Events in July 2025
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June 29, 2025
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June 30, 2025(1 event) |
July 1, 2025(1 event) |
July 2, 2025(1 event) |
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July 7, 2025(1 event) |
July 8, 2025(2 events) Online Speaker Series: Raúl The Third –
Drawing Your World with Raúl The Third This event will be 30 minutes in length. Join author and illustrator Raúl The Third as he discusses his book ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Read!. Meet Little Lobo and friends as they explore their library's Libro Love Book Festival! From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone and Little Lobo can’t wait to show you. Raúl the Third uses his culture and his experience growing up on the US and Mexico border to inspire his art and his storytelling. Students will be encouraged to explore their world through a creative lens. A draw along is planned, drawing supplies and paper are recommended.
Please note that we will be hosting Raúl the Third twice on this date, once in Spanish and in English. Be sure that you are registering for your preferred format. Por Favor: Tenga en cuenta que esta fecha tendremos dos presentaciones de Raúl the Third: una en español y otra en inglés. Asegúrese de registrarse en el formato que prefiera.
About the Author: Raúl The Third is a New York Times bestselling and three-time Pura Belpre award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He is currently adapting his World of Vamos! books into an animated television series with Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks. The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Vail Public Library. Drum Safari –
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July 9, 2025(2 events) |
July 10, 2025(1 event) Jammin' Jazz Kids –
Jammin’ Jazz Kids offers an engaging and fun learning experience for youngsters through FREE interactive, hands-on activities that teach the fundamentals of jazz and the art of improvisation. Children and their families are invited to a free fun-filled 45-minuteprogram of exploring the fundamentals of jazz music, the 12-barblues, and playing along with lively music educators. Ideal for children up to age eight, but everyone is welcome! Learn More at vailjazz.org or by calling 970.479.6146 |
July 11, 2025
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July 14, 2025(1 event) |
July 15, 2025(1 event) Glass Etching –
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July 16, 2025(1 event) |
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July 21, 2025(2 events) Silent Disco @ the Library –
No librarians Shhsing you at this party. Join Discover Vail, the Vail Library and Mountain Youth for a silent disco in the Vail Library. Dance and mingle on July 21 from 7-9 p.m. with old friends and new. |
July 22, 2025(1 event) StoryWalk® Event (Off-Site) "Penguins Love Colors" –
Event departs from the library promptly at 3:30 p.m.! Transportation by bus provided. |
July 23, 2025(3 events) Online Speaker Series: Rex Ogle –
Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade) This event will be 45 minutes in length. You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout. Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left, so no one will see where he lives. Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America. Register now to join the conversation! About the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California. The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Vail Public Library.
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July 24, 2025(1 event) Jammin' Jazz Kids –
Jammin’ Jazz Kids offers an engaging and fun learning experience for youngsters through FREE interactive, hands-on activities that teach the fundamentals of jazz and the art of improvisation. Children and their families are invited to a free fun-filled 45-minuteprogram of exploring the fundamentals of jazz music, the 12-barblues, and playing along with lively music educators. Ideal for children up to age eight, but everyone is welcome! Learn More at vailjazz.org or by calling 970.479.6146 |
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July 29, 2025(1 event) Foam Party! – |
July 30, 2025(2 events) Collage Art with Michael Albert –
Looking for a unique, colorful way to get creative this summer? Pop Artist Michael Albert is bringing his famous Cereal Box Collage Workshop to Vail Public Library! Join us at the library for a hands-on collage workshop where participants will have a chance to create and take home their own masterpieces using Albert’s materials of choice, recycled cereal boxes & other colorful cardboard packages including cookie boxes, cracker boxes, soda cartons & more. All participants will receive a free signed poster of one of Albert’s creations as a special gift for joining him in this creative art making session!
You don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know you’re coming!
To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or email rmontes@vail.gov
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July 31, 2025(2 events) Online Speaker Series: Pria Anand – On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand You’re invited to a fascinating conversation with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains (forthcoming June 10, 2025). The Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the stories that our brains tell to us. A girl believes she has been struck blind for stealing a kiss. A mother watches helplessly as each of her children is replaced by a changeling. A woman is haunted each month by the same four chords of a single song. In neurology, illness is inextricably linked with narrative, the clues to unraveling these mysteries hidden in both the details of a patient's story and the tells of their body. Stories are etched into the very structure of our brains, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and even surges after the most devastating injuries. But our brains are also porous—the stories they concoct are shaped by cultural narratives about bodies and illness that permeate the minds of doctors and patients alike. In the history of medicine, some stories are heard, while others—the narratives of women, of Black and brown people, of displaced people, of disempowered people—are too often dismissed. In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals—through case study, history, fable, and memoir—all that the medical establishment has overlooked: the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story. Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans. Register now to join this intriguing virtual conversation! About the Author: Pria Anand is a neurologist at the Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Medical School, and she trained in neurology, neuro-infectious diseases, and neuroimmunology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Vail Public Library. Basics of Canning –
Ever wanted to turn your garden's bounty into shelf-stable goodness? Now's your chance! Join Glenda Wentworth from Colorado State University Extension at the Vail Public Library for an interactive, step-by-step guide to canning! Learn the basics of canning, essential food safety tips, and how to make your fruits and veggies last longer. Plus, the jams made in the demo will be raffled off as prizes!
You don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know you’re coming!
To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or email rmontes@vail.gov
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