Events Calendar
All In-Person Pratt Library Events Cancelled, Virtual Events Now Available
Due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, all Pratt Library locations are closed out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of our customers. We will continue to update this page with more information as the situation evolves.
Virtual events are now available online! Browse our virtual events and attend online workshops, writers’ groups, and more from the comfort of your own home.
Events
Let's come together and share our voices with written notes on violence in our communities. Each participant will receive a sticky note and write how violent...
Create peace flags and peace posters for Baltimore Ceasefire! Help us make PeaceFire at the Pratt, an installation of peace flags, banners, and peace...
Stories, bounces, play, and songs perfect for babies in laps and arms. Playtime follows. For babies from birth to first steps with a favorite adult. All...
Joyce J. Scott received a B.F.A. (1970) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an M.F.A. (1971) from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende,...
Come fill our Journal. Write your hopes, your sorrows, your dreams, your reflections. Fill our Peace Journal with your heart's contemplations.
As part of Baltimore Ceasefire, join us as we honor the memories of loved ones effected by violence. Bring a picture, a trinket, write a letter, or share a...
The 2018-19 National History Day theme is TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY IN HISTORY. Are you working on a National History Day research project? We can help with...
Come help us complete our peace quilt by designing your own quilt square. The completed quilt will be displayed in the library.
Stories, movement, play, and songs for babies in arms and toddlers together. Playtime follows. For little ones under two with a favorite adult. All...
Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. Playtime follows. For families with children ages...
Create Peace Art for display and enjoy a piece of Peace Cake.
Breathing in, we calm our streets. Breathing out, we smile. The beginning of community peace is inner, personal peace. To become agents of a ceasefire, we...
Dress up, get your face painted, and honor altars at the Patterson Park Branch or Southeast Anchor Library. Family processions kick off with gigantic Catrina...
Dress up, get your face painted, and honor altars at the Patterson Park Branch or Southeast Anchor Library. Family processions kick off with gigantic Catrina...
Stories, movement, songs, and our most fun activities. Come ready to move, laugh, and learn together. Come early or stay after for playtime. For families...
A high-school teacher tries to thwart a ruthless overachiever who's running for class president by encouraging a dimwitted jock to enter the race. In time,...
Stories, movement, play, and songs just for walking toddlers. Playtime follows. For little ones up to 36 months with a favorite adult. All abilities welcome.
Play and learn with toys to touch, feel, hear, and watch. For children under 7 with a favorite adult. All abilities welcome.
What does a peaceful community look like? Express yourself by writing on our Wish Tree or drawing on our Community Quilt. Light refreshments will be served.
Listen to the stories of brave children who chose to speak up for peace through song, poetry, and protest. Followed by a craft.
Lawyers from Maryland Legal Aid provide one-on-one legal services. Types of issues include: bankruptcy, child custody, divorce, expungement, removing...
Join us for a special Teens Games Galore and try your hand at games of teamwork and cooperation.
Join us for a special Teen Origrami Saturday as we fold origami cranes for peace. Charm City Creasers is affiliated with OrigamiUSA and is presenting this...
Free individual homework assistance and tutoring for grades K-12. Tutoring is provided by Youth Library Tutorial, a Johns Hopkins University student group....
ENVIRO DRUM of MARYLAND USA: Upbeat, Creative, Captivating. "Enviro Drum" is a percussion band that performs using ordinary household items as percussion...
As part of the Baltimore Ceasefire, join us in creating Peace Rocks for your home or garden. "Spreading messages of Peace that ripple out around the world…...
Learn screenwriting techniques from writing instructor Terence Cooper.
“If they hear you, they hunt you.” In this tense chiller, the horror mounts as the Abbott family struggles to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where...
In 1937, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the...
Join us for a night of painting in observance of the Baltimore Ceasefire. This paint class will be centered around the themes found in the young adult book...
Join a chemist from the Army Research Laboratory and the American Chemical Society for hands-on experiments exploring the chemistry of and in outer...
As the Ceasefire weekend comes to a close, teens will enjoy a pizza party for all of their efforts of creating positive change in the city. The Baltimore...
Express yourself: write a message or create a piece of art on the Baltimore Ceasefire / One Book themes of peace and non-violence. An artist will facilitate...
The Rhonda Robinson Trio will perform a peace-themed jazz program for this Baltimore Ceasefire weekend concert.
Join speakers from Baltimore Orchard Project as we learn about hunger and the foods we waste.
Express your love for Baltimore through art. Paint your own Baltimore skyline and surround it with reasons why you love the city. The workshop will be led by...
