Classes, activities & programs this month in Berks County

601 programs. What starts or meets this month, across the county.

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Books and Boots: Environmental Book Club

Books and Boots: Environmental Book Club

Mon, Oct 5 to Mon, May 3 · Free

Books and Boots is a monthly book club at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center. The group reads both fiction and nonfiction, and the titles always have an environmental theme, from plants and…

Run by Nolde Forest - Sawmill · McConnell Classroom

  • Adults
  • Seniors
Fall Story Time at Boone Area Library

Fall Story Time at Boone Area Library

Starts Mon, Oct 5, 10:15 AM · Free

Boone Area Library hosts a story time for children built around the fall season. The group gathers in the library's community room for stories, a craft, and fall themed activities. This is a drop-in…

Run by Boone Area Library · Birdsboro

  • Kids
Monday Morning Book Club

Monday Morning Book Club

Starts Mon, Oct 5, 10:15 AM · Free

The Monday Morning Book Club is a reading group for adults that meets at Boyertown Community Library. Members read the same book and then come together to talk it over. One of the club's picks is How…

Run by Boyertown Community Library · Boyertown

  • Adults
  • Seniors
Charcuterie Board with Ceramic Pinch Pots

Charcuterie Board with Ceramic Pinch Pots

Mon, Oct 5 to Mon, Oct 26 · Member: $123.25 / Non-Member: $145.00

This two part workshop at GoggleWorks pairs clay and wood. On the first night you work in ceramics, shaping clay by hand into pinch pots that can hold dips and crudites. On the second night you move…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Fun with Glass Jewelry

Fun with Glass Jewelry

Starts Tue, Oct 6 · $60 ($50 members)

Make your own glass cabochons and turn them into wearable art. Students learn several techniques for building small glass pieces, explore different types of glass including eye catching dichroic…

Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn

  • Teens
  • Adults
Craft Club at Boyertown Community Library

Craft Club at Boyertown Community Library

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 11:00 AM · Free

Craft Club is a morning crafting get-together for adults at the Boyertown Community Library. Bring the project you are already working on, or make the featured craft with the group. The featured…

Run by Boyertown Community Library · Boyertown

  • Adults
  • Seniors
JR. Book Club

JR. Book Club

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 12:00 PM · Free

JR. Book Club is a reading group for kids at the Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library in Bethel. Members read the month's book on their own first, then meet for a friendly discussion along with…

Run by Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library · Bethel

  • Kids
STEM and Craft Club at Bethel-Tulpehocken Library

STEM and Craft Club at Bethel-Tulpehocken Library

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 1:00 PM · Free

The Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library hosts a STEM Club and a Craft Club once a month on Tuesday afternoons. STEM Club starts first, and the craft activity follows in the second hour. Children can…

Run by Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library · Bethel

  • Kids
Homeschooling: Intro to MIG Welding Workshop

Homeschooling: Intro to MIG Welding Workshop

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 3:00 PM · Member: $59.50 / Non-Member: $70.00

This workshop introduces homeschooled students to the fundamentals of welding. Students learn how electricity melts wire and metal to join them permanently, and they get to know the proper tools…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Kids
Hero Quest and Game Club

Hero Quest and Game Club

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 4:30 PM · Free

The Boone Area Library hosts a game club for teens in its Community Room. The main event is Hero Quest, a dungeon crawler board game led by Game Master Patrick Randall. Each meeting picks up with the…

Run by Boone Area Library · Birdsboro

  • Teens
Tail Waggin' Tutors: Read to a Therapy Dog

Tail Waggin' Tutors: Read to a Therapy Dog

Tue, Oct 6 to Tue, Oct 13 · Free

Children and teens can read out loud to a visiting therapy dog at the Wyomissing Public Library. Pick a spot in the library, choose a book, and settle in next to a furry friend. Petting the dog…

Run by Wyomissing Public Library · Wyomissing

  • Teens
  • Kids
Teen Club at Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library

