Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
This or That: Teen Taste Test
This or That: Teen Taste Test
📅 Friday, September 26 | 🕓 4:00 - 5:00 PM | 👅 Teen Room
Friday Night Writes
Work on your story, poem, or lyrics in peace. Open Writing Time at the Library. All are welcome.
Last Friday of the month (6-9pm)
Campfire Stories: The San Juan Islands
Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the San Juan Islands
Contributors include Rena Priest, Jill McCabe Johnson, Quincy Henry, June Burn, Susan Vernon, Sam Green, Anna Linzer and more
Local recommendations for outdoor exploration, select cultural activities, camping options, gateway towns, and more
"How to Visit Well" and "Community Resources" sections offer tips on sustainable travel while highlighting cultural, Indigenous, and conservation organizations
Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
First Friday Book Club
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Teen Book Club: Read Between the Lines
Sign up for the Teen Book Bag to receive the monthly book selection and other book goodies. Attend optional book discussions and movie showings on the First Friday of the month at 3:30 PM. Email Angie at areed@orcaslibrary.org with questions and find more information at orcaslibrary.org/teen-reads
Magic the Gathering Monthly First Sunday
Come play casual Magic the Gathering with fellow players. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Decks available to borrow as well as lessons for new players. First Sunday of every month at 3:00pm
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Second Wednesday Online Book
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Library Board Meeting
The Board of Trustees meets at the library at 3:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month. The public is welcome to attend.
Friends of Orcas Island Library Board Meeting
Friends of the Orcas Island Library is a nonprofit supporting our library through fundraising, events, and community resources. The Board meets the second Tuesday of each month. Members of the public are welcome.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Trick-or-Treat for Books
Please join us at the Library on Halloween, October 31st from 3 - 6 pm for our annual trick-or-treating for books event. Kids, ghosts, goblins, and ghouls are invited to come in costume and pick out a free book, thanks to a generous donation from the Friends of the Orcas Island Library.
Friday Night Writes
Work on your story, poem, or lyrics in peace. Open Writing Time at the Library. All are welcome.
Last Friday of the month (6-9pm)
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
First Friday Book Club
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Teen Book Club: Read Between the Lines
Sign up for the Teen Book Bag to receive the monthly book selection and other book goodies. Attend optional book discussions and movie showings on the First Friday of the month at 3:30 PM. Email Angie at areed@orcaslibrary.org with questions and find more information at orcaslibrary.org/teen-reads
Friends of Orcas Island Library Board Meeting
Friends of the Orcas Island Library is a nonprofit supporting our library through fundraising, events, and community resources. The Board meets the second Tuesday of each month. Members of the public are welcome.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Second Wednesday Online Book
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Library Board Meeting
The Board of Trustees meets at the library at 3:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month. The public is welcome to attend.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Friday Night Writes
Work on your story, poem, or lyrics in peace. Open Writing Time at the Library. All are welcome.
Last Friday of the month (6-9pm)
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
First Friday Book Club
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Teen Book Club: Read Between the Lines
Sign up for the Teen Book Bag to receive the monthly book selection and other book goodies. Attend optional book discussions and movie showings on the First Friday of the month at 3:30 PM. Email Angie at areed@orcaslibrary.org with questions and find more information at orcaslibrary.org/teen-reads
Friends of Orcas Island Library Holiday Tea
Join the Friends of the Orcas Island Library in the decades-long tradition of a Holiday Tea with cookies, crafts, coffee, tea, and entertainment to thank the community for their support for the Library throughout the year.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Second Wednesday Online Book
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Library Board Meeting
The Board of Trustees meets at the library at 3:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month. The public is welcome to attend.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
UFO Northwest: How Washington State Spawned the Men In Black
On August 1, 1947, the tragic crash of a B-25 bomber in Washington State triggered an FBI investigation of “The Maury Island Incident”—an infamous Northwest UFO sighting, and history’s first alleged encounter with the so-called “Men in Black.”
The FBI’s records from 1947, which were sealed for decades, reveal Cold War fears, jurisdictional disputes, cover-ups, false confessions, a courageous FBI Special Agent, and the hands-on involvement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Relying on the FBI records, this talk exposes a Washington story that shapes our current UFO narratives, from 1950’s pulp magazines to the ubiquitous X-Files and Men in Black film franchises. Also examined: how the Northwest’s unique position in UFO history is challenged by others that assert contradictory narratives.
