Upcoming Events

These Storytimes, good for kids ages 4 to 6, are fun, kinetic, and humorous experiences!  I make it a point not just to read books, but to perform them as well!

Come and join us to celebrate the Winter Reading Challenge, winter STEM & incorporating playtime. Sensory Friendly! ¡Todos a jugar!

All young children and their caregivers are welcome to join us for stories, songs and rhymes. Held outdoors on the grass, bring a blanket or chair.  No Registration required. We hope to see you there!

Join Lois for chair yoga, gentle toning with weights and bands and balance work.   **Brought to you by the Friends of the Allied Gardens/Benjamin Branch Library**

Board Game Hangout (Tweens & Teens)

Perfect for homeschool groups. 

Join Ms Jennifer from signs at Play! for weekly sign language learning and fun!

Establish non-verbal communication skills with your little one by learning basic signs and to expand your signing vocabulary in this engaging storytime.

This class provides students with an understanding of the Breath-Mind-Body dynamic and its relationship to health and wellness during the aging process.  Students learn breathing techniques for self-care, mental resilience, and physical relax

Instructors are from Silver Age Yoga. Designed so that seniors can safely participate at their level of comfort. Every class utilizes chairs. 

Ring in the new year with films about "new" beginnings.

Come play American Mah Jongg - a game of skill, strategy, and luck!

Experienced and novice players welcome. An instructor will be on hand to teach you.

Fall Classes 2024

Join us for a special structured adult storytime with sensory materials and an art activity in partnership with Casa de Mosaic. Each Friday will have a specific theme.

Come listen to Dana Law tell the story of his experience  hiking the entire 2,650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. From the Mexican border to Canada, and with 31 sections, this took over 13 years to complete.

Join us for a fun of artistic exploration and creativity!

Offering a variety of hands-on activities that will inspire their imagination and creativity.

Recommended ages 5 and up.

Get together with your friends after school and have fun with a big box of different STEAM projects and games.

Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday by watching this Oscar-nominated drama depicting King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Come listen to the latest releases, talk about the latest news, and more!

Southern California Ballet is partnering with the Rancho Bernardo Branch Library for “Dancing Through the Pages,” a program that allows children to explore movement and dance through storytelling!

We need you writers! We invite you to join our adult writer's group where you can learn to thread together memorable fiction. To learn more please call at 619-533-3968 or email:Echavez@sandiego.gov 

Practice speaking English with our volunteer English tutor!

Science Club is for 3rd through 6th graders who are interested in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, & Mathematics). Each week kids engage in a new and fun hands-on/minds-on activity exploring a wide range of subjects.

Playwright and Composer Tyler Tafolla (Seasons, Scott Robbins and the Traveling Show, Danceland) and producer Kevin Blax Burroughs bring Tafolla’s new dark comedy musical DEAD MOOSE to San Diego in a world premier concert reading