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Friends of the Library Book Sale

9:00am - 5:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - Full (East+West)
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: , Fundraiser
Event Details:
Support the Friends and get some great deals! Choose from adult, teen and children's books, DVDs, CDs and audiobooks all priced for a $1 or less! Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. ...

Virtual Escape Room

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Online
Library Location: Online
Room: Facebook
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Just for Fun
Event Details:
Go on a virtual adventure, solve the themed puzzle, and see if you can breakout of the virtual escape room before it’s too late. For teens in 6th - 12th grades. Link will be provided here as well on the day of release on Facebook. ...

Free Meals for 18 & Under

3:00pm - 5:00pm
Olathe Temporary Downtown
Library Location: Olathe Temporary Downtown
Room: First Christian Church - Fellowship Hall
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens
Program Type:
Event Details:
Meals will be available in grab-and-go packaging only and participants will not be able to eat on-site. Parent/Guardians may pick up meals for their children. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, the Mayor’s C...

Tween Gaming in The Zone

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: The Zone
Age Group: Elementary, Teens
Program Type: Just for Fun
Event Details:
Play video games on the Xbox, PS5 and the Nintendo Switch. For 4th-8th graders.  ...

Kids Comic Club: Making Comics

4:30pm - 5:30pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Registration
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Children / Program Room
Age Group: Children, Elementary
Program Type: Comic Book Day
Registration Required
Waitlist Seats Remaining: 43
Event Details:
In the second session of our Kids Comic Club, we will look at some fun tutorials from a few popular children’s illustrators and try our hand at making comics of our own. Feel free to bring your own notebook if you have one.   ...

Friends of the Library Book Sale

10:00am - 4:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - Full (East+West)
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: , Fundraiser
Event Details:
Support the Friends and get some great deals! Choose from adult, teen and children's books, DVDs, CDs and audiobooks all priced for a $1 or less! Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. ...

Friends of the Library Book Sale Sack Sale

1:00pm - 4:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - Full (East+West)
Age Group: Everyone
Program Type: , Fundraiser
Event Details:
Support the Friends and get some great deals! Choose from adult, teen and children's books, DVDs, CDs and audiobooks all priced for a $1 or less!  At our Sack Sales purchase a sack and fill it for $6. Buy 2 sacks get 4 free! Cash, checks a...

Free Meals for 18 & Under

3:00pm - 5:00pm
Olathe Temporary Downtown
Library Location: Olathe Temporary Downtown
Room: First Christian Church - Fellowship Hall
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens
Program Type:
Event Details:
Meals will be available in grab-and-go packaging only and participants will not be able to eat on-site. Parent/Guardians may pick up meals for their children. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, the Mayor’s C...

Trailblazers Esports Club

4:00pm - 6:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: The Zone
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Teen Clubs, Virtual Option
Event Details:
Play casual and competitive Esports games with teens locally and nationally. Games include but are not limited to Minecraft, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League and Smash Bros. We will have ten computers available first come f...

Stretch & Restore

11:00am - 11:45am
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - East
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Fitness
Event Details:
Olathe Community Center instructors lead a passive practice in which poses are held for a few minutes at a time. This practice focuses on deep stretching and restorative poses to improve mental clarity and offer deep relaxation. Most postures are sea...

Free Meals for 18 & Under

11:00am - 12:30pm
Olathe Temporary Downtown
Library Location: Olathe Temporary Downtown
Room: First Christian Church - Fellowship Hall
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens
Program Type: Live Well
Event Details:
Meals will be available in grab-and-go packaging only and participants will not be able to eat on-site. Parent/Guardians may pick up meals for their children. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, the Mayor’s C...

Acoustic Jam Session with Greg Blake

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - Full (East+West)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Live at the Library
Event Details:
Bring your instrument and jam with us, share a song, or just listen. Bluegrass artist Greg Blake, lead vocalist and guitarist for the band The Special Consensus, will lead the jam session.    ...

Cookbook Club

6:30pm - 8:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Registration
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Children / Program Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussions
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 13
Event Details:
Select a cookbook from the library and recipe to try that fits the monthly theme. Then, meet with others to discuss and share your dish potluck-style. Jan. 27: Superfoods – recipes with at least one ingredient in it that packs a nutritional punch....

Free Meals for 18 & Under

11:00am - 12:30pm
Olathe Temporary Downtown
Library Location: Olathe Temporary Downtown
Room: First Christian Church - Fellowship Hall
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens
Program Type: Live Well
Event Details:
Meals will be available in grab-and-go packaging only and participants will not be able to eat on-site. Parent/Guardians may pick up meals for their children. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, the Mayor’s C...

Metro-wide Summer Library Program Kick-off at Union Station

9:00am - 11:00am
Offsite Location
Library Location: Offsite Location
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens, Family
Program Type: Now Showing, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:
“Seas the day” and bring your family and friends to join library customers from around the metro for fun activities and giveaways followed by a free showing of MacGillivrary Freeman’s Great Barrier Reef, a film about the world’s largest living s...

Summer Reading Kick-Off

10:00am - 11:30am
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Indian Creek Park/Shelter
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens, Adults, Family, Everyone
Program Type: Summer Reading Program
Event Details:
Celebrate with a family concert featuring Aaron Fowler and children’s activities.   ...

Aaron Fowler Concert

10:30am - 11:30am
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Outdoor Amphitheater
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Family
Program Type: Live at the Library, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:
Join musician Aaron Fowler for a fun family program of singing, playing, moving, and stories! His canine companions Bella and Choco may make an appearance.  Concert will be outdoors at Indian Creek Park in conjunction with our Summer Reading Kic...

Introduction to Paper Piecing

10:00am - 12:30pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Registration
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - East
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Makerspace
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 6
Event Details:
Learn the steps to paper piece a quilt block. Paper piecing is especially useful when you're making small blocks or intricate angles. Three blocks with increasing difficulty will be taught for learning purposes. ...

Safe Sitter® Essential Babysitting and CPR Classes

10:00am - 4:30pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Registration
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Children / Program Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Live Well
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:
Ready to take on the responsibility of babysitting? The best sitter is a Safe Sitter®! This class will cover babysitting business basics, childcare essentials, child behavior issues, and emergencies situations including choking infant/child resc...

Free Meals for 18 & Under

11:00am - 12:30pm
Olathe Temporary Downtown
Library Location: Olathe Temporary Downtown
Room: First Christian Church - Fellowship Hall
Age Group: Children, Birth to PreK, Elementary, Teens
Event Details:
Meals will be available in grab-and-go packaging only and participants will not be able to eat on-site. Parent/Guardians and babysitters may pick up meals for their children. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Friends of the Library,&nb...

Teen Movie Reel

1:00pm - 8:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Teen Zone
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Now Showing, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:
Watch ocean themed movies at the Movie Reel! Grab some snacks and settle in for a fin-tastic time!  June 1: Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, At World's End (PG-13)  June 8: The ...

Ocean Movies: Finding Nemo

2:30pm - 4:30pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Event Space - Full (East+West)
Age Group: Children, Family
Program Type: Now Showing, Summer Reading Program
Event Details:
Bring the whole family for ocean-themed movies. Feel free to bring blankets and pillows for floor seating. Today's feature is Finding Nemo (rated G, 100 minutes). ...

An Evening with Sarah Smarsh

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Olathe Indian Creek
Registration
Library Location: Olathe Indian Creek
Room: Outdoor Amphitheater
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Visit
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:
Sarah Smarsh, author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke and in the Richest Country on Earth and She Come by it Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs will speak about her work followed by a Q&A session. A limi...