Events

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Grab your friends and join us for an exciting afternoon of Bingo!

Entertainment, providing youth with fun and interaction. These games encouraged strategic thinking, patience, and social engagement, offering a break from the solitary activities that often dominate modern leisure time. Board games are a testament to the timeless appeal of shared, interactive play.

Explore music and language in this 8-week series with Bilingual Birdies! Each class is taught by a live musician who teaches new vocabulary through songs, movement, dance, and puppetry. Bilingual Birdies celebrates different languages and cultures in a time that is very important to embrace diversity. Families get to experience a joyful 45-minute bilingual adventure that explores themes like Outer Space, Sports, Nature, Insects, or Friends. Each class ends with a bubble dance party extravaganza…

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Interested in using computers but don't know where to start? Want to learn basic keyboarding? Then this is the class for you! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and REGISTRATION OPENS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS - This Program is Limited to Five Persons.

This event will take place in person at the Wakfield Library. Get your game on! Join us in playing some old school games. Test your skills and join in on some friendly competition! All supplies are provided, just bring your A-game and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration is required.

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff in creating fun and engaging crafts! Teens will be able to learn a new skill and make and take home their designs! All supplies provided, just bring your imagination and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration required.

This event takes place in person at Wakefield Library. Join us for an afternoon of fun and building! Come build as a team or work on your own Lego, Marble run, Magnetic or what ever building block creation. We'll provide the materials for building! For ages 5 and up.

This event will take place in person at Wakefield Library in the Bronx. Coloring is a great sitting still acitivity that encourages kids to slow down and focus on one specific task. It's also important in early childhood education by helping develop hand strength, practice pencil grip, stimulates creativity, encourages self-expression, improves finer motor coordination and encourages patience and relaxation. All supplies will be provided by us. No need to Register-Just show up!.

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff for art, writing, and iced tea! Teens will be able to discover their inner artist regardless of skill level and can take their creations home! All supplies are provided! Iced tea will also be provided but feel free to bring your own (enclosed) teas! 4/4 Banned Book Tote Bags 4/11 "I Am" Mosaic Collage 4/18 Beginner Calligraphy: Arabic Characters 4/25 Star Map Exploration

Every week we host a different program on Fridays, check out our flyer in the branch to see what it will be each week, or check our social media pages! April Specials: Poetry month & Earth Day themed activities. 04/05/24: Retro Games 04/12/24: Poetry Month Special 04/19/24: Earth Day Game Show 04/26/24: Polaroids & Photo Editing

This event will take place in person at the Wakfield Library. Get your game on! Join us in playing your favorite Nintendo Switch games. Test your skills and join in on some friendly competition! All supplies are provided, just bring your A-game and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration is required.

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Get cozy with wakefield. sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie of your choice all month long.

It is story time! Gather your preschoolers and toddlers to enjoy stories, rhymes, songs and fun with our Children's librarians.

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Interested in using computers but don't know where to start? Want to learn basic keyboarding? Then this is the class for you! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and REGISTRATION OPENS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS - This Program is Limited to Five Persons.

Are you looking to wind down from the stresses of school? Come by the Wakefield Teen Center and listen to some chill beats while playing your favorite board games!

This program will take place in person at Wakefield Library. A wide variety of activities that involves making things with one's own hands.

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Grab your friends and join us for an exciting afternoon of Bingo!

Entertainment, providing youth with fun and interaction. These games encouraged strategic thinking, patience, and social engagement, offering a break from the solitary activities that often dominate modern leisure time. Board games are a testament to the timeless appeal of shared, interactive play.

Explore music and language in this 8-week series with Bilingual Birdies! Each class is taught by a live musician who teaches new vocabulary through songs, movement, dance, and puppetry. Bilingual Birdies celebrates different languages and cultures in a time that is very important to embrace diversity. Families get to experience a joyful 45-minute bilingual adventure that explores themes like Outer Space, Sports, Nature, Insects, or Friends. Each class ends with a bubble dance party extravaganza…

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Interested in using computers but don't know where to start? Want to learn basic keyboarding? Then this is the class for you! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and REGISTRATION OPENS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS - This Program is Limited to Five Persons.

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff in creating fun and engaging crafts! Teens will be able to learn a new skill and make and take home their designs! All supplies provided, just bring your imagination and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration required.

