Bilingual Yoga
2022-10-11 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | Buena Vista Public Library, 131 Linderman Ave, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Cultivate a connection of body, mind, and spirit through yoga. Calm your mind and enjoy feel-good movement. Guidance provided in English and Spanish – yoga for your brain! ¡Esperamos que te unas a nosotros!

Align & Flow Yoga
2025-12-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Community Center, 715 E Main St, Buena Vista, 81211, United States
Find strength, stillness, and peace in this all-level yoga class.

Makers Lab
2025-12-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2026-01-17 10:00 - 12:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Use Cricut software and tools to create a wooden plaque for a bookshelf or wall. All supplies provided. Teens and Adults

High Altitude Cookies
2025-12-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Community Center, 715 E Main St, Buena Vista, 81211, United States
Learn to bake two different types of cookies at altitude. Bake and decorate gingerbread, and perfect a delicious brown butter chocolate chip cookie. Registration required. Limit 12. Audience: Adults.
Location: BV Community Center, Aspen Room

Art of Gluten-free Bread
2026-01-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Community Center, 715 E Main St, Buena Vista, 81211, United States
Learn to make delicious gluten-free bread and gather tips for other gluten-free baking projects. Registration required. Limit 12.

User Experience: Library Website
2026-01-09 13:00 - 14:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Test new library website designs and provide feedback to improve the Library’s website during this open drop-in hour. The first ten participants will receive a $10 City Market gift card. Not able to join in person? Complete this quick 5 minute survey to share your feedback!

Virtual Author Talk: The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks
2026-01-13 12:00 - 13:00
David Brooks: Leading Cultural and Political Commentator and Bestselling Author of The Road to Character
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Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and, in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.
Register now to take part in a riveting and timeless conversation on how to connect with people from all walks of life, and why doing so is paramount to our individual and communal growth.
About the Author: David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Watercolor Nature Scene
2026-01-13 13:00 - 15:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Create a winter scene in watercolor featuring a juniper sprig and juniper titmouse. Registration required. Limit 12.

Journaling: Finding the Treasures Within
2026-01-15 13:00 - 15:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Explore your unique strengths through journaling prompts to help reconnect with and express the authentic self. Registration required. Limit 12.

Virtual Author Talk: Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz
2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00
Julia Hotz: Journalist and Award-Winning Author of The Connection Cure
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Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
As the first book on social prescribing, The Connection Cure empowers you to find, experience, and implement this revolutionary medicine in your own community. The success stories Julia finds bring a long-known theory to life: if we can change our environment, we can change our health. By reconnecting to what matters to us, we can all start to feel better.
Register today to find out how you can use the wisdom of social prescribing to live your best life!
About the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Great Decisions
2026-01-22 16:30 - 18:00 | SDCEA Community Room, 29780 US Hwy 24 N, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Take part in America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. Participants read the Great Decisions Briefing Book, then meet with members of their community to watch a video and discuss critical global issues.
Jan. 22: America and the World: Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy
Feb. 12: Trump Tariffs and the Future of the World Economy
Feb 26: U.S.-China Relations
Mar. 12: Ruptured Alliances and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation
Mar. 26: Ukraine and the Future of European Security
Apr. 9: Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order
Apr. 23: U.S. Engagement of Africa
May 14: The Future of Human Rights and International Law

