Event List

Let’s come together and give back to our community! Join New Canaan CARES and New Canaan Library, with the helping hands of New Canaan Girl Scouts, to get crafty and create projects reflecting kindness and caring.

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.

Join us for a monthly chess meetup featuring a mixture of instruction and supervised play. Participants of all levels are welcome!  Students new to the game will learn the basic rules and strategy while more experienced players will have

Are you a budding writer in Grades K to 2? Join Miss Rebecca for a storytelling–and story writing–extravaganza! We’ll play games to get imaginations flowing, then put ideas to paper in creative ways.

Math Buddies* is hosting a math game club for elementary students at the New Canaan Library. All students in grades K-4 are welcome!

Discovery Zone will focus on the concepts of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) for children in 1st and 2nd grade.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL DATE. 

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen

Are you a writer in grades 3-5? Join Miss Rebecca to write, write, write! Trigger your imagination with writing games and prompts, try out new writing styles, and workshop writing of your own.

Join Miss Rebecca for our K-1st Book Club, featuring hands-on games and crafts! Each month, we will read a book together at the Library, then get creative with book-inspired projects. 

In partnership with the Health Department of New Canaan, we present a suicide prevention QPR class. 

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can use to help prevent suicide.

Are you ready to be a book reviewer? Passionate readers in grades 4 to 6, join Miss Rebecca to learn how professional book reviewers talk about books.

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. 

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.

Children ages 2-3 years and their caregivers, join Miss Rebecca for a morning of stories, songs, movement, and crafts!

Join us for an afternoon of crafting! Stop in anytime between 1pm-3pm.

Let’s come together and give back to our community! Join New Canaan CARES and New Canaan Library, with the helping hands of New Canaan Girl Scouts, to get crafty and create projects reflecting kindness and caring.

Each month will feature a different hands on activity that invites children in grades 3-4 to design, create, build, explore and have fun. 

REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL DATE. 

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen

Are you a budding writer in Grades K to 2? Join Miss Rebecca for a storytelling–and story writing–extravaganza! We’ll play games to get imaginations flowing, then put ideas to paper in creative ways.

In partnership with the Health Department of New Canaan, we present a suicide prevention QPR class. 

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can use to help prevent suicide.

Are you ready to be a book reviewer? Passionate readers in grades 4 to 6, join Miss Rebecca to learn how professional book reviewers talk about books.

Are you a writer in grades 3-5? Join Miss Rebecca to write, write, write! Trigger your imagination with writing games and prompts, try out new writing styles, and workshop writing of your own.

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. 

Join Miss Rebecca for our K-1st Book Club, featuring hands-on games and crafts! Each month, we will read a book together at the Library, then get creative with book-inspired projects.