Teen Club at Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 5:00 PM · Free

Teen Club brings together young people ages 12 to 18 at the Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library in Bethel. It runs as a series of evening meetings, and each gathering has its own focus. One session…

Run by Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library · Bethel

  • Teens
Intermediate Flameworking Class for Adults at GoggleWorks

Intermediate Flameworking Class for Adults at GoggleWorks

Tue, Oct 6 to Tue, Nov 3 · Member: $242.25 / Non-Member: $285.00

This class builds on skills you already have at the torch. You go further into coloring and sculpting techniques, and you learn to work with hollow tubing and blowing. Joe Estis teaches the class…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Intermediate Fusing: Glass Fusing Class for Adults

Intermediate Fusing: Glass Fusing Class for Adults

Tue, Oct 6 to Tue, Nov 3 · Member: $242.25 / Non-Member: $285.00

This glass fusing class builds on what you already know. You work with thicker pieces and explore the line between control and movement in the kiln. Projects include pot melts, color bars, and on…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Mixed Media Painting & Drawing

Mixed Media Painting & Drawing

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 5:30 PM · $190 ($180 members)

Students combine different artistic processes and media to build up more complex works of art. Classes focus on the principles of design and on experimenting with a range of drawing and painting…

Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn

  • Kids
  • Teens
BYO, Bring Your Own Book Club

BYO, Bring Your Own Book Club

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 6:00 PM · Free

This is a drop-in book club at the Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library in Bethel. Come talk about anything you have been reading or listening to, whether that is a print book, an audiobook, an ebook or…

Run by Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library · Bethel

  • Adults
  • Seniors
The Office Building Trivia Painting Night

The Office Building Trivia Painting Night

Starts Tue, Oct 6, 7:00 PM · $45 per person

Spend a Tuesday evening at Painting with a Twist in Exeter Township for a trivia twist on paint night. You work on a 16 by 20 canvas with step by step guidance from artist Brandalyn, with trivia…

Run by Painting with a Twist · Reading

  • Adults
Needle Felted Pumpkin

Needle Felted Pumpkin

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 10:00 AM · Member: $51.00 / Non-Member: $60.00

In this single session workshop at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, you shape wool into a small pumpkin or gourd using needle felting. You poke the fibers with a felting needle until they hold their…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Story Time Special Guest French Creek State Park

Story Time Special Guest French Creek State Park

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 10:15 AM · Free

Boone Area Library hosts a story time with a special guest. Miss Amber leads the session, and park rangers from French Creek State Park join in. It is planned as a fun, interactive story time for…

Run by Boone Area Library · Birdsboro

  • Kids
Storytime: "Fletcher and the Falling Leaves"

Storytime: "Fletcher and the Falling Leaves"

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 10:30 AM · Free

Wernersville Public Library hosts a Wednesday morning storytime for children. Together we listen to "Fletcher and the Falling Leaves" by Julia Rawlinson, with pictures by Tiphanie Beeke. After the…

Run by Wernersville Public Library · Wernersville

  • Kids
LEGO Club at Kutztown Community Library

LEGO Club at Kutztown Community Library

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 4:00 PM · Free

LEGO Club meets at the Kutztown Community Library on the first Wednesday of each month. Each session brings a new building challenge, so kids can try out ideas with LEGO bricks and see what they come…

Run by Kutztown Community Library · Kutztown

  • Kids
Tiny Tots Introductory Dance Class

Tiny Tots Introductory Dance Class

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 4:00 PM · $115 per semester, or 4 payments of $28.75

Tiny Tots is an introduction to dance for the youngest movers. Children sing, dance, and explore movement using music, rhythm, toys, and fun props, building coordination, confidence, and classroom…

Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn

  • Kids
Candle Making in Glassblown Vessels

Candle Making in Glassblown Vessels

Wed, Oct 7 to Fri, Oct 9 · Member: $114.75 / Non-Member: $135.00

This two part workshop at GoggleWorks pairs hot glass with candle making. On the first evening you work in the hot shop to make your own glass vessel and learn about glassblowing. On the second…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Ceramic Luminary Handbuilding Workshop at GoggleWorks

