Week of Events
Drummer’s Program for Teens
Erica’s E.Z. Prep
Erica’s E.Z. Prep
The SAT is one of the most important tests a young adult can take, and scoring well is essential. A high score increases your chances of being admitted and makes you eligible for more scholarships -- and more scholarships mean more money in college and less debt when you graduate. Join us each week as […]
Egyptian Style Belly Dance with Tarik Sultan
Egyptian Style Belly Dance with Tarik Sultan
This dance class series is designed to introduce students to the social folk dance of Egypt know in the West as Belly Dance. Students will be taught the cultural and historical origins of the dance as well as the movement vocabulary of the dance involving the arms, hands, torso and hips. This is a fun, […]
Virtual Study Hall
Virtual Study Hall
The Virtual Study Hall is an educational initiative to support Jersey City high school students enrolled in our SAT Prep course as well as those who are looking to improve their school performance. This program aims to build a relationship with high school students and students from Saint Peter’s University. We believe that college tutors […]
Meditation For Older Adults
Meditation For Older Adults
Join Amy Rutledge, a meditation guide, artist, and actor living in Jersey City, every week for a guided meditation session.
Salary Negotiation: Salary Conversations
Salary Negotiation: Salary Conversations
Understand that salary conversation are a negotiation. You may sometimes not get what you want, and you need to be okay with that. Practicing discussions can be helpful for you. You will learn strategies on how to practice your salary conversations.
Birth of a Picture Book
Birth of a Picture Book
Join Yangsook Choi as she takes the audience through the creative process of bookmaking: the power of imagination, writing, storyboarding, illustrating, and honing problem-solving skills. Yangsook Choi grew up in Korea. She started drawing at age four and loved telling her grandma scary stories. After moving to New York to pursue her art, she has […]
National Teacher Appreciation Day
National Teacher Appreciation Day
National Teacher Appreciation Day recognizes dedicated educators across the country. As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, the day is recognized annually on the first Tuesday of a full week in May.
Drag Queen Story Hour
Drag Queen Story Hour
Join Harmonica Sunbeam every week for a virtual story time focused on reading, music and movement!
Tech Tuesdays
Tech Tuesdays
Tech Tuesdays is a program for any Jersey City Free Public Library patron or staff member who wants to learn about the basic functions of their smartphones, e-Readers, tablets, and computers, and how those devices can be used to access library resources. Please note, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tech Tuesdays will take place virtually […]
Virtual Study Hall
Virtual Study Hall
The Virtual Study Hall is an educational initiative to support Jersey City high school students enrolled in our SAT Prep course as well as those who are looking to improve their school performance. This program aims to build a relationship with high school students and students from Saint Peter’s University. We believe that college tutors […]
Pick A Song, Any Song!
Pick A Song, Any Song!
Rachel Kaufman is an established music director and accompanist in NYC, and she has also played at piano bars and restaurants in NYC on and off for many years. In line with playing at such places, she is happy to take requests on Facebook Live, and you can sing along from the comfort of your […]
How To Play Chess: For Beginners
How To Play Chess: For Beginners
Learn how to play chess through interactive Zoom chess lessons from Bobby Stewart. In these sessions, the group will learn how to play chess and compete in chess. Register in advance for this meeting: https://jclibrary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdO6oqDguE9zju8A4KQa6CKMxQXAZHROm After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Halal Hot Dog Book Launch and Author Event
Halal Hot Dog Book Launch and Author Event
Celebrate the launch of the latest book from our very own author and Youth Services Librarian, Susannah Aziz. Youth Services staff members will interview Ms. Susannah about her hilarious and heart-warming book, Halal Hot Dog. Then we'll take a sneak peek into the book and participate in some silly hot-dog-related activities.
Teen Writing Workshop
Teen Writing Workshop
Learn the art of writing with award-winning author Pemi Aguda. This six week writing workshop will cover the theme of home. What is home? Is it a place? A person? Our bodies? Each week Ms. Aguda will share select reading passages that connect to that week's theme and then give you a writing prompt for […]
Bollywood Dance Lessons
Bollywood Dance Lessons
Shehnaaz Dance Academy is a Jersey City based Bollywood Indian Dance Academy teaching children and adults. Tune in for weekly Bollywood dance classes. For more information on Shehnaaz Dance Academy, visit their website: https://shehnaazdanceacademy.com/.
Cooking with Heifa from Fufu’s Kitchen
Cooking with Heifa from Fufu’s Kitchen
Join Heifa from Fufu's Kitchen as she showcases delicious recipes with step by step instructions that are easy to follow. For more yummy recipes check out fufuskitchen.com.
