Storytimes near Lenox Library

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Join Youth Librarian Vanessa Justice for a fun story time each week! We will sing songs, read books, and follow up with an open play time. For children ages 15 months and up and their siblings. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

Legacy Room, 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

We are thrilled to continue our popular Tech Help program this summer with volunteer Dr. Sandra Markus. Dr. Markus will meet one-on-one with patrons who need technology assistance, including: Computer basics (including word processing) Conducting Internet searches Downloading and saving information Email basics Zoom basics FaceTime basics Using library resources (including Libby and Kanopy) Social media (including Instagram and Pinterest) The Tech Help program will be available from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on the following Thursdays: June 4 July 2 June 11 July 9 June 18 July 16 June 25 August 6   August 20 Please call the Library at 413-637-0197 to reserve a ½ hour appointment. This service is free and available on a first-come first-served basis. Please remember to bring any necessary devices, passwords, and charging cables to the appointment.  Sandra Markus is a Professor in the Fashion Design department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has taught for over 25 years. She holds a doctorate in technology from Columbia University. During the summer she hosts sewing retreats @inthecompanyofmakers in Massachusetts for makers of all ages.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani. Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao. Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich. Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven. The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I. Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine; Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II. Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance. Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16.  Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

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A club for teens ages 13-17 who will read short stories, novellas, poems, and other short writings. Participants will meet three times during the summer to talk about books and stories as a group. Meetings will happen outside in Roche Reading Park; snacks will be provided. Teens may choose selections from a list of suggested materials or pick their own. They may also use these for writing reviews for the Teen Grand Prizes. Visit the youth desk at the Library to learn more. Fridays, July 10 & 24, and August 14, 2026: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

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P-A-R-T-Y in the G-A-R-D-E-N! From clearing the land to planting seeds to harvesting the crops (yum!), Rona will share stories and songs that will have you tapping your feet, swaying in your seats, dancing, singing and laughing as she shares stories from the silly to the serious, from the mysterious to the monstrous! From cooperating animals to uncooperative giants, worms and bugs that help the soil, nocturnal animals, insects, finding the sun and more! Come join the fun! Best suited for ages 5+. Takes place in Welles Gallery. Following the 45-minute performance will be time to create a fun craft!

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani. Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao. Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich. Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven. The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I. Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine; Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II. Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance. Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16.  Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

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Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joining us for an outdoor event, children under 10 years old who enter the Library building must have their caregiver with them. The 2026 engagement of Terry A La Berry and Friends is generously sponsored by the Nancy F. Brown Memorial Fund.

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WAM (Where Arts and Activism Meet) will hold a five-week program titled “Ballot Ballad” at Lenox Library for middle school students (ages 11-14). The program will focus on women in American History and will explore one of the biggest “what ifs” in our country’s founding—“what if women had been in the room where it happened?” We will also examine the history and current landscape of civic engagement in Massachusetts and the United States. Participants will take part in ensemble-based theater and movement workshops, taught by a WAM Theatre Teaching Artist, and craft original performance pieces. Open to all who are interested. Registration required. Sign up here or stop by the Library youth desk or email Vanessa at vjustice@lenoxlib.org. Sessions: Tuesdays, June 30, July 7, 14, 21, & 28: 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Performance/Showing: Tuesday, July 28, 2026: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Virtual Program, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

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Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The first Wednesday of the month will feature a craft for you to keep! April Pitroff Varellas, IBCLC, PMH-C from Berkshire Nursing Families will join us every third Wednesday of the month to answer your baby feeding questions. Group Leaders: Sara Jarvie is an early childhood development specialist. Stephanie Storie is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

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Join Lenox Library for an exciting club for kids in grades 3 – 6. Come talk about your favorite graphic novels and create your own! Meets once a month. Children under age 10 must have a caregiver with them.

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Join Youth Librarian Vanessa Justice for a fun story time each week! We will sing songs, read books, and follow up with an open play time. For children ages 15 months and up and their siblings. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

Legacy Room, 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

We are thrilled to continue our popular Tech Help program this summer with volunteer Dr. Sandra Markus. Dr. Markus will meet one-on-one with patrons who need technology assistance, including: Computer basics (including word processing) Conducting Internet searches Downloading and saving information Email basics Zoom basics FaceTime basics Using library resources (including Libby and Kanopy) Social media (including Instagram and Pinterest) The Tech Help program will be available from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on the following Thursdays: June 4 July 2 June 11 July 9 June 18 July 16 June 25 August 6   August 20 Please call the Library at 413-637-0197 to reserve a ½ hour appointment. This service is free and available on a first-come first-served basis. Please remember to bring any necessary devices, passwords, and charging cables to the appointment.  Sandra Markus is a Professor in the Fashion Design department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has taught for over 25 years. She holds a doctorate in technology from Columbia University. During the summer she hosts sewing retreats @inthecompanyofmakers in Massachusetts for makers of all ages.

Virtual Program, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

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Join Crane Museum staff and Lenox Library for a hands-on papermaking demonstration and an opportunity to make your own! Choose standard paper or seed paper (which can be planted to grow your own flowers!). All ages are welcome. This event is free of charge and will be held outdoors in Roche Reading Park, weather permitting.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani. Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao. Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich. Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven. The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I. Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine; Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II. Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance. Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16.  Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani. Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao. Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich. Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven. The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell. Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I. Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine; Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II. Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance. Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16.  Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

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Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joining us for an outdoor event, children under 10 years old who enter the Library building must have their caregiver with them. The 2026 engagement of Terry A La Berry and Friends is generously sponsored by the Nancy F. Brown Memorial Fund.

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WAM (Where Arts and Activism Meet) will hold a five-week program titled “Ballot Ballad” at Lenox Library for middle school students (ages 11-14). The program will focus on women in American History and will explore one of the biggest “what ifs” in our country’s founding—“what if women had been in the room where it happened?” We will also examine the history and current landscape of civic engagement in Massachusetts and the United States. Participants will take part in ensemble-based theater and movement workshops, taught by a WAM Theatre Teaching Artist, and craft original performance pieces. Open to all who are interested. Registration required. Sign up here or stop by the Library youth desk or email Vanessa at vjustice@lenoxlib.org. Sessions: Tuesdays, June 30, July 7, 14, 21, & 28: 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Performance/Showing: Tuesday, July 28, 2026: 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

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Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The first Wednesday of the month will feature a craft for you to keep! April Pitroff Varellas, IBCLC, PMH-C from Berkshire Nursing Families will join us every third Wednesday of the month to answer your baby feeding questions. Group Leaders: Sara Jarvie is an early childhood development specialist. Stephanie Storie is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

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Join Youth Librarian Vanessa Justice for a fun story time each week! We will sing songs, read books, and follow up with an open play time. For children ages 15 months and up and their siblings. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

Roche Reading Park, 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) invites you to a free community concert at Lenox Library on July 23, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. Experience outstanding performances by gifted young musicians as they share their passion for music with the Berkshire community. Open to all ages. This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. We hope to see you there!