Marin History Museum – San Rafael History

Posted by bonnie on 03 April 26

San Rafael History with docent Lori Deibel.

More information to come.

Celebración por el Día del Niño | Children’s Day Celebration

Posted by davagy on 18 March 26

El Día del Niño es una celebración anual en América Latina, es un día para honrar la vida de los niños, su bienestar y felicidad. ¡Acompañanos a esta fiesta comunitaria para pasar un día de música, obsequio de libros y mucha diversión en la Biblioteca Pickleweed!

Children’s Day is an annual celebration in Latin America, it is a day to honor the lives of children, their well-being and happiness. Join our community celebration for a day of music, books giveaways and lots of fun at Pickleweed Library!

Odyssey of Big Brother & The Holding Company

Posted by bonnie on 12 March 26

Celebrate the Summer of Love with a special library program on Big Brother & the Holding Company, the legendary San Francisco band that launched the career of Janis Joplin and helped define the psychedelic rock sound of the era. The program features a discussion with the two surviving members of the original band, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer, Dave Getz, who is a resident of Marin. Peter and Dave will share firsthand stories about the band’s origins, the Haight-Ashbury scene, and the cultural impact of their music.

We’ll also view video clips of the band playing at multiple venues including the Monterey Pop Festival and The Smothers Brothers Show. Our program moderator is Rodney Paul, who leads art and history walks throughout the Bay Area, and has presented programs on Summer of Love music topics at multiple California libraries.

Poetic Playlist

Posted by davagy on 10 March 26

A creative writing class for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 13-18. For those who love music and writing, looking to hone their craft and create a writing practice. We’ll analyze and discuss lyrics by iconic songwriters as inspiration for our own writing.

About the Artist: Gretchen Cion is a multi-genre writer, filmmaker, and educator currently teaching through Berkeley City College. She has an M.Ed. from Hunter College, and an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing, both from San Francisco State University. Her essays have appeared in Transfer Magazine, Sky Island Journal, and Brevity and her first short film, “Full Crow,” was a Semifinalist at the Boden International Film Festival. Gretchen is the Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence for 2026.

Registration required.

To register, please email briannac@cityofsanrafael.org

Free For All: The Public Library

Posted by davagy on 10 March 26

Join us for a special screening of Free For All: The Public Library, to celebrate National Library Week.

Following the film, we’re honored to welcome director/writers Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor for a Q&A discussion.

Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians who serve the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.

NR, 60 mins., rated TV-14 

Marin Master Gardeners – Native Groundcovers

Posted by bonnie on 09 March 26

More information to come.

Speakers: Kathy Hunting and Yvonne Rojas

Marin Master Gardeners – Edible Perennials

Posted by bonnie on 02 March 26

Discover the world of perennial vegetables—long-lived plants that return year after year, providing nutritious food with minimal effort! This presentation profiles a number of delicious vegetables you can grow here in Marin and explores a “plant-it-once” system that builds soil health and biodiversity. Learn about these hardy, sometimes drought-resistant plants to potentially include into your garden. They are productive, beautiful, and can keep you in food all year long.

Speakers:

Keri Pon has been a UC Marin Master Gardener since 2011. She has been involved with the Edibles Guild since 2013 and has also worked with the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden. She is a contributing writer for Backyard to Belly, as well as grow sheets for the MMG website and articles for the Leaflet.

Jenine Stilson became a UC Marin Master Garden in 2014. She has been a long-time member of the Edibles Guild, leads and supports the Tomato Market, is a contributing writer for Backyard to Belly and has presented at the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden. She spent time growing up on her parents’ almond orchard in the heat of Yolo County and has been a life-long gardener of edibles ever since.

Online Security with Beryn Hammil

Posted by bonnie on 27 February 26

According to AARP, seniors have lost over $61 billion to scammers in one year alone. And the problem is only getting worse, which is why it’s important for you to learn how to protect your identity and your money, so you don’t become a victim. This valuable information applies to all products: PC, Mac, Android or Apple.

Beryn Hammil, the instructor of the library’s All Things Apple classes for the past decade, will guide you through the fundamental principles of safeguarding your personal information online to prevent you from becoming a victim of scams.

Catapult Creation!

Posted by davagy on 25 February 26

Thanks to the generosity of our collaboration partners at Science Is Elementary, we are once again offering free bilingual (English/Spanish) science kits with all supplies included to have a fun, rewarding learning experience for the whole family. Come on in and take one home during the week of March 16-20 at the Downtown and Northgate branches. Supplies are limited. One kit per child, please.

And to keep the STEM fun going, come and explore various catapult designs, make a catapult, and learn about the physics of energy transfer. Of course, there will be hands-on testing, which is the fun part!

Filmmakers in Focus – Chinese Couplets with Felicia Lowe

Posted by bonnie on 22 February 26

To honor Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month, we’ll be showing Chinese Couplets a film by local filmmaker Felicia Lowe of Lowdown Productions. Part memoir, part history, part investigation, Chinese Couplets spans two centuries, three countries and four generations of women in this intimate story that reveals the impact of American’s Chinese Exclusion Acts on filmmaker Felicia Lowe’s family. Lowe offers a nuanced, engaging approach to the debate that details the long-term, multi-generational effects of ethnically motivated immigration policies while imparting a cautionary tale of living with cultural pluralism in the 21st century.

Discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening.

Felicia Lowe is an award-winning media producer, director, and writer with 50 years of production experience. Her documentaries: Chinese Couplets, Carved in Silence, Chinatown and China: Land of My Father reveal the unique experiences of Chinese in America while underscoring our common humanity. All have been broadcast on PBS and used in classrooms across the country. She also led the creative team that produced the videos for Sacramento’s California Museum exhibit, Gold Mountain: Chinese Californian Stories. A past board president of the Angel Island Immigration Foundation and descendant of Angel Island detainees, she is gratified to have played a role in the preservation and restoration of this important National Historic Landmark.