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Upcoming Events

Color Our World

Kids Gallery Tour & Coloring Fun with Artist Kelsey Mast

Saturday, July 19, 11 am

Northwest Reno Library

Join us for a fun-filled tour where families can explore these dreamy cloud paintings and create their own sky-inspired coloring project. Let’s look up, imagine, and color our world together!


Artist Kelsey Mast captures the ever-changing beauty of clouds in her paintings. The exhibition, Cloudscapes, runs through Sunday, August 24.

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Author Talk

Rex Ogle

Wednesday, July 23, 1 pm

Online event

You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he discusses his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch.


Ogle is the author of Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Reno Phil

Discover Music Concert

Multiple times and locations

Experience the magic of live music with Discover Music, the Reno Phil’s performance series! Enjoy this concert by a small ensemble as they share their music, showcase their instruments, and inspire a love for music.

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Young Shakespeare Presents

Twelfth Night

Multiple times and locations

Young Shakespeare, a D.G. Menchetti Education Program, features an interactive, hour-long adaptation of their mainstage production created with the young audience member in mind.

This summer their team will be presenting an adaptation of Twelfth Night.

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Visit our online calendar to find more upcoming events:

Story Times
Craft Events
STEAM Events
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Book Clubs

Dark Sky. C.J. Box

Mystery Book Club
Spanish Springs Library

Dark Sky

by C.J. Box


Four Seasons Book Club
Sparks Library

Eruption

by Michael Crichton


Dark Alleys: A True Crime Book Club

Sierra View Library

The Witch of New York

by Alex Hortis

Visit the calendar to see all upcoming book clubs.

Movie Screenings

The African Queen. Humphrey Bogart. Katharine Hepburn
The Wizard of Oz

Visit the calendar to see all upcoming movie screenings.

What to Read Next

Kiss Me, Cowboy!

Wyatt. Jessica Peterson
Flawless. Elsie Silver
Whispers of Fortune. Mary Connealy.
Janet Dailey. One in a Million
Done and Dusted. Lyla Sage
The Odds of Getting Even. Amanda Sellet
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Friends of Washoe County Library

Friends of Washoe County Library. Est. 1980

Friends of Washoe County Library is a member-supported 501(c)(3) Nevada nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating, fundraising, and providing support for the Washoe County Library System.


The next Friends book sale starts August 2.


To join, to donate, or for more information, please visit www.washoelibraryfriends.org or call 775-324-5522.

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Washoe County Library System 

301 S. Center St. Reno, NV 89501 

775-327-8300