Past events

Kim Lehman - Storyteller

Kim Lehman has been telling tales for many years, first as a way to entertain younger cousins and now as a professional storyteller, musician, puppeteer, workshop presenter, and author. Currently on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster, Kim has performed at hundreds of festivals, schools, libraries, and museums including being a featured teller at the Texas Storytelling Festival. For the last 20 years, Kim has collected and recorded stories and home remedies from her childhood community in Soap Hollow nestled in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania. She draws inspiration from the joys of being raised as a free range kid exploring the creek, hunting mushrooms, swinging on grapevines, walking baref

Last Day to Turn in Summer Reading Logs

Bernadette Nason - Storyteller

Bernadette is a longstanding company member of Austin Playhouse, and a former associate artist with Austin Shakespeare Festival, ONSTAGE Theatre, and Pollyanna Theatre Co. She belongs to Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors’ Guild, and is regularly seen in regional theatre productions, and occasionally in movies (look for her in Miss Congeniality). She writes and performs solo shows about her adventures in England, North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the US. She has published two memoirs: Tea in Tripoli and Stealing Baby Jesus: A Treasury of Ludicrous Attempts to Rescue Christmas.

Independence Day (Library Closed)

HMNS - Wildlife on Wheels

Live animals and real Museum specimens give students of all ages a unique, hands-on opportunity to dive into life science! Explore the basics of animal life, through fun interactive presentations which include diverse topics such as biology, zoology, geography, and more. We offer six separate Wildlife On Wheels programs, each with a different emphasis. Meet unusual animals and learn about their adaptations for survival, as you experience life science in a whole new way!

Margaret Clauder - Storyteller

All MCP programs use arts in education to stimulate young audience’s minds to hear, see, and REMEMBER information-all done in a creative way. Art forms that are used to achieve these goals are brilliant ventriloquism and puppetry as well as masterful storytelling. A puppet cloud may help teach children about the water cycle. A talking book may teach the children the definition of words or proper book care. A boy puppet may help convey the emotional trauma bullying can cause. Stories told can inform, move us to tears, change our attitudes, and even inspire us. All this can be accomplished with laughter while igniting young audiences imagination.

Margaret Clauder - Storyteller

All MCP programs use arts in education to stimulate young audience’s minds to hear, see, and REMEMBER information-all done in a creative way. Art forms that are used to achieve these goals are brilliant ventriloquism and puppetry as well as masterful storytelling. A puppet cloud may help teach children about the water cycle. A talking book may teach the children the definition of words or proper book care. A boy puppet may help convey the emotional trauma bullying can cause. Stories told can inform, move us to tears, change our attitudes, and even inspire us. All this can be accomplished with laughter while igniting young audiences imagination.

Joe McDermott Kids Music

Joe McDermott is an award-winning writer, composer, arranger of music for children in the United States.

Lake Livingston State Park Ranger

HMNS - Bugs on Wheels

Giant katydids, hissing cockroaches, exotic beetles, and beautiful butterflies will fascinate students of all ages during fun, hands-on presentations. Our Cockrell Butterfly Center staff come right to you, bringing an array of specimens to introduce you to the wonderful world of insects, arachnids, and other arthropods! We offer several programs, each with a different emphasis. Where else can audiences interact with a live walking-leaf insect, a butterfly chrysalis, or a tarantula while learning about the importance of insects and their relatives to our world?