Middle School Button Making!

Posted by Aaron on 19 September 17

Help us break-in our fancy new button maker! We’ll provide everything you need to make oodles of creative buttons to pin on your jacket, backpack, or wherever you need a little extra flair.

This program is for middle school aged youth in grades in grades 6-8. To register, call us at (415)485-3322, or visit the Children’s Reference desk.

Dia de los Muertos Paper Arts with Rachel-Anne Palacios

Posted by Aaron on 19 September 17

Come celebrate Day of the Dead with artist Rachel-Anne Palacios! Learn about some of the traditions behind the celebration. Build your own ofrenda to remember your loved ones, and create fun take home items like calavera, jaguar and butterfly masks, dancing skeleton puppets and paper marigolds!

This program has something to offer for families with kids of all ages! No registration required.

Handwrite the Constitution

Posted by bonnie on 06 September 17

Help us celebrate
Independence Day
by joining the
Handwriting the Constitution 
Project.

Drop-in between 1-4 pm upstairs in the Carnegie Reading Room, find your favorite passage or discover one that speaks to you. We’ll provide copies of the U.S. Constitution, paper and pens. All ages are welcome.

Why, you ask? This, from the founder of the project, Morgan O’Hara:

“Hand copying a document can produce an intimate connection to the text and its meaning. The handwriter may discover things about this document that they never knew, a passage that challenges or moves them. They may even leave with a deeper connection to the founders and the country, or even a sense of encouragement.

I began this project motivated by psychological necessity. I now see it as a social art practice. My hope is that it will become a movement of sorts, with sessions throughout the country.”

For more information on Handwriting the Constitution project please visit www.handwritingtheconstitution.com

Handwriting the Constitution

Posted by bonnie on 06 September 17

Help us celebrate
National Constitution Day by joining the Handwriting the Constitution project.

Join us upstairs in the small reading room, find your favorite passage or discover one that speaks to you. We’ll provide copies of the U.S. Constitution, paper and pens. All ages are welcome.

Why, you ask? This, from the founder of the project, Morgan O’Hara:

“Hand copying a document can produce an intimate connection to the text and its meaning. The handwriter may discover things about this document that they never knew, a passage that challenges or moves them. They may even leave with a deeper connection to the founders and the country, or even a sense of encouragement.

I began this project motivated by psychological necessity. I now see it as a social art practice. My hope is that it will become a movement of sorts, with sessions throughout the country.”

For more information on Handwriting the Constitution project please visit www.handwritingtheconstitution.com

Book Sale! – Friends of the Library

Posted by bonnie on 01 September 17

Friday, October 6, 12:30 – 4:30.
Saturday, October 7, 10:00 – 3:30

Please come to the Library Meeting Room for some great bargains. This is a general book sale with all topics offered, lots of childrens’ books, books on cooking, art, and history, plus everything else. We’ll have fiction in soft and hardcover, poetry, classics, oldies, needle arts, home decor & repair, health, psych, spirituality, sets, reference, foreign languages, music & sheet music, plus lots of CDs & DVDs.

Coming October 27 & 28: Friends of the Library’s Rare & Special Book Sale

Be a Friend and get involved – become a member of the Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

Third Tuesday Teen Event – TTTE

Posted by bonnie on 30 August 17

Third Tuesday Teen Event
Library Meeting Room (unless otherwise noted)

We’ll be offering speakers on various topics, artists, writers, and other activities, chosen by our Teen Advisory Council.

Schedule of Events:

September 18 – 2nd Annual Marin Comics Fest
SPECIAL MEETING TIME: 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Meet cartoonist and writer Nidhi Chanani, whose lively graphic novel ‘Pashmina’ centers on Priyanka “Pri” Das, an Indian American teenager curious about her family background and cultural identity. Admission is free. When she’s not creating colorful new tales, Nidhi is an instructor in the Master of Fine Arts, Comics program at the California College of Arts. You can discover more about her and her work at https://everydayloveart.com/.

