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Medicare: The A, B, Cs and Ds of Medicare - an Educational Seminar

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 50
Event Details:

David Banet, a licensed insurance counselor, will present an educational seminar to give people turning 65 and older a safe place to ask questions and get information without being pressured by insurance companies.

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.

Therapy Dogs for Adults

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Self-Guided Program
Event Details:

Just doing your thing can be very stressful and anxiety inducing for everyone, and relaxing activities for adults can be far and few in-between.  But do you know what is extremely comforting and sweet?  

Dogs!

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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.

No Registration Required

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

Growing a Cut Flower Garden (RO Garden Club)

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Gardening & Nature
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 41
Event Details:

 

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.

Thursday Night Book Club

7:00pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

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

Closed for Memorial Day weekend

All Day 5/24 - 5/26
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Short Work Book Club - The Awakening

10:00am - 11:00am
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

This is a Short Work Book Club, by which we mean 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.

Saturday Matinee - Rock, Paper, Scissors

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

Two university professors in Ann Arbor Michigan take it upon themselves to open a publishing house in the basement of their home and in the process single-handedly change the course of modern Russian literature forever.

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
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Queerdos: Pride Month Edition!

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Library Terrace
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Social Group
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 Publ

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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.

Smartphone Photography: Optimizing Your Photos

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Family, Teen/ High School, Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Family, Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Technology Class
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 45
Event Details:

Learn more about smartphone photography from Librarian and Director of Kresge Library Services at the University of Michigan, Corey Seeman.

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.

Protecting your Identity and Online Accounts with Vibe Credit Union

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Teen/ High School, Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Lecture, Senior
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 48
Event Details:

 

Data breaches are happening more regularly - and it can feel like there's little we can do to protect our information online.

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 on Sundays

All Day
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

VHS to Digital Conversion 101

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Makerspace - DIAL
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology Class
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

Learn how to digitize your old VHS tapes using the Video2Digital 3.0 device in the Digital Imaging and Audio Lab (DIAL) located in the 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.

Community Book Club

6:30pm - 8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: 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 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.

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.

Saturday Matinee - Ida

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

The winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2014, IDA is a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960's Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past.

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
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

ESL Conversation Club

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

The club, in partnership with Oakland Community College, is designed to give non-native speakers a chance to practice their English skills. English speakers who want to learn about other cultures are invited as well. Participants view a movie prior to the meeting, to discuss with the group. All skill levels welcome.

June movie: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

The movie is available on DVD and Blu-ray at the library and on Kanopy with a library card. 

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.

Poetry Workshop

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Poetry, Workshop
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
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.

Create Your Own Sustainable Fashion

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 23
Event Details:

Join Denise Watson of Sewd Fashion and Embroidery Studio to learn how to transform old clothing into new sustainable fashion. 

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
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Short Work Book Club - The Turn of the Screw

10:00am - 11:00am
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

This is a Short Work Book Club, by which we mean 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.

Thursday Night Book Club

7:00pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 8
Event Details:

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

Cat Castles!

1:00pm - 2:30pm
Family, Elementary Age, Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Age Group: Family, Elementary Age, Tween/ Middle School, Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Create a majestic new abode for your feline friend(s) with the most unassuming of materials - cardboard!  Welcome to Cat Castles, where the only limit is your imagination and the strength of your scissors.

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.