Michael Vila's calendar for event attendance planning.

RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.

A support group for LGBTQ+ older adults.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning 10-13 year olds.

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning teens ages 13-18.

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.

In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.

Feeling Overwhelmed and Looking to Get “Unstuck?” Attend Recognition, Insight, and Openness (RIO)!

The Counseling Center will be handing out free self-care packs while supplies last!

In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Join us for our weekly do-it-yourself activity for kids!

Monthly drop-in crafts for adults. FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH! at The Urbana Free Library 6-7pm

Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.

Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

MIC is a safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns and questions while evaluating your cannabis habits, and learning strategies for low-risk use.

Join us for Family Fun Night: a weekly evening for games, crafts, STEAM activities, and more!

Join us for a food tasting and wellness lesson!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Bring your lunch (or purchase a box lunch) and join us for Bach's Lunch Concert where performers of all styles and types will play at our historic venue on select Fridays!

Discover the secrets to turning simple ingredients such as flour, water, and salt into delicious, crusty sourdough bread using wild yeasts and bacteria in this two-part webinar series presented by University of Illinois Extension.

The Counseling Center will be handing out free self-care packs while supplies last!

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Watch the classic 1966 television short, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas and enjoy the magic of the season with pictures with Santa, hot chocolate, and trolley rides through Downtown Champaign.

A support group for LGBTQ+ older adults.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Dr. Andrea Shafer, Duke University, will lecture on "Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging; Transitioning from the Academic to Industry Approach to Research."

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning 10-13 year olds.

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning teens ages 13-18.

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.

Feeling Overwhelmed and Looking to Get “Unstuck?” Attend Recognition, Insight, and Openness (RIO)!

In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Join us for our weekly do-it-yourself activity for kids!

Allow us to assist you through guided sessions where you gain experience in implementing a variety of methods, building your skills in a supportive space and identifying which methods work best for you.

CAAP is an in-person, safe space where you can share your experiences, concerns, and questions about alcohol while learning strategies for low-risk drinking.

Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.

In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.

Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more. After the town hall, stay for an hour of conversation and treats!

Join members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Insitute 5602. Come at 2 pm for the Fall 2024 Beckman Town Hall. Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more.

Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and some of our favorite winter-themed materials from the RBML vault. Make a button, relax with a coloring sheet, and leave with a letterpress poetry card! This event is part of the library's biannual Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

The Counseling Center will be handing out free self-care packs while supplies last!

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for Family Fun Night: a weekly evening for games, crafts, STEAM activities, and more!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

Teen in grades 6 - 12 are invited to the 2024-25 FRESH Teen Hangout Zone this year. Come out for games, snacks, crafts, video games, and a chance to meet new friends.

Japan House is proud to partner with the Japan Foundation Film Series to present Finding Calico/先生と迷いネコ, 2015, dir. Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Registration required.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Japan House is proud to partner with the Japan Foundation Film Series to present Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko/漁港の肉子ちゃん, 2021, dir. Ayumu WATANABE, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Registration required.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

A support group for LGBTQ+ older adults.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning 10-13 year olds.

A support group for LGBTQ+ and questioning teens ages 13-18.

This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.

Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Coffee Connections will take place every other Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

Japan House will be open from 2 – 6pm on Tuesday, December 17. Please stop by and have a bowl of tea and sweet at our Holiday Matcha Café and browse our holiday sale items! Walk-ins welcome!

During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.

Join us at noon on Wednesdays this fall for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Join us for our weekly do-it-yourself activity for school-age kids!

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for Family Fun Night: a weekly evening for games, crafts, STEAM activities, and more!

Join us for free tutoring sessions for adults who are learning English or want to improve their reading and math skills!

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Enjoy holiday lights for FREE every Thursday – Sunday, starting November 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025, from 5-9p at Prairie Farm. This will be an accessible experience featuring festive light displays throughout the farm.

Join us for this bedtime-friendly NOON Year's Eve Drop celebration!