Event List

Please join Janey & Friends in an hourlong string quartet exploration of Black History Month. With music spanning the ages and across the globe, including traditional Zulu music, Spirituals, Ragtime, Jazz, Classical and Hiphop.

Our Spanish Conversation group is designed for individuals with advanced beginner or intermediate skills. This lively, instructor-led session focuses on helping participants grow their confidence, expand their vocabulary, and stre

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama, and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture, in a nutshell, what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.

For parents of all children in preschool and elementary school. 

Intermediate Excel:  This class will provide an introduction to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Microsoft Excel, focusing on how to use these tools to quickly summarize, analyze, and visualize large sets of data.

The Narrative Resonance series pairs works of classical chamber music and literature to explore artistic parallels and their relevance for contemporary audiences.

This is a weekly, one-hour workshop where patrons can build up their typing skills. Bring a computer from home or let us know if you need to borrow a Library laptop. Stay for the full hour or for as long as you need!

Pages & Putts 

Bring your whole family during our tee times to play Mini Golf and Support the Library! Snag your tickets now to tee off among the stacks.

Pages & Putts 

Bring your whole family during our tee times to play Mini Golf and Support the Library! Snag your tickets now to tee off among the stacks.

Open Morning for Writers is once-a-month quiet writing space for writers at New Canaan Library.  There will not be any instruction or talking in the room. 

Get your 2025 taxes filed for free at New Canaan Library through SimplifyCT.

Our French Conversation class focuses on culture, conversation, vocabulary, and grammar. Students will engage in various activities to practice the language.

Open Tech is a weekly drop-in program held every Tuesday from 2:00-4:00 PM.

The Next Chapter Book Club is a social, community-based book club for older teens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who enjoy reading or listening to stories.  At every meeting each member is given a turn to read reg

Our Spanish Conversation group is designed for individuals with advanced beginner or intermediate skills. This lively, instructor-led session focuses on helping participants grow their confidence, expand their vocabulary, and stre

Take a dive into the diverse world of peonies!

Family members, caregivers, and friends are invited to meet for informative and supportive group sessions to help navigate changes related to memory loss and cognitive decline. Join us at 2:00 pm for our free Caregiver Peer Support Group.

This group reads broadly, with a focus on literary award winners, well-reviewed fiction, and translations. This month’s discussion is on The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. 

Interested in the databases that New Canaan Library has to offer? Join Reference Librarian Flannery to learn how to access and use New Canaan Library's medical databases.

We have teamed up with the New Canaan YMCA to create a tranquil, foundation-building class designed to introduce new students to yoga, as well as offer regular practitioners a gentle class to complement their yoga practice.

Get your 2025 taxes filed for free at New Canaan Library through SimplifyCT.

We are pleased to continue our partnership with the New Canaan YMCA to bring you Chair Yoga.

This group reads books of all genres written by women with an emphasis on diverse, edgy, and emerging authors.

This month, we are reading The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji.

Open Tech is a weekly drop-in program held every Tuesday from 2:00-4:00 PM.