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Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library Weekly Happenings 1/5/2026

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"Library Weekly Happenings" weekly newsletter banner, winter edition. the libray log o is in the bottom right hand corner. ice blue cartoon images of a deer, an elk, ice skates, a mitten, a beenie, and a tree.
January 5th, 2026
Adult & All-Ages Events
https://flagstaffpubliclibrary.libcal.com/calendar?cid=8542&t=m&d=0000-00-00&cal=8542&ct=79633&inc=0
Flyer for “Wily Writers,” a weekly writing group. Text explains that the group focuses on building a writing habit through prompts, timed writing, and group sharing. Meets every Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the Downtown Library Northwest Corner. The design resembles lined notebook paper with playful doodles, pencils, tabs, and handwritten-style text, and includes a note indicating a new start time.
Flyer titled “The Knitting Hour” featuring a purple knitted background and yarn textures. Text invites participants to get help with knitting projects from members of the Fiber Artists of Northern Arizona Guild, with all skill levels welcome. The program meets the second and fourth Friday of each month from 1:00–3:00 pm at the Downtown Library Northwest Fireplace. A heart graphic notes that the program now meets twice a month.
Youth Events
https://flagstaffpubliclibrary.libcal.com/calendar?cid=8542&t=m&d=0000-00-00&cal=8542&ct=79633&inc=0
Flyer titled “Winter 2026 Storytimes at the Flagstaff Downtown Library.” It lists four programs: Bouncing Babies on Mondays at 9:15 am (Jan 5–Mar 2), Toddler Tales on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9:15 am (Jan 6–Mar 4), Preschool Express on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:00 am (Jan 6–Mar 4), and Saturday Story Stop year-round at 10:30 am. Notes that programming pauses March 9–13 for spring break.
Flyer titled “Winter 2026 Makers’ Lab.” The program meets on Tuesdays from 3:45–4:45 pm at the Downtown Library for ages 3 and up. Dates listed are January 6 and 20, February 3 and 17, and March 3. The flyer invites participants to design, build, and make at the library, with illustrations of hands creating art and craft materials.
Flyer for “Bards & Nobles: Dungeons & Dragons for Teens,” Winter 2026. The program is for ages 12–18 and meets biweekly on Wednesdays from 3:45–6:00 pm, January 7 through March 4, at the Downtown Public Library. The design features fantasy-style artwork of adventurers in action and colorful dice illustrations.
Upcoming Book Clubs

Pick up your copy at the Downtown Library today!
A flyer for the Thursday Night Book Club, which meets on the second Thursday of each month. The top shows an illustration of stacked books and a coffee mug. The featured book is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, shown with its cover. A blue box lists: “January 8 @ 6 PM – Demon Copperhead.” Another box lists: “February 12 @ 6 PM – The Time Traveler’s Wife.” The background has a hand-drawn mountain pattern, and the bottom text reads: “visit tiny.cc/TNBC for more information.”
A flyer for the Nonfiction Book Club featuring the book Empire of AI by Karen Hao, shown with its cover. The background uses blue digital circuit and data imagery. A text block describes the book as an inside look at the tech arms race and its global impact. The meeting date and time are listed as Wednesday, January 14th, 6:00–7:00 PM.
Flyer for the Banned Book Club featuring Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The design has a gray background with red accent lines and a “Banned Book Club” logo incorporating a prohibition symbol. Event details read: January 22, 2026, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM at the Downtown Library Community Room. On the left is the book cover for Brave New World, showing a stylized figure with raised arms and mechanical imagery. On the right, text poses questions about anti-religion, anti-family, and blasphemous content, and describes the novel as a vision of a technologically advanced, unequal future marked by genetic engineering, social indoctrination, and loss of freedom. The flyer invites participants to discuss the novel along with themes of free speech and censorship today.
A flyer for the Southwest Reads Book Club featuring Rim to River by Tom Zoellner, shown with its cover. Text notes the book’s essays about Arizona as an indictment, love letter, and homecoming story. A blue banner shows the meeting time, 6:00 PM, and another banner lists the date, Jan 28. The background is a map of Arizona. The bottom states the club meets the 4th Wednesday of every other month at 6:00 PM in the Downtown Library Community Room.
Flyer promoting a Poetry Book Club. The background shows a blue-gray mountain and glacier landscape. At the top, text reads “Poetry Book Club.” In the center is the book cover for Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm, featuring an abstract icy image. Text at the bottom reads “February 5th at 5:30 PM” and “Downtown Library Community Room.”
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