Week Calendar

Families with children of all ages are invited to join guitarist Ray Bryant in this interactive and energetic performance at Ballard Park near the gazebo.

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For families with walkers ages 12 - 24 months. Join Ms. Diane  for fingerplays, movement, music and stories.

You don't have to be an architect to draw freehand building facades (or floor plans) of your favorite historic building, childhood home, or various architectural features such as belfries, period doorways, stone archways, stylistic Baroque or Colo

For families with children ages 3-5. Join Ms. Diane in stories, songs and and fun near the gazebo in Ballard Park!  Please bring something to sit on. 

LYL Weekend

Do you have home videos in VHS format that you would like convert to DVD or digital format?* Reserve this individual two-hour session to make a DVD or digital file from one of your personal VHS videos (NTSC format only).

Join us for this French conversation class for those with intermediate to advanced French. The class takes place via Zoom.

Non-walking infants ages birth to 12 months with a caregiver are invited to drop into this informal group to network and enjoy baby time together. There will be a short introduction by a member of the library staff before each session.

Danny magic will perform his comedy magic show for families with children of all ages.  Be mesmerized and entertained by his engaging performance. Registration is not required. This program is part of the Love Your Library celebration.

Drop in on an Italian conversational group looking to practice the language while meeting new people.  All levels welcome, with the goal to speak Italian the whole time.  You are welcome to bring a closed cup of coffee/tea to sip while c

Masks are required in all areas of the Lodewick Children's Library including study and program rooms, regardless of vaccination status. Masks are required at all indoor Children's programs.

Are you interested in printing your own design on the Library's Cricut Maker machine?

We are pleased to have artist and weaver Susan Jackson as our latest Maker in Residence. In September, she will teach classes, using rigid heddle looms, for children, teens, and adults as part of her Weaving History wit

Presented by the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra and featuring RSO Music Director Yuga Cohler and composer Paul Frucht, this will be a discussion of the first-of-its-kind symphony commemorating the most iconic speeches of Barack Obama's preside

Please come and enjoy acoustic trio, Ol' Moose and Friends, with Alysia Love on violin and music veteran Dan Bonis on mando, lap steel, and dobro. Doug Anderson is Ol’ Moose.

Craig Norton will present "Hands on Drumming"  a participatory and multi-cultural program bringing songs, stories and dance from across the globe together into one engaging drum circle experience for all ages.

Do you have home videos in VHS format that you would like convert to DVD or digital format?* Reserve this individual two-hour session to make a DVD or digital file from one of your personal VHS videos (NTSC format only).

Do you have home videos in VHS format that you would like convert to DVD or digital format?* Reserve this individual two-hour session to make a DVD or digital file from one of your personal VHS videos (NTSC format only).

We are pleased to have artist and weaver Susan Jackson as our latest Maker in Residence. On September 27th she will teach a class, using rigid heddle looms, for children as part of her Weaving History with Community

Children in grades 3 to 7 join educator Mike Garguilo to read, explore, discuss, and draw comics through multimedia learning.

ALL patrons must wear masks that cover nose and mouth at all times while in the Library, regardless of vaccination status, per the Town of Ridgefield.

Children in grades K–2 meet to create rafts for the gingerbread boy to safely cross the river and fool the fox! Register beginning August 29 on the Library’s website, in person or by phone. 

Join us from 5:30-6:30 Thursday September 30th at our Teen Book Club! This first meeting will be to talk about the books you already love, the books you are reading now, and upcoming titles you are excited for!

Join our weekly book club designed especially for adolescents (16 and up) and adults with intellectual and developmental challenges.

For students in grades 3-12. Learn strategies and techniques online with Scrabble Master Cornelia Guest. Please create an account for Woogles.io before the first session and send it to Cornelia Guest.

Join Coach Shawn in honing your chess skills and playing with other local Connecticut students!

We are pleased to have artist and weaver Susan Jackson as our latest Maker in Residence. She will teach classes, using rigid heddle looms, for children, teens, and adults as part of her Weaving History with Community

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For Parents of Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

Steve Samtur has been the editor and publisher of Back In THE BRONX magazine for over 20 years. This magazine provides a retrospective of The Bronx in the decades of the 1940s-1960s.

In Connection with LYL (Love Your Library) weekend, the Ridgefield Library and Books on the Common will partner with ACT of CT, Founders Hall, Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, Ridgefield Playhouse