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May 29, 2025

NEXT THURSDAY (6/5/25) – Market Storytime is Back for the Summer!

The Farmer’s Market is back at the Town Hall Campus every Thursday night, and that means Market Storytime is coming back too starting June 5th! Join us every Thursday evening at 5:30 PM for stories and songs on the Library Lawn! But don’t worry, if the weather isn’t any good, we’ll move inside the library. […]

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May 28, 2025

NEXT TUESDAY (6/3/25) – Author Talk with Will Bardenwerper and “Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America”

A homestand is a series of baseball games played at a team’s home stadium, and the city of Batavia did everything they could to ensure they’d host another homestand after Major League Baseball took away their Minor League team, the Batavia Muckdogs, in 2020. The Muckdogs would find a home with the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball […]

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May 27, 2025

NEXT MONDAY (6/2/25): A Concert by the Rochester Mandolin Orchestra

The Rochester Mandolin Orchestra will join us for a concert on Monday, June 2, at 7:00 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend this free concert by a group of local musicians who play the mandolin, and other mandolin family instruments, including the mandola, mandocello, and mando-bass. They perform traditional, classical, and modern pieces as they educate […]

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May 23, 2025

NEXT THURSDAY (5/29/25) – Pizza with the Storybook Cook

The Storybook Cook will dish up a few slices at the Irondequoit Library on Thursday, May 29, at 6:30 PM, during Pizza with the Storybook Cook. Designed for teens and tweens, Ms. Liz will bring all the ingredients to make a few different types of pizza. You will be able to choose from different crusts, […]

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May 23, 2025

The Iron Book Group Will Read Sarah Thankam Mathews’s “All This Could Be Different” in June 2025

Sarah Thankam Mathews’s All This Could Be Different was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022, as well as appearing on a number of Best Books of the Year lists, including Time, NPR, Vogue, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, and more. The Iron Book Discussion Group will dig in to this “dazzling” (according to […]

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May 22, 2025

NEXT WEDNESDAY (5/28/25) – Written and Read: IPL’s Adult Writing Group

Calling all local writers, the next meeting of Written and Read: The IPL Adult Writing Group will be held on Wednesday, May 28, at 3:00 PM. Stories, blogging, essays, memoirs, poetry… writing can take multiple forms. But if you enjoy writing and you’re interested in giving and receiving feedback from fellow writers, please join the library’s adult […]

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May 21, 2025

NEXT TUESDAY (5/27/25) – Irondequoit Art Club’s Artist Lecture Series: Prints, Prints, Prints

The Irondequoit Art Club will welcome several members from the Print Club of Rochester for the next presentation in their Artist Lecture Series on Tuesday, May 27, at 7:00 PM. The Print Club of Rochester is an organization devoted to preserving and exploring the fine art of printmaking and prints, and three of their members […]

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May 19, 2025

LIBRARY CLOSED: 5/24/25 – 5/26/25

The Irondequoit Public Library will be CLOSED on the following dates: — Saturday, May 24 — Sunday, May 25 — Monday, May 26 Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, May 27.

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May 14, 2025

NEXT TUESDAY (5/20/25) – What Is AI?

Computer applications using Large Language Models (popularly known as Generative AI) are currently being added to much of the software we use every day. What Is AI? is a beginner-friendly seminar from technology instructor Daniel Jones that explores what AI is, how it works, its widespread use in scams and hoaxes, and its current role […]

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May 14, 2025

NEXT WEDNESDAY (5/21/25) – Write On For Teens

The next meeting of our writing group for teenage writers (ages 13-18) is coming up soon! Hang out with your friends and enjoy creative writing exercises and prompts during Write On For Teens, which is happening on Wednesday, May 21, at 4:00 PM. Registration is required to attend Write On For Teens and you can register […]

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