Nerd Night

Welcome to Nerd Night! Join us for an evening of fun, tabletop adventure games, video games, movies, and more!  Designed for ages 13-17.

West Regional Library at Activity Room

Real Reads Book Discussion Group

The Real Reads Book Discussion Group will read and discuss a new, challenging, and interesting non-fiction book each month. This month's selection is The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then......More

The Real Reads Book Discussion Group will read and discuss a new, challenging, and interesting non-fiction book each month. This month's selection is The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant―the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah’s birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser-known natives. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, this is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. Request Your Copy Today!  Also available instantly on Hoopla. Please submit your suggestions for future Real Reads Book Discussions to Maria Bilello at maria.bilello@myscpl.org. 

East Regional Library at Small Meeting Room

Planetarium - Evening Showing

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Cookbook Club

Enjoy the camaraderie and cuisine. Everyone chooses a different recipe from a selected magazine and prepares it for the following meeting. Participants will share information about their recipe and dish. This month's theme is Magazine Feast: Cooking with Paula Deen. ......More

Enjoy the camaraderie and cuisine. Everyone chooses a different recipe from a selected magazine and prepares it for the following meeting. Participants will share information about their recipe and dish. This month's theme is Magazine Feast: Cooking with Paula Deen. Ages 18+

Paradis Branch at Meeting Room

German Coast Farmers' Market

Visit the German Coast Farmers' Market at the East Regional Library parking lot for fresh local produce, food vendors, and shopping from local artisans. While you're here, stop into the library! We are open fr......More

Visit the German Coast Farmers' Market at the East Regional Library parking lot for fresh local produce, food vendors, and shopping from local artisans. While you're here, stop into the library! We are open from 9 am - 5 pm on Saturdays.

East Regional Library at Outside

Planetarium - Children's Matinee

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Children's Matinee

In Sky Quest, you and your family join an eight-year-old girl in her first steps toward becoming an astronomer. She learns about the stars, constell......More

In Sky Quest, you and your family join an eight-year-old girl in her first steps toward becoming an astronomer. She learns about the stars, constellations, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. She even takes an imaginary trip to Mars onboard a cardboard rocket. All planetarium presentations are by reservation only because of Covid-19. Seating is limited. If our reservations are full, please join the event wait list, and our planetarium staff will contact you about your visit. Due to the unusual lighting conditions in the planetarium, no one is allowed to enter once the show has started. Please come early to take your seats. Masks or face covers are recommended to be worn during the planetarium presentations.

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Saturday Matinee

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Saturday Matinee

The international hi......More

The international hit show, Two Small Pieces of Glass: the Amazing Telescope, returns to the planetarium. This show introduces the history of telescopes and shares the celestial wonders observed through telescopes over the past 400 years. You will learn about the latest mysteries in astronomy and the newest telescopes that will work to unravel them. All planetarium presentations are by reservation only because of Covid-19. Seating is limited. If our reservations are full, please join the event wait list, and our planetarium staff will contact you about your visit. Due to the unusual lighting conditions in the planetarium, no one is allowed to enter once the show has started. Please come early to take your seats. Masks or face covers are recommended to be worn during the planetarium presentations.

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Cookbook Club

Everyone chooses a different recipe from selected cookbooks to test and discuss the results for the following meeting. Participants will share information about their recipe and their dish. This month the Cookbook Club will be featuring recipes for Salads and Cold dishe......More

Everyone chooses a different recipe from selected cookbooks to test and discuss the results for the following meeting. Participants will share information about their recipe and their dish. This month the Cookbook Club will be featuring recipes for Salads and Cold dishes.

East Regional Library at Large Meeting Room

Beach Reads Book Discussion

Looking for a cool read for a hot summer day? Join us for our Beach Reads book discussion. This month's selection is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute hei......More

Looking for a cool read for a hot summer day? Join us for our Beach Reads book discussion. This month's selection is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice. Request your copy today! 

West Regional Library at Activity Room

Flying Needles

Knitting and crocheting group is open to anyone wanting to learn a new craft or share their talents. For the beginner and the more experienced crafter.

West Regional Library at Activity Room

Yoga with Sara Lyon

Welcome to Yoga with Sara Lyon LPC RYT! Join Sara for a gentle yoga class introducing the concepts of yoga postures, breathwork, and mindful meditation. Yoga is supported by the United Way of St. Charles, ......More

Welcome to Yoga with Sara Lyon LPC RYT! Join Sara for a gentle yoga class introducing the concepts of yoga postures, breathwork, and mindful meditation. Yoga is supported by the United Way of St. Charles, Creative Family Solutions, and brought to you by the St. Charles Parish Library! 

