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Three cacti made out of different colored pom poms lie on a table

Pom-Pom Cacti Craft at the Senior Center

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Leo Mahany/ Harold Meininger Senior Community Center at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Outreach, Senior
Age Group:
Adults

Make your own cute little desk friend with just yarn! These tiny pom pom cacti are easy, fun, and free to make at a convenient location, the Senior Center! 

Register by calling the Senior Center at 248-246-3900. 

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Leo Mahany/ Harold Meininger Senior Community Center
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Outreach, Senior
Event Details:

Make your own cute little desk friend with just yarn! These tiny pom pom cacti are easy, fun, and free to make at a convenient location, the Senior Center! 

Register by calling the Senior Center at 248-246-3900. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

photograph of Paul Conway

Sharing Four Decades of Live Recordings from The Ark

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Lecture, Music
Age Group:
Adults

Sharing Four Decades of Live Recordings from The Ark

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Music
Registration Required
Event Details:

Sharing Four Decades of Live Recordings from The Ark

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

three cups of coffee, green, blue, and purple, have a conversation

Conversation Cafe

Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Social Group
Age Group:
Adults

Do you feel like you hold lots of beliefs about things, but have no place to have a deep conversation? Do you enjoy dialogue that is open-minded, and that encourages acceptance, curiosity, discovery, and sincerity?

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group
Registration Required
Event Details:

Do you feel like you hold lots of beliefs about things, but have no place to have a deep conversation? Do you enjoy dialogue that is open-minded, and that encourages acceptance, curiosity, discovery, and sincerity?

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

One hand passing a book to another

Community Book Club

Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Community Book Club:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeti...

December Book: God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeting the group will discuss and choose the next book. All genres, thoughts, and feelings are respected, and all are welcome!

The selected book can be requested through the catalog for reading, or contact adultreference@romi.gov and we can get a copy for you.

December Book: God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

canvas with pastoral scene, sweet cow chews clovers in the corner. Text: "Lucky Day Art Fair"

Lucky Day Art Fair

Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 11:00am - 4:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Family, Adults

In the spirit of creativity, ROPL is hosting an art fair, with artists/vendors chosen at random.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Family, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

In the spirit of creativity, ROPL is hosting an art fair, with artists/vendors chosen at random.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

The Underground Railroad in Oakland County

All Day
Library Lobby at Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group:
Adults, All Ages

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Library Lobby
Age Group: Adults, All Ages
Event Details:

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

A black and white picture of Jane Austen wearing a blue and light purple birthday hat

Jane Austen's 250th Birthday Party

Monday, December 15, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults

Come celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with other fans! Enjoy tea, snacks, birthday cake, Jane Austen themed crafts, trivia, and a raffle!

 

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Come celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with other fans! Enjoy tea, snacks, birthday cake, Jane Austen themed crafts, trivia, and a raffle!

 

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Handmade pitcher made of clay with a glaze color of bright red.

Pitcher Pottery Class

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Makerspace / DIAL at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults

Join us at the Royal Oak Public Library for a fun clay-making adventure!

Jan Bostwick of Jan's Pottery LLC will teach you how to hand build a unique pitcher out of clay.

Full
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Makerspace / DIAL
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us at the Royal Oak Public Library for a fun clay-making adventure!

Jan Bostwick of Jan's Pottery LLC will teach you how to hand build a unique pitcher out of clay.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Poetry, Workshop
Age Group:
Adults

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can patiently and with care discuss the work of another poet.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Poetry, Workshop
Registration Required
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we meet monthly to workshop poems we are working on. A workshop is a welcoming, focused environment, in which we can patiently and with care discuss the work of another poet.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

an elderly man at a diagonal angle, with white hair and white beard, next to title of film, "The Last Laugh"

Royal Oak Public Library Film Club - The Last Laugh

Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Movie, Social Group
Age Group:
Adults

This is a meeting of the Royal Oak Public Library Film Club.  We meet each month to discuss a movie on Kanopy that we have watched on our own before the discussion.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie, Social Group
Registration Required
Event Details:

This is a meeting of the Royal Oak Public Library Film Club.  We meet each month to discuss a movie on Kanopy that we have watched on our own before the discussion.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

The cover of "Once There Were Wolves" by Charlotte McConaghy. A brown forest.

Thursday Night Book Club

Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library's monthly Thursday night book club meeting. Copies of the book are available at the reference desk.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library's monthly Thursday night book club meeting. Copies of the book are available at the reference desk.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

The Underground Railroad in Oakland County

All Day
Library Lobby at Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group:
Adults, All Ages

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Library Lobby
Age Group: Adults, All Ages
Event Details:

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

vegan eggnog

Holiday Drinks and Treats Cooking Class with Chef Val

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group:
Adults

Come celebrate the holiday with a traditional drink and a festive treat. Learn how to make a sugar free, egg free version of the classic holiday drink, eggnog. And make a delicious fig chocolate treat.

