Magale Fest 2025 happens Saturday, March 29th, from 1-3 PM, right here at Magale Library! 

Join us for this FREE, open-to-the-community, family-friendly event!

Libraries and their communities: Growing Together!

Magale Fest 2025 celebrates libraries as hubs for lifelong learning and community building in a festive atmosphere featuring multiple family-friendly activities, including art making, live music and sing-alongs, an education student-led reading corner with a bean bag pit, a free all-genres (including kids' reads!) book swap, face painting, opportunities to get great swag (special bookmarks and tote bags), and even great local food trucks. Magale Fest will also host interactive exhibits from Walter B Jacobs Wildlife Refuge (featuring live animals), storytelling with Shreveport's own Robert Trudeau, offerings from the Shreve Memorial Library, and other community partners; we'll also be joined by Centenary academic departments and student groups. This year, we're especially excited for Hurley School of Music's instrument petting zoo, where visitors can try out a variety of musical instruments right here at the Magale Library!

                           
What's happening at Magale Fest?

• Food Trucks! Participants this year include Ragin Cajun, Roadrunner Foods, Boba Express, Heaven Repicci's Italian Ice, Down South Dawgs, and Pearlz BBQ!
• Live music!
• The outreach team from Shreveport's own Shreve Memorial Library!
• Centenary education students will lead some kid-friendly readings:
  • Readings will include a variety of multicultural children's picture books and selections from Dr. Suess, Shell Silverstein,  Ezra Jack Keats, Tommy dePaola, Laura Jorge Numeroff, and other well-known children's literature authors. 
• Robert Trudeau will tell some Shreveport-oriented stories!
• Yet-to-be-determined fun stuff with Centenary's Frost School of Business!
• Walter B. Jacobs nature preserve will be on site, bringing at least one owl and who knows what else!
• A musical "petting zoo" with instruments you can play, sponsored by Hurley School of Music!
• A completely free and all-genres bookswap here in the Library's new ERC reading nook!
• Throughout the day in Magale's front gallery, see DNA-inspired student art installation from the Biology program!
• Horseshoes, for those who just want to kick back and toss iron!
• And more!!

This is a free and open-to-the-community event! Join us! It'll be awesome!

Questions? Interested in joining as a participant? Reach out to Patrick Morgan at 318.869.5171 or at pmorgan@centenary.edu.