Help support the Between Friends Food Pantry of Sugar Grove and clear your library fines with a donation of school supplies. They have fewer resources to get school supplies than they do food, so we hope to make a difference with these donations!

Meet Bluey at the library! Story Time with Bluey, featuring stories, rhymes, movement, and songs! There will be time for pictures with Bluey afterwards!

Meet Bluey at the library! Story Time with Bluey, featuring stories, rhymes, movement, and songs! There will be time for pictures with Bluey afterwards!

All ages: Take a StoryWalk® for some reading and fresh air! Stretch your legs and read giant pages of a children’s book on a local nature path! Start at the library before walking your way through a children’s book.

Cook a dish from our book of the month and bring it to our potluck book discussion!

Ages 0 months-3 years: Toddler & Baby Story Time encourages early literacy and helps develop language skills and social skills through the use of simple books, fun fingerplays, and action rhymes. Children learn the joy of choosing a book and shared reading. Caregivers stay with children. Program is geared toward toddlers, but siblings are welcome.

Join us for a movie and free popcorn! Bring your own covered drink. Movie is The Little Mermaid (1989): G ©Walt Disney Picture

Northwestern Medicine exercise physiologist Laura File, a classically trained piano teacher, will explore the effect music has on your health and how different tempos and types of music might make you feel. Utilizing a vast spectrum of music genres from rock to pop to country, we will discuss the strategic use of different types music to provide daily benefits from heart health to exercise performance to decreasing depression symptoms. Breathing exercises are taught to diverse musical pieces to help you on your wellness journey.

Join us to view 4 short equestrian films. The Healing is a film of recovery following a group of traumatized war veterans and ex-racehorses who come together in a ground-breaking new therapy program to help heal each other.  Wild Heart is a true story about a girl and her mustang.  A Mind like Still Water shows 2 women changing their lives after they attend a horse clinic.  Bardia follows a woman's journey to balance motherhood, career and her sport that is equal parts equestrian, showmanship and military parade.   

Ages 0 months-3 years: Toddler & Baby Story Time encourages early literacy and helps develop language skills and social skills through the use of simple books, fun fingerplays, and action rhymes. Children learn the joy of choosing a book and shared reading. Caregivers stay with children. Program is geared toward toddlers, but siblings are welcome.

Kids entering grades 3-6. This exciting monthly club includes specific book-themed crafts and activities. Read "Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom" by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr in advanced and discuss it with other kids your age while sampling delicious cookies. A separate registration is required each month. 

The Sugar Grove Arts & Entertainment Committee will kick off its 2023 FREE outdoor concert series with Vital Signs on Thursday June 15th, 7:00pm. 

Join us for this FREE fun community gathering: listen to great live music, visit with your neighbors, and try something new from a food truck or bring your own snacks. 

Know Before You Go: 

- Bring your own lawn chair or blanket

- Outside food and drink is allowed

- Public restrooms will be open inside the Library.

-Parking is availble in the Library's front parking lot or across the street. 

- Service animals are allowed. 

No registration required, but if you would like to receive a text or email reminder of the concert, please sign up! In the event of a rain date, we will contact anyone who has registered. 

The Sugar Grove Arts & Entertainment Committee is comprised of staff and volunteers from the Village of Sugar Grove, Sugar Grove Park District, Sugar Grove Township, Sugar Grove Chamber of Commerce, and the Sugar Grove Public Library District. 

Groovin’ in the Grove Summer 2023 Series:

 

Thursday June 15, 7:00pm - Vital Signs (mixed genre, covers)

Thursday July 13, 7:00 pm - Kaleidoscope Eyes (The Beatle’s)

Thursday August 10, 7:00 pm -Rockin’ Fenderskirts (50s/60s)

 

Food Truck information will be announced closer to the concert dates. 

The library will be closed, but you are welcome to bring your crafting project and join others on the Side Lawn. No need to register for drop in crafting.

Ages 3-5: We read stories, do fun fingerplays, sing songs, play letter-recognition games, make crafts, and more. Your 3-5 year old will join us for a fun time and develop independence, literacy, language, and social skills as well as positive associations with reading and the library. Caregivers do not attend the class, but must stay in the library. Register with Sugar Grove Public Library District card.

Join us for a movie and free popcorn! Bring your own covered drink. Movie is Babe: G ©Universal City Studio, Inc.

Who says only kids can have play dates? Join us in the NOW Space to try out a craft kit and chat with friends! Explore your creative side and have some fun.

Ages 3-5: We read stories, do fun fingerplays, sing songs, play letter-recognition games, make crafts, and more. Your 3-5 year old will join us for a fun time and develop independence, literacy, language, and social skills as well as positive associations with reading and the library. Caregivers do not attend the class, but must stay in the library. Register with Sugar Grove Public Library District card.

Ages 1-6 with an adult: Enjoy a play area filled with games, blocks, a parachute, and more! While children have fun, they're practicing social and gross motor skills.

Join us for this library themed escape room.