Join us on May 2nd to make hygiene kits for folks in our community who could use a hand! We received a grant from the American Humanist Association to purchase supplies to make the kits as part of their American Empathy Project, and we’ll get together to assemble toiletry and period kits.

We’ll have all the supplies needed, but if you’d like to donate to allow us to purchase even more supplies, you can do that here.

We will be in the Community Room on the bottom floor of the library. You can enter the room directly from the back parking lot.

We look forward to rolling up our sleeves and working with you to help those who can’t afford to buy basic necessities.

Please RSVP here: https://mobilize.us/s/67kxwy

A day dedicated to anything/everything that is not digital! Attendees are encouraged to avoid screens, devices, and all other tech-based distractions. Let’s engage in fun analog activities with friends and community!

This event is BYOC - bring your own craft (or other analog activity!) Think: coloring books, crochet, knitting, embroidery, origami, cards, board games, even a book! Anything that does not involve screens or other digital tech.

Thanks to the Badass Cross Stitch and the Joyful Menace Society for inspiring this event!

Don't Panic!

Join the Central New York Humanist Association for a book discussion of Douglas Adams' hilarious novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! With all the terrible things happening in the world right now, let's read a lighthearted tale of how the Earth gets destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway ... don't forget your towel!

Reading the book is not a requirement of attending the book discussion, though with all the absurdist humor packed into the book, you may at least want to watch the movie ;) If you're more of an audiobook fan, the audiobook is expertly read by fellow humanist, Stephen Fry!

Did you know Douglas Adams was a fellow humanist? You can read about that here.

Join the Central New York Humanist Association for a First Day Hike!

Join a naturalist-led First Day Hike and set your intention to spend more time outdoors this year. All ages welcome!

Free with Park admission ($5/vehicle). No registration required. Meet at the Visitor Center.

Let’s do some good for goodness sake with crochet! We’ll be making scarves and hats to donate to We Rise Above the Streets!

Liz will be leading an introduction to crochet for anyone who wants to learn. Yarn and hooks will be provided.

If you already know how to crochet (or knit!) great! Liz has a giant box of yarn* just waiting to be turned into goods we can donate.

*For real, this yarn was sent to me by accident when Joann went out of business. I don’t have a use, or the extra storage, for all this yarn. Please help me put it to good use!

Let’s take advantage of the summer sun and use its light to make art!
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century to produce copies of drawings, aka “blueprints”. We can use the same process - essentially exposing specially-treated paper to sunlight - to create art!

We’ll have some items available to create your artwork, but please feel free to bring any objects from home. Anything that is relatively flat should work. Think about what might create an interesting shadow with its shape. Some common ideas include leaves, feathers, keys, jewelry, lace, etc.

Because this event is highly weather-dependent, we’ll keep a rain date of Sunday August 17.

The event will be held at Liz’s house. Please RSVP to cnyhumanists@gmail.com to receive the address.

This event has been cancelled because the grant that was obtained by the host institution to support this program was cancelled due to an Executive Order.

Join the CNYHA as we attend an author talk with Michael Miller at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center. Michael Miller will be discussing his historical fiction novel High Bridge. A description of the book is below. We’re planning on going out for dinner following his talk - exact dinner location TBD.