Week Calendar

Stay and Play (ages 0-6)

Come to “Stay and Play” Explore our toys, puzzles, building blocks and more!

Playing helps children use their imaginations to create stories and develop important narrative skills.

Welcome to outdoor Storytime at Central Santa Rosa Library! Please bring your coziest outdoor blanket to sit on and enter the library's front door to access the Reading Garden. In the event of rain, Storytime will move indoors.

Join your local librarian in singing, reading, and playing together to build early literacy skills and a joy of reading. 

This event is outdoors, and will cancel for rain. 

Come to “Stay and Play” Explore our toys, puzzles, building blocks and more!
Playing helps children use their imaginations to create stories and develop important narrative skills.

Join us for stories, songs, and movement under the big oak tree behind the Petaluma Historical Museum downtown.

Join your local librarian at Ives Park Thursdays at 10:30am for Neurodiverse Storytime! We'll sing, read, play music, and parachute or handle scarves!

WHEN: Saturday, May 14, 2022
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
WHERE: The Grange, 1370 Bodega Avenue Bodega Bay

Español abajo

Spanish interpreter for presentations

Música y Movimiento en español (edades 0-6)

¡En persona en la biblioteca de Roseland!

Este programa se presentará en español.

Música y Movimiento en español (edades 0-6)

¡En persona en la biblioteca de Healdsburg!

Este programa se presentará en español.

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May’s Let’s Talk English Conversation Classes on WEDNESDAYS

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

First Class Meets: May 4, 2022  at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Family Storytime

Welcome back to Family Storytime at the Windsor Library!

Join Miss Charity and the BiblioBike at Giorgi Park for Family Storytime.  

Please bring your own chairs and blankets.

No need to register in advance.

Read to a Dog This event is for beginning readers.  Practice reading with a 4PAWS certified therapy dog to improve reading skills and confidence!

This month's book: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Join us for book club! The Petaluma Regional Library will be hosting a book discussion the second Tuesday of each month at noon (12:00 pm.)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Book Club:Join us to discuss this book IN PERSON at the Rincon Valley Library. Pick up a copy of this month's selection at the Reference Desk while supplies last.

Advanced Spanish conversation class

Join us in the discussion of Still Life by Louise Penny

We meet once a month on the second Tuesday of the month at 2 pm. This is a hybrid event. You may join us at the library or via zoom. 

Read Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar and join us in person or virtually for a discussion on Tuesday, May 10^th at 2:30 pm.  

Read to a Dog

Come and read out loud to the dogs of PALS (Paws as Loving Support). These well-trained dogs love to listen to stories in English and Spanish. 

Teen Anime Club

Come join other Anime fans every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 2:30-4pm!

Come meet other Teens who enjoy watching Anime and discussing Manga.

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May’s Let’s Talk English Conversation Classes on THURSDAYS

2:00 – 3:30 pm

First Class Meets: May 5, 2022 at 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join historian Arthur Dawson for an exploration of our Chinese history, the struggles of other marginalized groups, the roles played by locals Charles Stuart and C.C.

This event is for beginning readers. 

Practice reading with a 4PAWS certified therapy dog to improve reading skills and confidence. 

Are you a teen in Petaluma, California?  Do you want to be more involved in your community?  Want to be involved in Lumacon planning?  Planning of library programs?  Join Petaluma's Teen Advisory Council!  We will have mee

Welcome Back to our Read to a Dog Program.

This event is for beginning readers. 

Practice reading with a 4PAWS certified therapy dog to improve reading skills and confidence. 

Welcome to our Read to a Dog Program at Northwest Library!

This event is for beginning readers. 

Read a story to a dog!

Drop in for some one on one tech help. Bring your device and your questions and our volunteers will lend you their expertise. 

Free Homework Help every Thursday afternoon at the Sebastopol Library!

Intergenerational Chess: teens & seniors

Weekly on Thursdays, 3:30-5 PM (with optional tournaments on the fourth Thursday of the month)

Join us! Learn something! Have fun!

Come to the Cloverdale Library on Thursday, May 12, and create with our teen LEGO-building mentors, Ivan and Edwin! The top four LEGO creations will be put on display in the library.

Join other teens in beginner’s yoga practice, featuring mindful movement and breath work.

Join the BiblioBus mobile library for story time, music, books check out, and more as the Sonoma County Library installs a new family reading areas at Spring Valley, Sonoma.

In this virtual series children's author Natasha Yim will lead young writers, ages 9-12, in monthly meetings to develop their own stories.

Extended coding club for 7th-12th-grade students, to use computer science to impact their community and to build skills to help close the gender gap in technology.

Come join other Anime fans on Zoom every Wednesday at 4:30 pm! Come meet other Teens who enjoy watching Anime and discussing Manga.

Teens will also help the group decide what Anime titles to watch.

This all ages class will introduce participants to the significance of deaf culture, how to finger spell their name, and provide an overview of basic grammar, vocabulary, numbers, and colors. Advanced registration is required!

Come and craft at Roseland Regional Library every Friday from 4-5:00pm! Each week there will be a different craft for teens to do, so bring your creative minds. Snacks and all materials will be provided. 

Reading Justice is a program designed to give families an opportunity to talk about potentially challenging topics.

Reading Justice is a program designed to give families an opportunity to talk about potentially challenging topics.

Join Zoom Special Library Advisory Board Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83537295417

Meeting ID: 835 3729 5417

Hang out with other queer teens and allies to discuss books and other media on a monthly theme. 

Promoting coding for teens in demographics that are underrepresented in the tech industry. Space is limited to 10 participants, and participants are expected to attend all sessions. Currently offered at the Sebastopol Library.

Virtual drop-in class for adults to practice verbal English in a small group setting with a class facilitator.

Learn to make an Iris Fold frame for a greeting card and then let your creativity take over with the possibilities with the e-resource Creativebug!

Young people, ages 12-17 are invited to join us every Tuesday, from 6pm- 7pm, via Zoom. Links will be provided via email 1 hour before the program begins

Welcome to the Takeout Book Club! (or, as the librarians are fondly referring to it, the Book Club Formerly Known as Brown Bag). 

This highly participatory course focuses on conversation, emphasizing pronunciation and vocabulary.  It provides the knowledge, linguistic structures, and grammar necessary to communicate in Spanish at a basic level.

Join librarians virtually to discuss books centering on LGBTQ+ voices.

Meetings are on the second Wednesday of the month (January-December) from 6-7 pm.

Join the Joe Mesics' Literary Canon book group in May to jointly discuss the classic "Moby Dick" along with Nathaniel Philbrick's "Why Read Moby-Dick?" 

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