Visit Us at the Wallingford Garden Market this Summer!

We’re excited to participate in the Wallingford Garden Market this season. Stop by our booth to meet our amazing staff, take part in a fun activity, and even get a library card! We hope to see you there. Find us under our green tent on these dates:

June 10th & 24th, July 29th, Aug 19th, Sept 9th, 16th, & 30th

Beekeeping Demonstration & Honey Tasting
Tuesday, June 6th
6:30-7:30pm
Community Room & Zoom

Beekeeper Mark Ceneri of Trumbull Nature & Arts Center will cover everything about bees and beekeeping! He will show you how beekeeping equipment is used, lead a lively discussion on the importance of pollination to food production, offer captivating facts about the cooperative structure of honeybee society, and tell you all you need to know about honey, royal jelly, and beeswax. We will also have a tasting of Connecticut raw honey.

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How to Be An Ally: A Pride Month Primer!
Wednesday, June 7th
7-8:30pm
Community Room & Zoom

Join Connecticut’s own Stonewall Speakers to learn how you can be a better ally to the LGBTQ+ community! You will learn what allies are, develop competency around terminology, hear the experiences of LGBTQ+ people, and learn what ally behaviors to deploy in every situation—in the workplace, at home, with friends, and more. Transgender allies are especially needed at this time, so we will spend a good amount of time talking about how to be a trans ally.

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Talking TED @ Home
Thursday, June 8th
7-8pm
Zoom

Join librarian Cindy Haiken on Zoom to watch and discuss a popular TED talk. Once registered, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting via email on the day of the event. In June, we will watch and discuss Will Guidara’s “The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality.”

Restaurateur Will Guidara’s life changed when he decided to serve a two-dollar hot dog in his fancy four-star restaurant, creating a personalized experience for some out-of-town customers craving authentic New York City street food. The move earned such a positive reaction that Guidara began pursuing this kind of “unreasonable hospitality” full-time, seeking out ways to create extraordinary experiences and give people more than they could ever possibly expect.

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One-on-One Career Counseling
Sign up today to schedule your virtual appointment
with our career specialist Sarah Eiseman!

Get personalized help with crafting a resume or cover letter or preparing for your big interview.
Visit to get started or contact Sarah Eiseman at [email protected]. You will be contacted shortly to schedule your Zoom appointment.

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Spanish Conversation Group
Thursdays| 4:30-5:30pm

Improve your Spanish in a friendly and non-judgmental space! Some knowledge of Spanish recommended. Just drop-in!

French Conversation Group
Mondays | 4:30-5:30pm
Improve your French in a friendly and non-judgmental space! Some knowledge of French recommended. Just drop-in!

New for the Summer:

Bereavement Support Group
Thursdays, May 25th - June 22nd
6-7:30pm | Board Room
This group provide those who are grieving with a safe and supportive environment in which to share their experiences, their memories, their sorrows, and their challenges of grieving. All are welcome. RSVP to Melinda Bottone, Bereavement Coordinator at (203) 679-5300 x4

Knit @ WPL
First and Third Monday of Each Month

Monday, June 5th

6-7:30pm

Board Room

No registration required
Knit @ WPL is a place where knitters and crocheters can practice their work in the company of others. Newcomers are welcome to join, but knitting experience is required.

WPL Play Readers
First Wednesday of Each Month
Wednesday, June 7th
6:30-8:30pm
Collins Room
No registration required
The Wallingford Public Library Play Readers bring and share poetry, prose, famous speeches and documents, monologues, as well as original material! Come check us out. All are welcome to read and/or listen.

Open Sew
First Tuesday of Each Month
Tuesday, June 6th
5:30-8:30pm
Adults & Teens in Grades 9+
Drop-in
Collaboratory
Do you like to sew? Join people who enjoy quilting and sewing at a casual “drop in” program. Bring your unfinished projects, either hand sewing or machine. There are 4 portable sewing machines (or bring your own) and lots of sewing supplies and tools provided by the library for your use. Due to the one-on-one nature of this program, masks will be required for all participants.

Saturday Mornings with Poetry
Second and Fourth Saturday of Each Month
Saturday, June 10th & 24th
9:45am-12noon
Collins Room
No registration required
A meeting of people who love reading and writing poetry. SMwP provides poetic opportunities for anyone to share their poetry, discuss the literary works of poets known and unknown, and expand skills in writing and editing poems in the shared camaraderie of comfortable, supportive members.

Friday Night Flicks:
80 for Brady
Rated PG-13
Friday, June 2nd
6pm
Community Room
After decades of dreaming, a quartet of older women, who are dedicated football fans, finally decides to make a pilgrimage to the Super Bowl for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet their favorite player, noteworthy NFL mainstay Tom Brady. Along the way, a series of hijinks ensue.

Friday Night Flicks
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Rated PG-13
Friday, June 16th
6pm
Community Room
Superhero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope’s parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott’s daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

Thursday Night Book Club:
Seating Arrangements
by Maggie Shipstead
Thursday, June 15th
6:30-8pm
Collins Room & Zoom

Contact Cindy Haiken to participate:
[email protected]

Winn Van Meter is preparing for his daughter’s wedding on an exclusive island off the coast of Massachusetts. Winn’s wife has planned the wedding with military precision, but the arrangements are threatened by misplaced desire, marital infidelity and a fundamental loss of faith in the rituals of American life. Shipstead’s debut novel, described by NPR as “Edith Wharton with a millennial generation edge,” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Mystery Book Club:
Family Business
by S.J. Rozan
Wednesday, June 7th
3-4:15pm
Community Room & Zoom

Contact Carole Shmurak to participate:
[email protected]
and put “Wallingford Mystery Book Club” in the subject line

In the 14th mystery featuring NYC PIs Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, several people want to succeed tong leader Big Brother Choi after he dies of a heart attack. Choi’s surprise heir is his niece Mel Wu. When Lydia goes with Mel to Choi’s headquarters to learn a secret that Choi told his assistant Chang Yao-Zu, they find Chang’s stabbed corpse instead.

Classics Book Club:
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
Thursday, June 1st
6:30-8pm
Collins Room & Zoom

Contact Cindy Haiken to participate:
[email protected]

In the late 1880s, recently orphaned Jim Burden travels by train to rural Nebraska to live with his grandparents. On the same train is 13-year-old Ántonia Shimerda, an immigrant from Bohemia, whose family is buying the land next to the Burdens. The two families become close friends, and Jim and Ántonia bond over their love of the land. Cather’s classic novel depicts the changes and challenges of rural immigrant life in the pre-war years.