Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• September 3, 2025 @ 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.

• September 3, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• September 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us for an informational story followed by a related activity or craft. Kids will have the opportunity to learn, explore the library, and socialize.

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.

• September 5, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

The North Kohala Public library is excited to host the Hawaii Ukulele Ensemble and invites the community of North Kohala to an afternoon performance at the library!

From hawaiiukuleleensemble.org: “The Hawaii Ukulele Ensemble (HUE) is a musical group that brings a fresh twist to ukulele music. We create a rich and layered sound by playing multiple parts in perfect harmony. This complex sound is usually not associated with the simple ukulele, and audiences are amazed by HUE’s arrangements of familiar songs, from classical to jazz to classic rock. We’re a group of friends who all have a deep love for music. Many of us met in an ukulele class for seniors. Since then, we’ve become a band of like-minded musicians who are always pushing ourselves and the instrument that brought us together.”

All ages 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.

• September 8, 2025 @ 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.

• September 9, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join the discussion of What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama.

Excerpt from Goodreads.com:”What are you looking for?

This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves—but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.

Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi—and the surprise book she lends each of them—will have life-altering consequences.

With heartwarming charm and wisdom, What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of libraries, friendship and community, perfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.”

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.

• September 10, 2025 @ 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.

• September 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• September 12, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 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.

• September 15, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join local author Wendy Noritake for a reading of her newly released book, Finding Uncle Yosh, and get to meet with and talk to her after the reading!
“What does a brave man do when faced with a terrible decision that could mean life or death?
Yoshito Noritake was a shining light with a promising life ahead of him. WWII broke out, and he and his family were suddenly charged as enemy aliens. His choice was to follow his family into a concentration camp complete with barbed wire and armed guards, or to join the armed forces with fellow Japanese-American prisoners to fight and to prove their loyalty.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was given difficult and dangerous assignments, which they embraced with dignity. But Yosh died at the tender age of 23, and the details of his service and death were later lost in a Federal Archives fire.
Decades passed. When he had been long forgotten by even his family, his niece Wendy, whom he had never met, heard his story and felt a duty to know who he was and how he died. Her ten-year journey to find answers eventually took her to a small town in France, where the Japanese-American soldiers were not forgotten: a place where the brave men of the 442nd saved many lives, even as they lost their own. They are honored to this day. Against all odds, she discovered the very spot where his life ended.
Wendy had given up hope of ever finding a veteran who might have fought by Yosh’s side. Those who were still alive and coherent would be in their 90s. Until the spring of 2017… “

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.