Library Events

February 11, 2025
  • February 11, 20251:00 pm - 3:00 pm • February 11, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 11, 20255:00 pm - 5:45 pm • February 11, 2025

    Young Critics Group 1

    Young Critics, a bookdiscussion group for 4th and 5th grade students, begins in December and runsthrough May.  Young Critics is theperfect combination of eating pizza and talking about books!  This year Young Critics will read manyexcellent books for discussion, and will also include several “choose yourown/I LOVE this book because…” nights.  Sign up required.

February 12, 2025
  • February 12, 202510:30 am - 11:15 am • February 12, 2025

    Preschool Storytime

    At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.

  • February 12, 202512:00 pm - 2:30 pm • February 12, 2025

    Topsham Garden Club: Using Natives as a Buffer Zone for Water

    Program presented by Corey Kotfila. Bring a sandwich for the social time after the program. Dessert & beverages provided by the club.

  • February 12, 202512:30 pm - 2:30 pm • February 12, 2025

    The Topsham Sharing Table

    FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last. 

  • February 12, 20254:00 pm - 5:00 pm • February 12, 2025

    Topsham History Discussion Group

    Do you want to learn more about the history of your community and our part of Maine? All are welcome to join this discussion group and explore the background of Topsham. Participants are invited to bring questions, observations, and curiosity for group sharing with Dana Cary. Meetings are on the second Wednesday of every month.

  • February 12, 20255:00 pm - 5:45 pm • February 12, 2025

    For the Love of Books Teen Romance Book Club

    Join Lindsey, the Teen Librarian, for a new romance book club. For the Love of Books will be reading The Boy I Love to Hate by Emily Lowry. The first meet will be: giving out copies of the book, making new friends and having pizza with a Valentine’s Day treat. 

February 13, 2025
  • February 13, 202510:30 am - 11:00 am • February 13, 2025

    Music & Rhyme Time

    At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup! 

  • February 13, 202510:00 am - 10:20 am • February 13, 2025

    Baby & Me

    Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.

  • February 13, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • February 13, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 13, 20255:00 pm - 5:45 pm • February 13, 2025

    Tween Reads

    Do you like to read books? Do you like to eat pizza? Join Tween Reads! Tween Reads is a book discussion group for grades 6-8. We supply the books and the pizza, you bring your opinions! Tween Reads is held on the second Thursday of the month at 5 pm from October through May.  Must be registered to attend.

     

February 14, 2025
  • February 14, 20254:00 pm - 5:30 pm • February 14, 2025

    Teen Pokemon Club

    Calling all Pokemon players grades 6-12. Kickoff the weekend at TPL with Pokemon Club.  Join TPL Pokemon fans for a Pokemon craft, Pokemon Power Pack snack bag, and time to play Pokémon with friends. Bring cards and any Pokemon books to share.

February 15, 2025
  • February 15, 20259:30 am - 11:00 am • February 15, 2025

    Teen Saturdays

    Join VolunTeens and Teen Advisory Board Members to assist with Teen Room projects. 

  • February 15, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • February 15, 2025

    Stitching Together

    Join this knitting and crocheting group that meets monthly. Come and work on your latest project, share patterns, check out the library's knitting and crocheting resources. All abilities welcome!

  • February 15, 20252:00 pm - 3:00 pm • February 15, 2025

    Teen Level Up Video Gaming

    Teens grades 6-12. Bring your friends to play Nintendo Switchgames on TPLsbig screen! Choose from a variety of multiplayer games and enjoy some snacks. Firsteight players start with elimination rotations.

February 17, 2025
  • February 17, 202512:00 am - 11:59 pm • February 17, 2025

    Closed President's Day

February 18, 2025
  • February 18, 202510:00 am - 2:00 pm • February 18, 2025

    Drop-In Activities for Kids

    Activities will include pompom popsicle stick puppets, balloon ping pong, an architecture challenge, and beaded bracelet making. While supplies last. Designed for ages 6 and up, but all are welcome!

  • February 18, 20251:00 pm - 3:00 pm • February 18, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 18, 20255:00 pm - 5:45 pm • February 18, 2025

    Young Critics Group 2

    Young Critics, a book discussion group for 4th and 5th grade students, begins in December and runs through May.  Young Critics is the perfect combination of eating pizza and talking about books!  This year Young Critics will read many excellent books for discussion, and will also include several “choose your own/I LOVE this book because…” nights.  Sign up required.

  • February 18, 20256:00 pm - 7:00 pm • February 18, 2025

    Board Game Night

    Join us for board game night every third Tuesday of the month! Open to all, no sign-up required. A selection of board games will be provided, but feel free to bring your own!

February 19, 2025
  • February 19, 202510:30 am - 11:15 am • February 19, 2025

    Preschool Storytime

    At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.

