Programs

Interested in Learning How to Quilt? Please Join Us!

This year, the quilting group will be working on the Pinwheel pattern. We’ll provide the supplies you need to create a square that will be added to our annual quilt, which will be raffled to benefit the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

There is no cost to participate, and you can join at any time!

Mary’s Yarns meetings are the first and third Monday of the month at 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

To register, please email marysyarn@dflfriends.org or call the Dobbs Ferry Library at 914 693 6614!

This program is a Mary’s Yarns Project sponsored by the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

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18 to 36 months.

Get your wiggles out with songs and stories with Ms. Gina!

Email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room for information and to sign up.

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The Writer’s Circle is free and open to the public and offers drop-in generative sessions with timed writing, speed writing, prompts and feedback.

Bring your current projects or start some new stories.

Register for the ZOOM link at reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org or with Sara Bramble at sbramble@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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In-person at the Yonkers Grinton I. Will Public Library (1500 Central Park Ave. Yonkers) or online via ZOOM – register for this program here

These Iconic Hollywood Stars paved the way for so many other Latina Actresses during the history of Motion Pictures. They defied racial barriers and persevered creating a bridge for today’s Latina women to follow.  We will learn the full story of Dolores Del Rio, a woman who defied the odds and carved out her own remarkable cornerstone in Hollywood History.

Presented by Sal St. George of St. George Living History Productions.  Done in collaboration with the Yonkers, Irvington, Yorktown, and Dobbs Ferry Libraries.

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Ages 8-18

Create a character! Fight monsters! Make your own luck! Develop your skills in this fantasy role-playing system with other kids just like you.

Each player will only attend once a week on either Wednesday or Thursday; your slot will be assigned by the library based on your availability, experience, and other factors. The club is spread across two days to accommodate as many members as possible and follows the Dobbs Ferry Schools calendar for vacations and days off. Please only sign up if you think you can attend most of the meetings.

Registration is required via this Google form. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Ages 9+

Local storyteller and author David Neilsen, known for bringing tales to life in Sleepy Hollow and across the Rivertowns, will present this one-evening-only session for elementary and middle schoolers ages 9+. Get into the Halloween spirit with classic tales from the author of Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom (2016) and Lillian Lovecraft and the Harmless Horrors (2021).

Registration REQUIRED — email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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For Hispanic Heritage Month read Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros. Get the book at the Library!

Register with sbramble@dobbsferrylibrary.org to get the Zoom link — please indicate the title and date of the program you are registering for!

A brave collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published her last book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.

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Come learn to play chess with Bradley Wank, Esq. – All Ages welcome!

Register with reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org — please indicate the title and date of the program you are registering for!

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Ages 8-18

Create a character! Fight monsters! Make your own luck! Develop your skills in this fantasy role-playing system with other kids just like you.

Each player will only attend once a week on either Wednesday or Thursday; your slot will be assigned by the library based on your availability, experience, and other factors. The club is spread across two days to accommodate as many members as possible and follows the Dobbs Ferry Schools calendar for vacations and days off. Please only sign up if you think you can attend most of the meetings.

Registration is required via this Google form. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Teens!  Did you know that the library has a Nintendo Switch that you can use?

Come to the open hours on Friday afternoons OR Dobbs Ferry Public Library card holders can email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to reserve your time slot where you can use the Switch in the building (not available for checkout).

Grades 6 – 12 only.

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Ages 3 +

Use your imagination to build something special with our giant stash of LEGOS!

Fridays all month long.

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Action! Comedy! Thriller! Fantasy! Anything goes in our Grab Bag movie series!

This month’s feature: Goosebumps – Halloween Special

When horror novelist R. L. Stine’s creepy creations come to life and escape from their books; teenagers Zach, Champ and Stine’s daughter Hannah struggle to return the monsters to their stories before they destroy the town. A spooky, thrill-filled adventure based on actual author R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series.

