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Add some artful foliage to your space! Use colorful buttons and cooper wire to make a brilliant button tree! Registration required. For grades 5-12.

Add some artful foliage to your space! Use colorful buttons and cooper wire to make a brilliant button tree! Registration required. For grades 5-12.
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Self-directed sensory stations fill the Children’s Program Room, letting kids explore at their own pace, drop‑ins welcome, for ages 3–5.
Picture bingo with a dinosaur theme, identifying images on cards, in the Newton Free Library’s Children’s Program Room, for ages 6+.
Contemporary art exhibition exploring empathy at Burns Library, part of the Catholic Universities Art Triennial series commissioned by the Holy See.
Kandace Kukas and three recent alumni present bar‑exam strategies, course advice, checklists, and live Q&A at the East Wing, Boston College Law School.
Job Boerma of UW Madison delivers a macroeconomics and financial economics seminar in Maloney Hall, Newton.
Sensory-friendly dinosaur crafting with dim lights, optional headphones, open-ended art activities at Newton Free Library’s Children’s Program Room, for ages 6–9.
Draw lions and tigers from simple shapes, then create imaginative scenes with an artist instructor at Newton Free Library, for ages 7–10.
Tech Time Drop-In (Newton Free Library, Computer Lab) — Librarian offers 20‑minute drop‑in tech help, first‑come, first‑served, one session per week, ages 18+.
At the 3rd Floor Rear Arc, an intermediate English grammar class covers irregular verbs, perfect tenses, comparatives, gerunds, with pair and group speaking activities and written exercises.
Miss Sarah guides making cinnamon cream cheese dip, then judges which apples pair best with it, in the Adams Street Community Room, Dorchester, for all ages.
Local History Office Hours (Local History Room, Special Collections) — Tour the Newton Free Library's local history collections and ask questions on the third floor, for ages 18 and up.
Crafting activities are offered in the Children’s Program Room at Newton Free Library, drop‑ins welcome, for ages 5 and up.