Week Calendar

Robert Warren leads this popular qi gong class, a mind-body-spirit practice that improves one's mental and physical health by integrating posture, movement, and breathing technique.

This is a knit and crochet group where you can learn how to knit/crochet, knit/crochet in good company, show off your latest projects, and get to know your fellow neighbors.

Stop in to learn Japanese or improve your Japanese language skills!

If you have further questions regarding to the language class, please contact Cris Fitch at Cris.fitch@gmail.com

Come join us for Toddler Happy Hour!

Join us in the patio. Bring your own book or as library staff for a recommendation. 

Tea & coffee provided. 

Aprenda estrategias para crear y mantener un hogar más seguro para alguien que vive con demencia.

Join like-minded bibliophiles to discuss fiction titles.  A limited number of each month’s selection will be available at the Circulation Desk.

Open to the public and are free of charge. Play variety board games.

These classes can help teach you how to be confident with your devices.

The Daytime Book Club meets monthly to discuss the selected title - interesting and fun conversations ensue!

New members and guests are always welcome!

Would you like to learn to knit, crochet, do needlework or just spend time with other creators?

Bring your current project to work on, or if new to the hobbies, we'll help you get going!

The San Diego Futures Foundation is hosting FREE in-person classes for people of all skill levels.  

This month, come and learn All About Apps

Join the knitting and crochet circle. Improve your skills in these traditional art forms.  Bring your project for social crafting!

Our Shared River, Our Shared Water: Art Exhibit Event

Open Adult Ballet Class 10:00am - 11:30am

Instruction Details: 

To Be Announced 

Every Monday, join us for a friendly game of bridge. All adults are invited to participate using Party Bridge rules. Beginners welcome! Instructions will be provided.

Get help on the computers and with your digital devices from a Digital Navigator every Tuesday! They will be located in the computer lab and around the printer. Digital help offered in English, Spanish, and Tagalog. 

Work on your flexibility, strength building and quiet your mind with functional movement practice. Participate at your own ability. Wear flexible clothing and bring any preferred yoga equipment.

A gathering of intermediate & advanced players who want to enjoy a few rounds of mahjong together!

Materials are provided

Can’t make it to our in-person book club at the Carmel Mountain Ranch Library? Try this virtual alterative! A limited number of this month’s selection will be available at the Circulation Desk.

The Digital Navigator Program offers free, one-on-one assistance to help improve computer skills or get basic tech support. Digital Navigators are multi-lingual and are tech experts who are available to answer your "How to ....." questions.

Join us for a one-time book club discussion on Saturday, October 26th and enjoy a great read while you are waiting for a copy of Kristin Hannah’s The Women. Books are available now for pick up at the UC Library Circulation D

Let's get ready for Halloween by getting down to Michael Jackson's Thriller dance on the Pacific Beach Library's Cass Street Plaza!

NEED TECH HELP AND TECH RESOURCES?!

The City of San Diego and the San Diego Futures Foundation are offering FREE Digital Navigator drop-in services.

Interested in becoming a Friend to the Otay Mesa-Nestor Branch Library?  Come join us in our monthly meeting.

Join us for a free Mental Health First Aid Training Program!

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

This month we are doing a double feature. The first movie we will be showing is Nosferatu: The Vampyre, starting at 12:30pm. Then, we will be showing Suspiria, at 2:20pm. You can come for one, or both! Light refreshments provided. 

This adult art class features drawing and painting while enjoying music and socializing with others. No previous experience is needed. All supplies provided.

Open to the public and are free of charge. Play variety board games.

Join us at Tierrasanta Library for a very special Beginning Mahjong Class Series! Classes begin on Wednesday October 9th at 12:30pm in the Community Room. Materials will be provided.

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

Celebrate Hanbok Day at San Diego Central Library! This South Korean holiday began in 1996 and is celebrated in California on October 21.

Mindful meditation can help lower heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and stress.  Instructors from the Healthy Adventures Foundation will lead participants in meditative breathing, a contract/relax exercise, and guided imagery.  At

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

Experienced and novice players welcome.

Instructor Carol Shapiro 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.

The Page Turners' title for this month will be posted at a later date.  Please contact library staff if you have any questions.

Are you ready to explore your family tree?

“A time for looking inward, reflection and change. Honoring those spirits, making sense of the strange. So open your mind, part the veil if you dare. Welcome the new, for there's magic in the air!”

Camarada Tango Quartet

Sunday, October 20, 2024 | 2:30 pm | Neil Morgan Auditorium

“Tango Buenos Aires”

Interested in achieving better brain function while improving your memory, cognitive abilities, and strategic thinking? Then play chess!

