Story Time followed by Free Play
2026-01-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-23 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Foster a love of books with story time, music, and art followed by free play.

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!

Tunes for Tots
2026-01-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-02-02 10:00 - 11:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Discover music as foundation of early literacy. Rhythm, matching pitch, and call and response are all part of the fun. Build active listening and cognitive skills like memory and problem solving through pattern recognition.

Free Play
2026-01-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-02 11:00 - 12:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Play games, explore a variety of toys, socialize with others, or snuggle up with a book. Ages 0-6 and caretakers.

Align & Flow Yoga
2026-01-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-02 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.

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.

Art for Kids: Full Moon Trees
2026-01-13 15:30 - 16:30 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Create a painting in this free art session. All supplies provided. Parents or caretakers are welcome to participate. Ages 7 – 12

Wiggles and Giggles
2026-01-14 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-04 10:00 - 12:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Free play and stories for little ones and their caretakers. Skill building: fine motor, socialization, imaginative play, speech and language development

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.

Makers Lab
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

Dance Fitness for Kids
2026-01-17 13:00 - 14:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Move and dance like Zumba to fun music. Wear comfy workout gear. *Caretakers may observe or participate, but must be readily available nearby. Ages 6-10.

Library Closed: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2026-01-19

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.

Art for Kids: Snowman
2026-01-20 15:30 - 16:30 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States

Library Closed: Staff Development Day
2026-01-22

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.
