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Closed for Juneteenth

All Day 6/19 - 6/20
Royal Oak Public Library
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Closed on Sundays

All Day
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Library Board of Trustees

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Program Type: Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Event Details:

Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting.

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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.

Words "Girl on Girl" with close up of different faces, and bottom reads, "How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves"

True Story Book Group

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Book Club, Social Group
Age Group:
Adults

Welcome to the True Story Book Club! We read works of non-fiction, in order to better understand ourselves, others, and the world. There are so many wonderful, important, strong, compelling works of non-fiction out there.

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

Welcome to the True Story Book Club! We read works of non-fiction, in order to better understand ourselves, others, and the world. There are so many wonderful, important, strong, compelling works of non-fiction out there.

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.

Conversation Cafe

Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room 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?

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group
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.

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Closed for Independence Day Weekend

All Day 7/3 - 7/4
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Queer person sitting

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

Monday, July 6, 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.

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

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 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.

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, July 9, 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...

July Book: Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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.

July Book: Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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.

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Yarn, knitting needles and crochet needles lie haphazard on a wood table.

Woolgatherers: A Fiber Arts Group

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Social Group
Age Group:
Teen/ High School, Adults

Join Woolgatherers, a social group for knitters, crocheters, and all other fiber art makers! The purpose is for all skill levels to sit and enjoy their craft and develop a community of learning.

Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Social Group
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join Woolgatherers, a social group for knitters, crocheters, and all other fiber art makers! The purpose is for all skill levels to sit and enjoy their craft and develop a community of learning.

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.

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Royal Oak Public Library Film Club

Thursday, July 16, 2026 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.

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Colorful flowers in pinks, yellows, orange, and more.

Hammer Dyeing with Flowers

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Gardening & Nature, Sustainability & the Environment
Age Group:
Adults

Learn the art of flower pounding in this fun workshop where you will use natural pigments from real flowers to dye fabric by hitting them with a hammer! 

Upcoming
Registration Required
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Gardening & Nature, Sustainability & the Environment
Registration Required
Event Details:

Learn the art of flower pounding in this fun workshop where you will use natural pigments from real flowers to dye fabric by hitting them with a hammer! 

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.

Conversation Cafe

Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Small Conference Room 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?

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group
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.

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Colorful Perler beads.

Perler Bead Coasters

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Makerspace / DIAL at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults

Perler Beads are fun for all ages- especially adults! 

Join us in the Makerspace and learn how to craft beautiful, functional, and waterproof coasters out of Perler Beads! 

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

Perler Beads are fun for all ages- especially adults! 

Join us in the Makerspace and learn how to craft beautiful, functional, and waterproof coasters out of Perler Beads! 

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.

gavel

Library Board of Trustees

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Friends Auditorium at Royal Oak Public Library
Program Type:
Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting.

Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Program Type: Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Event Details:

Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting.

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.

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Closed on Sundays

All Day
Royal Oak Public Library
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman

Poetry Workshop

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 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.

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, August 13, 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...

August Book: The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

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.

August Book: The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

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.