Upcoming Events

UM-Flint’s Community Writing Center, the Rough Draft Café, provides writing support services to community members.

Join us for a time where readers gather to enjoy a cozy atmosphere of shared silence, diving into our own books while savoring quiet camaraderie and conversation afterward.

Bring your gardening tools and passion for sustainability to the front of the library, where we’ll come together to plant a vibrant community garden featuring fruit, vegetable, and herb plants from Edible Flint!

Fiction Only Book Club: 

UM-Flint’s Community Writing Center, the Rough Draft Café, provides writing support services to community members.

UM-Flint’s Community Writing Center, the Rough Draft Café, provides writing support services to community members.

Help us kick off our Color Our World Summer Reading Challenge and get ready for the Midwest Invitational Rodeo - the Black Rodeo with a petting zoo and stories read by a real cowboy from the rodeo!

UM-Flint’s Community Writing Center, the Rough Draft Café, provides writing support services to community members.

Everyone is welcome to join in as Flint Neighborhoods United meets to share information about what's happening in neighborhoods, exchange ideas, and get vital information from civic and community organizations. 

Donate your gently used books, CDs, DVDs and vinyl records. 

Drive up to the garage door and we will help you unload.

Celebrate International Tabletop Day with us! Bring your own board game to play or join with others. All ages welcome.

Bring a book(s), get a book(s)! Join other readers in getting a jump start on summer reading by swapping your gently used adult fiction or non-fiction books.

UM-Flint’s Community Writing Center, the Rough Draft Café, provides writing support services to community members.

Bring whatever craft you're working on and join other crafters to work on projects, share techniques, and engage in meaningful discussions together.

Exploring the rich tapestry of Black life and culture through literature, this book club celebrates diverse voices and narratives that resonate with the Black experience.

This month selections:

Join us for a showing and discussion of The Danish Girl, a drama based on the novel by David Ebershoff, telling the true story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo gender confirmation surgery.

Fiction Only Book Club: