Wednesday, May 1

10:00 a.m.

Terrific Tots Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 2 - 3.5 and their caregivers. Join us for songs, rhymes, stories, and crafts, as we explore a different theme each week. We will work on developing our fine motor and language skills together. 

This is now a ticketed program. No registration required! Come to the Children’s Floor up to 30 minutes prior to the start of Storytime to get a ticket. Once all of the tickets are handed out then the Storytime is full.

Thursday, May 2
• 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Multi-age Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 1-5 and their caregiver. Join us for songs, rhymes, and stories, as we explore a different theme each week. This will be a shortened version of our typical Storytime.

This is now a ticketed program. No registration required! Come to the Children’s Floor up to 30 minutes prior to the start of Storytime to get a ticket. Once all of the tickets are handed out then the Storytime is full.

• 11:30 a.m.

Baby Besties Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 0-12 months (or pre-walkers) and their caregiver. Join us for stories, lap bounces, rhymes, and songs with scarves and shakers!  We’ll have time for free play and tummy time where parents can get to know each other.

This is now a ticketed program. No registration required! Come to the Children’s Floor up to 30 minutes prior to the start of Storytime to get a ticket. Once all of the tickets are handed out then the Storytime is full.

• 1 – 3 p.m.

Knitting, Crocheting & Embroidery Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room

Friday, May 3

• 10a.m.

Wonderful Ones Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 12-24 months and their caregivers. Join us for songs, fingerplays, and moving our bodies to music, scarves, and shakers!  We’ll read a story together and have time for free play, sensory play, or a simple craft.

• 12:45 – 1:30 p.m.

Senior Book Group

Type: Adults
Location: Oxford Senior Center
Tuesday, May 7

• 10 a.m. 

Hooray for Pre-K Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room

This program is for children ages 3.5 - 5 and their caregivers. Join us for songs, rhymes, stories, and crafts, as we explore a different theme each week. We will work on developing our fine motor and language skills together. 

• 6 – 7:30 p.m.

Importance of Bees with John Hedly

Type: Adults
Location: Downstairs Meeting Room
Join local beekeeper and Auburn resident, John Hedly, one of over 1,000 members of the Worcester County Beekeepers Association, a leader in beekeeping education for over 100 years. He will present on the following topics:

Starting a beehive

Collecting honey

Physical structure of a hive

Bee chores in and out of a hive

the bee colony and its organization

The importance of pollination

Wednesday, May 8
• 10 a.m.

Terrific Tots Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 2 - 3.5 and their caregivers. Join us for songs, rhymes, stories, and crafts, as we explore a different theme each week. We will work on developing our fine motor and language skills together. 

Thursday, May 9
• 10 - 10:30 a.m.

Multi-age Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
• 11:30 a.m.

Baby Besties Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 0-12 months (or pre-walkers) and their caregiver. Join us for stories, lap bounces, rhymes, and songs with scarves and shakers!  We’ll have time for free play and tummy time where parents can get to know each other.

• 1-3 p.m.

Knitting, Crocheting & Embroidery Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room

• 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Paint Night with Jean Walker

Type: Adults
Location: Downstairs Meeting Room
Registration required 

Join us as we paint a hummingbird, just in time for spring, and part of the Oxford Pollinator’s Campaign!

This is an all levels class for adults 18 and older.

Friday May 10

• 10 a.m.

Wonderful Ones Storytime (Ticketed)

Type: Children
Location: Storytime Room
This program is for children ages 12-24 months and their caregivers. Join us for songs, fingerplays, and moving our bodies to music, scarves, and shakers!  We’ll read a story together and have time for free play, sensory play, or a simple craft.

Tuesday, May 14 

• 6:30 -7:30 p.m.

Tuesday Book Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room

• 6:30  - 7:30 p.m.

Songs of the Great Willie Nelson with Matt York - Concert

Type: All Ages
Location: Downstairs Meeting Room
Longtime New England singer/songwriter Matt York will perform songs and tell stories about the great Willie Nelson. York will focus on Willie’s long and illustrious music career that has spanned over seven decades. In both 2022 and 2023, York was nominated for the Boston Music Award for Best Country Artist and last year, his album, Gently Used, was named one of the top albums by Worcester Magazine.

Thursday, May 16

• 1- 3 p.m.

Knitting, Crocheting & Embroidery Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room

Thursday, May 23
• 1- 3 p.m.

Knitting, Crocheting & Embroidery Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room

The library is closed May 25 and May 27 in observance of Memorial Day

Thursday, May 30

• 1- 3 p.m.

Knitting, Crocheting & Embroidery Group

Type: Adults
Location: Reading Room