Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• June 9, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join local author Virginia Fortner for a reading of her newly released book, China Conundrum, and get to meet with and talk to her after the reading!

“Adventuresome educator Regina knows only three words of Mandarin when she sets off to teach English in China. She isn’t prepared for the East in 2004, with its unfamiliar sights and smells, engulfing sounds, and truly overwhelming sea of people. When a U.S. State Department agent tasks her with sharing cultural and political information, Regina decides to do her patriotic duty and share information via Matt, a taciturn assistant on Capitol Hill-or so she supposes. But Regina is about to find herself in the middle of complex situations that she feels ill-prepared to handle.“

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.

• June 10, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join the discussion of To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey.

Excerpt from Goodreads.com:”Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey’s second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret.

Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska’s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy.

For Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Sophie is pregnant with their first child, and does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband embarks upon the journey of a lifetime. She has genuine cause to worry about her pregnancy, and it is with deep uncertainty about what their future holds that she and her husband part.

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.

• June 10, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Tuesday this summer at 2:00 pm for a fun-filled Reading Challenge activity! This week, come play music inspired games like Musical Chairs and Bingo!
For children aged 5 and up 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.

• June 12, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Come spend part of Summer Break with us at the library! Watch Wonka with your friends and family.

Children under 12 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.

• June 13, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Films & Movies, History, Learning, Music
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Just us as we celebrate Mele with a free local documentary film screening!

Li‘a: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man is an award-winning documentary that celebrates the music and spirit of revered Big Island performer and composer, Sam Liʻa Kalainaina (1881-1975). It is also about a place, Waipi‘o Valley, and a life shaped and nourished by that place. This 74-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 16, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:50 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Come listen to local historian Boyd Bond speak about Kamehameha and the Four Kona Uncles!

“In June we celebrate the Aliʻi Nui who united the islands into a single kingdom. Our history tells us that any successful aliʻi surrounds him or herself with strong advisors, and for Kamehameha, this famously included the “Four Kona Uncles” who helped bring success to his efforts. Come join us on Monday evening as we explore the relationship between these men and their influence on Kohala’s favorite son in his conquest of the Hawaiian islands.”

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.

• June 17, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Tuesday this summer at 2:00 pm for a fun-filled Reading Challenge activity! This week, come make an instrument at the library- a spin drum!
For children aged 5 and up 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.

• June 18, 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.

• June 18, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• June 19, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Come spend part of Summer Break with us at the library! Watch Encanto with your friends and family.

Children under 12 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.