Friday, December 5, 2025
Stop in to speak with Suffolk County Department of Labor specialist Patrick Stay. He specializes in working with veterans, but will have listings of current job opportunities on Long Island for everyone. No registration required.
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Dust off your boots and join line dance instructor Bill Iozzino. He will teach you basic steps and beginner dances. No registration required.
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, December 6, 2025
01:15 pm - 04:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/vr
Sunday, December 7, 2025
The band is Joe DeJesu (guitar and vocals), Mike Ponella (guitar and vocals), and Eddie Profet Jr. (bass guitar and vocals). Norwegian Wood plays the music of The Beatles, in an acoustic setting. They encourage requests and guarantee a splendid time for all. No registration required.
Monday, December 8, 2025
YES will promote resources and information about substance and drug use/abuse, suicide awareness, and mental health. No registration required.
Learn about and explore this temporary moment of peace during WWI and the impact it had on the social, political, and economic aspects of the war. Suffolk County Community College lecturer Danielle DiMauro will present. No registration required.
06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
Scout Troop 566
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/tech-help
YES will promote resources and information about substance and drug use/abuse, suicide awareness, and mental health. No registration required.
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
Learn about the benefits of clean energy, ways to reduce use, how to lower your bill, and job opportunities in the industry. No registration required.
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/vr
06:00 pm - 07:00 pm
Healing Qigong
Thursday, December 11, 2025
03:00 pm - 04:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Incorporate fitness movements into dancing to benefit bones and muscles, cardiovascular health, agility, and coordination. Annmarie Rigoroso is the instructor. No registration required.
Learn about the benefits of clean energy, ways to reduce use, how to lower your bill, and job opportunities in the industry. No registration required.
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/tech-help
06:00 pm - 08:45 pm
Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees
This lecture explores the history behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Neapolitan Baroque Angel Tree and Nativity Scene. We will dive into the story behind the female artist and collector, Loretta Hines Howard. Mallory Mortillaro is the speaker. This is a Zoom presentation that will be shown in the library or can be viewed from home. In-person viewing: No registration required.
Friday, December 12, 2025
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, December 13, 2025
01:15 pm - 04:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/vr
Monday, December 15, 2025
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Relax with other vinyl record enthusiasts at this contemporary listening party. Attend as a listener, select songs from a curated setlist, bring a record of your own to play, and read articles from the VLC Newsletter for the latest in music news, reviews, and special stories
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Our littlest learners can have the opportunity to explore their creativity through building, puzzles, sensory and makerspace activities. Older siblings and younger siblings in strollers are permitted.
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
05:30 pm - 06:30 pm
Pack 438 Cub Scouts
Join in this community-based, peer-led writing group where you will discuss various writing topics, practice your writing skills, and share your ideas, suggestions, critiques, and samples with other writers. No registration required.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Health & Welfare Council of Long Island’s certified Healthcare Facilitated Enrollers will be able to assist in applying for the Medicare Savings Program, Medicaid, and more. Call the Healthcare Access line to schedule an appointment: 516-505-4426.
04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
Girl Scouts Troop 388
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Explore some of our Makerspace activities, such as 3D pens, building activities, brain teasers, and more, including a craft you can make and take home!
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Parker Jewish Institute will provide information for those caring for a loved one with dementia
TV show themes are among the best-known songs ever, but few people know the crazy behind-the-scenes stories of how these songs were created. Stroll down memory lane and get the inside scoop on tons of classic TV themes, like Seinfeld, Star Trek, Friends, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, MASH, Get Smart, Gilligan’s Island, I Love Lucy, and many more.
Friday, December 19, 2025
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, December 20, 2025
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Monday, December 22, 2025
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
Friday, December 26, 2025
Join us for a fun family movie! Light refreshments will be served.
Join us for a fun family movie! Light refreshments will be served.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Monday, December 29, 2025
Do you like to sew, crochet, knit, quilt, cross stitch, or embroider? Share your current projects in a warm and welcoming atmosphere as you connect with fellow crafters! A sewing machine will be available. No registration required.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Speaker Lelonni Campbell is a longtime student of metaphysics and integrates core philosophical concepts that have long guided humanity into her talks to offer frameworks for understanding modern existence and our place in time.