East Regional Library at Large Meeting Room

Author Spotlight: Gerrick Kennedy

Celebrate the Queen of the Night - Whitney Houston! In a special Author Spotlight, we’ll be interviewing Gerrick Kennedy author of the in-depth biography Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston. Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, cultural ......More

Celebrate the Queen of the Night - Whitney Houston! In a special Author Spotlight, we’ll be interviewing Gerrick Kennedy author of the in-depth biography Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston. Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, cultural critic, and author based in Los Angeles. His book about Whitney Houston, published this year on the 10th anniversary of her passing, explores the singer's life of troubles and triumphs while also looking at how society impacted her life and how it has changed since.  The Author Spotlight interview with Gerrick Kennedy will take place on Whitney’s birthday and be posted as a Facebook Premier the following week, August 16th at 6:00 pm. We’ll ask Gerrick about the book, his writing process, and some fun rapid-fire questions. Check out the book or ebook on Hoopla. 

Virtual Event at Facebook Premiere Video

Planetarium - Evening Showing

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Nerd Night

Welcome to Nerd Night! Join us for an evening of fun, tabletop adventure games, video games, movies, and more!  Designed for ages 13-17.

West Regional Library at Activity Room

Who Gets to Vote? Reading and Discussion Series

Join us on the second to last Thursday of the month for “Who Gets to Vote? Conversations on Voting Rights in America,” an adult reading and discussion series. The four-part series will spark dialogue around issues and themes including the expansion of voting rights sin......More

Join us on the second to last Thursday of the month for “Who Gets to Vote? Conversations on Voting Rights in America,” an adult reading and discussion series. The four-part series will spark dialogue around issues and themes including the expansion of voting rights since the country’s founding, the women’s suffrage movement, historic and contemporary voter suppression practices, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Click here for the list of books we will discuss throughout the series. This month we will be discussing Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by M. Jones  This program is free and open to the public, and all reading materials will be provided for you to keep. Registration is required and information regarding book pick up will be provided at the time of registration. Signing up for this event will register you for all four sessions. If you cannot attend any one of the sessions, please contact us. This program is designed for adults.  The 2022 “Who Gets to Vote?” grants are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the special initiative, “A More Perfect Union,” which is designed to demonstrate and enhance the critical role the humanities play in our nation and support projects that help Americans commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. "Who Gets to Vote?" is a program brought to you by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. 

East Regional Library at Large Meeting Room

Planetarium - Evening Showing

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

German Coast Farmers' Market

Visit the German Coast Farmers' Market at the East Regional Library parking lot for fresh local produce, food vendors, and shopping from local artisans. While you're here, stop into the library! We are open fr......More

Visit the German Coast Farmers' Market at the East Regional Library parking lot for fresh local produce, food vendors, and shopping from local artisans. While you're here, stop into the library! We are open from 9 am - 5 pm on Saturdays.

East Regional Library at Outside

Planetarium - Children's Matinee

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Children's Matinee

In Sky Quest, you and your family join an eight-year-old girl in her first steps toward becoming an astronomer. She learns about the stars, constell......More

In Sky Quest, you and your family join an eight-year-old girl in her first steps toward becoming an astronomer. She learns about the stars, constellations, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. She even takes an imaginary trip to Mars onboard a cardboard rocket. All planetarium presentations are by reservation only because of Covid-19. Seating is limited. If our reservations are full, please join the event wait list, and our planetarium staff will contact you about your visit. Due to the unusual lighting conditions in the planetarium, no one is allowed to enter once the show has started. Please come early to take your seats. Masks or face covers are recommended to be worn during the planetarium presentations.

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Saturday Matinee

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library

Planetarium - Saturday Matinee

The international hi......More

The international hit show, Two Small Pieces of Glass: the Amazing Telescope, returns to the planetarium. This show introduces the history of telescopes and shares the celestial wonders observed through telescopes over the past 400 years. You will learn about the latest mysteries in astronomy and the newest telescopes that will work to unravel them. All planetarium presentations are by reservation only because of Covid-19. Seating is limited. If our reservations are full, please join the event wait list, and our planetarium staff will contact you about your visit. Due to the unusual lighting conditions in the planetarium, no one is allowed to enter once the show has started. Please come early to take your seats. Masks or face covers are recommended to be worn during the planetarium presentations.

Planetarium at at the West Regional Library