Event List

Learn about dinosaurs through audience participation, amazing dinosaur facts and props.

Do you like reading graphic novels? This club is for you! Join us for fun activities and to talk about One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. Didn’t finish the book?

Join us for our new writer's workshop! Come and share your own work, get advice from others and make connections with other local authors. 

The purpose of this program is to promote the magnificent game of chess in Ankeny by bringing players of all ages and skill levels together at the library for a relaxing and informal evening of chess.

This month's selection: Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Spend your evening relaxing as you learn yoga from Meghan May! You can bring your own yoga mat, or borrow one from the library. For grades 4 - 12. Registration Required.

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Join us in painting a beautiful landscape as we follow along to a step-by-step art tutorial while sipping on some delicious flavors of pop. This program is open to tweens and teens. Registration required.

All adult players are welcome! Games start at 3:30pm. For help with character creation or any questions please arrive between 2:00pm and 3:30pm, walk-ins are also welcome during this time!

Books, rhymes, scarves, songs, and bubbles for babies, geared towards birth - 18 months.

Learn how to make this delicious twist on the classic ice cream cone by decorating a cupcake and frosting it to look like an ice cream cone! This event is for tweens and teens. Registration required.

Bring your favorite cribbage board or use one of ours. Come for the fun!

Bring a craft you are working on and join fellow crafters to work on projects and get tips from other creative people. All crafts are welcome, including sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, paper crafts, and so on.

Join the Ankeny Genealogy Chapter for their monthly meeting with a guest speaker discussing the use of books and newspapers in genealogical research including sources, analysis, Google books and the internet archive. 

Join fellow crafters to work on projects and get tips with other creative people. All crafts are welcome, including sewing, knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, paper crafts and so on.

We're taking Sing & Shake outside for the summer! Join us at AMP under the shaded pavilion for singing, dancing, and bubbles! 

2-3 PM: Pokémon Club (card trading)

3-4:45 PM: Movie: Detective Pikachu. Runtime: 1 hr 44 min, Rated PG

*The Ankeny Library is not liable for any trade deals.

Join us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder. 

Fan of the ACOTAR series? Join our ACOTAR Book Club where we meet once a month and discuss one of the books in the series. Open to teens and adults, this book club meets to discuss fantasy, romantasy, and most importantly, the world of ACOTAR!

Singing, splashing, dancing and bubbles!

Join us over lunch at Smokey Row in Ankeny and discuss Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson!

Learn some basic sewing while making a cute bookmark to hold your place while you read! This event is for tweens and teens. Registration required.

Join Byron Graves, author of this  year's Teen All Iowa Reads title, and Janeé Jackson-Doering, State Library of Iowa Youth Services consultant, as they chat about the 2025 selection, "Rez Ball".

Learn how to make this healthy(ish!) breakfast treat and try out different flavors and mix-ins! This event is for tweens and teens. Registration required.