2015 / 103 min / Rated PG – recommended for audiences 10+

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Ages 3 and up.

Pick up a kit containing a craft that you can do at home. Supplies are limited — first come, first served!

This Week’s Craft – Candy Corn Dolls

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All Ages welcome.

Children read one-on-one with Buddy, a specially trained Reading Education Assistance Dog (R.E.A.D.) and his handler, Dobbs Ferry resident Marty Kanengiser. Children will select a book to read to Buddy before the program begins, and they will spend 10-15 minutes reading aloud. They are also welcome to ask questions about Buddy, a 12-year-old rescued black lab who loves children, other dogs, and reading.

Registration REQUIRED — email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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Are you a parent or adult who would be interested in reading a story at our Diwali Celebration on Saturday, October 18th?

If so, please email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org

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The October Print of the Month is a jack-o-lantern fidget!

Please specify if you want option 1 (fidget spinner), 2 (pixel spinner), or 3 (layered fidget).

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to request yours.  Please include your preferred color; if you don’t specify it will be orange and green

All ages, no cost, limit one per person.

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For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

Registration recommended but not required – email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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Want to add a little excitement to your Monday? Join us for Drop-In Mah Jongg at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library every Monday from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

It’s the perfect way to sharpen your mind, meet new friends, and share plenty of laughs. No experience? No problem! Players of all levels are welcome.

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18 to 36 months.

Get your wiggles out with songs and stories with Ms. Gina!

Email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room for information and to sign up.

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Join Staff Sergeant Alnaldo Ortiz, New York Air National Guard, and New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps, for a training on preparing for emergencies and disasters.

The Citizen Preparedness Corps is an Emergency Preparedness program initiated back in 2014 to provide residents the knowledge and tools to prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond accordingly, and recover as quickly as possible. New York National Guard Service Members, working with experts from the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) and local Emergency Management personnel, are holding classes across the state. The program was designed by DHSES and covers a broad range of emergency preparedness topics like developing a family emergency plan, what to do in the case of an Active Shooter situation, stocking up on emergency supplies, and registering for NY-Alert, the free statewide emergency alert system.

Registration is required. Attendees will receive a “Go Kit Bag.”

Click here to register

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Nationally-known adventure travel journalist Peter Mandel (WaPo, NatGeo, LA Times) will show slides of his most extreme travel assignments – visiting a ‘city’ of penguins at the South Pole, fishing for piranha in Brazil, camping in the African bush, and more – and talk about how adventure travel turns to prose in the media.

Registration is required. Go here to register!

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Ages 8-18

Create a character! Fight monsters! Make your own luck! Develop your skills in this fantasy role-playing system with other kids just like you.

Each player will only attend once a week on either Wednesday or Thursday; your slot will be assigned by the library based on your availability, experience, and other factors. The club is spread across two days to accommodate as many members as possible and follows the Dobbs Ferry Schools calendar for vacations and days off. Please only sign up if you think you can attend most of the meetings.

Registration is required via this Google form. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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A monumental work that has been called “surely the greatest book ever written about a city,” Robert Caro’s The Power Broker showed us how Robert Moses–a man who never held elected office–amassed the power to shape New York City and its surroundings. Join us for this presentation from the New York Historical to learn more about Robert Moses, Caro’s groundbreaking work, and how we still live with the vision of New York that Moses implemented.

Registration is required. Go here to register!

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The Library Board of Trustees meets on the third Wednesday of every month.

The beginning of each meeting is open to public comments.

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This month, we will be reading The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Get the book at the Library!

Register with reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org — please indicate the title and date of the program you are registering for!

“For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.”

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Come learn to play chess with Bradley Wank, Esq. – All Ages welcome!

Register with reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org — please indicate the title and date of the program you are registering for!

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Ages 8-18

Create a character! Fight monsters! Make your own luck! Develop your skills in this fantasy role-playing system with other kids just like you.