  • February 19, 202512:30 pm - 2:30 pm • February 19, 2025

    The Topsham Sharing Table

    FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last. 

  • February 19, 20251:00 pm - 4:00 pm • February 19, 2025

    Drop-In Activities for Kids

    Activities will include sock puppet crafting, straw maze race game, stack & run game, and woven friendship bracelets. While supplies last. Designed for ages 6 and up, but all are welcome!

  • February 19, 20254:00 pm - 5:30 pm • February 19, 2025

    Teen Justice League Stitchers

    Join forces with Ms. Mott to create orange neck warmers for Midcoast Humane’s adoptable dogs. The idea is to make them visible and keep them warm. No prior experience needed or arrive with some skills, either way join teens making a difference. Teens Grades 6-12.

  • February 19, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm • February 19, 2025

    Trustees Meeting

    All Trustees meetings are open to the public.

February 20, 2025
  • February 20, 202510:30 am - 11:00 am • February 20, 2025

    Music & Rhyme Time

    At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup! 

  • February 20, 202510:00 am - 10:20 am • February 20, 2025

    Baby & Me

    Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.

  • February 20, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • February 20, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 20, 202512:00 pm - 2:40 pm • February 20, 2025

    Movie Matinee: Wicked

    In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and their unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes. Rated PG for mild themes, fantasy violence, animal cruelty and innuendo. Recommended ages 10 and up, but all are welcome. Bring pillows and blankets for extra coziness! Popcorn will be served.

February 21, 2025
  • February 21, 202510:00 am - 2:00 pm • February 21, 2025

    Model Train Event

    The Maine 3 Railers O-Gauge Model Railroad Club will be setting up a running model railroad display in our big meeting room! Come watch the trains and see how they work, and talk to club members!

  • February 21, 20254:00 pm - 4:45 pm • February 21, 2025

    Art Club for Kids

    We will try out different techniques and projects, and explore our creativity! For ages 7-12. Sign up required on a monthly basis.

  • February 21, 20254:30 pm - 5:30 pm • February 21, 2025

    School Vacation Level Up Gaming

    Teens grades 6-12. Bring your friends to play NintendoSwitch games on TPL’s big screen! Choose from a variety of multiplayer gamesand enjoy some snacks. First four players start with elimination rotations.

February 22, 2025
  • February 22, 202510:00 am - 10:45 am • February 22, 2025

    Teens Snack & Craft

    New Saturday Series! Teens, bring your creativity to make a paper art craft. February’s craft will be creating Junk Journals. Start 2025 with a Junk Journal to incorporate mementos you collect throughout 2025. Move over scrapbooking, Junk Journals are the new thing! Teatime snacks, tea, and hot chocolate will be provided along with paper art supplies. Grades 6-12

  • February 22, 20259:30 am - 11:00 am • February 22, 2025

    Teen Saturdays

    Join VolunTeens and Teen Advisory Board Members to assist with Teen Room projects. 

  • February 22, 20251:00 pm - 2:45 pm • February 22, 2025

    School Vacation Movie: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    Beetlejuice is back with Jenna Ortega! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem. Run Time 109 Min PG13 Popcorn will be served.

February 25, 2025
  • February 25, 20251:00 pm - 3:00 pm • February 25, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 25, 20256:00 pm - 7:00 pm • February 25, 2025

    Rare Reads Book Discussion

    Rare Reads book group meets every third Thursday at 6pm. This month's book is How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. If you would like to join, please email emma@topshamlibrary.org.

February 26, 2025
  • February 26, 202510:30 am - 11:15 am • February 26, 2025

    Preschool Storytime

    At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.

  • February 26, 202512:30 pm - 2:30 pm • February 26, 2025

    The Topsham Sharing Table

    FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last. 

  • February 26, 20254:00 pm - 4:45 pm • February 26, 2025

    Lego Club for Kids

    Build something to fit our theme, or create your own ideas! Forages 7-12.

February 27, 2025
  • February 27, 202510:30 am - 11:00 am • February 27, 2025

    Music & Rhyme Time

    At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup! 

  • February 27, 202510:00 am - 10:20 am • February 27, 2025

    Baby & Me

    Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.

  • February 27, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • February 27, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • February 27, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm • February 27, 2025

    BTL/CREA: Mt Ararat Student Research Presentations

    Join us as we celebrate and learn from our newest group of local scientists! Throughout the fall, students in the Mt Ararat Honors Biology class met with scientist mentors to do research at the Cathance River Nature Preserve in Topsham. Come and meet these scientists and learn about mammal and fish populations, fen biodiversity, and the effect of weather on bird activity.

February 28, 2025
  • February 28, 20254:30 pm - 5:00 pm • February 28, 2025

    Fancy Family Dance Party

    Wear whatever makes you feel like dancing (costume, fancy outfit, whatever!) and come have a dance party! Dance party is 30 minutes long, and is designed for families of all ages.

