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The library brings stories, games, and activities to the SESY program

The library brings stories, games, and activities to the SESY program

Drop in with your friends and play mahjong or cards. Please bring your own supplies. Registration is not required.

On-Your-Own Train Trip to NYC Saturday, July 15 • 9:23am  • $10.25 round trip (non-refundable)

Join us for a program dedicated to everyone's favorite treat, ice cream. Share stories, dance, create a sweet craft and celebrate with ice cream! Siblings welcome, please register them. 

How can you build the strongest bridge? Work together with your fellow civil engineers to build and test different bridge designs. Then use what you have learned to create the strongest bridge possible. 

Registration begins Wednesday, May 24 and is limited to adult Sachem cardholders.

Bring your own yoga mat.

Join us for songs, rhymes, puppets, finger plays and more in this interactive parent/child class. Registration required. 

Zoom link will be emailed to registrants.

With summer in our sights, we are creating some super cool, under-the-sea colorful jellyfish. No siblings.

Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter the Slime Olympics! Take home your own concoction of “Mad Science Slime” Registration required.

Decorate your own cookie with this tasty kit from Sugar Island Bakery.

Practice English in a relaxed setting. Email reference@sachemlibrary.org for the Zoom link.

Join us to explore movement through music and dance. Your child will work on developing physical skills, channel energy, stimulate imagination, and creativity. Registration required.

Did you know many Pokemon are based on real-life marine creatures? Discover how whales, sharks, and other animals inspired some of your favorite Pokemon.

One-day Defensive Driving Course. Payment by check only (made out to AARP). One check per person due at registration. AARP members: $25. Non-members: $30. Seating is limited, call for availability.   

There are so many ways to have fun with bubbles!  Prepare to be wet and soapy.  Bring a towel.

Please register one spot per family.

Rain or Shine

Join us to stuff your very own friend, decorate a tee shirt and have fun! Registration required. 

Create a delicious sweet and savory salsa with Chef Rob. Registration required. 

Join us in our Community Garden classroom to create a decorative clay pot lighthouse. 

Play board games like Setters of Catan and Telestrations wth local resident Marc! Please register.

For the month of July, the session has been moved to July 15th at 10 am. 

Local ukers and uke-crazed wanna-be musicians of all levels are invited to jam at these monthly sessions led by Kenneth Hong of the LI Ukulele Strummers Club. No registration required.

Join us for a program dedicated to everyone's favorite treat, ice cream. Share stories, dance, create a sweet craft and celebrate with ice cream!

How can you build the strongest bridge? Work together with your fellow civil engineers to build and test different bridge designs. Then use what you have learned to create the strongest bridge possible. 

Join us for songs, rhymes, puppets, finger plays and more in this interactive parent/child class. Registration required. 

Come for stories, songs and rhymes about flowers with Miss Christine and make your own 3D flower craft to take home. Older siblings welcome, please register them.

With summer in our sights, we are creating some super cool, under-the-sea colorful jellyfish. No siblings.

Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter the Slime Olympics! Take home your own concoction of “Mad Science Slime” Registration required.

Artist Tom de Gruyl leads this weekly gathering of art enthusiasts. Bring your supplies and create!

Join us to explore movement through music and dance. Your child will work on developing physical skills, channel energy, stimulate imagination, and creativity. Registration required.

Did you know many Pokemon are based on real-life marine creatures? Discover how whales, sharks, and other animals inspired some of your favorite Pokemon.

Join us to stuff your very own friend, decorate a tee shirt and have fun! Registration required. 

There are so many ways to have fun with bubbles!  Prepare to be wet and soapy.  Bring a towel. 

Rain or Shine

Create a delicious sweet and savory salsa with Chef Rob. Registration required. 

The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program at EOC of Suffolk, Inc.

Just drop in 

Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council’s Medicaid enrollment assistors will be in the library to provide Medicaid enrollment assistance to adults and children who are disabled or blind, and anyone over the age of 65.

Registration for Virtual Reality experiences are  can be reserved here.

This afternoon at 1:30 p.m., the library will be showing the movie "Moving On".  Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to get revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before.  Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin

Volunteers welcome and needed for the Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands Caregiver Grant. 

Kombucha is everywhere! Learn all about kombucha’s health benefits and how easy it is to make fresh!  Everyone will make their own kombucha to take home and brew.

Studio classes are limited to Adult Sachem Cardholders Only, unless otherwise noted. Registered adults may be accompanied by a teen age 16 or above.

Create a 3-demensional work of art. Registration required. 

