Ester Village Library

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-14 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Anchorage)
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on Scratch Art.

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll lbe painting water color sea scapes.

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-21 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on Halloween decorations crafting

Adult Art Classes
2024-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll be painting water color wreaths.

Kids Art Programs
2024-10-28 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll make Halloween decorations.

Halloween!!
2024-10-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Drop by for trick or treats!

Adult Art Classes
2024-11-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll learn Felting slippers, part 1!
This is a fun and cute project and it can be a wonderful gift. Especially to keep your feet warm during the winter. We will be making a mold of your foot size or bring a
trace of a foot of the size you are making. And then we will start the felting
process. This is a hands-on project and it takes a lot of hand work so be prepared to use
your hands to feel the wool. It is worth it because in the end you will have a pair of slippers
you will love. Materials: Wool, Foot Size, Foam Sheets, Scissors, Cheese Cloth, Plastic
Gloves, Leather for the bottom that can be glued or sewn onto the wool.
Art Fee: $40

Book Club
2024-11-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James D. Watson
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science’s greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.
With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick’s desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences: the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work.

Kids Art Programs
2024-11-04 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll work on weaving and loom knitting.
Learn how to use yarn to create your favorite items. We can make a bag or mittens by
weaving yarn. We will learn the techniques to weaving and loom knitting. So get ready to use your hands because this is a very repetitive process but you have excitement because you can see how it all comes out. Materials: Cardboard and yarn, knitting looms.
Fee: Donation

Adult Art Classes
2024-11-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll continue with our Felting slippers, part 2!
This is a fun and cute project and it can be a wonderful gift. Especially to keep your feet warm during the winter. We will be making a mold of your foot size or bring a
trace of a foot of the size you are making. And then we will start the felting
process. This is a hands-on project and it takes a lot of hand work so be prepared to use
your hands to feel the wool. It is worth it because in the end you will have a pair of slippers
you will love. Materials: Wool, Foot Size, Foam Sheets, Scissors, Cheese Cloth, Plastic
Gloves, Leather for the bottom that can be glued or sewn onto the wool.
Art Fee: $40

Closed - Happy Veterans Day
2024-11-11

Kids Art Programs
2024-11-11 15:30 - 17:30
Willow Studios Arts and JTEL are combining for kids and the young at heart art programs on Mondays from 3:30 – 5:30. This week we’ll learn to crochet and knit.

Adult Art Classes
2024-11-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us and Willow Art Studios for different adult art classes. This week we’ll continue with part 3 of our Felting Slippers series!

Art Workshop
2024-11-18 16:00 - 18:00
Young or old, join us to bring out your creative side! Workshop participants will decide what to explore each week.

Closed - Happy Thanksgiving!
2024-11-28

Monthly Board of Director's Meeting
2024-12-02 18:30 - 20:30

Knit Night and Open Hours
2024-12-03 15:00 - 19:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Book Club
2024-12-07 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
This month’s title: That Librarian, by Amanda Jones
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars.
One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.
Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and “Christian.” But Amanda Jones wouldn’t give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance.
Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.

Children's Book Club
2024-12-14 14:30 - 15:00, 2024-12-28 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-01-25 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-02-08 14:30 - 15:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Closed - Merry Christmas!
2024-12-25

Book Club
2025-01-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Book Club
2025-02-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Blue Highways, A Journey into America, by William Least Heat Moon
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation’s backroads.

William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about “those little towns that get on the map — if they get on at all — only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi.”
His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.

Open hours
2025-02-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-02-27 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-22 16:00 - 19:00

Book Club
2025-03-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
When Herman Hesse visited India in the early days of the 20th century, he was captivated by the people, their customs, their culture, and their religion. On returning to Germany, he wrote a masterpiece on a young man’s search for identity and meaning in a civilization that has lost its way. Loosely based on the early life of the Buddha, the book documents the journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening of a character called Siddhartha.
The name Siddhartha was the one the Buddha was known by before his renunciation. Siddhartha in Sanskrit is translated as “Siddha” (achieved) and “artha” (what was searched for). The novel follows Siddhartha from a life of comfort of privilege to his quest for truth in a world plagued by sorrow and suffering.
The themes of Siddhartha are universal in that they are an account of a young person’s search for meaning — one that all readers can relate to. As Hesse skillfully takes us on a journey, he uses his poetic prose to challenge our preconceived notions of what a spiritual life and meaningful self-enrichment entail. Blind adherence to all systems of belief is shunned in favor of living in the moment and appreciating its ever-changing nature. Generations of readers have and will continue to find wisdom in the pages of Siddhartha.

Board of Directors Meeting
2025-04-23 18:30 - 20:00
Planning meeting for Spring Fundraiser