Ceramic Luminary Handbuilding Workshop at GoggleWorks

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 6:00 PM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00

In this single evening workshop you build a clay luminary for the fall season using handbuilding and coil techniques. Once the form is shaped, you add decorative embellishments and textures so the…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Crocheting Basics Class at GoggleWorks

Crocheting Basics Class at GoggleWorks

Wed, Oct 7 to Wed, Nov 4 · Member: $216.75 / Non-Member: $255.00

Learn the fundamentals of crochet in a class built for complete newcomers. Instructor Alex Crawford covers how to hold the hook and yarn, how to make basic stitches, and how to work granny squares.…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Teens
  • Adults
Goat Scream Trivia Night Painting Class

Goat Scream Trivia Night Painting Class

Starts Wed, Oct 7, 6:30 PM · $47 per person

Paint a Goat Scream design on a 16x20 canvas while playing trivia with the room. Kale leads the session at the Painting with a Twist studio on Perkiomen Avenue in Reading, and all painting supplies…

Run by Painting with a Twist · Reading

  • Adults
Safe and Sound Seniors

Safe and Sound Seniors

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 10:30 AM · $60 (Senior Rate)

Safe and Sound Seniors is a six week class at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education for adults 50 and up who want to feel safer, stronger and more confident. It introduces the basics of karate, self…

Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn

  • Seniors
Mystery Book Club

Mystery Book Club

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 5:00 PM · Free

The Mystery Book Club at Wyomissing Public Library brings together readers who like mysteries. Members read the chosen title on their own, then meet to talk it over as a group. One of the club's…

Run by Wyomissing Public Library · Wyomissing

  • Seniors
  • Adults
Spooky Sip and Paint

Spooky Sip and Paint

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 5:00 PM · Tickets are $20 per person

This paint night at Boone Area Library comes with a twist. Instead of canvases, everyone paints fancy paving stones with a Halloween theme, so you head home with a decorated stone for your porch…

Run by Boone Area Library · Birdsboro

  • Adults
  • Seniors
Fleetwood Reads Book Club

Fleetwood Reads Book Club

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 6:30 PM · Free

Fleetwood Reads is the book club at Fleetwood Area Public Library. The group meets on the second Thursday of each month in Room 111, starting at 6:30 in the evening, to talk about the current title…

Run by Fleetwood Area Public Library · Fleetwood

  • Adults
  • Seniors
Full Moon Trivia Night Painting Class

Full Moon Trivia Night Painting Class

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 6:30 PM · $50-$60 per person

Paint a full moon design with a twist of trivia at this evening class with Painting with a Twist. Brandalyn leads the session, and you choose your surface when you book: a 16 by 20 canvas or a 16 by…

Run by Painting with a Twist · Reading

  • Adults
Night of the Living Ants Zombie Ant Nature Program

Night of the Living Ants Zombie Ant Nature Program

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 6:30 PM · Free · Register by Oct 6

Learn about "zombie ants" with a Lancaster County Parks naturalist. The program looks at the parasites behind strange zombie-like behavior in a range of plants and animals, making it spooky season…

Run by Spring Twp Parks & Recreation · Sinking Spring

  • Families
Silent Book Club at Ridgewood Winery

Silent Book Club at Ridgewood Winery

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 6:30 PM · Free

Adults who like to read can gather at Ridgewood Winery on Daffodil Hill Farm for a Silent Book Club hosted by Boyertown Community Library. There is no assigned title and no discussion to prepare for.…

Run by Boyertown Community Library · Bechtelsville

  • Adults
Blacklight Neon Lilies Painting Class

Blacklight Neon Lilies Painting Class

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 7:00 PM · $45 per person

Paint a set of neon lilies on a 16x20 canvas under blacklight, so the colors glow as you work. An instructor walks the group through the painting step by step, and no experience is needed. This…

