Due to the library’s public health concerns, we will be hosting daily Virtual Story Time sessions through Facebook Live at 10 a.m. Monday through Thursday (Saturday is bilingual!). Join library staff members Cricket and Sandy for songs, stories and movement. All you have to do is login to Facebookand join the fun!
Join us for yoga from the comfort of your own home! Email: lbarnes@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Vail Public Library's Gentle Yoga Class, taught by Anne Anderson, Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Registered with Yoga Alliance, Professional Ski Instructor of America at Vail, is appropriate for those who want a softer, nurturing, slow-paced, well-supported and relaxing practice. The approach includes carefully orchestrated movements, controlled pressure, and well-measured stretches, including range of motion exercises. Postures may be approached in gradual steps, with plenty of time to focus on breathing and repetition so that the practice is simple to do and easy to remember.
Gentle yoga style encourages a highly individualized approach to practice with on-going encouragement to make moment-to-moment adjustments.
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Story Time is Back! We are excited to invite families back to our early literacy story time. Starting July 14 and running through August, we will host Tuesday Story Time in our back yard at 11am. Stories, songs and movement activities will entertain our youngest patrons - appropriate for ages 6 and under. We'll be meeting on the lawn behind the library.
Attendance at Back Yard Story Time does require some participant responsibility:
Please don't come if you and your family are not COVID-19 symptom free
Please observe 6 feet of distancing between your family and other patrons not in your household
Please wear a mask while you are at the library
We encourage you to bring your own seating. Camp chairs, blankets from home and carpet squares are welcome.
You are cordially invited to Harry Potter's Virtual Birthday Party via Zoom.
Can you believe Harry is turning 40 this year?! Neither can we! Join us! for a magical virtual event celebrating everyone's favorite wizard! We'll play trivia, chat about the books, relive our favorite movie moments & even talk about our favorite spells!
This event is for children in grades 3 and up.
Email Delaney at ddaly@vailgov.com to get all of the event details. It's sure to be a spellbinding good time!
Do you have a middle school-aged child who loves to read? Invite them to join the Virtual Middle School Book Club. July's title will be "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child," based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne.
We’ll meet on Friday, July 31, at 12 p.m. (noon) via Google Meeting.
Please contact Ali to join at amurray@vailgov.com.
Kids movie to celebrate 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment
N/A August 3, 2020
Join us for a short movie to celebrate Esther Morris, first woman Justice of the Peace and advocate for women's rights. Log into Hoopla with your library card to watch:
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Story Time is Back! We are excited to invite families back to our early literacy story time. Starting July 14 and running through August, we will host Tuesday Story Time in our back yard at 11am. Stories, songs and movement activities will entertain our youngest patrons - appropriate for ages 6 and under. We'll be meeting on the lawn behind the library.
Attendance at Back Yard Story Time does require some participant responsibility:
Please don't come if you and your family are not COVID-19 symptom free
Please observe 6 feet of distancing between your family and other patrons not in your household
Please wear a mask while you are at the library
We encourage you to bring your own seating. Camp chairs, blankets from home and carpet squares are welcome.
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Due to the library’s public health concerns, we will be hosting daily Virtual Story Time sessions through Facebook Live at 10 a.m. Monday through Thursday (Saturday is bilingual!). Join library staff members Cricket and Sandy for songs, stories and movement. All you have to do is login to Facebookand join the fun!
NO GRASS GROWS under this group's feet. They're a walking-talking book club. Our Walking Book Club is a fun, social outing with social distancing. It's a healthy workout for brains and gams.
We meet in the library's Galleria at 11:30am and head out for a discussion of August's Books 'n' Bites title, “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd. Come even if you have not read this month's title. Share what you are reading with the group.
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
"Meet Will Shakespeare: An Introduction and Book Club" PART I
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm August 17, 2020
Ever wanted to learn more about the legendary William Shakespeare? Beginning in August, we will host a 3-part series on Shakespeare for novices as well as aficionados called "Meet Will Shakespeare: An Introduction and Book Club - The Bard Doesn't Have to be Hard!"
Jill Gordon, a longtime Shakespeare enthusiast and online instructor at Colorado Mountain College, will be facilitating this event series. If you wish to participate, simply email her at gordongrp@comcast.net to get the Zoom Meeting info.
The first event in this series will discuss Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing".
Story Time is Back! We are excited to invite families back to our early literacy story time. Starting July 14 and running through August, we will host Tuesday Story Time in our back yard at 11am. Stories, songs and movement activities will entertain our youngest patrons - appropriate for ages 6 and under. We'll be meeting on the lawn behind the library.
Attendance at Back Yard Story Time does require some participant responsibility:
Please don't come if you and your family are not COVID-19 symptom free
Please observe 6 feet of distancing between your family and other patrons not in your household
Please wear a mask while you are at the library
We encourage you to bring your own seating. Camp chairs, blankets from home and carpet squares are welcome.
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Story Time is Back! We are excited to invite families back to our early literacy story time. Starting July 14 and running through August, we will host Tuesday Story Time in our back yard at 11am. Stories, songs and movement activities will entertain our youngest patrons - appropriate for ages 6 and under. We'll be meeting on the lawn behind the library.
Attendance at Back Yard Story Time does require some participant responsibility:
Please don't come if you and your family are not COVID-19 symptom free
Please observe 6 feet of distancing between your family and other patrons not in your household
Please wear a mask while you are at the library
We encourage you to bring your own seating. Camp chairs, blankets from home and carpet squares are welcome.
Girls Who Code, a club at VPL for girls going into 3rd to 5th grades, will meet virtually the fourth Thursday of the month at 3:30pm. Mark and Lelia Conlon will be our club facilitators. This is a new club and all interested girls in this age group are encouraged to join us.
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does.
If you are interested, please reach out to Cricket Pylman at 970-479-2179 or cpylman@vailgov.com.
Do you have a middle school-aged child who loves to read? Invite them to join the Virtual Middle School Book Club. August's title will be "Divergent" by Veronica Roth.
We'll be meeting via Zoom on Fri., Aug. 21 at 3 p.m.
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
Thanks to technology: We are able to offer Zumba virtually during our Stay At Home! Email: Sandy at SRivera@vailgov.com for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba®class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on. We'll be together in spirit but safe at home!
Maria-Sugeidy Rivera will be your guide to this very exciting dance party atmosphere full of Latin and international music. You'll forget you're working out with the sexy but simple moves to dance music like Cha Cha, Salsa, reggaeton, rumba and more.
Best of all, you don't need any previous dance experience!
This September, DC’s Wonder Woman is embarking on a new mission to champion the power of a library card as Library Card Sign-up Month Honorary Chair. A founding member of the Justice League, Wonder Woman is known for strength, compassion and truth. Armed with the Lasso of Truth, Wonder Woman makes a perfect ambassador to support the value of learning and the role libraries play in transforming lives and strengthening communities through education.