Baby Talk
2025-12-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-31 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Babies enjoy some time playing with their peers in our Children’s Room. Babies will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading and playing.

For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!

Registration is Currently CLOSED Register to be added to our waiting list.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Children will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading, writing and playing.
Participate in stories, songs and learning. Craft or take away activity for extended learning.
Registration is Required. Space is Limited.
For ages 2 (toddler) to Preschool.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities available on our Facebook event and the main website page.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-12-03 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to aspiring and accomplished writers.
Group meets virtually. Meeting link will be provided after registration.
Registration is Open.

Life Story Writing (Hybrid)
2025-12-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is held in person and online. Register to receive online link.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-12-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provided reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.
Meets Virtually December thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November
This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-12-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-12-19 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-12-05 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-12-19 14:30 - 15:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Help with library cards, borrowing/requesting materials, returning materials. Please bring passwords for digital assistance.

Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry.

Open to the public.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.
Open to the public.

Baby Talk
2025-12-10 10:30 - 11:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-12-11 16:00 - 18:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Poetry Class & Workshop
Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free poetry class and workshop.
Brantingham will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. Students have published in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, and The Paris Review among other places. The class is completely free to you and you can join in as little or as much as you like.

Poetry reading following the class: Poetry Reading with Poet John Wheway

To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

Poetry Reading with Poet John Wheway
2025-12-11 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
Featured Poet: John Wheway

Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
Featured poets will be joining via Zoom.
To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

CLSC Book Club
2025-12-13 09:00 - 10:00 | 3 Lakes Cafe, 11 S Main Street, Cassadaga, United States
CLSC BOOK CLUB
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is the oldest book club in the US.
This book club will meet in person at 3 Lakes Cafe (located on Main Street in Cassadaga) to discuss books from the CLSC book list.

October’s Book Selection: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Hosted by Erin Gray in partnership with the Sinclairville Free Library. Copies are available for checkout through the library’s hold process.
For more information on CLSC.

Local Author Showcase
2025-12-13 10:30 - 13:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Winter Local Author Showcase
Please join us in welcoming:
Romance author Joan Wahl is a lifelong resident of Chautauqua County, but her love of country music and Nashville inspired series set in Music City. Wahl’s stories have a similar Hallmark-movie vibe with some “spice”. Both books in the series, Summer Love in Music City and Falling for Autumn, will be available for purchase by cash or credit card. Joan is targeting an October 2026 release date for book three, Brennan’s Winter Promise.
Multi-genre writer Jason K Bussman debut book is now available. FUMBLE: Just a Dad Trying Not to Drop the Ball is about Bussman’s experiences as a dad, both winning and not winning. Bussman specializes in memoir writing and recently earned an MFA in Creative Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.
Rev W Craig Stratton’s Remembrances of a Hospital Chaplain: The Day I Lost My Face is an intimate look into a chaplain’s daily encounters serving individuals and families during their times of greatest vulnerability. Documented in dialogue-filled stories, it sheds light not only on the patient but also on the ways a chaplain is impacted by his work, creating an engaging memoir.
Also featuring writers from our Write Circle Writer’s group, Clark Zlotchew and Richard Knott. Zlotchew has published 19 books and was honored in 2008 with a promotion to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish Language and Spanish and Latin American Literatures.
Visit our website at sinclairvillelibrary.org or call 716.962.5885 to register for any of our events.

Christmas in the Park
2025-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Minckler’s Commons (Village Gazebo)
Miss Jessica and Chet will be handing out craft kits, books and hugs all night!!!

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-12-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Noel Stranger by Richard Paul Evans
From Richard Paul Evans, the next exciting holiday-themed novel in his New York Times bestselling The Noel Collection.
Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Maggie climb out of her hole, and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Maggie decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one — albeit reluctantly. She is immediately taken by Andrew, the kind, handsome man who owns the Christmas tree lot and delivers her tree. She soon learns that Andrew is single and new to her city and, like her, is also starting his life anew.
As their friendship develops, Maggie slowly begins to trust again — something she never thought possible. Then, just when she thinks she has finally found happiness, she discovers a dark secret from Andrew’s past. Is there more to this stranger’s truth than meets the eye?
This powerful new holiday novel from Richard Paul Evans explores the true power of the season, redemption, and the freedom that comes from forgiveness.

Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required.

Virtual Book Club
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry
Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. The answer provides hope and healing and a magical journey for anyone whose life has ever been changed by a book.
1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: “Where did Narnia come from?”
Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers.
Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he slowly tells her the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life.
Lewis’s answers will reveal to Megs and her family many truths that science and math cannot, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her, instead: hope.

Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Nighttime Story Hour
2025-12-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
“Polar Express…”
Hot Cocoa Paper Craft
Children are invited to wear their pajamas
Hot Cocoa & Cookies
Children will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading, writing and playing.
Participate in stories, songs and learning. Craft or take away activity for extended learning.
Registration is Requested. Space is Limited.
For ages birth and up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren).
Light snacks will be available.

Closed in Observance of Christmas Holiday
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-27 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