This event will take place in person at Wakefield Library in the Bronx. Coloring is a great sitting still activity that encourages kids to slow down and focus on one specific task. It's also important in early childhood education by helping develop hand strength, practice pencil grip, stimulates creativity, encourages self-expression, improves finer motor coordination, encourages patience and relaxation. All supplies will be provided by us. No need to Register- Just show up!

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff for art, writing, and iced tea! Teens will be able to discover their inner artist regardless of skill level and can take their creations home! All supplies are provided! Iced tea will also be provided but feel free to bring your own (enclosed) teas! 5/2 Ceramic Tea Cup Painting for Mother's Day 5/9 Sneakerhead: 3D Printed Sneaker Keychains 5/16 Bronx Week Bookmarks 5/23 Meditative Pastels 5/30 DI…

Every week we host a different program on Fridays, check out our flyer in the branch to see what it will be each week, or check our social media pages! 05/03: Stop Motion Animation 05/17: May Heritage Month Trivia 05/24: Film Friday returns! 05/31: Learn how to sign your name in cursive

This event will take place in-person at the Wakefield Library, Help - on a first-come; first-served basis - can include: Internet browsing Email Typing software eBooks and Audiobooks Library Catalog and Databases

This event will take place in person at the Wakfield Library. Get your game on! Join us in playing your favorite Nintendo Switch games. Test your skills and join in on some friendly competition! All supplies are provided, just bring your A-game and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration is required.

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Get cozy with wakefield. sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie of your choice all month long. May 4th: Happy Cinco De Mayo! Let's celebrate Mexican Culture with Coco! May 11th: Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We're watching a Studio Ghibli marathon!

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Interested in using computers but don't know where to start? Want to learn basic keyboarding? Then this is the class for you! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and REGISTRATION OPENS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS - This Program is Limited to Five Persons.

Are you looking to wind down from the stresses of school? Come by the Wakefield Teen Center and listen to some chill beats while playing your favorite board games!

This program will take place in person at Wakefield Library. Happy Bronx Week! Kids rep the Bronx with mosaics portraits! Taking inspiration from the mosaics at the train stations, kids will create self portraits using felt to represent the many faces of the Bronx.

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Children will get to flex the strategic part of their brains while playing a variety of board games.

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff in playing your favorite Nintendo Switch and PS5 games. Test your skills and join in on some friendly competition! All supplies are provided, just bring your A-game and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration is required.

This event will take place in person at Wakefield Library. Wakefield is potting plants! Get your hands dirty and gift your creations with moms and caregivers alike.

Explore music and language in this 8-week series with Bilingual Birdies! Each class is taught by a live musician who teaches new vocabulary through songs, movement, dance, and puppetry. Bilingual Birdies celebrates different languages and cultures in a time that is very important to embrace diversity. Families get to experience a joyful 45-minute bilingual adventure that explores themes like Outer Space, Sports, Nature, Insects, or Friends. Each class ends with a bubble dance party extravaganza…

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Interested in using computers but don't know where to start? Want to learn basic keyboarding? Then this is the class for you! REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and REGISTRATION OPENS ONE WEEK PRIOR TO CLASS - This Program is Limited to Five Persons.

Bronx Week Edition: Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff in creating fun and engaging crafts! Teens will be able to learn a new skill and make and take home their designs! All supplies provided, just bring your imagination and willingness to try new things! This event takes place in person. No registration required. Bronx Week Custom Collage Buttons

This event takes place in person at Wakefield Library. Join us for an afternoon of fun and building! Come build as a team or work on your own Lego, Marble run, Magnetic or what ever building block creation. We'll provide the materials for building! For ages 5 and up.

This event will take place in person at Wakefield Library in the Bronx. Coloring is a great sitting still activity that encourages kids to slow down and focus on one specific task. It's also important in early childhood education by helping develop hand strength, practice pencil grip, stimulates creativity, encourages self-expression, improves finer motor coordination, encourages patience and relaxation. All supplies will be provided by us. No need to Register- Just show up!

Join the Wakefield Young Adult Staff for art, writing, and iced tea! Teens will be able to discover their inner artist regardless of skill level and can take their creations home! All supplies are provided! Iced tea will also be provided but feel free to bring your own (enclosed) teas! 5/2 Ceramic Tea Cup Painting for Mother's Day 5/9 Sneakerhead: 3D Printed Sneaker Keychains 5/16 Bronx Week Bookmarks 5/23 Meditative Pastels 5/30 DI…

This event will take place in-person at the Wakefield Library, Help - on a first-come; first-served basis - can include: Internet browsing Email Typing software eBooks and Audiobooks Library Catalog and Databases