Opt Out Workshop
Opt Out Workshop
Is your home address visible somewhere on the Internet, even if it doesn't show up on a Google search? Is your email address lurking somewhere on the dark web? Have you been receiving robocalls and odd text messages from people you don't know? Even if you didn't post your private or identifying information online, it […]
Self-Love Meditation for Teens
Self-Love Meditation for Teens
Join Ms. Amy as she teaches several meditation techniques to help cultivate confidence, self-love and self-worth, release stress, anxiety, and promote connection and peace to all! Meditation also helps with focus, concentration and navigating difficult emotions and release limiting beliefs and negative self-talk which really tend to hold us back as we get older in […]
Virtual Study Hall
Virtual Study Hall
The Virtual Study Hall is an educational initiative to support Jersey City high school students enrolled in our SAT Prep course as well as those who are looking to improve their school performance. This program aims to build a relationship with high school students and students from Saint Peter’s University. We believe that college tutors […]
Storytime with Mia the Saint Bernard
Storytime with Mia the Saint Bernard
Mia is a Saint Bernard and certified AKC therapy dog! Weighing in at over 150 pounds, Mia has provided tons of licks and love to children in autistic schools, individuals battling with sickness in hospitals and elderly seniors in nursing homes. Originally the dog of humanitarian Richard John Albero, Lucia Albero is following in her […]
Flash Fiction Challenge
Flash Fiction Challenge
Have you always wanted to write a short story but don't know how? Maybe you want to brush up on your wordsmithing skills? Now is apparently the time to write. In partnership with Hudson Pride and the Jersey City Public Library, Jersey City Writers has transformed one of our most popular events, Flash Fiction Friday, […]
Egyptian Style Belly Dance with Tarik Sultan
Egyptian Style Belly Dance with Tarik Sultan
This dance class series is designed to introduce students to the social folk dance of Egypt know in the West as Belly Dance. Students will be taught the cultural and historical origins of the dance as well as the movement vocabulary of the dance involving the arms, hands, torso and hips. This is a fun, […]
Virtual Study Hall
Virtual Study Hall
The Virtual Study Hall is an educational initiative to support Jersey City high school students enrolled in our SAT Prep course as well as those who are looking to improve their school performance. This program aims to build a relationship with high school students and students from Saint Peter’s University. We believe that college tutors […]
Year Up New Jersey
Year Up New Jersey
Year Up is a one-year career accelerator program empowering young adults (age 18-26) to enter a career in Technology or Business. Year Up at HCCC provides young adults with 6 months of paid professional development and specialized career technical training. This instruction prepares students for the second phase of the program: a 6 month paid full-time internship […]
Socially Distanced Guitar Class
Socially Distanced Guitar Class
Reena Rock will teach Guitar to 2 Volunteer Students on FB Live weekly.
How To Play Chess: For Beginners
How To Play Chess: For Beginners
Learn how to play chess through interactive Zoom chess lessons from Bobby Stewart. In these sessions, the group will learn how to play chess and compete in chess. Register in advance for this meeting: https://jclibrary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdO6oqDguE9zju8A4KQa6CKMxQXAZHROm After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Teletherapy Tips with Lazora Jordan
Teletherapy Tips with Lazora Jordan
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, more people have been seeking remote teletherapy services. Whether through mobile apps—such as Open Path Collective, Ayana Therapy, or Talkspace—or traditional therapists and mental health organizations, it is now easier than ever to talk to a mental health professional in the comfort of your own home. How do you choose the […]
Fun Friday!
Fun Friday!
This Fun Friday, Ms. Kate will help us celebrate Choose Privacy Week! Choose Privacy Week is an initiative to engage librarians and library users across the U.S. in a national conversation about privacy rights in the digital age. The campaign gives individuals the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy. […]
Mother’s Day Sip & Paint
Mother’s Day Sip & Paint
Celebrate with the Miller Branch staff for a special Mother's Day Sip & Paint. Join us for an afternoon of fun and relaxation.
JCFPL Community Poetry Showcase
JCFPL Community Poetry Showcase
The Jersey City Free Public Library (JCFPL) Community Poetry Showcase was created to give Jersey City's creative voices a virtual platform. Whether or not you consider yourself a poet, we welcome your words as we build this digital mosaic to celebrate National Poetry Month. 2021 THEME: "What Community Means to Me". We are accepting submissions […]
Library Card Sign-Up and Mother’s Day Poster Craft
Library Card Sign-Up and Mother’s Day Poster Craft
On Friday, May 7, from 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., sign up for a library card and receive a Mother's Day Poster Craft. Craft supplies are limited and will be given out on a first come, first served basis. Join us for this event at the Marion Branch. Masks are required for all participants above […]
Author Chat with Jessica Baggett
Author Chat with Jessica Baggett
Join Jessica Baggett, CEO Pro'Ta'jay Productions, as discusses her new book, "The Struggle is Real." Jessica Baggett was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1986. Even as a child, everyone knew that there was something special about her. She was apart of the media magnet program at Henry Snyder High School. She then graduated […]
Heroes Are Still Super!
Heroes Are Still Super!
We are proud to promote our New Teen Comics and Graphic Novel Book Club: Heroes Are Still Super! Whether you choose to imagine yourself as a comic book character, or create something entirely fictional, feel free to craft your comic book character through: drawings, paintings, sculptures, textile arts, or costumes! (Optional)-Once you’re ready, dress up […]
LEGO Club
LEGO Club
Join Ms. Tyara to create, build, and express your creativity with LEGO. Zoom meeting details below: https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 845 5562 8666 Passcode: 538655
Virtual Study Hall
Virtual Study Hall
The Virtual Study Hall is an educational initiative to support Jersey City high school students enrolled in our SAT Prep course as well as those who are looking to improve their school performance. This program aims to build a relationship with high school students and students from Saint Peter’s University. We believe that college tutors […]
Coded Bias: Documentary Screening
Coded Bias: Documentary Screening
To finish off Choose Privacy Week, we are honored to host a documentary Coded Bias film screening. Coded Bias explores how racial bias exists in facial recognition technology, how artificial intelligence often automates oppression, and how people are protecting civil liberties in the face of algorithms framed as neutral, but that is anything but. The […]
Civics For The Emerging Activist
Civics For The Emerging Activist
This program intends to empower and inform citizens on the various topic of civic discourse and governance, including issues on the significance of the bill of rights, voter registration, and more.
Arabic Storytime
Arabic Storytime
Aiya Fawzy, an educator and Jersey City native will host a story time twice a month. Popular children's books will be used, and read in English and translated in Arabic as well. Songs or a discussion may be included. Tune in to enjoy!
Erica’s E.Z. Prep
Erica’s E.Z. Prep
The SAT is one of the most important tests a young adult can take, and scoring well is essential. A high score increases your chances of being admitted and makes you eligible for more scholarships -- and more scholarships mean more money in college and less debt when you graduate. Join us each week as […]