Event List

Do NASA Science LIVE is a fun, hands-on event that invite everyone—students, families, hobbyists, and lifelong learners—to help NASA do real science.

Whether your ancestors are indigenous to the Americas, came via migration, bondage or immigration, you will have an opportunity to explore writing about that experience in this session (so please bring paper and pen or a laptop).

Get personalized assistance with your family history research during our genealogy consultation. Dr. Duane Roen will help you navigate resources, answer questions, and provide strategies to uncover your ancestral story.

Celebrate America's 250th year by exploring historic and American themed apps on our virtual reality headsets.

Explore THINKspot's creative options and learn how to use our sewing machines to make your own red, white and blue coasters to help celebrate our country's 250th birthday.

Join us to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States!

Celebrate America 250 by creating a suncatcher featuring one of three American symbol designs using red, white, and blue tissue paper.

The US National Park system is a huge point of national pride and envied throughout the world.

Participants will have fun designing a multi-colored Arizona Keychain, while learning the basics of how 3D printing works.

Participants will have fun designing a multi-colored Arizona Keychain, while learning the basics of how 3D printing works.

Join Dr. Kate Rose and Armand Ramirez for a fun, all-ages, interactive performance that uncovers Arizona’s rich blended heritage through traditional folk music and dance.

Embroidery has deep roots in America. Try different ways to embroidery while we learn about the history of embroidery. Learn how to cross stitch, hand embroider, and embroider by machine. Mesa celebrates America250!

Learn to use THINKspot Silhouette cutting machines to cut out paper props. Then, take pictures in our American road trip car photo booth, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the U.S.A. together.

Get a little cozy in our corner of THINKspot and enjoy a craft or hobby.

This month in honor of Mesa Celebrates America 250! we will relax by using Glowforge-made hand weaving looms.

Celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States with live music at the library. Bring the entire family to this concert series featuring musicians and bands playing distinctly American styles of music.

Local Author Judith Redline Coopey will talk about her book called Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad

Celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States with live music at the library. Bring the entire family to this concert series featuring musicians and bands playing distinctly American styles of music.

This presentation focuses on two early twentieth-century Arizona authors, Refugio Savala (Yoeme-Mexican) and Mario Suárez (Chicano), and details how their respective literary journeys and published works helped give voice to people not otherwise r

To allow others the opportunity to participate, please register for only one of the two Let's Eat! for Adults programs.

Can we think of a 21st century Arizona through expressions of place inherent in Arizona’s Indigenous arts? In this presentation, Nanibaa Beck focuses on the representation of place that Indigenous artists in Arizona are making in their art.

Discover a new passion and learn the basics of a fun hobby in this hands-on, beginner-friendly program.

Watch a movie as Mesa Celebrates America 250.

This month's feature film is Everything Is Illuminated (PG-13). 

Runtime - 1 hour 46 minutes.

For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career.

Learning history can be interesting, but it could be more fun with hands on activities!