Top 10 Things to Do in January

The new year brings new opportunities! It’s a chance to join a book club, learn a language, find a new job, or work on improving your health and fitness. Whatever the new year holds for you, CALS has programs to help you get started on the right foot!

Looking to start the year with an emphasis on health and well-being? On Saturday, January 4, Rooker Library brings New Year; New You! Adult yoga workshop for beginners. Mats will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own.

Are you a mom juggling the demands of parenting and entrepreneurship? Join us at the Terry Library on Saturday, January 11 for Resilient Roots: 5 Tips for Emotional and Business Resilience. An empowering one-hour workshop, where you will discover five key strategies for building emotional resilience and business success.

Are you wanting to start the new year with a new job? Are you unsure where to begin? Join us at Fletcher Library on Thursday, January 16, for New Year…New Job? This informative class will highlight two helpful resources the library offers (Cypress Resume and Brainfuse JobNow, both available in Research Tools > Careers on the CALS website) to help you on your job search. We will also have a few minutes available to get you started  after the presentation. Don’t have a resume? No worries! We will help get you started.

Need more art in your life? CALS always has you covered. Friday, January 10, brings another installment of 2FAN (2nd Friday Art Night) to the Rock It! Lab. Shop local, take in some music, and sip wine with friends! As always, The event is free to attend and parking is free with validation in the library lot/deck (as space is available).

We’re excited to offer a wonderful art workshop for teens on Saturday, January 18 at the Rock It! Lab. Join us for Imagining Afrofuturism with Artist Equilla Walker where teens can create a multimedia collage inspired by themes of Afrofuturism! Please register online or by phone at 501-918-3050.

The first Legacies & Lunch of 2025 happens on Wednesday, January 8 at UA Little Rock Downtown. A virtual option is also available. Join us for Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The M&NA Railroad Strike, 1921-1923 with Kenneth C. Barnes, distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. He is the author of Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861–1893 and Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960. For his book The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas, Barnes garnered his third J. G. Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History.

On Saturday, January 25, author Rhona Weaver will be at Terry Library to discuss her newest book, A Just Cause. Special Agent Win Tyler’s quest for justice collides with a Mountie’s thirst for revenge in this riveting third installment in her award-winning FBI Yellowstone Adventure series. Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Wordsworth Books. Refreshments provided.

You can always count on the Ron Robinson Theater for a great month of programming and January is full of excitement. Let’s start with the films!

And if music is what you seek, we have some fun, family-friendly concerts this month too!

And finally…

Saturday, February 1 CALS brings the Black Family Expo to Dunbar Community Center. Learn about families with strong ties to Central Arkansas’s Black history, explore the CALS resources available to preserve your own family’s history, and sign up for a library card!

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