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Friday, January 2, 2026
Dust off your boots and join line dance instructor Bill Iozzino. He will teach you basic steps and beginner dances.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Monday, January 5, 2026
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Part 1 will explore how diet, inflammation, sleep, stress, and environmental toxins can affect your brain and what you can do about it. For Part 2, share what habits you tried from our Healthy Brain Action Plan, talk about what worked and fine-tune what didn’t. With Barb Herd.
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Girl Scouts Troop 3691
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Health & Welfare Council of Long Island’s certified Healthcare Facilitated Enrollers will be able to assist in applying for the Medicare Savings Program, Medicaid, and more. Call the Healthcare Access line to schedule an appointment: 516-505-4426.
Relive some of the mostly live signature musical numbers first performed on television. Video clips will include duets and medleys performed by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire and Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and Elvis. Also, revisit the Beatles’ first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as solo performances by such world-famous artists as Mary Martin, Nat King Cole, and Eydie Gormé. Richard Knox presents this video lecture that can be viewed at home or in the library.
04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
Girl Scouts Troop 388
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Stop by to write messages of empowerment for survivors of human trafficking on a piece of felt. The pieces will be sewn together to form a quilt and donated to Suffolk County Anti-Trafficking Initiative (SCATI). Open to all ages. No registration required.
Explore some of our Makerspace activities, such as 3D pens, building activities, brain teasers, and more, including a craft you can make and take home!
Join in this community-based, peer-led writing group where you will discuss various writing topics, practice your writing skills, and share your ideas, suggestions, critiques, and samples with other writers.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
03:00 pm - 04:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Relax and destress by dropping in and coloring a page or two. No registration required.
Incorporate fitness movements into dance to benefit bones and muscles, cardiovascular health, agility, and coordination. Annmarie Rigoroso is the instructor.
06:00 pm - 08:45 pm
Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Crochet and stiffen your own snowflake decorations with instructor Aimee Saccio. Please bring lace (1), dk (2), or sport/baby (3) weight yarn and sizes E, F, and G crochet hooks. Basic knowledge of crochet required. No registration required.
Friday, January 9, 2026
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Monday, January 12, 2026
Part 1 will explore how diet, inflammation, sleep, stress, and environmental toxins can affect your brain and what you can do about it. For Part 2, share what habits you tried from our Healthy Brain Action Plan, talk about what worked and fine-tune what didn’t. With Barb Herd.
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Relax with other vinyl record enthusiasts at this contemporary listening party. Attend as a listener, select songs from a curated setlist, bring a record of your own to play, and read articles from the VLC Newsletter for the latest in music news, reviews, and special stories
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Free health screenings and services for adults given by a Catholic Health Services registered nurse, including appropriate patient education and referrals needed, free of charge. No insurance is required. Individuals will not be asked about immigration status
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Connetquot ENL teacher Sam Canonica instructs these classes for adults whose native language is not English. Included in the classes will be exercises to help students expand their English language vocabulary and build conversational skills.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
03:00 pm - 05:00 pm
The Preserve at Connetquot HOA
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Thursday, January 15, 2026
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Brian Rose, professor emeritus from Fordham University, leads this lecture exploring how advertising changed during television’s first two decades and the important role it played in convincing viewers that the key to happiness lay in quite literally buying their way into the American dream. This is a Zoom presentation that will be shown in the library or can be viewed from home.
03:00 pm - 04:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Incorporate fitness movements into dance to benefit bones and muscles, cardiovascular health, agility, and coordination. Annmarie Rigoroso is the instructor.
Former prosecutor Ray Zuppa is pressing for authorities to open a new investigation into the death of Natasha Jugo, a woman whose body was found on Gilgo Beach in 2013. Her death was ruled a suicide, but Zuppa believes evidence points to her being yet another victim of the Long Island Serial Killer. You are invited to listen to his thoughts on the case. There will be time for Q & A.