March 1, 2025
  • March 1, 20251:00 pm - 2:00 pm • March 1, 2025

    Music in March: The Midcoast Cellistas

    Live music at your library. The Midcoast Cellistas, featuring cellists Ellen Sullivan and Lisa Walker, are based in Maine's scenic Midcoast region. With a versatile repertoire that spans classical masterpieces and beloved popular tunes, they perform works by composers such as Handel, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Joplin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and more.

     

    Passionate about connecting with audiences of all ages, the Cellistas bring the rich, emotive sounds of the cello to life, creating an engaging and unforgettable musical experience. Whether performing for intimate gatherings or larger events, they love sharing their music and the magic of the cello with every listener.

March 3, 2025
  • March 3, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • March 3, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • March 3, 202512:30 pm - 1:30 pm • March 3, 2025

    Lindsey - school visit

  • March 3, 20253:30 pm - 4:00 pm • March 3, 2025

    TPL Top Teen Advisory Board

    Help Lindsey, the Teen Services Librarian, with collection development, Displays, Clubs, Programming, Make & Takes, and more. Snacks will be provided. First Monday of the month. Also, drop in times are an option if you can’t make the date. Arrange a time that works for you with Lindsey

  • March 3, 20255:00 pm - 5:45 pm • March 3, 2025

    Manga & Make Teens

    Bring your current manga read to share with the group and create a manga inspired craft. What we're making will be announced. This group will meet on the first Monday of the month , grades 6-12 (middle/high schoolers). All snacks and crafting supplies will be provided.

March 4, 2025
  • March 4, 20251:00 pm - 3:00 pm • March 4, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

March 5, 2025
  • March 5, 202510:30 am - 11:15 am • March 5, 2025

    Preschool Storytime

    At preschool storytime, we sing songs and do action rhymes, read up to four stories, and play percussion instruments. Storytime is 30 - 45 minutes long and is designed for ages 3 and up.

  • March 5, 202512:30 pm - 2:30 pm • March 5, 2025

    The Topsham Sharing Table

    FREE PRODUCE from local farms for anyone who needs it. Help yourself to what you need and leave the rest for others. Organized by the Merrymeeting Gleaners, a project of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. First come, first served, while supplies last. 

March 6, 2025
  • March 6, 202510:30 am - 11:00 am • March 6, 2025

    Music & Rhyme Time

    At each Music & Rhyme Time we sing songs, dance and play instruments to a guitar accompaniment, participate in action rhymes, and read one short story. Each lively and fun session lasts about 20-40 minutes and is designed for two-year-olds and their grownup! 

  • March 6, 202510:00 am - 10:20 am • March 6, 2025

    Baby & Me

    Baby & Me gives your child the opportunity to hear lots of language while you spend time bonding together! Program lasts about 15-20 minutes, and is designed for babies ages birth up to 23 months.

  • March 6, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • March 6, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • March 6, 20256:30 pm - 8:30 pm • March 6, 2025

    Friends of the Topsham Public Library Meeting

    Started in 1998, The Friends of the Topsham Public Library is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the Topsham Public Library. The Friends value the Topsham Public Library as a cultural, educational and recreational center and contribute time, effort, and resources to further develop the library’s potential as a dynamic force in our community. The Friends augment the library budget through fundraising to finance virtually all library programs and events. Annual membership, donations, and patronage of the annual book sale strengthens the Topsham Public Library and ensures the continued growth of Library services. All meetings are open to the public. New members are always welcome.

March 8, 2025
  • March 8, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • March 8, 2025

    Great Books Discussion

    Great Books meets once a month on the second Saturday. We are ALWAYS looking for new members! For more information email emma@topshamlibrary.org.

  • March 8, 20251:00 pm - 2:00 pm • March 8, 2025

    Music in March: kajiu!

    Kaiju is a 70's, 80's & 90's Rock cover band made up of Lisbon Highschool students. The name Kaiju is Japanese and stands for Strange Beast! 

    Band Members: Kylan Dugal-Guitar & Lead Vocalist, Ryan Zylla-Guitar & Back-up Vocalist, Brody Hall-Drums, Emmaus Kay-Bass Guitar& Back-up Vocalist

March 10, 2025
  • March 10, 202510:00 am - 12:00 pm • March 10, 2025

    Tech Help

    Need help setting up email or cloudLibrary? How about printing from your laptop? Do you know how to download apps? Dale will be available to help you navigate your devices.

  • March 10, 202512:30 pm - 4:00 pm • March 10, 2025

    AARP Bridge in the Gallery

    This is an informal program; they can be moved to a different space if necessary.

    Betty Green
    207-725-2012

    SGB

  • March 10, 202512:30 pm - 1:30 pm • March 10, 2025

    Lindsey - school visit