Queer Book Club
Meets on the 2nd Friday of the month at 6:00 pm in the Community Room. Questions? Contact Sara at sarapelfrey@gmail.com
Cellist Gretchen Yanover
Cellist Gretchen Yanover wears two musical hats: one as a composer of spacious string atmospheres which she performs on electric cello with looping pedal—and one as a classical acoustic cellist. Yanover began her musical life in Seattle public schools, falling in love with the cello’s deep sound. Gretchen pursued both performance and music education at University of Washington, embracing an interwoven path of teaching and performing.
Library Board Meeting
The Board of Trustees meets at the library at 3:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of every month. The public is welcome to attend.
Second Wednesday Online Book
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Friends of Orcas Island Library Board Meeting
Friends of the Orcas Island Library is a nonprofit supporting our library through fundraising, events, and community resources. The Board meets the second Tuesday of each month. Members of the public are welcome.
Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
Magic the Gathering Monthly First Sunday
Come play casual Magic the Gathering with fellow players. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Decks available to borrow as well as lessons for new players. First Sunday of every month at 3:00pm
Big Apples, Big Business: How Washington Became the Apple State
Why do so many apples in the grocery store look the same? And why do so many come from Washington?
In this talk, explore how Washington became the top apple producing state in the country, and how, in the process, it transformed apples into an industrialized commodity. Many regions in the West attempted to grow apples, but in Washington, big apples became big business thanks to the work of scientists, investors, irrigators, railroad corporations, marketers, and apple growers. How does the history of Washington apples reflect larger changes happening in the American food system—changes that continue to affect our environment and the way we eat today?
Teen Book Club: Read Between the Lines
Sign up for the Teen Book Bag to receive the monthly book selection and other book goodies. Attend optional book discussions and movie showings on the First Friday of the month at 3:30 PM. Email Angie at areed@orcaslibrary.org with questions and find more information at orcaslibrary.org/teen-reads
First Friday Book Club
Contact Andrea Reback for more information: areback@orcaslibrary.org
Marisa Silver 'At Last' Book Launch
Marisa Silver is the author of the novels At Last, The Mysteries; Little Nothing, a New York Times Editor's Choice; Mary Coin, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Southern California Independent Bookseller's Award; The God of War, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and No Direction Home. Her story collections include Alone With You and Babe in Paradise, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Her short fiction has won the O. Henry Prize, been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, and appeared in numerous journals and magazines including The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Silver has received several fellowships, including ones from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.
Please help us give Marisa an islander's welcome! Space is limited. Please arrive early.
This is a collaboration between Orcas Public Library and Darvill's Bookstore, with support from HALO.
For questions, please email sgailey@orcaslibrary.org
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
Teen Movie & Mocktails
Save the date and reserve your spot for Teen Movie and Mocktails by emailing Angie at areed@orcaslibrary.org!
Friday Night Writes
Work on your story, poem, or lyrics in peace. Open Writing Time at the Library. All are welcome.
Last Friday of the month (6-9pm)
How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos with Organizational Psychologist Dr. Tasha Eurich
Learn how to master the daily grind and become shatterproof in a tumultuous world with key insights by Dr. Tasha Eurich as she talks about her newest book, Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And why resilience alone isn’t enough).
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Game Night
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. Enter through the old lobby door to the community room.
No signups are required, but you can contact Woody with questions at (360) 376-4985 ext 109.
Anime & Manga Fridays
Teens are invited to Anime & Manga Fridays in the Teen Room Fridays at 2pm this summer! June 20 - August 22 we will be watching and discussing “Delicious in Dungeon”, both the anime and manga formats.
Dungeons & Dragons
Teen Dungeons & Dragons | Thursdays at 4pm in the Teen Room June 26 - August 21
Knit Night with Katie Johansen
Expert knitter, creative artist, and local business owner Katie Johansen is hosting FREE knit nights for folks 12+. Some materials will be provided. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit or need an excuse to get out of the house Tuesday evenings, join a friendly group of folks at the library.
Board Game Night every Monday
Join Woody every Monday from 6 - 9 pm for board games. All ages are welcome. Choose from our large selection of games or bring your favorites. All ages are welcome.
Anime & Manga Fridays
Teens are invited to Anime & Manga Fridays in the Teen Room Fridays at 2pm this summer! June 20 - August 22 we will be watching and discussing “Delicious in Dungeon”, both the anime and manga formats.
Saber-Tooth Cats Presentation
Everything you always wanted to know about Saber-Tooth cats! What are they? When and where did they live? How big were they? How could they open their mouths wide enough to bite something with those gigantic canine teeth? What did they eat and how did they kill them? Did they live in prides like lions or alone like mountain lions? All this and more!