Each player will only attend once a week on either Wednesday or Thursday; your slot will be assigned by the library based on your availability, experience, and other factors. The club is spread across two days to accommodate as many members as possible and follows the Dobbs Ferry Schools calendar for vacations and days off. Please only sign up if you think you can attend most of the meetings.

Registration is required via this Google form. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

Questions? Participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Are you a high school student or the parent of one who is overwhelmed by the entire idea of standardized testing? Do you find yourself wondering: to test or not to test? And if so, which test, and when, and how many times? If so, please join Mollie Reznick (founder and director of The College Connection) and Michael Goldstein (Senior Director of the tutoring team at Collegewise) to get all of your questions answered about standardized testing!

What to expect:

• Updates and trends in testing
• If/how to report your scores to colleges
• Test planning strategy
• Plenty of time for Q&A!

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org for the Zoom link!

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Teens!  Did you know that the library has a Nintendo Switch that you can use?

Come to the open hours on Friday afternoons OR Dobbs Ferry Public Library card holders can email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to reserve your time slot where you can use the Switch in the building (not available for checkout).

Grades 6 – 12 only.

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Ages 3 +

Use your imagination to build something special with our giant stash of LEGOS!

Fridays all month long.

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Game Night at the Library!

Join the Library’s Director, Erik Carlson, for an evening of tabletop games.

Play new games and make new friends.

Everyone is welcome to bring their own games, food and beverages.

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Join us and friends and frequent collaborators Most Useless Trivia at Climbing Wolf Craft Beer Bar on Friday, October 17th at 8pm, where we’ll be screening Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982/Rated R/98 min/Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller)!

Climbing Wolf is located at 78 Main Street Dobbs Ferry NY, 10522 –  just north of the library – at the corner of Chestnut & Main.

summary: Originally intended to turn the Halloween franchise into an anthology series, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, centers on witchcraft, commercialization in U.S. 80’s culture, and a Halloween mass murder plot inspired by an ancient Celtic ritual!  Though inititally panned by some critics and fans for departing from the first two series films’ Michael Myers plotline/Slasher genre, the film has since received positive reevaluation and is oft included in its rightful place in the Spooky Season cult classic pantheon!

Stay after for our always lively Film Discussion, where we’ll share trivia and have very fun, spooky prizes!

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To see one of our previous CCMN film discussions, check out our interview with Makeup/Special Effects Artist Dan Frye (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Dr. Who)

Follow us on Instagram: @CultClassicMovieNight

Questions?  Email TDeery@DobbsFerryLibrary.org

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Ages 3 and up.

Pick up a kit containing a craft that you can do at home. Supplies are limited — first come, first served!

This Week’s Craft – Jack O’Lantern Masks

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All Ages

Join us for a cozy, community-led Diwali celebration! Local families will read stories and bring in snacks, an artist will provide henna tattoos for anyone interested, and we will create a giant poster to commemorate the occasion.

Email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

For Adults:

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The October Print of the Month is a jack-o-lantern fidget!

Please specify if you want option 1 (fidget spinner), 2 (pixel spinner), or 3 (layered fidget).

Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org to request yours.  Please include your preferred color; if you don’t specify it will be orange and green

All ages, no cost, limit one per person.

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For parents and caregivers of babies up to 24 months.

Join children’s librarian Gina to learn songs, fingerplays, and more that you can do with your baby. Each meeting will leave time for open discussion and connection with other parents/caregivers.

Registration recommended but not required – email childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, call (914) 693-6615, or stop by the Children’s Room to sign up.

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Want to add a little excitement to your Monday? Join us for Drop-In Mah Jongg at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library every Monday from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

It’s the perfect way to sharpen your mind, meet new friends, and share plenty of laughs. No experience? No problem! Players of all levels are welcome.

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Want to make a difference in the community and get volunteer credit hours? Become a member of TAG! We’ll meet monthly to discuss your ideas and work on projects to improve the library and its services and have pizza.

Register here! Email teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org for information.

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