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Get Your Child Ready for their First Day of School! Kids 4-5 years old (grade going onto Fall 2017) and their parents. Focus on learning readiness, social wellness and more. Storytime, skills building games, etc. Paren
Get your child ready for their first day of school! This summer is a perfect time for your child to prepare for kindergarten!
Teens will make elaborate paper animal masks to get ready for Pacific Animal Productions. Each mask can take up to 3 hours to make so teens may work on it each day between 6/20-6/27 or take them home to finish. Ages 12-18.
Read/San Diego Tutor Training
Training for volunteer adult literacy tutors.
Enjoy stories read aloud or acted out, singing songs and completing crafts, all geared toward building the skills necessary for success in kindergarten. For families with preschoolers, ages 3-5.
Join our Children’s Librarian Miss Luz for stories, songs, fingerplays, and lots of fun! This Storytime is designed especially for children ages 2-4. This program meets every Wednesday.
Chair Yoga promotes stretching, strengthening and improves balance, flexibility and mobility, enhances mental clarity and helps reduce stress, and provides peace and relaxation.
A program that fuses Latin rhythms with easy-to-follow moves. The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt while burning fat.
Kearny Mesa Planning Group
A meeting of the Kearny Mesa Planning Group. Open to the public.
Weekly projects are designed to introduce various art techniques and inspire creative process.
It's Back!! The Summer Fun Café opens on June 19th and serves a hot, nutritious lunch to all children 18 and under, through August 18th. No registration required, just a good appetite! Brought to you by the San Diego Unified Scho
The Summer Fun Café
It's Back!! The Summer Fun Café opens on June 19th and serves a hot, nutritious lunch to all children 18 and under, through August 18th. No registration required, just a good appetite! Brought to you by the San Diego Unified Scho
The World Building Workshop is for teens who want to learn how to design internally consistent, fascinating and fantastic worlds. These worlds can be an exercise in imagining new possibilities, or as settings for role-playing games or stories.
Open Studio Hours for Poster Contest Participants
Open Studio Hours for Contest Participants
Wednesdays ( June 21st, July 12th, July 26th, and August 16th )
Noon - 3 p.m. in the IDEA Lab
New Tech Tutoring
Bring a yoga mat and water, wear comfortable clothing, and be prepared to remove your shoes. Ages 14 and older are welcome.
Early literacy lapsit storytime with music, fingerplays and books. Encourages language learning and cognitive development for young babies. Gives parents an opportunity to meet other parents while babies socialize and play.
Instructors are from Silver Age Yoga. Every class utilizes chairs but please bring your own exercise mat if desired. No reservations required.
Children and their families are invited to join us for fun hands-on yoga activities led by the lovely Ms. Erin!
Come get your stretch on at this great bimonthly event!
This class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong. Ideal for beginners, boomers, and active seniors
Kids Craft Time
Make a craft to take home! Crafts are suitable for ages 3-13 but young kids should have a parent present.
Kids' Crafting Fun Studio
Join us for fun crafts. Geared towards children, but all ages are welcome.
SRP: Mad Science
Get ready for action as Mad Science dives into sports! Experiments are made fun by Mad Science’s style of delivering unique, hands-on experience which is both entertaining and educational.
Open Lab @ the Innovation Lab
The Innovation Lab is a makersapce on the 3rd floor of Central Library. It's free for everyone to use.
Join us for a program which is perfect for babies and young toddlers: short, fun and interactive.
Gain basic skills on using a computer, surfing the internet printing web pages, and using email. Sign-up at the Information Desk or call the RB Library.
Creating Art with Joe Nyiri
Learn how to use art to express "What's on Your Mind" with the professional artist Joe Nyiri.
All materials provided; sign-up required.
Fun with 3D Design and Printing for Beginners (Lab)
Volunteers will help you create, design, and print objects in 3D! All ages welcome!
RB Library Book Discussion
The book selection for June is "Suite francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky. Copies of the selected book are available for checkout at the RB Library.
Silver Age Yoga is designed so that seniors can safely participate at their level of comfort. Bring a yoga mat and water, wear comfortable clothing, and be prepared to remove your shoes.
Summer Children's Program: Sparkles the Clown
Join us for a fun time with Sparkles the Clown.
Do Your Homework @the Library
Homework centers are open free of charge to students in need of homework help. No pre-registration is required
Children's Origami Art
Create origami art. No registration required. Materials provided.
DIY - Smash book Project
Make a smash book at your library! All materials provided. Join us on the patio.
