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Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Open Mic Night in the Kiln!

Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Cultural & Social
Age Group:
Teens (14-18 years), Adults (19+ years), General Interest

Open to the Hancock County community, you are welcome to perform a poetry reading (yours or a favorite poet), short story, original song, dance, comedy routine, play soliloquy, or something else, no more than 10 minutes long. 

Hancock Community Archive

Hancock Community Archive

Friday, January 23, 2026 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Cultural & Social, History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Teens (14-18 years), Adults (19+ years)
Hancock Community Archive:

The Hancock Community Archive is an initiative of the HCLS Digital Archives—aimed at capturing and preserving the cultural heritage and local history of Hancock County, Mississippi...

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

HOMEGROWN: A Writers' Exchange

Friday, January 30, 2026 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Offsite
Program Type:
Author Talks & Book Clubs, Business & Workforce Development, Community Outreach, Cultural & Social, Education & Lifelong Learning
Age Group:
Teens (14-18 years), Adults (19+ years), General Interest

HOMEGROWN 2026

Hancock County Library System and Harrison County Library System have partnered with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park Campus to present a full-day literary arts conference focused

Offsite Event

Tiny Tots Early Childhood Workshop

All Day
WV Meeting Room at Waveland Library
Program Type:
Education & Lifelong Learning
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This event will offer a virtual CE program providing CEUs to early childhood teachers and professional development credits to daycare workers.

HOMEGROWN: A Writers' Exchange

Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Offsite
Program Type:
Author Talks & Book Clubs, Business & Workforce Development, Community Outreach, Cultural & Social, Education & Lifelong Learning
Age Group:
Teens (14-18 years), Adults (19+ years), General Interest

HOMEGROWN 2026

Hancock County Library System and Harrison County Library System have partnered with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park Campus to present a full-day literary arts conference focused

Offsite Event
Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Senior Bingo

Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 11:00am - 1:00pm
PL Meeting Room at Pearlington Library
Program Type:
Cultural & Social
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

Please join us for Free Senior Bingo every 1st Thursday of every month at 11am! Free Games, Prizes, & Fun! This event is for Senior Citizens only. 

Senior Bingo

Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 11:00am - 1:00pm
PL Meeting Room at Pearlington Library
Program Type:
Cultural & Social
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

Please join us for Free Senior Bingo every 1st Thursday of every month at 11am! Free Games, Prizes, & Fun! This event is for Senior Citizens only. 

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Image of author presenting to an audience.

Literary Society of D'Head Book Club

Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
EH Meeting Room at East Hancock Library
Program Type:
Author Talks & Book Clubs, Cultural & Social, Education & Lifelong Learning
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Book Club:

Join our community of readers as we discuss a new book.  Learn more about the book clubs that meet regularly at HCLS.

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...

Older adults in a fitness class stretching arms across torsos

Sit & Be Fit!

Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

This class focuses on therapeutic exercises that make everyday activities easier to perform, including core strengthening, balance work, stretching and relaxation.

Hancock Community Archive

Community Archiving Happy Hour

Friday, February 27, 2026 at 2:00pm - 4:30pm
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Cultural & Social, History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)

Interested in community archiving?  Working on a project to capture the stories of your community?

Bingo signage

Senior BINGO Day!

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 3:00pm - 4:30pm
KN Meeting Room at Kiln Library
Program Type:
Tabletop & Video Games
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years), General Interest

Come out with your friends for a dozen rounds of BINGO at your Kiln Library! Prizes and light refreshment. 

Weights, ball, brace, and sneaker standing ready for a workout

Movement to Music Fitness Class

Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 9:00am - 9:45am
BSL Meeting Room at Bay St. Louis Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults (19+ years)
Fitness Class, high energy:

Get moving with this instructor-led fitness class.  Get ready to raise your heart rate with a faster pace aerobic and full-body workout to improve your strength and flexibilit...