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Story Time! With Special Guest Reader JoAnne Dowd, Kittery Schools Superintendent!

10:30am–11:00am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Family Movie & Pizza Night: Smurfs

6:00pm–8:00pm
Children, Everyone
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Children, Everyone
Program Type: Movie Night
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for pizza and a movie! We will be showing the 2025 Smurfs movie (PG, 90 minute runtime)

Story Time!

10:30am–11:30am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Story Time!

10:30am–11:00am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Seacoast Newcomers Club: Mahjong Games

1:30pm–4:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

This is a Public Reservation for members of the Seacoast Newcomers Club to play mahjong.

If you're interested in joining and playing with them, please ask library staff for more information!

Kittery Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Meeting

5:00pm–6:30pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room
Purpose of Meeting

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

Creating a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community that celebrates differences, where everyone is empowered and all voices count.

Lego Club

4:00pm–5:00pm
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Lego Club
Event Details:

LEGO lovers of all ages are welcome for drop-in building and play. We have the LEGOs!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Teen Crafternoon: Air-Dry Clay Sculptures

4:00pm–5:00pm
Teens
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Roberts Room
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Event Details:

Teens and tweens ages 10 and up are welcome to a monthly craft with Sarah in the teen room!

Back by popular demand, we'll be making sculptures out of air-dried clay!

Kittery Book Club

6:00pm–7:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Roberts Room
Purpose of Meeting

A book club for Kittery folks!

Check out the Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1553275662525491

From the Holocaust to Maine: Testimonies of the Survivors

6:00pm–8:00pm
Teens, Adults
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room + Makerspace
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Speaker
Registration Required
Event Details:

During the 1990s, Freeport-based attorney and photographer Jack Montgomery created portraits of 20 Holocaust survivors who settled in Maine.

Adult Ed: Gmail

6:00pm–8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Business Center
Age Group: Adults
Event Details:

Learn the basics of sending, sorting, and receiving mail in Gmail, and everything you can do with your account that makes Gmail stand out from the rest.

Disclaimer(s)

Adult Ed

This class is taught in collaboration with Kittery Adult Education. It is $16 to attend.

To register, contact Kittery Adult Ed at kittery.maineadulted.org or 207-439-5896.

Seacoast Songwriters Circle

6:00pm–8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Roberts Room
Age Group: Adults
Event Details:

The Seacoast Songwriters Circle is an opportunity for songwriters of all ages and levels to come together, share songs, and get support and inspiration.

Story Time!

10:30am–11:30am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Bluegrass Jam Band

11:30am–1:30pm
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Roberts Room
Event Details:

Bluegrass and country musicians get together on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month to jam! These sessions are open to the public - bring your instrument and start picking (and if you just want to listen in, that's okay, too!)

Story Time!

10:30am–11:00am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Lunar New Year Party: Year of the Horse

1:00pm–2:00pm
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join Miss Sarah in celebration of Lunar New Year as we welcome 2026, the Year of the Horse!

We'll have games, crafts, music, and more!

'The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor's Golden Era'

6:00pm–8:00pm
Teens, Adults
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Author Event
Registration Required
Event Details:

The Great Fire of 1947 and the End of Bar Harbor’s Golden Era tells the riveting story of the desperate evacuation of residents through the heart of an uncontrolled forest fire burning all across Mount

Blue Ocean Society: Marine Debris Art Program - Turning Trash into Treasure

6:00pm–8:00pm
Teens
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room + Makerspace
Age Group: Teens
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Speaker
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for a hands-on, creative program that blends art, science, and environmental stewardship!

Rice Public Library Book Club

6:30pm–7:45pm
Adults
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Roberts Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

This book club is for adults who enjoy reading novels, sometimes with a literary or historical element.

Every third Thursday, we'll meet upstairs in the Roberts Room (Teen Room) to discuss the latest book we've read.

Story Time!

10:30am–11:30am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

'Abominable' Friday Matinee with Snow Cones!

1:00pm–3:00pm
Children, Teens
Open
Registration Required
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room + Makerspace
Age Group: Children, Teens
Program Type: Movie Night
Registration Required
Event Details:

Join us for a special Friday Matinee! We'll be showing 2019's Abominable and eating snow cones as we enjoy the last day of February vacation!

Saturday Story Time!

11:00am–12:00pm
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers.

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Story Time!

10:30am–11:00am
Children
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Children's Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Sing songs, read stories, and do a fun craft in the children's room with Miss Sarah!

 

Story Time is open to all children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. 

 

No registration needed; just come on by!

Disclaimer(s)

Accompanying Adults

This program is designed for children and accompanying adults. Please plan to attend and be engaged with your child for this program. Drop offs will not be permitted.

Seacoast Newcomers Club: Mahjong Games

1:30pm–4:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Rice Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

This is a Public Reservation for members of the Seacoast Newcomers Club to play mahjong.

If you're interested in joining and playing with them, please ask library staff for more information!