This Valentine’s Day, express your creativity through beautiful handmade cards. We’ll provide you with a variety of crafting papers and materials, some fun collage elements, cards, envelopes, and more. You bring your ideas and special elements that you’d like to include in your valentines.
Librarian, Pam Klein and Artist, Annie Fogarty will be your facilitators.
For ages 13 and up.
Te proporcionaremos una variedad de papeles y materiales para manualidades, algunos elementos divertidos de collage, tarjetas, sobres. Trae tus ideas y elementos especiales que te gustaría incluir en tus tarjetas de San Valentín.
La bibliotecaria Pam Klein y la artista Annie Fogarty serán tus facilitadoras.
This Valentine’s Day, express your creativity through beautiful handmade cards. We’ll provide you with a variety of crafting papers and materials, some fun collage elements, cards, envelopes, and more. You bring your ideas and any special elements that you’d like to include in your valentines.
Librarian Pam Klein will be your facilitator. This program is for ages 13 and up.
Te proporcionaremos una variedad de papeles y materiales para manualidades, algunos elementos divertidos de collage, tarjetas, sobres. Trae tus ideas y elementos especiales que te gustaría incluir en tus tarjetas de San Valentín.
La bibliotecaria Pam Klein será tu facilitadora. Este programa es para 13 años en adelante.
Starts Monday, February 3rd at 4th Street Pop-Up Library!
Free drop-in, in-person tutoring for grades 1-8 will be regularly available on Mondays and Wednesdays, 4 to 6 PM. Kids will be helped in a first come, first served basis.
Ayuda en persona con lectura y la tarea, sin cita previa
¡Comienza el lunes, 3 de febrero en la Biblioteca Temporal!
Los lunes y miércoles, de 4 a 6 de la tarde, habrá ayuda gratuita con la tarea para los alumnos de 1º a 8º grado. Se ayudará a los niños por orden de llegada.
Please join us for a screening of “My Secret Country” a film by local filmmaker Marlo McKenzie. Marlo will be present for Q&A after the screening
MY SECRET COUNTRY
Get inside a child’s mind of pretend friends, imaginary worlds, horror, and wonder!
This film is a sweet ode to the power of play, imagination and creativity that journeys into the imagination of three children. This allegorical tale and feature-length hybrid documentary will spark wonder in children and adults. Brought to life through 2D animation and co-written with the young protagonists, this award-winning film blends fantasy and reality to spark wonder in audiences of all ages.
Join the thought leaders, parents, imaginary friends, and the kids themselves as they Inspire, Imagine, Play, and Build their way through the Minecraft challenge before them.
MY SECRET COUNTRY made its world premiere at the San Francisco Documentary Festival in June and has since screened at festivals worldwide. It received the Best Feature Documentary award at the San Diego International Kids Film Festival, Best Documentary North America at the Kids International Family Film Festival, and earned an Honorable Mention at the Atlanta Children’s Film Festival. The film was also highlighted in an article by The New York Times.
Marlo McKenzie is a storyteller originally from Metro Detroit. She’s studied language in France, worked in theater in Germany, and co-founded a video production company that trains underserved youth in Australia.
*To be notified of upcoming showings of our Filmmakers in Focus series, contact Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
Make 2025 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
Make 2025 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
August 7 — Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
November 6 — A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Make 2025 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month, starting in February 2025.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
February 6— If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin
Make 2025 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
November 6 — A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Make 2026 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
May 7 — The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
August 6 — The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
Make 2026 be the year that you get to some of those classics you’d always planned to read! With our quarterly meetings, you can read leisurely and dive deeply. We’ll explore both fiction and nonfiction from the US and abroad for an expansive view of the past and, perhaps, a better understanding of the present.
Meets first Thursday of every third month.
First ten registered participants receive a free copy of each meeting’s book.
To register, email Lea at lea.aschkenas@cityofsanrafael.org.
August 6 — The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley
