Upcoming Events

Come to the Library for a summer of tabletop adventures! Every week, fate will lead you to roleplay as a different character. Will you wake up as a tiny mouse? An amateur wizard? A hungry bear? A heroic warrior?

Get ready for an explosion of color and creativity at our Tie-Dye Tote Bag Fiesta! Unleash your inner artist and transform a simple tote bag into a vibrant masterpiece.

This months Movie Night! is inspired by the Juneteenth Holiday. A holiday to celebrate and commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US.  

Did you feel excluded from your high school prom because of who you wanted to bring as your date or what you wanted to wear? Or maybe you loved your prom and just want to do it again! In either case, this prom is for you!

Rock out! Make friends! Learn guitar! This is a month-long beginning guitar class for teens and tweens. No music experience is required, AND we have a limited number of guitars available for students.

Rock out! Make friends! Learn guitar! This is a month-long beginning guitar class for adults! No music experience is required, AND we have a limited number of guitars available for students.

Discover the power of music at your neighborhood library! Research proves that early integration of music into a child’s daily routine improves a child’s ability to think, create, and express.

Let your imagination soar at our toddler art time! We will use an assortment of odds and ends to create our very own works of art. A librarian will be on hand to provide you with all the resources you need to spread your artistic wings!

Join us on Friday mornings in June for an hour of come-and-go process art. Process Art is art that is child-directed, choice-driven, and celebrates the experience of discovery.

Age range: Prek to 2^nd/ Emerging reader

Discover the power of music at your neighborhood library! Research proves that early integration of music into a child’s daily routine improves a child’s ability to think, create, and express.

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children  

Explore with all five of your senses in this fully hands-on program where you will navigate through different stations to complete the sensory scavenger hunt and be named Adventurer of the Summer! 

Ages: 1-5

The Pet Food Pantry of Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma's Food Bank for Pets, will bring their mobile food pantry to the Ralph Ellison parking lot to give away food for your dog or cat. Food available while supplies last.

Children ages 1-18 are invited to enjoy a meal from 12-2 p.m. at Ralph Ellison Library.

Meals are provided by Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma's Summer Feeding Program.

Join us every Friday for bingo! This family friendly event will feature trivia, jokes, and facts on the theme of the week!

OKCMOA will develop art making activities around the special exhibition on view at the Museum that summer.

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children 

Dog Man fans of all ages are invited to join the supa epic event of activities and games. We'll play Dog Man bingo, a personality test, assess your sniffers, and more. 

Dog Man is Go! That don't make no sense! But we like it!

Let's make something! Using small colorful beads, we will make shapes, characters and anything of your imagination! 

**Hot irons will be in use by library employee**

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children  

Chess sets may also be checked out for in-library use at any time by visiting the information desk. This is a recurring event and takes place every Friday.

Target Age: Preschool and school-age children