Community Calendar

Come to Lego Club and let creativity flow free. Follow prompts and challenges, or free build your own creations. The choice is yours. What will you build?
When: Every other Tuesday, January 21st to March 18th
Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM
Age: Tween, Grades 3rd-5th
Registration: No registration required but sign up for an event reminder email or text: https://www.aberdeen.sd.us/Activities/Activity/Detail/Tween-Lego-Club-Reminder-73

Story Time
Story Time introduces your child to the incredible world of language and books through stories, songs, and activities. This program is designed to help prepare your child for successful school experiences using early literacy components and is a great opportunity for your child to develop social skills and make friends. Topics and themes change each program. Story time generally lasts 30 minutes and no registration required. Caregivers are expected to attend.
When: Every other Wednesday, starting January 15th through March 26th
Time: 10:00-10:30AM Age: 2-5yrs Registration: No registration required

Back to Basics Yoga
Have you always wanted to try yoga, but don’t know where to begin? Join us for this gentle flow class that is perfect for newbies. Whether you are looking to improve your flexibility, reduce stress, or simply try something new, this class is a great starting point. There's no need to register or pay a fee, just bring your own mat as we have a limited number available. Come as you are and embark on your yoga journey with us every Wednesday evening!
When: Every Wednesday, starting Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Time: 7:00-8:00PM
Age: General/Adult
Registration: No registration required

Pierre, SD- Today, the Todd Becker Foundation, a nationally recognized high school outreach group, announced that they are bringing their presentation, “Hear the Story. Be Moved.” to T.F. Riggs High School on April 2, 2025. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the gymnasium. Doors open at 6:40 PM, with the event starting at 7:00 PM CST. The night will feature a live concert from the band “All the Noise”, followed by an impactful and life-changing message from Keith Becker.

About the Todd Becker Foundation: Started in Kearney, NE, the Todd Becker Foundation was created in the spring of 2005 following the tragic death of 18-year-old high school student Todd Becker in an alcohol-related car accident. Keith, who was the older brother of Todd Becker, unfolds the true and life-changing story of his younger brother’s untimely death and the events shortly thereafter that changed his own life. Since 2005, the Todd Becker Foundation’s outreach program has reached close to 100,000 students in over 500 high schools across the nation.

Snuggle Up with Stories
Join us for a program just for you and baby. Enjoy time together with other parents, caregivers and babies at the library. We will share songs, books, rhymes and more, all planned with babies in mind. Snuggle Up with Stories is designed to help babies learn and develop listening, language and motor skills while having fun. Come prepared to sit on the floor one-on-one with your baby in your lap for this 20-minute program.
When: Every other Thursday starting Jan 23rd through March 20th ( Jan 23rd, Feb 6th & 20th, Mar 6th & 20th)
Time: 10:00-10:30AM
Age: Birth-2yrs
Registration: No registration required

Cultural mapmaking has long been present in Lakota awareness of the world; using place, space, and time to tell our stories. An organizing committee of tribal members and several organizational partners recently completed the first three years in a community-based design process to lay the groundwork for an online oral history project connecting shared stories to place. The committee has prioritized data sovereignty, collective ownership, unique metadata, and the embracing of cultural protocols in its early work, and the early pilot projects show promise for the future of the program. 

Join poets from the South Dakota State Poetry Society as they visit the
Waterfront Gallery in Pierre, to read selections and to host open mics,
as part of their Poetry on the Road tour across South Dakota!

Event is FREE! ALL are welcome! Refreshments provided!

DOORS OPEN AT 6:30
PROGRAM COMMENCES AT 7:00
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC!

• READINGS BY BRUCE ROSELAND, SD POET LAUREATE
• OPEN MIC WILL FOLLOW PROGRAM - BE SURE TO SIGN-UP!

Reach beyond books and join us at the library for this gentle and accessible yoga class that is perfect for those with limited mobility. No fee or equipment required!
When: Every Monday, starting Monday, January 6th, 2025 No yoga on January 20th, February 17th and May 26th.
Time: 1:30-2:00PM

When: Every Friday, starting Friday, January 10th, 2025
Time: 10:00-10:30AM
Age: General/Adult
Registration: No registration required

Age: General/Adult
Registration: No registration required

HHM&A offering demonstrations, ‘pickers’ during Schmeckfest 2025
Freeman museum debuting new exhibits
FREEMAN: Heritage Hall Museum & Archives has a full slate of activities planned during Schmeckfest 2025. That includes artisans who will demonstrate traditional crafts and “Heritage Pickers,” individuals with interest and knowledge who will share short programs about artifacts and exhibits in the museum.
Schmeckfest will be held on the campus of Freeman Academy, located adjacent to the museum, on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday with admission good for both days. Most special programming begins at 1.
In addition, the museum is offering special activities for youth including a “20 Questions” scavenger hunt, coloring sheet, a model train display, ropemaking and letterpress printing.
The museum is also debuting several new exhibits and other improvements, including new LED lighting in the Kauffman Wing. An updated exhibit in the Natural World Gallery showcases the rocks and fossils that have been part of the museum for more than a century. A vintage television exhibit has been added in the Kauffman Wing and a new exhibit in the Unruh-Tieszen Wing features Freeman Implement, a local International Harvester dealership that traces its roots to 1909.
Artisan demonstrations run from 1 to 6 p.m. and include:
• Basket Weaving with Viki Graber and Susan Harder
• Leather Tooling with Vanessa Barondeau
• Letterpress Printing - Hands-on Activity with museum staff; 1-3 p.m.
• Loom Weaving with Crystal Mensch Nelson and Jess Nesseim
• Rope Making - Hands-on Activity with Caleb and Tim Epp
• Spindle Weaving with Jess Nesseim
• Spinning with Barb Nesseim
Here is the schedule for the HHM&A Heritage Picker programs. They include eight 10-minute and two 30-minute* presentations.
1:00: Dan Flyger - “Time Travel; Repatriating the 1868 Mandtler Clock”
1:20: Vanessa Barondeau - “Tooling Creations; A Study in Leather”
1:40: Brad Gering - “All Things Red; The Freeman Implement Story“
2:00: Jerry Merkouris - “Television Comes to the Prairie”
2:20: Caleb Epp - “The Twisted Tales of Rope Making”
2:40: Brad Schardin - “Rural Electrification; Flipping the Switch”
3:00*: Donna Zeeb - “Egg Beaters; More Precious Than Gems”
3:40: Thor Aanenson - “Rocks, Fossils and Minerals, Oh My!”
4:00*: Joan and Lisa Mueller - “A Child’s Perspective: Katy’s Story”
4:40: Kevin Waltner - “When Bales Were Small and Square”
Other activities include Artisanal Ice Cream Tasting/ with Berrybrook Dairy Nook from 1:30 to 3 and a showing of the 80-minute HHM&A movie, “Three Groups, One Story” at the Bethel Church at 5.
As in recent years, the museum is using wristbands that provide come-and-go access for both days of Schmeckfest and they are available in advance; visit the museum or call 605-925-7545.
You can learn more about the museum's activities during Schmeckfest at https://heritagehallmuseum.com/museum.
Details about Schmeckfest are available at https://schmeckfest.com.

We are hosting a free community event with free food, live music and family friendly entertainment. We have invited like-minded invested partner agencies to help us bring awareness to child abuse for the month of April.