Week Calendar

Start off the new year by getting your child ready for kindergarten! Weekly themes include: Know Your Name, Finger Play, Self-Help, Gluing and Cutting, Writing and Colouring and Yummy in Your Tummy.

Perfect for little ones who love bounces and tickles! This storytime features books, songs and action rhymes for little ones!

This interactive and fun storytime features books, action songs and rhymes for the whole family!

This interactive and fun storytime features books, action songs and rhymes for the whole family!

This storytime takes place in a quiet and safe environment. It includes interactive stories, songs, action-rhymes, fingerplays and sensory activities which promote literacy skills and development.

The library will be hosting a unique event catering to families with children who identify as being neurodivergent to come and experience the library prior to regular operating hours.

This program offers a group experience for parents and babies focusing on the pleasure and power of using rhymes, songs, and stories together.

This program will introduce infants to interactive songs, nursery rhymes, music, creative movement and musical instruments.

Meet up with fellow makers every Thursday! Bring your own projects, share ideas, and socialize. 

This program will introduce infants to interactive songs, nursery rhymes, music, creative movement and musical instruments.

Small changes can make big differences. Saving is a mindset which we have to train ourselves to develop and use when making daily financial choices.

About the presenter:

Games, Music, and Snacks. Every week, every time. A Youth Outreach Worker from Durham Community Health Centre will be on site. Resources included. All welcome.

This is a program for teens (ages 13-19).

Find your voice at Toastmasters! 

Hear some great speakers and enjoy warm conversation and watch a Toastmasters meeting unfold. 

For newcomers in the Pickering area looking to practice conversational English, meet new people, and learn about your community. Join us for a one hour conversation circle in partnership with Community Development Council Durham.

Put on your pajamas and bring your favourite stuffy and join us for some sleepy stories before bedtime!

Want to personalize, print, and bind your own calendar to keep you organized in 2024? Learn to use the Maker Space's binding machine to kick off the new year in style!

Our staff will present new and exciting books available at the Library as you enjoy some tea, snacks, discussion and social time with others. You just might discover your next favourite author! Can't join in person? No worries!

Do you have goals you want to achieve this year? Are you a visual person? Come join us to create vision boards for the year ahead! Snacks and materials included. 

This is a program for teens (ages 13-19).

The Pickering Public Library Board normally holds its regular public meetings on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Board meetings are held in-person and are open to members of the public to attend.