Nidhi will be signing books following her presentation.

The Marin Comics Fest is sponsored by the libraries of Marin County and the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.

Our Teen Advisory Council meets each month to discuss teen needs, interests and ways in which the library can support them. As part of the Council, you will be able to provide input on library book collections, help create or lead programming, volunteer at events, organize community service projects, and influence how your library can serve you better.  Join the TLC and be part of the process! For ages 16-24.

Marin Comic Fest – Meet Thi Bui

Posted by bonnie on 30 August 17

The San Rafael Public Library is pleased to be a part of the inaugural Marin Comics Fest!

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. as one of the refugee “boat people” of the 1970s. She studied art and legal studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and received an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College and a Masters in Art Education from New York University. She is a founding teacher of Oakland International High School, where she edited and published teenagers’ immigrant stories told as comics, and taught them to make their own movies. Her work has been published in The Asian American Literary Review and Hyphen Magazine. Her graphic novel The Best We Could Do debuted in March of this year. Follow Thi on Tumbler: https://thibui.tumblr.com/

For more information about the Marin Comics Fest and the full schedule visit: https://www.facebook.com/MarinComicsFest

NaNoWriMo

Posted by bonnie on 25 August 17

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. 

Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.

Sign up for the Marin, California, USA group here.

Sunday, October 15:
Join Sausalito NaNoWriMo Liaison, Elizabeth Menozzi’s prep session! Doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a “Plotter” or a “Pantsers” — come join me for some writing exercises geared toward planning out your novel. We’ll do some brainstorming, and cover character development, plot, and world-building. I’ll also have stickers to give away.

Sunday, October 29:
NaNoWriMo kick-off party! We can’t start writing yet, but we can meet up and introduce ourselves! Come meet your fellow Marin Writers and share a little about yourself and what you plan to write in November. Snacks will be provided, but BYO covered drink. Folks new to NaNoWriMo can ask questions about National Novel Writing Month and find out how it works and what to expect.

Sundays, November 5 – 26:
Join us for a month of literary abandon! Participants will gather in the library’s meeting room to begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30. We”ll meet every Sunday of the month: November 5, 12, 19, & 26.

Sunday, December 3:
TGIO Party – Come join your fellow Marin Writers to celebrate our NaNoWriMo writing achievements! No matter how much or how little you wrote during NaNoWriMo, you’re on your way to writing a novel! Bring your own beverage (covered containers preferred) and a treat to share with the group. We’ll talk about our NaNoWriMo experiences and celebrate our achievements. For those who are interested, feel free to come prepared to share a paragraph or a page from your novel that you are particularly proud of. But, don’t worry, there won’t be any critiquing, just celebrating! 🙂

NaNoWriMo – Write Your Novel

Posted by bonnie on 25 August 17

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. 

On November 1st, 2018 participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm, determination, and a deadline, NaNoWriMo is for anyone who has ever thought about writing a novel.

Sign up for the Marin, California, USA group here.
Read more about how it all works here.

On Thursdays, November 1, 8, 15, and 29 participants will gather in the library’s meeting room to meet and work with fellow Marin NaNoWriMo writers.

Laurel Hilton, NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison (ML) for Marin, will be facilitating.

Feel free to come prepared to share your writing experience and/or a paragraph or a page from your novel that you are particularly proud of. But, don’t worry, there won’t be any critiquing!

Marin Comics Fest – Meet John Bultena – “Why College Students Need to Read More Comics”

Posted by sarah on 16 August 17

Part of the Marin Comics Fest (September 9-16).

“Why College Students Need to Read More Comics”

With an increasingly visually focused world, whether through smart phones, web pages, info-graphics, or the like, many lessons regarding visual rhetoric can be derived from comics. This talk examines some approaches towards bringing up and engaging the topic of visual rhetoric via comics.

Join us for this informative presentation with John Bultena, social media fun person, music lover, gamer, & comic book reader, professor at UC Merced, and lecturer with the Merritt Writing Program.