Upcoming Events

Filters
Age Group

Baby Size!: Ages Birth to 18 months

10:15am - 11:00am
Babies, Toddlers
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers
Program Type: Story Time

Story time for infants, toddlers and their adults. Enjoy 30 minutes of language building activities including songs, rhymes, and play. Join the fun! 

 

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.

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs are not permitted. Please view policy 3.40 Unattended Children for more information.

Participant Age

To ensure a successful experience in this program and socialization with one’s peers, age limits are enforced. 

Tickets issued 15 minutes before the program begins.

The staff at the Youth Services Desk will issue tickets on a first-come, first-served basis 15 minutes before the program begins.

Family LEGO® Time

6:30pm - 7:30pm
Preschool, Family, Elementary Age
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Preschool, Family, Elementary Age
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 3
Event Details:

Bring the family and have fun building a fantastic Lego® creation that will be displayed in the library until the next Lego® Time. Duplo® blocks are available for young children. 

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.

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs are not permitted. Please view policy 3.40 Unattended Children for more information.

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: There, There

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library Monthly Book Club Meeting. Please contact the staff liaison to obtain a copy of the book or to request an audiobook version.

There There by: Tommy Orange 

Disclaimer(s)

No Registration Required

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

Toddler Art Start: Ages 1 to 3 years

10:30am - 11:30am
Toddlers, Preschool
Waitlist
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Social Group
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Art projects for toddlers that emphasize sensory experience and process over product. Dress for a mess! 

Please register all children and adults attending. 

 

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.

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs are not permitted. Please view policy 3.40 Unattended Children for more information.

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.

Intro to Knitting

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Closed
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

Have you ever wanted to learn how to knit? Do the clicks and clacks of knitting needles sing sweetly to you? Are you continually mystified by the knits and purls in your favorite sweaters?

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.

Short Story: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

10:00am - 11:00am
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams

Disclaimer(s)

No Registration Required

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

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: 46
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.

Thanksgiving Weekend

All Day 11/28 - 12/1
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

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

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!

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.

DIY Sock Snowmen!

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: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 5
Event Details:

The weather outside is frightful, but these sweet little rice filled snowmen are so delightful! Endure the growing cold outside with adorable sock snowmen you can make yourself.

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.

Ford Piquette Avenue Plant

6:30pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 43
Event Details:

Greg - a docent from the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant will discuss the significance of the Museum as a National Historic Landmark, and the scope of their tours.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Encouraged

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

Makerspace Event: Making Holiday Cards with Paper Circuits!

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Teen/ High School, Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Makerspace - DIAL
Age Group: Teen/ High School, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Technology Class
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 7
Event Details:

 Want to get creative and learn a thing or two about simple circuits?

Join Adult Librarian Megan for a fun ROPL Makerspace workshop in which you will learn the basics of how simple paper circuits work.

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.

Library Board of Trustees

7:00pm - 9:00pm
All Ages
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Event Details:

Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting.

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: 6
Event Details:

This is a poetry workshop at Royal Oak Public Library, where we will 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.

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
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:

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.

Homefront & Homeland: Detroit and the Holocaust

6:00pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lecture
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 49
Event Details:

What did the Michigan Jewish Community know about the Shoah and when, and how did it respond? Join us at the library to have a talk with Catherine Cangany, PhD.

Disclaimer(s)

Registration Encouraged

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

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.

December movie: Christmas with the Kranks. The movie is available at the library and on Hoopla. Please see a librarian if you need help getting a copy of the movie.

Storytelling Through Movement

10:30am - 12:00pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Senior
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 9
Event Details:

Storytelling Through Movement workshop explores the power of words, images and movement to express a person's story.

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.

Participant Age

To ensure a successful experience in this program and socialization with one’s peers, age limits are enforced. 

Registration Encouraged

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

Michigan Revealed: Exploring the Mitten’s Thumb

6:00pm - 7:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Friends Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Author Visit
Event Details:

Embark on a rollicky journey through Michigan’s thumb region with Leslie Cieplechowicz, author of Michigan Revealed: Exploring the Mitten’s Thumb.

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: The Tiger's Wife

7:00pm - 7:45pm
Adults
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Small Conference Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Come join us at the Royal Oak Public Library Monthly Book Club Meeting. Please contact the staff liaison to obtain a copy of the book or to request an audiobook version.

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht is set in an unnamed country in the Balkans, spanning the mid 20th-century to the early 21st century. It features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her.

Christmas

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

New Year

All Day 12/31 - 1/1
Closing
Branches:
Royal Oak Public Library

Queerdos: A literary and just plain social club

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

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!

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.

Family Story Time: Ages Birth to 5 years

10:15am - 10:45am
Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Library Branch: Royal Oak Public Library
Room: Youth Activity Room
Age Group: Babies, Toddlers, Preschool
Program Type: Story Time

These 30-minute story times for ages 5 and under incorporate many enjoyable pre-reading skills including stories, rhymes, songs, finger plays and movement.

 

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.

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs are not permitted. Please view policy 3.40 Unattended Children for more information.

Tickets issued 15 minutes before the program begins.

The staff at the Youth Services Desk will issue tickets on a first-come, first-served basis 15 minutes before the program begins.