Alfred Box of Books Library

Adult Dungeons and Dragons
2025-04-09 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Our adult Dungeons and Dragons Group meets this evening. If you are interested in learning more about D&D, please contact Caleb Fesmire at fesmirec@stls.org.

Poetry Reading with Heather Yanda
2025-04-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
April is National Poetry Month. Join us for a poetry reading with Alfred University professor and poet, Heather Yanda. Also, feel free to share your own poetry with the group! Light refreshments will be provided.

Mahjongg
2025-04-15 14:00, 2025-04-22 14:00, 2025-04-29 14:00, 2025-05-06 14:00 | NY
Meet up and play mahjongg Tuesday afternoons. Don’t know how to play? That’s ok! Join in and learn a new game!

Angora Wool Spinning
2025-04-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Winterberry Homestead will be at the library to lead a workshop on spinning angora wool. Brush angora rabbits, and learn to spin the wool. Registration is required. Register by calling 607-587-9290 or emailing alfred@stls.org.

Dungeons and Dragons
2025-04-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States

Community Read Discussion
2025-04-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Terra Cotta Coffee House, Alfred
Join us for a community discussion of the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
The discussion will take place at Terra Cotta Coffeehouse. Light refreshments will be available.
Prior to the discussion, you can get a copy of the novel or graphic novel by visiting any Alfred library. Digital copies are available on the Libby app with your (Box of Books) library card.
This program is a collaboration with the Alfred Box of Books Library, Herrick and Scholes Libraries of Alfred University, and Hinkle Library of Alfred State.
This program is made possible with funding from the Allegany County Area Foundation.

Adult Dungeons and Dragons
2025-04-23 18:00, 2025-05-07 18:00, 2025-05-21 18:00, 2025-06-04 18:00, 2025-06-18 18:00, 2025-07-02 18:00, 2025-07-16 18:00, 2025-07-30 18:00 | NY

Junk Journaling
2025-05-01 17:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Junk journaling is an art in which you create personalized journals with repurposed materials such as old books, magazines, found objects, photographs, and other items. Collage pages with various items to express your creativity.
Registration is required. Register by calling 607-587-9290 or emailing alfred@stls.org.

Embroidered Tote Bag
2025-05-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Jess Hands of Stitched by Hands will be at the library to lead a workshop and help participants create an embroidered tote bag. Registration is required and space is limited. We need to have 10 people registered in order to hold this class because Jess will be traveling to Alfred for this workshop!
Register by Friday, May 9th.
Register by calling 607-587-9290 or email alfred@stls.org.

Public Hearing: Library Budget Vote
2025-06-13 18:30 - 19:30 | Almond 20th Century Club Library, Almond, NY, 14803, United States
The library is hosting a public hearing ahead of our upcoming budget vote (June 30th.) Members of the public are welcome to come ask questions about the library’s proposed budgets for fiscal year 2026. This meeting will cover both the Alfred and Almond library budgets.
For additional information please see our Budget Vote Guide.

Library Budget Vote
2025-06-30 10:00 - 19:00 | Alfred Almond Central School, 6795 NY 21, Almond, NY, 14803, United States
Voters of the Alfred-Almond Central School District can vote for the Alfred Box of Books and Almond 20th Century Club libraries today! Information can be found on out Budget Vote Guide
Voting will take place at the Alfred Almond Central School auditorium from 10:00am-7:00pm.

Summer Reading Kickoff
2025-07-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Sign up for summer reading and enjoy family fun! We’ll have live music provided by Garegin Grigoryan, build your own reading buddy, and more!
Summer reading will run from July 7 until August 15. Track your reading and win prizes!

Art Book Club with the Alfred Ceramic Arts Museum
2025-07-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Ceramics Museum, Pine Street, Alfred, NY, 14802, United States
Join us for a discussion of The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. A limited number of copies of the book will be available at the Alfred Ceramics Arts Museum and at the library. The discussion will take place at the Museum! You can also get a copy of our next book.
About the Book:
Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.
The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

Color in the Garden
2025-07-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Master Gardener, Mary Lu Wells will give a short talk on the use of color in the garden. This event will take place at the library or you can join via zoom. For the Zoom link, please email alfred@stls.org.

Spoon Rings with Kim Chebalo
2025-07-22 13:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Learn how to make a spoon ring in this workshop. Space is limited to 15 people. Participants must sign up for 1 of 3 sessions.
Session 1: 1:00pm – 2:15pm
Session 2: 2:30pm – 3:45pm
Session 3: 4:00pm – 5:15pm.
Space is limited to 5 participants in each session. Please let us know which session you would like to sign up for when you register. This program is for those 12 and older.
Register by calling 607-587-9290 or at the circulation desk the next time you visit the library!

Arts Book Club at the Alfred Ceramic Arts Museum
2025-08-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Alfred Ceramics Museum, Pine Street, Alfred, NY, 14802, United States
Join us for a discussion of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley. A limited number of books will be available at the Alfred Ceramic Arts Museum or the library. The discussion will take place at the Museum!
About the Book:
Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
To his surprise and your delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.

Adult Dungeons & Dragons (Rescheduled)
2025-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Our adult D&D Club meets this evening. If you are interested in learning more about the club, please contact Caleb Fesmire at fesmirec@stls.org.

Adult Dungeons & Dragons
2025-09-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States

Fiber Art Wall Hanging w/ Kate Elliott
2025-09-19 17:00 - 20:00 | Alfred Box of Books Library, 1 West University Street, Alfred, NY, 14802-1113, United States
Join us for a workshop with Kate Elliott to make a customized rainbow wall hanging. Class size is limited to 12. Pizza will be provided. This workshop is best for adults and teens.
