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Board Game Bliss
2025-07-13 13:30:00 2025-07-13 16:30:00 America/New_York Board Game Bliss Let's celebrate the joy of playing games! Play a wide variety of games, the classics and the new. Bring a friend or make new ones. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Sunday, July 13
1:30pm - 4:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-13 13:30:00 2025-07-13 16:30:00 America/New_York Board Game Bliss Let's celebrate the joy of playing games! Play a wide variety of games, the classics and the new. Bring a friend or make new ones. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Let's celebrate the joy of playing games! Play a wide variety of games, the classics and the new. Bring a friend or make new ones.

Open to ages 13 and up.

This event is presented in partnership with The Parlor Games (www.theparlorgames.com), an Alexandria-based gaming pop-up business, specializing in tabletop games including board games, card games and RPGs (role playing games).

Check out The Parlor Games' collection of board games: www.theparlorgames.com/library

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Teens | Summer Quest | Gaming | Family |

TAGS: | SummerQuest | gaming | games | board games | #SummerQuest |

Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library
ahargreaves@alexlibraryva.org
Phone: 703.746.1704
Fax: 703.746.1775
Branch manager
Abby Hargreaves
Hours
Mon, Jun 02 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jun 03 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jun 04 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jun 05 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jun 06 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Jun 07 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jun 08 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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