Newburyport

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, hands-on science, and a thematic snack. You'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list in an electronic goody bag! This months ISL will focus on the birds of Spring!

Greyhounds at the library! Rescue organization Greyhound Friends will be coming to the Newburyport Public Library, and they are bringing four greyhounds for us to meet! Learn about the greyhound breed, the history of greyhound racing, and what it's like to adopt a former racing greyhound. Of course, everyone will get to pet and interact with the greyhounds, so bring your cameras! All ages are welcome: kids, teens and adults.

This parent/child program is designed for the creative, curious, and active preschooler. Each 90-minute session offers a structured series of activities including original songs, movement, dramatic play, hands-on science, and a thematic snack. You'll receive coloring pages, song lyrics, vocabulary, a fun fact sheet, and a suggested reading list in an electronic goody bag! This months ISL will focus on the birds of Spring!

Get into the spirit of Spring by painting your own mini flower pot. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Newburyport Public Library and is completely FREE! Please contact Jessica Hilbun, Teen Librarian, at 978-465-4428 with any questions.

The Firehouse Center for the Arts invites you to an evening of guitar featuring renowned guitarist Adam Levin and 12 year old prodigy Quentin Callewaert! Adam Levin has been praised by renowned American guitarist, Eliot Fisk, as a “virtuoso guitarist and a true 21st century renaissance man.” Local guitarist Quentin Callewaert is a 12-year old prodigy of the classical and steel string guitar.

Come celebrate Spring at the Newburyport YWCA Kids Day where kids can take part in Spring planting activities, have a Big Truck Exploration, get their face painted, take part in arts and crafts, meet the State Police K-9 unit in person, join a raffle and much more! The event is free to the public. Come help us celebrate the arrival of Spring!

Joppa Flats Education Center offers April vacation programs offer a wide variety of indoor and outdoor activities - keeping minds active and hands busy during school break! Come all day or as your schedule allows! This Vacation Week Flyby will focus on the salt marshes, the important role they play in the ecosystem and the creatures that use them to feed, live and breed.

The Firehouse Center for the Arts invites you to the 2013 Earth Port Festival - a day of environmental short films to help celebrate Earth Day in Newburyport! Inspired by a desire to highlight and raise awareness of both pressing environmental issues and the important role of community media, PortMedia and Transition Newburyport have partnered host this year's EarthPort Film Festival. Proceeds from the Festival will be used to support the work of PortMedia.

Joppa Flats Education Center offers April vacation programs offering a wide variety of indoor and outdoor activities - keeping minds active and hands busy during school break! Come all day or as your schedule allows! This Vacation Week Flyby will focus on the birds and Spring buds.