Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• August 26, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
• Categories: Games
• Contact: 808-939-2442

Drop-in between 4:00 pm and 5:30 pm every Tuesday evening to enjoy an evening of games with family and friends.

We’ll have our games available (Clue, Sorry!, Candyland, Tsuro, and many more), or bring family-friendly games you’d like to share.

Children aged 5 and younger must be accompanied by an 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. All programs are subject to change. See a schedule of upcoming events on the HSPLS Events Calendar.

• August 28, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
• Categories: Books
• Contact: 808-939-2442

Local poet and retired educator, Darlene M. Javar will be sharing poems from her debut poetry chapbook, Patsyʻs Gingerbread Fantasy and Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts.

Patsy’s Gingerbread Fantasy, set in multicultural Hawaiʻi, includes poems of ohana, resolve, and perseverance, aloha transcending time and place as a family endures and grieves for losses across decades. Poems center around a mother whose grit and passions are timeless. The reader is immersed in culture, country, and coffee.

Suitable for teens and adults.

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 at librarieshawaii.org/events.

• September 11, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts
• Contact: 808-939-2442

Sign-up to participate in our next seasonal Paint and Sip here at the Nāʻālehu Library!

This time we’re taking inspiration from the late great Bob Ross, popular TV painting instructor and artist.

Several themed art options will be available, and we’ll serve sweetened and unsweetened iced tea (Bob’s fave painting beverage).

We are limiting participation to ten (10) people, so please see or call a library staff member to sign-up soon. 🙂

Suitable for ages 5 and up.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Kaʻū Libraries.

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.