Week Calendar

Interactive stories, rhymes and songs emphasize early literacy skills and help instill a lifelong love of learning. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis. 

ESOL High Beginner Class with Laura

Join your favorite librarians at Blumenfeld Park (across the street from the library) for Park Story Time! No registration required.

Early Voting General Election

Books for Dessert is a book club for adults over 21 with intellectual disabilities, who live or work in and around Port Washington. Read about Books for D

Books for Dessert is a book club for adults over 21 with intellectual disabilities, who live or work in and around Port Washington. Read about Books for D

Interactive stories, rhymes and songs emphasize early literacy skills and help instill a lifelong love of learning. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Creative Readers is an arts and literacy inclusion program where children in kindergarten to second grade will use theater, art, movement, and music to bring books to life. Facilitated by Program Director Elise May.

Scavenger hunt in Port Washington

1. Download your card or pick one up at the Library.  

2. Embark on the scavenger hunt by finding Halloween symbols on various storefront windows.

ESOL Intermedia Class with Janet

ESOL Advanced Class with Mike

ESOL Low Intermediate Class with Rachel

Creative Readers is an arts and literacy inclusion program where children in kindergarten to second grade will use theater, art, movement, and music to bring books to life. Facilitated by Program Director Elise May.

Please join us for a series of Chair Yoga classes with certified instructor Beth Lipset. Free to Port Washington residents. Classes start September 9, and run through December 16 (no class October 14, 28, or November 11).

Painted by Francis Edmonds in the mid-1800s, The New Bonnet is a quintessential American genre painting complete with a moralizing message of materialism and consumption.

Join award winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty as he explores the work of Italian Renaissance artist Raphael Sanzio.  Raphael is sometimes said to have combined the grace of Leonardo with the power of Michelangelo into a new

ESOL Citizenship Class with Janet G.

Beginner 2 class

Enjoy great stories, songs, and fingerplays, while your child develops essential early literacy skills. For children ages 2 1/2 to 5 years with an adult.  Registration required. 

Please join us for a series of exercise classes incorporating yoga, Pilates and stretching. Marlene Kirsh, athletic trainer and certified Pilates instructor, will lead the sessions.

Each month Paula Curci,  Nassau County Poet Laureate Emerita 2022-2024,  will moderate a new poetry discussion about selected poems chosen from Harold Bloom's The Best Poems of the English Language: from C

Drop in and play a game of Scrabble. No registration required. 

Join us for a special musical event celebrating Italian-American Cultural Heritage co-sponsored by the John Michael Marino Lodge of Port Washington and the generous support of Lisa and Victor Girgenti.  Enj

Register to read out loud to a certified pet therapy rabbit for a 15-minute session. For children in 1st to 3rd grade. Registration required. Priority will be given to first-time registrants.

Teens in grades 7-12 are invited to come play Nintendo Switch games with other teens after school.  No registration required. 

Come in and join us for a game of Chess.

Design your own Trick or Treat tote bag using our sublimation printer and Cricut heat press. For children in 1st to 5th grade. Registration required. 

  Celebrate Halloween by partaking in the Horror Music Trivia.

Is your child struggling with their Elementary or Middle school homework? The Port Washington Public Library ESOL department provides a Homework Help Program in which your child will be tutored by an academic achieving high school volunteer.

PWUFSD Homework Help

Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention is a free program from NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island that uses the principles and movements of Tai Chi to help older adults improve their balance and increase their confidence in d

Is your child struggling with their Elementary or Middle school homework? The Port Washington Public Library ESOL department provides a Homework Help Program in which your child will be tutored by an academic achieving high school volunteer.

Ignite the love of coding by learning to create animations and computer games using Scratch, a graphical programming language developed by MIT.

Do you want to give trick o' treaters a beautiful Halloween experience with crafted candy boxes! Well look no further. In this class Librarian Meaghan will be showing you how to make candy boxes on the Cricut Maker 3.

Please join us for a series of exercise classes incorporating yoga, Pilates and stretching. Marlene Kirsh, athletic trainer and certified Pilates instructor, will lead the sessions. Open to Port Washington residents free of charge.

Learn the rules and strategies of chess and practice what you have learned by playing against your peers. For children in 3rd to 6th grade. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library in memory of Lawrence Kamisher.

This reading group, facilitated by Dr. Laury Magnus, Professor of English, will feature great classic works -- ancient to contemporary -- as well as participatory reading out loud of selected passages.

ESOL Beginner w/Alejandra

ESOL Beginner Class with John

Bring your embroidery, crochet, quilting, or sewing project to this weekly gathering. Share ideas with fellow crafters, and get inspired from our collection of pattern and instruction books, generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

ESOL Beginner Class with Haydee

Technology Committee Meeting

Join fellow readers at the Library for an engaging discussion of James by Percival Everett on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:30 p.m.

Marc Josloff: Putting Fine Art into Photography