Virtual Author Talk: Secrets and Second Chances with Liz Moore
2026-01-28 17:00 - 18:00
Liz Moore: New York Times Bestselling and Award-Winning Author of The God of the Woods and Long Bright River
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We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
Join us in conversation with Liz as we embark on a tale of thrilling twists and disturbing disappearances. Register today to “enter the woods,” if you dare!
About the Author: Liz Moore is the author of five novels: The Words of Every Song, Heft, The Unseen World, the New York Times bestselling Long Bright River, and The God of the Woods. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Virtual Author Talk: Swashbuckling Heroines and High Seas Adventures with Novelist Vanessa Riley
2026-02-05 17:00 - 18:00
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Join us for an unforgettable experience as we chat online with Vanessa Riley about her newest book, Fire Sword and Sea, based on the folk story of the female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye.
The Caribbean Sea, 1675. Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy tavern owner on the island of Tortuga. Instead of marriage, Jacquotte dreams of joining the seafarers and smugglers whose tall-masted ships cluster in the turquoise waters around Tortuga. In Haiti she becomes Jacques, a dockworker, earning the respect of those around her while hiding her gender.
Jacquotte discovers that secret identities are fairly common in the chaotic world of seafaring, which is full of outsiders and misfits. As Jacques, Jacquotte falls in love with Lizzôa d’Erville, a beautiful courtesan who deals in secrets and sex. While others see their work clothes as a disguise, Lizzôa’s true self is as a woman.
For the next twenty years, Jacquotte raids the Caribbean, making enemies and amassing a fortune in stolen gold. When her fellow pirates decide to increase their profits by entering the slave trade, Jacquotte turns away from piracy and the pursuit of riches. Risking her life in one deadly skirmish after another, she instead begins to plot a war of liberation.
Don’t miss out on this exciting discussion! Register now to embark on a seafaring journey of self discovery and reclamation of personal power.
About the Author: Vanessa Riley is an award-winning author and proud recipient of the 2024 Georgia Mystery/Detective Fiction Author of the Year. She writes Sagas and Book Club Fiction that brings to life the hidden narratives of Black women and women of color in novels like Island Queen and Queen of Exiles. Her stories celebrate strong sisterhoods, diverse communities, and resilience across historical fiction, romance, and mystery genres.Her work has been featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Great Decisions
2026-02-12 16:30 - 18:00 | SDCEA Community Room, 29780 US Hwy 24 N, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Take part in America’s largest discussion program on world affairs. Participants read the Great Decisions Briefing Book, then meet with members of their community to watch a video and discuss critical global issues.
Feb. 12: Trump Tariffs and the Future of the World Economy
Feb 26: U.S.-China Relations
Mar. 12: Ruptured Alliances and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation
Mar. 26: Ukraine and the Future of European Security
Apr. 9: Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order
Apr. 23: U.S. Engagement of Africa
May 14: The Future of Human Rights and International Law

Virtual Author Talk: Smithson’s Gamble: The Incredible History Behind the World’s Largest Museum with Smithsonian Curator Emeritus Tom Crouch
2026-02-24 12:00 - 13:00
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Tom D. Crouch, a Smithsonian veteran of almost 45 years, paints a robust picture of a unique American establishment and its lasting legacies in his book Smithson’s Gamble.
Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world’s largest museum and research complex during its first 60 years. Told in rich detail, Smithson’s Gamble reveals how, as it defined a role rooted in curiosity and exploration, the Smithsonian helped to shape the nation’s developing identity.
The Smithsonian evolved from a small, narrowly focused organization into an institution leading the way in fields from astrophysics to zoology. Smithsonian researchers, and the hundreds of citizen scientists who they recruited, created a collection that documented the natural and human history of a continent. The American conservation movement and a national weather service are rooted at the Smithsonian. Smithson’s Gamble is filled with fascinating characters, twists and turns, and moments of triumph and tragedy, complete with political machinations, a bit of backstabbing, accusations of murder, and the occasional scandal.
Register now to take part in the conversation and learn about the trials, errors, and incredible legacy of the Smithsonian’s foundation.
About the Author: Tom Crouch joined the Smithsonian in 1974 and has served both the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American History in a variety of curatorial and administrative posts.
Dr. Crouch has won several major writing awards, including a 1989 Christopher Award, a literary prize recognizing “significant artistic achievement in support of the highest values of the human spirit,” for The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. His book, Wings: A History of Aviation From Kites to the Space Age, won the AIAA Gardner-Lasser Literature Prize for 2005.
In the fall of 2000, President Clinton appointed Dr. Crouch to the Chairmanship of the First Flight Centennial Federal Advisory Board, an organization created to advise the Centennial of Flight Commission on activities planned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of powered flight.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.