Chess is played by over 600 million people and is the most popular game in the world.

Author David Schmidt, will be at the San Carlos Branch Library to talk about his series Haunted Temecula Valley. 

 Come and join us to our first lecture series for the Artificial Intelligence lectures:  A.I. & Disinformation. Presented by the Jewish Family Service. 

Focuses on the use of art as a creative expression and a therapeutic process.  Utilizes a variety of art media to promote self-expression, to develop coping skills, and to mediate emotional and physical challenges and limitations. 

Walk-ins are welcome. Registration is encouraged.

The Mission Hills Mystery Book Club attendees discuss a mystery novel on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 3:00 PM. Pick up this month's book at the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Branch Library.

Join us when the City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department shares important information about the San Diego Residential Lead Abatement Program.

Have someone in your family who wants to learn how to play chess? Join us for our revamped Board Game Afternoon program now with Chess lessons!  Not interested Chess?

All ages are welcome.

**Registration not required for rescheduled November 1st Employment Information Session

Join us for a discussion of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.  Make sure to watch the movie beforehand, either at our library showing or at home so that we can analyze and discuss the similarities and differences between the two mediums

Join us every Monday at 4 pm for a fun creative activity.

If you’re looking for a fun fall art activity – you will love this spider web salt painting craft! Learn how create this colorful textured art.

Join us in this special Sugar skull story time program.  Sugar Skulls are a traditional offering for Day of the Dead and each participants will decorate their own mini sugar skulls. All supplies are provided for. 

Let's play chess!  All ages and skill levels are welcome to play casual games in our relaxed setting. 

Join us on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month to practice knitting.  Beginners and knitters of all levels are welcome to attend.  We provide materials and instruction.  Bring a project you're currently working on, or try somethin

Community members with a basic grasp of English language can have fun themed conversations and build relationships with one another. We will talk about ourselves, our cultures, and more.

Join us for an hour of crochet! Any skill level is welcome - we can teach you. Materials will be provided, or bring your own projects.

Come join us and UC Representative Alberto Davalos for insights and ideas on how to answer your personal insight questions on the UC Application.

This is an in-person workshop.  

Come join us and Representative Alberto Davalos for insights and ideas on how to answer your personal insight questions on the UC Application.

This is an in-person course.  

Learn and practice meditation, improve harmony at home and at work, and build your wisdom and inner peace.  This secular and modern approach to traditional Buddhist teachings is led by Ashley Davis, co-founder of The Center for Harmonious Liv

Join El Tesoro Del Folklor at the Annex for free Ballet Folklorico classes! Children and adults from beginners to experienced are welcome to join this amazing group of talented performers to improve their skills.

Enjoy a family night where students and their group create together!  Please register all participants including parents, relatives, etc.).

Monthly speakers on a variety of topics of interest to gardeners.  The group tours members gardens and goes on outings to interesting nurseries and farms. 

Let's get ready for Halloween by getting down to Michael Jackson's Thriller dance on the Pacific Beach Library's Cass Street Plaza!

For this month's Crafts for Grown Ups, we'll be making DIY Cheesecloth Ghosties!  Come get creative and make a fun ghost decoration just in time for Halloween!

Learn the basics of vegetable gardening in  a series workshops.  Attend all workshops or just one, depending on your need.  No reservations are required.  This free series of programs are sponsored by the Master Ga

Explore New Worlds! Embark on Epic Adventures!

Have you ever wanted to play role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, but didn't know where to start? 

This month, we will be reading: Florida by Lauren Groff.

Whether you're a die-hard Swiftie superfan, a literature enthusiast, or s

This month, we will be reading: Florida by Lauren Groff.

Whether you're a die-hard Swiftie superfan, a literature enthusiast, or s

Presented by Write Out Loud San Diego, "StoryBox" is the American name given to the Japanese storytelling tradition called kamishibai.

The Ocean Beach Book Club is back in the library! Join this long-standing group for spirited discussions and diverse books the last Tuesday of the month.

Join us for a fun discussion of Science Fiction novels!

Details to come. 

Join us for casual, friendly conversation designed to increase participants' comfort with the English language and maybe make new friends.  

Join us for a discussion of "classic" books on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm in the Community Room.  The October selection is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.  We hope to see you there.

In 1945 on Halloween Night the Thompson Radio Studio in New York City will try to produce a midnight performance of The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.

Carmel Valley Community Planning Board meets on the fourth Thursday of the month as of March 23rd, 2023 at the Carmel Valley Library's Community Room.