Event List

We invite you to get creative at the library! Stop by the Library 2nd Floor area every Tuesday between 4-7PM to work on a project you bring from home and meet new friends. 

Parents and caregivers of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive individuals get together to share resources, joys, and concerns. Trans Parenting Rochester meets on the firs...

Enjoy gentle songs, simple stories, and a lullaby at this 20-minute lapsit storytime. This event is designed for children birth through 5 years old and their families. 

Engage in active rhymes, songs, and interactive stories. This 20-minute preschool storytime is designed for children ages 2 to 5 years old and their families. 

Join us each month for a book club focusing on uplifting novels and stories. This book group is open to everybody, and will meet in the library's auditorium.  To pickup a c...

Rochester Public Library 2nd Floor Meeting Room Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In September we'll be discussing Invisible Women: Data Bias in a Wo...

Join us at Fire Station #1 (521 Broadway Ave S, 55902) for a storytime, meet some amazing firefighters, and stay for a tour of the fire station. 

Featuring books, songs, rhymes, this storytime is fun for whole family!

Join historical reenactor Arn Kind to learn about the wild days of prohibition in Minnesota. In 1920, Minnesotans, along with the rest of the country, were plunged into what man...

Rochester Public Library Auditorium Join local gardener Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick to learn what you need to know to begin seed saving. Kelly will demonstrate wet processing, ferment...

A Peer Recovery Specialist from the Olmsted County Drug & Alcohol Community Outreach Team is available at the library. Stop by at the Wellness Corner on the 2nd Floor of t...

We invite you to get creative at the library! Stop by the Library 2nd Floor area every Tuesday between 4-7PM to work on a project you bring from home and meet new friends. 

Enjoy gentle songs, simple stories, and a lullaby at this 20-minute lapsit storytime. This event is designed for children birth through 5 years old and their families. 

Engage in active rhymes, songs, and interactive stories. This 20-minute preschool storytime is designed for children ages 2 to 5 years old and their families. 

Are you an aspiring author? Are you looking for constructive advice?  Join the Rochester Writers Group and supercharge your writing. Each month, the group will critique 4-6...

A GPS Social Worker is available at the library to connect you to local resources for housing, food, employment, health, safety and other community services. Stop by at the Communi...

Admission to the Book Sale Preview this evening is reserved for members of the Friends of Rochester Public Library group only.  Friends memberships can be renewed or purc...

Interested adults are invited to this book club to discuss queer books and media. We do not all read the same book. We will have art materials available.

Come shop for used books at great prices!  Nonfiction and fiction for all ages. 

Come shop for used books at great prices!  Nonfiction and fiction for all ages. 

Historic Chateau Theater - Peace Plaza Join Rochester Public Library and Assisi Heights Spirituality Center for a presentation by author Cathy Coats on her book To Banish Foreve...

Come shop for used books at great prices!  Nonfiction and fiction for all ages. 

Rochester Public Library Auditorium Would you like to create a beautiful year round mini-wildlife sanctuary? Planting a diverse selection of native prairie plants will attract p...