Coffee and Conversation

Casual conversation with your friends and neighbors hosted outdoors in the library's backyard, weather permitting.

Knitting Circle

Join fiber arts enthusiasts for casual conversation while you work on your crafts. This group meets in the Lane Family Reading Room

VIRTUAL Qigong Class 10:30 AM

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intent......More

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time.

Parent to Parent

A gently facilitated conversation for parents and other caregivers of children, hosted by the Union 38 Family Network. Free child care is provided in the library's Children's Room. Please contact Amy Battisti to register for child care: [email protected]

Friends of the Library

Board of Library Trustees

Coffee and Conversation

Casual conversation with your friends and neighbors hosted outdoors in the library's backyard, weather permitting.

Sunderland Short Stories

Join us for an Earth Day-themed short story event, where local actors Kermit Dunkelberg and Myka Plunkett will read works by T.C. Boyle and Rachel Carson.

SPL's 20th Birthday Party

Knitting Circle

Join fiber arts enthusiasts for casual conversation while you work on your crafts. This group meets in the Lane Family Reading Room

VIRTUAL Qigong Class 10:30 AM

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intent......More

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time.

Short Story Series

Dramatic readings by professional actors that bring stories to life. This installment celebrates Earth Day with stories by T.C. Boyle and Rachel Carson. Kermit Dunkelberg reads "Top of the Food Chain," by T.C. Boyle. Myka Plunkett reads "The Sense of Wonder," by Rachel ......More

Dramatic readings by professional actors that bring stories to life. This installment celebrates Earth Day with stories by T.C. Boyle and Rachel Carson. Kermit Dunkelberg reads "Top of the Food Chain," by T.C. Boyle. Myka Plunkett reads "The Sense of Wonder," by Rachel Carson.

Friends of the Library

Coffee and Conversation

Casual conversation with your friends and neighbors hosted outdoors in the library's backyard, weather permitting.

Upcycled Clothing: Basics of Alterations

Learn how to alter the clothes you have to fit you better. We’ll show you how to hem, take in, and let out clothes to give your wardrobe new life. Feel free to bring in an item of clothing you would like to alter. Registration Required:......More

Learn how to alter the clothes you have to fit you better. We’ll show you how to hem, take in, and let out clothes to give your wardrobe new life. Feel free to bring in an item of clothing you would like to alter. Registration Required:https://calendly.com/sunderlandpubliclibrary/upcycle

Artist Reception - Celebrating the Life and Works of Frederick Gao

Knitting Circle

Join fiber arts enthusiasts for casual conversation while you work on your crafts. This group meets in the Lane Family Reading Room

VIRTUAL Qigong Class 10:30 AM

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intent......More

Dvora Eisenstein leads this free weekly Qigong class. Join us virtually on Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/117278043   Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system integrating slow movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. Qigong calms your mind, improves your balance, and enhances health. This practice is suitable for all levels of ability and ages. Anyone may join this free class at any time.

Recorders and Friends! SES Recorder Recital

Sunderland Elementary School's Recorder Club presents a short recital of music for recorders and other instruments.

Maping the Wilds of Grief

A workshop for writers at any level, we’ll investigate strategies for writing about grief, and work through writing prompts. Here we approach grief as an unexplored land, moving through it slowly and marveling at its unique topography. We will approach our stories with......More

A workshop for writers at any level, we’ll investigate strategies for writing about grief, and work through writing prompts. Here we approach grief as an unexplored land, moving through it slowly and marveling at its unique topography. We will approach our stories with gentle curiosity, noting the unique details of your particular telling while keeping an eye on the larger topography.  We’ll look at the context your story arose from, the unanswerable questions you’re faced with, and what central metaphors, mythologies, and structures you can build to support your work.  We will make rituals around our physical and internal spaces, allowing us to be honest on the page while still re-entering the flow of our lives at the end of future writing sessions. Ages 18+. Advance registration is preferred, but not required: https://calendly.com/sunderlandpubliclibrary/mapping Feel free to bring your favorite writing or art supplies, but there will be supplies available. This workshop is led by Katrina Goldsaito. Her award-winning books and performances wade through the depth of human experience to make space for presence and connection. Her book THE SOUND OF SILENCE was called  “An illustrated serenade to the art of listening to your inner voice amid the noise of modern life.” by Maria Popova and was named a Book of the Year by NPR, People Magazine, Brain Pickings, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and won the Northern California Book Award. It has been translated into French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Vietnamese, and Mongolian.  Her upcoming book on loss is forthcoming from Hachette in 2026.  ReachYou, her augmented reality collaboration with Jonah Goldsaito connects participants with their grief: mundane or profound. Its world premiere was at the Tribeca Festival, and continued on to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan.  With her intergenerational family, Katrina lived nomadically for a few years, and has written travel journalism for many publications including National Geographic, NPR, and the Christian Science Monitor.  She now lives in the woods in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Lane Family Reading Room Gallery

VIRTUAL Book Club

Our book club will be discussing "Transit" by Rachel Cusk via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85338002058