📚 Education & Learning in Southwest Florida

Campers will explore improvisation through theatre games, creative storytelling, and ensemble-based activities that build confidence, collaboration, and quick thinking.

Through fun games, creative play, and joyful scenes, campers will build confidence, teamwork, and a love of performing. Get ready to sing, move, and let your true colors shine!

Campers will dive into an action-packed week of hands-on adventure in the forest and swamp, learning the essential skills needed to thrive in the wild!

Enjoy a variety of summer reading program table-top crafts and activities this summer for all ages while supplies last.

Preschoolers spend time exploring colors through crafts, activities and games.

Experience the art of puppetry with storytelling using songs, props and audience participation to bring stories to life in this summer reading program.

Interactive 90-minute sessions provide adult learners an opportunity to practice speaking English with native speakers.

Experience a night tour of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

Use a clothespin to create a dinosaur with a mouth that chomps!

Experience the art of puppetry with the art of storytelling using songs, props and audience participation.

Learn about subjects related to Edison and Ford with Site Historians in the museum.

Embrace lack of artistic talent by turning trash into treasure at the Bad Art Exhibition; best worst piece wins a trophy.

Discuss romance favorites, classics, and beloved reads in a relaxing evening at the Romance Book Club.

Interactive sessions for adult learners to practice speaking English with native speakers on everyday situations, current events and cultural areas.

Get moving and creative in this interactive summer reading program using theatre games, improv, and fun challenges to create short scenes.

Improve Spanish fluency by chatting with other adults.

Join a family night tour at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

Let creativity take center stage this summer!

Join us for a zany and humorous show featuring interactive fun and audience participation with magician ventriloquist Jacki Manna.

Enjoy a variety of summer reading program table-top crafts and activities this summer for all ages while supplies last.

Babies and their caregivers are invited for sensory play, literacy activities, and more.

Join the Learn, Play and Grow program in partnership with Healthy Start of SWFL for Birth to Preschool participants.

Experience the art of puppetry with storytelling using songs, props and audience participation.

Ages 2-5 explore playful summer themed stations that spark movement, sensory exploration, creativity and imagination.

IMAG joins the library for a fiery, messy, explosive summer reading science show.

Discuss historical fiction and narrative non-fiction in this book club meeting.

A casual self-guided group for knitting, crochet and other needle arts.

Using theater games, improv, and fun challenges, teens discover characters and moments to create short scenes in this summer reading program.

Interactive sessions for adult learners to practice speaking English with native speakers.

For ages 6-11, join a zany and humorous show featuring interactive fun and audience participation with magician ventriloquist Jacki Manna.

Preschoolers explore Aqua Doodle mats, water color painting, sink or float activities, along with a story, songs and crafts.

Discuss the riveting full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history based on original research.

Museum Manager Thomas Lockyear discusses the indomitable spirit of Everglades settlers from indigenous people to modern entrepreneurs in this companion lecture to the American Spirit, American Dream exhibit.

Join us at the library and read to registered therapy dogs to help kids practice reading.

Get moving and get creative in this interactive summer reading program using theatre games, improv, and fun challenges.

Turn a cereal box into a glowing work of art by painting a firefly-inspired design and adding LED lights.

Photography class with Kevin Boller on Thursdays from 6pm to 8pm.

Join an educator from the Bailey Matthews National Shell Museum for a reading of Are You A Snail? and learn about mollusks.

Enjoy a variety of summer reading program table-top crafts and activities this summer for all ages while supplies last.

An interactive trivia experience about Black excellence, innovation, pop culture, history, and hidden gems.

This storytime for children ages 3-12 with unique learning needs uses books, music, and sensory activities.

Join us for Plant Poetry: Writers Circle hosted by Natalie Guerra.

Come break down the barriers of Broadway and join us in a theatre-based summer camp where we will explore the magic of putting on a show, all in a supported space tailored to the strengths and needs of each student.

Step into a world of magic, mystery, and imagination in the enchanted forest.

Dancers will learn high-energy, athletic choreography inspired by the style and spirit of Newsies while building technique, strength, and performance confidence

Enjoy a variety of summer reading program table-top crafts and activities this summer for all ages while supplies last.

Join the annual NABA July butterfly survey at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary to identify and record local butterflies.

Celebrate America250 and make a smaller version of the stars and stripes using our craft supplies.

Receive personalized help downloading eBooks, eAudioBooks, movies, music, and more from Libby/OverDrive and hoopla.

Children will love digging into the fascinating history of pottery hosted by the Florida Public Archaeology Network.

Join a family night tour at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

Challenge your friends to a game of trivia during this summer reading program designed just for teens, followed by board games, video games or crafts.

Experience a night tour of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

A monthly improv jam session for beginner to advanced improvisers to drop-in and hone their skills, create new characters, learn new games, strengthen open scene work, and exchange ideas.

Dancers will build technique, boost confidence, and have a blast performing high-energy K-Pop–style choreography in a supportive, fun environment. Step into the spotlight and show off your skills like a true hero!

Level 2 offers more advanced skills, problem-solving scenarios, and independent teamwork in survival challenges.

Come break down the barriers of Broadway and join us in a theatre-based summer camp where we will explore the magic of putting on a show, all in a supported space tailored to the strengths and needs of each student.

Create a one-of-a-kind piece of dinosaur art.

Join us for Texture, Coffee & Vinyl at Disco Bean Coffee Company — a cozy textured painting experience with Naples Art Picnic.

Dive into an exciting journey through Florida’s connected water worlds—no snorkel required!

Join us for a fun on the table activity and make a picture frame for your summer memories.

This free family workshop provides kids with an opportunity to make their own unique artworks using styles and techniques from a featured exhibition at The Baker Museum.

Come to the First Tuesday on First Street Book Club to discuss books and explore First Street afterwards.

Inspired by the bold, theatrical style of The Greatest Showman, this class blends powerful movement, storytelling, and show-stopping choreography set to the film’s unforgettable music.

Kids practice reading to registered therapy dogs and their handlers.

Use your creativity and our markers to decorate a beautiful wooden butterfly.

Learn fundamental Spanish vocabulary, essential phrases and basic grammar in a fun, informal and interactive environment.

Join us for a fun foam shapes and letters creation activity.

Witness the development of a 6-foot print in Clyde's darkroom during this hands-on experience celebrating National Photography Day.

Learn about pioneer settler C.G. McKinney's life, work, and wry newspaper columns.

Open house for education programs.

Photography class with Kevin Boller.

A monthly improv jam session for beginner to advanced improvisers to drop-in and hone their skills, create new characters, learn new games, strengthen open scene work, and exchange ideas.