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Free for All: The Public Library. A woman sits at a desk reading a book with a large bookshelf in the background

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Free Movie Screening of "Free for All: The Public Library"
2025-05-24 14:00:00 2025-05-24 16:00:00 America/New_York Free Movie Screening of "Free for All: The Public Library" This film explores the history and impact of public libraries in shaping our lives. Join us for an engaging discussion about the incredible ways the library helps us learn, connect, and grow together. Charlotte Hall Library - Meeting Room

Saturday, May 24
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-24 14:00:00 2025-05-24 16:00:00 America/New_York Free Movie Screening of "Free for All: The Public Library" This film explores the history and impact of public libraries in shaping our lives. Join us for an engaging discussion about the incredible ways the library helps us learn, connect, and grow together. Charlotte Hall Library - Meeting Room

Charlotte Hall Library

Meeting Room

This film explores the history and impact of public libraries in shaping our lives. Join us for an engaging discussion about the incredible ways the library helps us learn, connect, and grow together.

See how libraries are more than just books!

After watching the movie, we will have activity stations with demos of the library’s memory lab, 3D printer, and storywalk.

Refreshments will be served.

The film, Free for All: The Public Library, tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen – to create a place where anyone can enter and encounter a universe of ideas, free of charge. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who serve the public while navigating a world experiencing library closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.  

Watch the Free for All: The Public Library trailer.

Register to receive reminder texts/emails. Walk-ins Welcome! 

Free for All: The Public Library will premiere on MPT on April 29, 2025. 

AGE GROUP: | General Audience |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Event |

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