Crochet and stiffen your own snowflake decorations with instructor Aimee Saccio. Please bring lace (1), dk (2), or sport/baby (3) weight yarn and sizes E, F, and G crochet hooks. Basic knowledge of crochet required. No registration required.
Friday, January 16, 2026
Our littlest learners can have the opportunity to explore their creativity through building, puzzles, sensory and makerspace activities. Older siblings and younger siblings in strollers are permitted.
Dust off your boots and join line dance instructor Bill Iozzino. He will teach you basic steps and beginner dances.
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Which team can beat the clock and finish a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle first? Be a part of your own team (up to 4 people) or let us assign you to a table. Members of the winning team will receive a prize.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
07:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Did you know that Long Island has almost as many birds in winter as it does in summer? Using photos and interesting, fun facts, Dianne Taggart (longtime Long Island birder) will tell us all about the Long Island birds of winter.
Titles to be announced. Check our website or Facebook page to see what we will show.
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Join in this community-based, peer-led writing group where you will discuss various writing topics, practice your writing skills, and share your ideas, suggestions, critiques, and samples with other writers.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Navigating Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia can be overwhelming for both the person living with the condition and their family members. Learn how to effectively communicate with your loved ones, provide proper care, and navigate the health care system. Presented by a representative from Parker Jewish Institute.
Incorporate fitness movements into dance to benefit bones and muscles, cardiovascular health, agility, and coordination. Annmarie Rigoroso is the instructor.
Crochet and stiffen your own snowflake decorations with instructor Aimee Saccio. Please bring lace (1), dk (2), or sport/baby (3) weight yarn and sizes E, F, and G crochet hooks. Basic knowledge of crochet required. No registration required.
Friday, January 23, 2026
Dust off your boots and join line dance instructor Bill Iozzino. He will teach you basic steps and beginner dances.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
09:30 am - 11:30 am
Learning Commons - Makerspace
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
Monday, January 26, 2026
Do you like to sew, crochet, knit, quilt, cross stitch, or embroider? Share your current projects in a warm and welcoming atmosphere as you connect with fellow crafters! A sewing machine will be available. No registration required.
07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Speaker Lelonni Campbell is a longtime student of metaphysics and integrates core philosophical concepts that have long guided humanity into her talks to offer frameworks for understanding modern existence and our place in time.
Chess players, drop in for informal play against other fans of the game. Boards are provided or you may bring your own.
06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Connetquot ENL teacher Sam Canonica instructs these classes for adults whose native language is not English. Included in the classes will be exercises to help students expand their English language vocabulary and build conversational skills.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art stretches several city streets long and is the largest museum in the United States. Amongst its wide collection are some iconic and important artworks. Join artist and professor Chris Vivas as we explore some of the most treasured of these, from Vincent van Gogh and Vermeer to Washington Crossing the Delaware and The Death of Socrates and more.
05:15 pm - 08:45 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Thursday, January 29, 2026
02:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
The public was very divided in reactions to the Daniel Penny case, from the famed NYC subway chokehold incident, in which he was ultimately acquitted. Attorneys Raiser and Kenniff will be here to discuss the case and the issues it presented.
Crochet and stiffen your own snowflake decorations with instructor Aimee Saccio. Please bring lace (1), dk (2), or sport/baby (3) weight yarn and sizes E, F, and G crochet hooks. Basic knowledge of crochet required. No registration required.
Friday, January 30, 2026
https://calendly.com/connetquot-public-library/one-on-one-craft-help
06:30 pm - 08:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Sunday, February 1, 2026
A winter wonderland awaits! Each week, starting on Sunday, February 1, drop by the Children & Family Services Department for a fun I Spy Winter Challenge. Search for the hidden winter object each week, check it off in the Beanstack app, and earn a virtual raffle ticket towards one of four Squishmallows!
Monday, February 2, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Learning Commons - Makerspace
Our littlest learners can have the opportunity to explore their creativity through building, puzzles, sensory and makerspace activities. Older siblings and younger siblings in strollers are permitted.
06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Girl Scouts Troop 3691
