your adult.

Work on developmental skills in an open ended and community setting. It’s unstructured, just come to play!

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.