Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• February 2, 2026 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

All participants will walk away with useful and highly effective tips on using food-as-therapy, acupressure, and other lifestyle tools as well as info on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. This month’s topic focuses on tools for maintaining a healthy heart.

Ila Jhaveri is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist who has been practicing for 29 years on Oahu and the Big Island.

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.

• February 2, 2026 @ 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.

• February 4, 2026 @ 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.

• February 4, 2026 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• February 5, 2026 @ 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.

• February 9, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 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.

• February 10, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join the discussion of James by Percival Everett.

Excerpt from Goodreads.com:”A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.”

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.

• February 11, 2026 @ 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.

• February 11, 2026 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• February 18, 2026 @ 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.