Week Calendar

Join us for a special storytime were we will learn about trash trucks and then have a show-and-tell visit from real trash truck professionals and their amazing vehicle! 

Join us for a Lifeguard Read-Aloud session! Engage with Lifeguards, participate in interactive activities, and learn how to be safe at the beach and bay. Let us bring the sand, sun, and ocean experience to you!

This spectacular show thrills audiences with impressive science experiments.  This event includes foggy dry ice storms and even mind-boggling vanishing paper!  Students will be amazed by sizzling, shivering scissors and special bubbly sh

Join us Thursday mornings at 10am for stories, songs, finger games and more! 

This event will be held at the Balboa Library, 4255 Mt. Abernathy Ave, San Diego, CA 92117.

Join us for Week 7 of our Summer Reading Program series!

 Join us as multi-instrumentalist Craig Newton visits North Park Library to sing fun and silly folk songs and learn about different types of musical instruments! 

Join us for a magic and bubble show performed by Sparkles the Clown! Sparkles has been entertaining children and families for decades, we promise this event will make your day SPARKLE. 

Join Wild Man Dan for an educational family show that will inspire you to live wild and love nature.

Learn all about snakes, lizards, spiders, and scorpions and even hold some of them!

Kamishibai story-telling combines oral, visual, and print literacies. The stories rely on lively dialogue and highly dramatic situations that engage youngsters both emotionally and intellectually.

To wrap up our summer reading program, we will use fire, foam, and music to explore the difference between physical and chemical reactions.

Join us for Free Summer Lunches for minors at Mountain View Community Center and get to watch the amazing Micheal Rayner perform his fantastic juggling act! This is a free program. 

Take a walk on the wild side!  Learn about animals from around the world.   Wild Wonders makes learning fun and interactive for everyone!

Get ready for foot stomping, toe tapping, hand clapping, sing-along fun as Craig Newton brings TEN different instruments to your library. Guitar from Spain, Flute from France, a Drum from Africa, Saxophone from Belgium, and much more!

Movie + Craft -- Luca

Join us every Monday for Movie + Craft. Watch a family-friendly movie and spark your imagination with a craft inspired by the film.

Lunch is Served:

Renew Mondays

Trinity Theatre

Trinity Theatre brings beloved children’s books to life with an engaging book reading and a fun, interactive theatrical performance. 

DIY Tuesdays

Ruth & Emilia Show

Ruth and Emilia's humorous, kid-friendly music show features wacky characters in stories sure to inspire audiences to be their very best, while making the world a better place.

Craftacular Wednesdays

When Emilia throws a birthday party for her pet Mousie her alien friends from the planet Goopdah arrive to join in the celebration!

National Marine Mammal Foundation

Showcase Thursdays

Board Games + LEGO

Come and join us for and afternoon of fun, friendly competition, and creativity with board games and LEGOs.

Lunch is Served:

Fun Fridays

Sharpen Your Skills This Summer!

Join us for Summer Bridge Activities--a fun exciting way to stay sharp, learn new things, and prepare for the next school year!

What's in store?

DYH@L Presents: Summer Enrichment
Drop in hours: 1pm-4pm 

Sharpen Your Skills This Summer!

Join us for Summer Bridge Activities--a fun exciting way to stay sharp, learn new things, and prepare for the next school year!

What's in store?

DYH@L Presents: Summer Enrichment
Drop in hours: 1pm-4pm 

Sharpen Your Skills This Summer!

Join us for Summer Bridge Activities--a fun exciting way to stay sharp, learn new things, and prepare for the next school year!

What's in store?

Join us for a Lifeguard Read-Aloud session! Engage with Lifeguards, participate in interactive activities, and learn how to be safe at the beach and bay. Let us bring the sand, sun, and ocean experience to you!

DYH@L Presents: Summer Enrichment
Drop in hours: 1pm-4pm 

Sharpen Your Skills This Summer!

Join us for Summer Bridge Activities--a fun exciting way to stay sharp, learn new things, and prepare for the next school year!

What's in store?

This program focuses on native North American animals, featuring many from our own beautiful country, with an “at home” conservation theme!

Join us for a roleplaying adventure! Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned player, all are welcome! All you need to bring is your imagination and creativity! Space is limited and registration is required. Teens 12-18 only.

Mr. Electric brings a fun, high energy, and electrifying science show to the library about electricity from Franklin to Tesla and beyond.  

Each child will create their own “Who Am I?” Game Book with the assistance of an adult!

Head to the library for a Family Movie Day! Join us for a showing of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)! 

Snacks and drinks supplies last.

Discover the art and resiliency of pottery with San Diego Archaeological Center’s Clay Pinch Pot activity!

Craig Newton has been teaching children about different musical instruments for decades.  Join Craig on a musical journey around the world as he teaches about and demonstrates how to play different musical instruments.  Make sure to wear

Learn how to make a book from the mail and materials you have around the house. You will learn how to bind pages, and create a book you will be proud to fill with your art and observations.

Age 12+ (8-11 with adult) All sewing levels welcome! New to sewing? No experience? No problem. Clicbitz Instructor Tracey Herriot will show you the basics while you make a superhero cape perfect for Comic-Con!

Fleet Science Center presents an Under Pressure Don’t Try This At Home show that puts the fun in looking at the power and strength of air.

It's San Diego Comic-Con week and we're bringing a taste of the con to the library with... Cosplay with Odi Day! 

Sparkles the clown will amuse, delight, make you giggle, and maybe even put you in a giant bubble! Intrigued? Come and see what's happening! All ages and families welcome.

Python is the best coding language to start with. It’s the most popular programming language, and useful for every kind of programming.

Join us every Tuesday in the summer for hands-on projects recommended for ages 10+!

This week's project: Turn plain rocks into creative creatures with paint. Rocks provided, or bring your own.

Ruth and Emilia's humorous, kid-friendly music show features wacky characters in stories sure to inspire audiences to be their very best, while making the world a better place.

Learn all about the value of worms in the garden with Master Gardener James Huzenga.

Calling all superheroes!!!!  In celebration of Comic-Con week, join us as we welcome Clicbitz San Diego who will help you tap into -your inner superhero!

This Teen Night we will have Art Smart here to teach us the technical skills of watercolor. Each patron will be able to paint thier own cat. Whether that is a large wild cat or a domestic cat is up to them!

You think homework is pressure? Just wait until you learn how the weight of the earth’s atmosphere pushes down on you with the force of two elephants!

Have you ever wanted to make Balloon Animals?

Join us and make a beautiful vase by decorating a recycled glass container.

Join this workshop and turn an old book into a beautiful vase.

All supplies will be provided.

"Long ago, the greatest library in generations disappeared into the desert, taking with it a huge variety of riches and treasures.

Ready to meet your new friend(s)? Someone who can accompany you through life's journey? Are you brave enough to be seen and share similar interest? Interested in meeting someone who is different from you?

The Microphone Doctors presents a FUN and exciting Costume & Bubble Dance Party for all ages to rock to during 2025 Summer Reading Program: Level Up!