Full
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Registration Required
Event Details:

Come celebrate the holiday with a traditional drink and a festive treat. Learn how to make a sugar free, egg free version of the classic holiday drink, eggnog. And make a delicious fig chocolate treat.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Closed for the Holidays

All Day 12/24 - 12/25
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

The Underground Railroad in Oakland County

All Day
Library Lobby at Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group:
Adults, All Ages

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Library Lobby
Age Group: Adults, All Ages
Event Details:

This travelling exhibit of six panels, created by the Underground Railroad in Oakland County public history project, showcases freedom seekers and abolitionists from southern Oakland County.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Western landscape with horse in black and white

Short Work Book Club - Train Dreams

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults

This is a short story book club, by which we mean not collections of short stories, but rather books that are meaningful but short, usually under 250 pages. We read the book, then come and have a spirited conversation.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Event Details:

This is a short story book club, by which we mean not collections of short stories, but rather books that are meaningful but short, usually under 250 pages. We read the book, then come and have a spirited conversation.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

Closed for the New Year Holiday

All Day 12/31 - 1/1
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
A picture of penguin made out of a pom pom. It has black bead eyes, a yellow felt nose, and yellow felt feet.

Take and Make: Pom Pom Penguins

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults

Celebrate the new year with a new craft! Take home a kit to make a pom pom penguin. All materials and instructions are provided. Pick up your kit at the adult reference desk starting January 5th.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Celebrate the new year with a new craft! Take home a kit to make a pom pom penguin. All materials and instructions are provided. Pick up your kit at the adult reference desk starting January 5th.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

No Registration Required

You do not need to register for this program - it is first-come, first-served.

Queer person sitting

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

Monday, January 5, 2026 at 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Social Group
Age Group:
Adults
Queerdos: A Literary and Just Plain Social Club:

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with...

Registration encouraged for e-mail reminders.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group
Registration Required
Event Details:

Are you LGBTQIA+? Do you love books, graphic novels, or basically any other form of media? Do you want to meet and chill with others who answered the above questions with yes too? Well you are in luck! Welcome to Royal Oak Public Library's monthly queer social club, a safe space to talk about various medias and simply exist in a place where you don't need to worry about people just not getting it.  If you'd like to bring your emotional support ally, they are welcome too!

At least one rad gay media will be recommended at the end of each meeting and no registration is necessary to come! Bring your iced coffees, your sweatpants, your septum rings...they're all welcome here!

Registration encouraged for e-mail reminders.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

Brother SE 1900 model sewing machine with light on and white background.

Brother SE1900 Embroidery Machine Basics

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Makerspace / DIAL at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Technology Class
Age Group:
Adults

Learn the basics of the Brother SE1900 Embroidery machine that lives in the Royal Oak Public Library Makerspace! 

Full
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Makerspace / DIAL
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Technology Class
Registration Required
Event Details:

Learn the basics of the Brother SE1900 Embroidery machine that lives in the Royal Oak Public Library Makerspace! 

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

One hand passing a book to another

Community Book Club

Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club
Age Group:
Adults
Community Book Club:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeti...

January Book:

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

A book club run by book lovers, for book lovers! On the second Thursday of each month, this group will meet, discuss the chosen book of last month, and at the end of the meeting the group will discuss and choose the next book. All genres, thoughts, and feelings are respected, and all are welcome!

The selected book can be requested through the catalog for reading, or contact adultreference@romi.gov and we can get a copy for you.

January Book:

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

It's in the cards, tarot for today and beyond. Image of the psychic V. on a tarot card.

It’s in the Cards: Tarot for Today & Beyond with V.

Monday, January 12, 2026 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Lecture, Workshop
Age Group:
Adults

Join professional Psychic Reader V. of Boston Tea Room (Michigan's oldest and most respected Psychic venue) for an introductory class on the benefits of using Tarot in today’s world.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Workshop
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join professional Psychic Reader V. of Boston Tea Room (Michigan's oldest and most respected Psychic venue) for an introductory class on the benefits of using Tarot in today’s world.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Encouraged

We encourage you to register for this program, but it is not required.

ship stuck in the ice

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, A HISTORY OF POLAR EXPLORATION

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Lecture
Age Group:
Adults

An engaging lecture exploring the triumphs and tragedies of polar  exploration, where bravery and determination meet the harshest  conditions on Earth.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Event Details:

An engaging lecture exploring the triumphs and tragedies of polar  exploration, where bravery and determination meet the harshest  conditions on Earth.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.

photograph of Detroit citizens during 1967 riots

Detroit Historical Museum - Myth of the Model City

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Lecture
Age Group:
Adults

This presentation explores both the causes and events of the 1967 uprising. Understanding what led to the riot/rebellion is imperative to understanding the unrest. Additionally, this lecture will seek to dispel many myths that surround ’67.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Event Details:

This presentation explores both the causes and events of the 1967 uprising. Understanding what led to the riot/rebellion is imperative to understanding the unrest. Additionally, this lecture will seek to dispel many myths that surround ’67.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.

Registration Required

Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.