Run by Painting with a Twist · Reading

  • Adults
Halloween Fun Ceramics Class for Kids

Halloween Fun Ceramics Class for Kids

Starts Thu, Oct 8, 7:00 PM · $75 ($65 members)

Kids work with clay in this Halloween-themed ceramics class, making playful projects that are not too spooky. Students hand-build things like jack-o'-lanterns, friendly monsters, witch hats and other…

Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn

  • Kids
Kids Night Out

Kids Night Out

Starts Fri, Oct 9 · Member $0.00, Non-Member $20.00 · Register by Oct 2

Kids Night Out gives children ages 5 to 12 an evening of fun at the Y while parents get the night to themselves. Kids spend the time with games, crafts, snacks, movies and inflatables. The program is…

Run by Reading YMCA · Reading

  • Kids
Teen Steam Camp

Teen Steam Camp

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 4:00 PM · $10

Teen Steam Camp is an after school program at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center for students ages 12 to 16 who want to dig into the natural world and take on projects that help the…

Run by Nolde Forest - Sawmill · Reading

  • Teens
Intro to Animation

Intro to Animation

Fri, Oct 9 to Fri, Oct 16 · Member: $114.75 / Non-Member: $135.00

This class at GoggleWorks introduces the basics of making a short animated film. Working in the digital media lab, students move through the steps a cartoon takes, from first concept to animating…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
Fused Draped Ghost

Fused Draped Ghost

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 5:30 PM · Member: $72.25 / Non-Member: $85.00

This is a single evening workshop in the warm glass studio at GoggleWorks in Reading, led by instructor Janice Peters. Students learn the basics of glass fusing, including scoring and cutting glass…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Teens
  • Adults
Vintage Halloween Cards and Spooky Zine Workshop

Vintage Halloween Cards and Spooky Zine Workshop

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 5:30 PM · Free

Spend an evening making vintage-inspired Halloween cards and spooky zines at the Sinking Spring Public Library. Local artist Kayla Ackelson leads the session and walks you through each piece, using a…

Run by Sinking Spring Public Library · Sinking Spring

  • Adults
  • Teens
  • Seniors
Jewelry Making: Lapidary Earrings

Jewelry Making: Lapidary Earrings

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 6:00 PM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00

This one session workshop at GoggleWorks covers lapidary work from start to finish. You shape, grind and polish stone using lapidary equipment, then set or assemble your stones into a pair of…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Adults
One-Day on the Wheel Workshop: Session B

One-Day on the Wheel Workshop: Session B

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 6:00 PM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00

This single evening workshop puts you at the pottery wheel. You start with a ball of clay, learn the basics of throwing, and shape your own piece. When the work is done, you pick a glaze from the…

Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading

  • Teens
  • Adults
Autumn Brook Paint-and-Sip Session for Adults

Autumn Brook Paint-and-Sip Session for Adults

Starts Fri, Oct 9, 7:00 PM · $42 per person

Paint the Autumn Brook design on a 16x20 canvas with step by step guidance from the studio artist, Kale. No experience is needed. Paint, supplies and the canvas are set up for you, so you just show…

Run by Painting with a Twist · Reading

  • Adults
Stammtisch Conversation Group at Sinking Spring Library

Stammtisch Conversation Group at Sinking Spring Library

Starts Sat, Oct 10, 9:00 AM · Free

Stammtisch is a drop-in conversation club that meets at the Sinking Spring Public Library on the second Saturday of each month, from 9 to 10 in the morning. People gather over coffee for relaxed…

Run by Sinking Spring Public Library · Sinking Spring

  • Seniors
  • Adults
Lego Club at West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library

Lego Club at West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library

Starts Sat, Oct 10, 10:00 AM · Free

Lego Club is a drop-in building session for young Lego fans at the West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library. Kids bring their ideas and build alongside others who enjoy the same thing, with bricks to work…

Run by West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library · West Lawn

  • Kids