Join Kathy for a continuation of her TaiChi for Health and Wellness class.

This is a mixed level class.

$6 per Class

This group will:

• share experiences in becoming published

•  getting work promoted

•  self publishing

• getting an agent

• finding a publisher without an agent

• not publishing and writing for ourselves and our families

Enjoy a walk along the Kanape, and learn about mushrooms from John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi! Limited Space, sign up in advance.

Join Kathy for a continuation of her TaiChi for Health and Wellness class.

This is a mixed level class.

$6 per Class

Let the music guide your soul! By using music as your muse, you will create a visual depiction of notes, harmonies, beats, high and low notes, and rhythms with subconscious line.  Continuing, you’ll be guided through the addition of color defining shapes enhancing your musical masterpiece.  Letting loose and moving without predetermining the direction helps you be more flexible and encourages you to begin looking for opportunities in unlikely places.  Intensive listening helps you to be mindful and to fully enjoy sensory experiences at a deeper level. Limited Space, please sign up in advance.

Join Kathy for a continuation of her TaiChi for Health and Wellness class.

This is a mixed level class.

$6 per Class

This program focuses on presenting locational data of potential Native American sacred sites within the Catskills and surrounding regions, in order to discern patterns in their construction techniques, environmental positioning, and event-specific structural alignments related to sky observation. Presented by author Glenn Kreisberg.

Join the Nutty Scientists for a great interactive science show and sign up for our summer reading program. Great for the whole family! No need to sign up, show up and have a good time!

Join Kathy for a continuation of her TaiChi for Health and Wellness class.

This is a mixed level class.

Fridays 11 a.m. Starting June 13 through August 8

$6 per Class

“Keepers of the Light: Women Lighthouse Keepers of the Hudson River”
​Women have kept the lights since the earliest days of the Hudson River lighthouses. Starting in the 1830s until automation in the 1950s, nearly a dozen women were official lighthouse keepers on the Hudson River, several with careers of over forty years. Others were unjustly turned out from their posts. Some weren’t official keepers at all, but did the duties nonetheless. Learn about the careers and personal lives of these female keepers, what it took to be a lighthouse keeper, and why the Hudson River had more women lighthouse keepers than most places in the United States.  Emma Cariello from Hudson River Maritime Museum will be presenting.

Ulster County Older Adults Empowerment Council presents: Gotcha! Beware off Scams/See the Red Flags! Case studies in Financial Exploitation and how to prepare. Please register and join us at the Olive Free Library for a Zoom event.

Join us for our ANNUAL LIBRARY FAIR! This year will be bigger and more family friendly than ever! We will have our plant sale & book sale to benefit our Friends Group. We have a juggler, Jester Jim, coming to give us a great show, juggling knifes and so much more. Music, Kids activities and food! Tettas will be here serving lunch & snacks. And closing out the day we will have an author coming in in to discuss their book. More details to come!

Hot Wrk Ensemble is a saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience by engaging communities to interact with and partake in the creation process. Performances can include everything from contemporary art music, jazz, world music styles to early Baroque, and arrangements of Dolly Parton and The Beatles. Expect the unexpected! The Hot Wrk Ensemble is performing a free concert at Olive Free Library, West Shokan, NY. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Brought to the Olive Free Library by Health Option NY. Topics covered will be : Common scams targeting seniors.

• How to spot and report fraud.

• Resources, including the National Elder Fraud Hotline.

• Steps to safeguard personal information and finances.

Chrissy will be here to teach us how to make a tote bag with a zipper. Please sign up in advance, and let us know if you need to borrow a machine or if you will bring your own.

Our third and final Piano Plus artist will be Marilyn Crispell. Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers. Her program will be mostly improvised. Buy tickets here

Sign up in advance for this recycling craft with used book pages.

Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."

Join us for our bi-annual clothing swap! Please bring items in for the swap from April 26- May 1st for sorting. There is no need to bring items to the swap to come and shop, we always have plenty! Great for the whole family!

Join us for another great Yard Sale!

Each spot is approximately 4'x8'. Fee for a spot: Use our tables $35 OR Bring your own tables $25

MUST pay at time of sign up! Call or come in person to get a spot!

Join Will for his FREE Tech Tuesday, get your questions answered, bring devices that are giving you a challenge! Will is here every other Tuesday. No need to sign up! Check the website calendar for upcoming dates.

A new writer’s group in the Town of Olive! Come and meet the group, support other local authors and brainstorm some great ideas.

Come in and sew some new shorts! No need to purchase pattern! You might also want to buy flannel if you’d prefer that over the cotton fabric available at the library. Please sign up in advance, are you bringing your own machine or borrowing ours?

Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."