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Come hang out with us!
The Loft is open!
Check out the December roster of events:
Drop-in Gaming: Monday's & Wednesday's, 4 - 7pm; Friday - Saturday, 3:30 - 5:30pm, Teen Loft, Main Library.
Drop-in Sewing: Sunday's, 12:30 - 3pm; Thursday's, 5:30 - 7:30pm, Teen Loft, Main Library.
Anime Club: Wednesday, December 1, 6:30 - 8pm, Teen Loft, Main Library. Register.
D&D: Saturday, December 11, 1 - 3:30pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library. Register.
Come game with us!!!
Drop-in Gaming: Monday's & Wednesday's, 4 - 7pm; Friday - Saturday, 3:30 - 5:30pm, Teen Loft, Main Library
Come take on your friends on the Loft's new PS5. We have 2K22, Madden, Demon Slayer and more. While you're here let us know what games you think we should add!
Come pick up a candle kit!
For this holiday season, we are making candle kits! We think there is nothing better than sharing a little light during the darkest part of the year, so come get a kit to decorate a candle - and give it as a gift!
Teens, come pick up your kit at the Main Library Teen Loft or at the Robert Crown Branch Library from December 1st until January 3rd or while supplies last!
All throughout the world, people celebrate this season in diverse and beautiful ways. Here are some great links to learn about some different holidays that folks may be celebrating all around you!
Kwanzaa, Junkanoo, Hanukkah, Yule, Christmas, Ōmisoka, Boxing Day
More traditions you may not have heard of!
More Awesomeness
Dungeons & Dragons
Saturday, December 11, 1 - 3:30 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library. Register.
Finally, we are back! Join us for Autumn in-person sessions of Dungeons and Dragons! Character building will be for the first hour, from 12-1pm. Gameplay will be from 1-3:30pm.
These are beginner-friendly sessions! If you're new to D&D, please join us! If you're not new, please come all the same! We are so excited to see everyone, and we've missed you!
If you already have a 5th edition level one character, feel free to bring it to the game! Come to the character building sessions if you'd like to make a new one or change up the one you have. If you've never played D&D before, definitely come to the character building hour!
New DM's are welcome! Let us know if you want to be a DM!
Please arrive on time to play! Registration Required. Grades 6-12.
The Code It! Challenge
Design & Program a Video Game
Code It! is an arcade game design challenge open to all D65 students and Evanston residents in grades 5th – 8th. The rules are simple: design a video game using MakeCode Arcade, include at least 10 core game elements, and submit it by December 5th.
You can complete this challenge in an afternoon, but the more game elements you include and the more you participate the better your chances of winning the best prizes. Visit the Code It! Challenge website for more info and to register.
More fun things
A Tiny History of Miniature Books
YA Comics & Graphic Novels Releasing October - December 2021
What's the perfect book for your sense of humor? Take a quiz!
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