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Social Chess

Thursday, December 26, 2024 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Games
Age Group:
All Ages, Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12), Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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 inform...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: All Ages, Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12), Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

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.

Dungeons and Dragon Game Board

Dungeons & Dragons

Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 2:00pm - 7:00pm
Meeting Room BC at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Games
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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 th...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room BC
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

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!

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Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 10:00am - 10:45am
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Gilded clock counting down to midnight surrounded by gold ornaments

Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 11:00am - 11:45am
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Gilded clock counting down to midnight surrounded by gold ornaments

Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Gilded clock counting down to midnight surrounded by gold ornaments

Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Gilded clock counting down to midnight surrounded by gold ornaments

Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 3:00pm - 3:45pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Gilded clock counting down to midnight surrounded by gold ornaments

Escape Room 2025

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Special Events
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before t...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Special Events
Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

New Year's Eve is tomorrow but the key to start the countdown in Times Square is missing! Can you find the missing key and save the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration before time runs out? Open to tweens and teens in grades 4-12.

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Photo of a wire basket full of different colored yarn and a set of knitting needles sitting on a table with a white brick background

Craft & Chat

Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Meeting Room B at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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 ...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room B
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

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.

Decorated journal pages for habit tracking and reading time

Teen Craft - New Year, New Journal

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

Ring in the new year by making and designing a new journal! You can decorate and design a new journal for anything from manifesting your visions and goals for 2025, keeping track o...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Craft
Required
Seats Remaining: 17
Event Details:

Ring in the new year by making and designing a new journal!

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

Closed at 5 PM for New Year's Eve

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 5:00pm - 11:45pm
Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library

A-English Conversation Circle

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Conference Room A at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Bilingual, Meeting
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

A Conversation Circle is a monthly gathering of adults who practice everyday conversational English and get to know the public library.Meet once a month for 2 hours. Why join?...

Cancelled
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Conference Room A
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Bilingual, Meeting
Event Details:

A Conversation Circle is a monthly gathering of adults who practice everyday conversational English and get to know the public library.

Meet once a month for 2 hours. 

Why join?

Closed for New Year's

All Day
Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
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Chair Yoga

Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 9:30am - 10:30am
Meeting Room A at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
, Special Events
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

Kerry Walter-Ashby will lead you in a chair yoga class.  Chair yoga is a general term for practices that modify yoga poses so they can be done while seated in a chair. Thes...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room A
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: , Special Events
Event Details:

Kerry Walter-Ashby will lead you in a chair yoga class. 

Cover of Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya

T(w)een Book Club

Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Teen Program Room at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Book Clubs
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

Do you like to read and talk about books? Join our book club for tweens and teens! This month’s book is Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya. Stop in for fun activiti...

Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Teen Program Room
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Book Clubs
Required
Seats Remaining: 10
Event Details:

Do you like to read and talk about books? Join our book club for tweens and teens!

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Write on Thursdays

Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Meeting Room A at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Workshop, Writing
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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. 

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room A
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Workshop, Writing
Event Details:

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. 

Photo of a chess board with a hand moving a pawn

Social Chess

Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Games
Age Group:
All Ages, Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12), Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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 inform...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: All Ages, Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12), Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

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.

Stack of bagels above a row of books, with the words Books and Bagels

Books & Bagels (Ankeny High School)

Friday, January 3, 2025 at 7:45am - 8:15am
Off-Site
Program Type:
Book Clubs
Age Group:
Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Event Details:

Join us before school to eat bagels (or other breakfast pastries) and chat about what you're reading!

Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off-Site
Age Group: Tween & Teen (Gr. 4-12)
Program Type: Book Clubs
Event Details:

Join us before school to eat bagels (or other breakfast pastries) and chat about what you're reading!

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
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Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group

Friday, January 3, 2025 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room BC at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Meeting
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

Support group meetings are a family caregiver's opportunity to learn more about Alzheimer's disease and care-giving from peers who have had similar experiences or have the same que...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room BC
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Meeting
Required
Seats Remaining: 75
Event Details:

Support group meetings are a family caregiver's opportunity to learn more about Alzheimer's disease and care-giving from peers who have had similar experiences or have the same questions and concerns

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Social Bridge

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room B at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Games
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

What is fun, stimulating, and a great way to meet new friends?  If you are new to the game or a little rusty after years without a fourth, this is the perfect place for you...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room B
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Games
Required
Seats Remaining: 40
Event Details:

What is fun, stimulating, and a great way to meet new friends? 

If you are new to the game or a little rusty after years without a fourth, this is the perfect place for you.

Photo of people doing chair yoga in a small room

Chair Yoga

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 9:30am - 10:30am
Meeting Room A at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
, Special Events
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

Kerry Walter-Ashby will lead you in a chair yoga class.  Chair yoga is a general term for practices that modify yoga poses so they can be done while seated in a chair. Thes...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Meeting Room A
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: , Special Events
Event Details:

Kerry Walter-Ashby will lead you in a chair yoga class. 

Zoning Board of Adjustment

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Council Chambers at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Council Chambers

Plan and Zoning Commission

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Council Chambers at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Council Chambers

Craft & Chat

Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 10:45am - 11:45am
Makerspace (Full Room) at Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Program Type:
Craft
Age Group:
Adult (Ages 18+)
Event Details:

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 ...

Library Branch: Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library
Room: Makerspace (Full Room)
Age Group: Adult (Ages 18+)
Program Type: Craft
Event Details:

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.