Educational Activities

📚✨ Celebrate International Literacy Day with us! ✨📚 Books for your mind. Snacks for your tummy. Testing for your health. 📚🍪🩺 Join us this International Literacy Day and let’s celebrate learning, community, and self-care together! Join us for an evening of: 📖 Free books to take home 🍎 Snacks to keep you fueled 🩺 Free, […]

What an honor! We’re going to be joined in-store by wonderful educators from UTRGV’s Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) Program. They’re going to introduce their fascinating short documentary film exploring the natural landscapes of our Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). Much of its remarkable history is “hiding in plain sight”: ancient beaches and […]

Dive into the fascinating world of natural color at this hands-on Cochineal Pigment Painting workshop. Guests will learn about the cochineal insect and the rich carmine pigment it produces—an iconic dye that has been used for centuries in Renaissance art, Indigenous textiles, and beyond. Participants will create their own paint pigment using cochineal insects, explore […]

A book presentation at McAllen Public Library of “Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart & Soul of Texas.” Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating voices of the Rio Grande Valley, experiencing the storytelling that reflects the culture, history, and spirit of the Valley. Featuring Amanda Johnston, Jan Seale, Avery C. Castillo, Amanda […]