Lego Club
Join our Lego Club every Wednesday with our very own lego expert, Ms. Victoria for cool projects and talking shop. Open to all ages but adult supervision needed for ages under 5.
In Seminar Room 4, downstairs.
Jammin' @ the Library: Guitar Instruction
Jammin’ @ the Library program offers free beginning guitar instruction for teens and adults at the San Diego Public Library’s Central Library in a series of group lessons. The program is for ages 12 and up.
Explore you creative side and learn a new skill while working on STEAM projects. For families and children ages 7-12.
This is not just a practice test session, but a workshop on strategies and skills for taking the SAT. For 9th grade and up in the Fall 2017
Art Buffet for Kids
North Park Library is happy to present this monthly art event for kids- art buffet!
Do you want to learn how to use our eCollection like a pro? Stop by during this walk-in service with your device and get guidance, tips and advice on how to navigate the eCollection.
Please come and join us on the first and third Wednseday of every omnth in the OliverMcMillan I CAN! Center for a fun afternoon of knitting and crochetting. Beginners are always welcome. We will teach you the basics and supply all the materials!
Painting with Ms. Ana
Paint high, paint low. Paint often so that your heart's all aglow. Join Ms. Ana as she helps guide you through a fun paint session!
Reading by Design Magic Show
Amazing Dana presents fun & magic about houses, contructions, buildings and more. Free magic trick for everyone in the audience.
Summer Reading Event: Mad Science
Design a Solution from Pollution with Mad Science. Learn how science is helping to make the world a better, cleaner place.
Kids can have fun and get creative while building with LEGO.
Paws for Reading is a program that allows children to read aloud to a therapy dog in order to improve reading and communication skills.
Wednesday Crafts
Explore a new craft each Wednesday!
All ages welcome; smaller children may need parent/caregiver assistance.
This yoga class is suitable for beginners but will offer modifications and variations that challenge advanced students.
Tiny Tots Storytime
Miss Kim plays favorite tunes and reads stories in this special early-evening storytime.
Learn about the lives of famous artists and re-create the techniques that made them famous!
Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian ensembl, Sol e Mar, will be bringing their vibrant and entertaining show to the City Heights Library!
FREE Citizenship Classes
Free classes to prepare for the Citizenship Test and Interview for all English levels. No cost. Books and study materials provided.
Chapter Book Storytime with Miss Terri
Storytime for early readers. Come and listen to entertaining chapter books while practicing listening skills. For K-2nd grades.
Craft Time
Fun crafts for children of all ages!
Join us for stories, songs and a craft the whole family can enjoy.
Superhero Science
Join us for family Board Games! Bring your family, your friends or just yourself! No registration required.
Free course to deepen your knowledge and practice of meditation.
Oak Park Chess Club
Learn how to play or come hone your skills against other players. All skill levels are welcome to join whether you are just beginning or a chess grandmaster. All ages welcome.
Cinema Cafe
Enjoy light refreshments while watching and discussing a thought-provoking movie. Please call the library for the month’s selected feature.
Evening Book Club
Join the discussion of The Blue Hour, by local author Vicki Righettini.
Monthly book selection is available at the check out desk on a first come, first served basis.
Visitors and new members always welcome!
Teen Movie: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Read the book, then watch the movie!
Free snacks, candy, and soda.
2 hours 7 min.
Rated PG-13.
Creative Writing Workshop
Off-beat prompts, imaginative triggers, & guided beginnings will make writing easy and fun in this workshop designed for all levels of writers. We will explore poetry, prose, even the joy of the absurd to awaken your Muse and tap into yo
The USS Midway Museum’s Rudy Shappee—the author of Midway Memories—will discuss how the Battle of the Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific almost exactly 75 years ago.
Free World Music Concert
Featuring: Ray Ford & Patrick Handley will be playing:
The handpan or "hang" is a convex steel percussion instrument played with the hands inspired by the concave steel drum of trinidad
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Hatha Yoga for Adults
Aryn Rannazzisi leads a gentle paced class combining breath work and postures (asanas) to promote strength, flexibility and balance. This all-level class will include inversions, back bends and sun salutations.
Mad Science: Design Solutions from Pollution
This show is full of wacky, eye-popping science experiments that will help Preschool to 6th grade children understand what pollution is, its effect, and what some of the byproduct pollutants are that can be useful!
Crafts for Grown Ups! (Registration Required)
Come join us for some fun adult crafts!
Great Books You May Have Missed!
Looking for a great book to read? Look no further than with 'Great Books You May Have Missed!' A panel of three library professionals will tell you all about sleeper hits, critical darlings, arthouse picks and overlooked gems!