Story Time at North Albany

Please join us in the Large Meeting Room for stories, finger plays, songs and rhymes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, and their caregivers.

Story Slam: A Little Luck

Lucky? Or just a coincidence? March 17 is St Patrick’s Day and the theme is A Little Luck. The stories are yours. Admission is free.Got a story to tell? Find out more and/or sign up to grab one of the limited storyteller slots. Dottie’s will have beer, wine and food, available for purchase. Story Slam? – A […]

Storytime Learn & Play

Join us at the Main Library for your child’s enrichment through stories, song, movement, and play! Every Thursday morning from 10:30 am to 11:15 am. For ages 0 to 5 with caregiver.

A “Howe”-ling Monster Storytime

Do you like having fun with silly monsters? Or “howe”ling with delight? Come on down to the historic Howe Branch of the Albany Public library for a special story time with puppetry, dance, and music. Featuring Gruff the “Howe”-ling Monster and his librarian side-kick. Registration is required. For registration visit: https://albanypubliclibrary.libcal.com/event/10264280

Pajama Story Time

Join us in your jammies for Pajama Story Time with Miss Melissa. We will read books, sing songs, and have lots of cozy fun! 

Baby Bounce Stroytime

Join Ms Melissa for fun songs and short books to introduce your baby to story time! We will meet in the community room, and babies and their caregivers are welcome to stay and play after story time.

Front Parlor Series

Storytelling Open Mic Hosted By Mike De SocioTheme: Justice The idea of justice has been getting a lot of attention lately: Social justice, climate justice, economic justice—worthy causes, all. But justice also has a pretty elemental meaning to most of us. Getting even, righting wrongs, standing up. These are forms of justice, too, that might […]

A Panel of Possibilities

If you’re interested in how authors keep their series going—how they track characters, plot lines, locations and more—you’ll enjoy the next meeting of the Upper Hudson Sisters in Crime, Saturday, May 20, from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm EDT.Lori Duffy Foster (NEVER LET GO) will chat with three other authors about how they write more […]

Free

Tips for Writers from The Poison Lady

The Poison Lady will offer tips on how to successfully poison someone—in fiction, of course—at the next meeting of the Upper Hudson Sisters in Crime chapter, June 17, from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm EDT. Luci Zahray, aka, the Poison Lady, has two great passions in life: poisons and mysteries, though she’s never poisoned anyone […]

Free

Caffè Lena Presents 60 Years of Banned Books

Caffè Lena and the Saratoga Springs Public Library come together to celebrate Banned Books Week with a night of music and reading from books that have been banned or challenged throughout the last 60 years on October 5th from 6-8 pm. Both organizations recognize the contributions of authors and illustrators amid the current increase in […]

Saratoga Book Festival

Join the Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library as they host the 3rd annual Saratoga Book Festival Thursday October 12th-Sunday 15th, 2023. There will be a wide range of events throughout downtown Saratoga Springs throughout the weekend, including 40 workshops, panels and headliner sessions, over 60 authors and presenters, a literary marketplace with over […]

Saratoga Senior Center Poetry/Storytelling Open Mic

Poetry/Storytelling Open MicFeaturing Poet Jay Rogoff, Author of seven books of poetry, including The Cutoff, which won the Word Works Washington Prize, and, from Louisiana State University Press, The Long Fault, The Art of Gravity, Enamel Eyes, and, most recently, Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems. His new book, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their […]