Please visit the table hosted by the Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands Caregiver Support Initiative. 

Kids and tweens will love decorating this fun and flexible miniature dog light. The dog light has a button on the back of its head for easy on and off. Participants will paint and decorate their light along with a mini dog stand.

You’re invited to an awe-inspiring chat with New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule as he talks about his newest book, The Endless Vessel, which explores the way we’re all connected—and what can happen when we lose our

Create a 3-demensional work of art. Registration required. 

Using our Cricut machines, create a one-of-a-kind personalized stainless steel water bottle. 

Join Chef Rob Scott in making a yummy BBQ chicken pizza! 

Paint this intricate flower portrait on canvas using dot art and brush techniques. 

Meeting for the library's team for the Suffolk County Battle of the Books.

Curious how GIFs and memes are created? Join us as we use apps on our smartphone to create GIFs which are animated and memes which are static. Your creation could be the next viral thing!

Kids and tweens will love decorating this fun and flexible miniature dog light. The dog light has a button on the back of its head for easy on and off. Participants will paint and decorate their light along with a mini dog stand.

Adventurers of all skill levels are invited to play Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition run by the Quest Masters Guild.

Join the library's team for the Suffolk County Battle of the Books. Read six selected titles, attend weekly meetings, and compete to be one of six players to represent Sachem in the county competition on Saturday, August 12.

Your family can create a one of a kind windchime using bamboo and some paint. Younger siblings welcome.

The City Tavern was a restaurant and gathering place in colonial Philadelphia, just a short walk from Carpenter’s Hall, where the first Continental Congress met in 1774, and Independence Hall (where the Congress moved later.)  Paul Revere, Be

Head over to the library with your family and mix up this favorite treat. Registration required. 

This series is offered in partnership with Suffolk County Department of Health. For more information or to register, please call Debora at 631-853-2928 or email debora.rippel@suffolkcountyny.gov.

Join Certified TESOL and ASL teacher, Jason Wong, in the 18-week series where he will teach you the basics of American Sign Language in a course designed for maximum learning and maximum fun!

 A movie will be shown at 6pm, followed by a discussion

Join the library's team for the Suffolk County Battle of the Books. Read six selected titles, attend weekly meetings, and compete to be one of six players to represent Sachem in the county competition on Saturday, August 12.

Paint a cute ceramic 'Beach' sign for your home. 

Join Molly Mouse and the PlayHooray crew for a music and movement class. Registration required. 

What makes a good photograph? Learn about composition, lighting and telling a story with photos.  Phone camera photography tips will be discussed concluding with photo games and challenges. 

Studio classes are limited to Adult Sachem Cardholders Only, unless otherwise noted. Registered adults may be accompanied by a teen age 16 or above.

Assist our Children's staff as we teach younger children how to create their own funko pop using our 3D printer! 

Help maintain our Community Garden by weeding, watering, sweeping, pruning, and harvesting. Each session will also include an interactive nature activity.

Create your very own funko pop from our 3D printer! 

Michele Cayea will lead a guided meditation and group discussion. Bring your own chair/blanket/yoga mat. Indoors in the event of rain.

Studio classes are limited to Adult Sachem Cardholders Only, unless otherwise noted. Registered adults may be accompanied by a teen age 16 or above.

Have a totally tubular good time with your friends! 80s music, trivia, and crafts will be offered, dude!

In this class, postures are practiced to align, strengthen and promote flexibility in the body. Breathing techniques and meditation are also integrated.

Head over to the library with your family and mix up this favorite treat. Registration required. 

Learn to draw caricature portraits of yourself and friends. 

Studio classes are limited to Adult Sachem Cardholders Only, unless otherwise noted. Registered adults may be accompanied by a teen age 16 or above.

It’s been 50 years since Masterpiece Theater premiered on PBS, bringing British costume dramas to American audiences. See where it all began and how it continues to grow today. Lecture by Stephanie Reese. 

Studio classes are limited to Adult Sachem Cardholders Only, unless otherwise noted. Registered adults may be accompanied by a teen age 16 or above.

Love animals? Want to be a petsitter? Learn the responsibilities and skills needed to watch an array of different animals including fish, reptiles, cats and dogs. 

Few American songwriters and vocalists have contributed more to the world of popular music over the last half-century than Neil Diamond.  Ten of his songs have reached the #1 position on the Billboard charts with 28 others reaching top ten st

Can you help solve the mystery? Join us for this fun and interactive whodunnit! Registration required.