Community Calendar

Making your way through the job market takes everything you've got and more!

Looking for a FREE way to learn new skills? PA CareerLink has a great program that can help you change careers or sharpen your current skills. SkillUp has over 6,000 classes FREE for all PA residents. This interactive workshop will set you up with a SkillUp account and get you ready to start learning! Registration is required so we have enough laptops for training.

Looking for a testing resource? Check out our Mometrix database.

Ready to apply for a new job now that you’ve got mad skills? Attend our Résumé Workshop every third Thursday of the month at 1 PM in the Admiral Room.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/17158317

Get noticed. Get hired.

Every day there's new advice on résumés. How do you know who to listen to? Our community partner CareerLink, has been there and helped people get not just a job, but a career. Join CareerLink to discuss what should and shouldn't be in a modern résumé. Registration is required.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/17158319

Join us for the closing movie for our America 250 Celebration: April Morning. This historically accurate film tells the story of "the shot heard round the world." It's Lexington in 1775 and the beginning of the American Revolution.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/15763208

Wandering Words is not your average book club! We dive into a thrilling young adult novels, then bring the story to life with a themed outing that connects to the story! In this session we will be reading Mexican WhiteBoy and attending a Seawolves game. We will meet at UPMC Park, 831 French Street., Erie, PA 16501 at the primary fan entrance and ticket office are located on 9th Street. We will first discuss the book outside the arena then attend the game.

Book Info:

Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it.

But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny is brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico.

That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. But to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/16627022

Do you need help polishing up that last minute resume or are you interested in what CareerLink has to offer?

Come to CareerLink open hours at the Blasco Library every first and third Friday of the month. If you are interested in more services CareerLink offers three classes on the third Thursday of every month, which will help you to a new career!

If you can't make it to one of these programs visit our CareerLink sponsors at one of their offices in the tri-county region.

Registration is not required. These are drop-in hours for all. This program takes place on the second floor of the library.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/15872390

Experience the sounds that shaped our region with the new Music of Origin Series at Goodell Gardens & Homestead! This free community concert series celebrates Erie County’s rich cultural and musical heritage through live performances, storytelling, and community gatherings.

Each event explores the connections between geography, migration, and music—from regional folk traditions and Appalachian influences to Blues rhythms shaped by the Great Migration and global sounds that continue to influence our community today.

Plus, families can enjoy a "Night Market" with various local farmers market vendors and a children's area with hands-on activities, while guests of all ages relax and enjoy an evening of music in the gardens.

Thanks to the generous support of ECGRA and ECF, all concerts are free and open to the public.

2026 Schedule:
• Friday, June 26th: Matthew Crays + Pollination Celebration
• Friday, July 17th: Simple Gifts + Sensory Fest
• Friday, August 21st: Three Way Street + Night Market

Gates open at 5 PM | Music from 6–8 PM

Guests are encouraged to bring picnic-style food and beverages to enjoy during the evening. Please note that food trucks will not be onsite for this year’s series.

We hope you’ll join us to gather, learn, and celebrate the music that defines our region!

A special thank you to ECGRA and ECF—their generosity is the reason we can keep this series accessible and free to all in our community.

Join the Idea Lab staff to learn how to use the Idea Lab’s Roland Print and Cut machine to print your own stickers!

This machine inks onto a vinyl sticker surface and cuts a line to make your design into a sticker. We'll teach you how to convert files to the proper format and add cut lines to your design. After you take this class, you will be certified to use this machine during the Idea Labs open hours.

Free. Registration required. Ages 13 to adult. Basic computer skills required. If you think you will need extra help, please bring a support person with you to this class.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/17011483

Dinner and a show!
Written by local playwright, Lisa Rawson, "Lost, Then Found In The Middle Of Gnowarre" is set in a remote, small town in Ohio – Go Gnomes! – with an even smaller airport. The locals pronounce it "Know-A-Ray" but to outsiders, Gnowarre more closely resembles a place with a different pronunciation – Nowhere. A detour and broken-down rental car redirected Steve to the rural airport, where he hoped to resume his travels.
In Gnowarre, the G may be silent, but Steve’s comical, sarcastic inner voice is not. The audience will hear all his reactions as he deals with the crazy quirks of the tiny airport, where the rental car fleet and flight schedule each offer an option of one, an aisle is also a window, and baggage handling involves a bathroom scale and a red wagon.
As the Seattleite learns about Gnowarre’s relaxed life; first traffic light; annual cow-pie bingo; and caring, gnome-loving residents — he also learns they offer the change he didn’t know he needed.
For Steve, it took getting lost to be truly found.

Dinner and a show!
Written by local playwright, Lisa Rawson, "Lost, Then Found In The Middle Of Gnowarre" is set in a remote, small town in Ohio – Go Gnomes! – with an even smaller airport. The locals pronounce it "Know-A-Ray" but to outsiders, Gnowarre more closely resembles a place with a different pronunciation – Nowhere. A detour and broken-down rental car redirected Steve to the rural airport, where he hoped to resume his travels.
In Gnowarre, the G may be silent, but Steve’s comical, sarcastic inner voice is not. The audience will hear all his reactions as he deals with the crazy quirks of the tiny airport, where the rental car fleet and flight schedule each offer an option of one, an aisle is also a window, and baggage handling involves a bathroom scale and a red wagon.
As the Seattleite learns about Gnowarre’s relaxed life; first traffic light; annual cow-pie bingo; and caring, gnome-loving residents — he also learns they offer the change he didn’t know he needed.
For Steve, it took getting lost to be truly found.

Learn from scratch or brush up your skills with ECPL's computer classes! Designed to help someone organize their windows computer: saving, using "save as", creating new folders, organizing existing folders, email attachments, flash drives, back up files, among other topics.

Pre-registration for computer classes is required. Each class costs $5.00 and pre-registration must be paid in advance of the class date. The library can only accept cash or check and payment is made at the Information Desk at the Blasco Library. Payment is non-refundable.

These classes are take place in-person at the Blasco Library's second floor Room 219. Please arrived to class on time.

Classes are generously supported by the Friends of the Library.

https://events.erielibrary.org/event/17087302