Events Calendar

Enjoy a weekly drop-in program intended for kids aged 5-11, including activities like brick building, crafts, games, and more.

Learn about the history of Día de Los Muertos and make an altar!

Join us for our craft program designed for teens aged 11 to 18. Feel free to bring a friend!

Celebrate Diwali with us by making a paper diya.

Join our knitting and crochet social club. We meet weekly, and people of all levels are welcome, including beginners. Please bring your own supplies. Registration is not required, just drop by.

Makerspace with button making and more!

Take some time for your creative pursuits and chat with fellow art-makers in this virtual studio hour. Please bring whatever creative project you're working on, or if you need an art prompt, we will provide one.

Join us to celebrate Native American Heritage Month with crafts that honor indigenous traditions.

Come learn how to sew or use our sewing machines to finish a project. You can also bring your embroidery, crochet, or knitting project.

Our STAR volunteers read to children one-on-one or in small groups. No sign-up is required. Take home a free book to keep after attending three STAR storytimes at our branch.

Celebrate Native Heritage Month with Zapotec artist, Taty Hernández of Lumbre Ceramics. Learn about the development of the technology that is ceramics from the Mesoamerican time period to today! Create your own clay invention to take home.

Learn about book making and celebrate 100 years of the Central Library.

Craft program - make a bike as we get ready for the CSUN BikeFest.

Bring your crochet, knitting, embroidery, or hand-stitching projects to the library and enjoy a relaxing hour crafting and chatting with other needle-art fans. Limited supplies are available for practicing and learning.

Come to the Pico Union Branch Library and paint some miniatures! Painting can be therapeutic and meditative. We provide brushes, paint, and even miniatures that you can keep!

Join us for brick building play and let your imagination soar! Bring your engineering ideas to life and build whatever you want with building bricks.

Celebrate L.A. Zine Week at the library.

Teens will learn about indigenous futurism through this clay workshop.

Draw, paint, knit, crochet, needle, color, or create in your own way! Stop by the library every Thursday for our ongoing Fiber Art and Arts Club. Bring your project, enjoy tea, and connect with others in a relaxed, friendly space.

All November and December, we'll be making gifts for friends and loved ones!

Learn about the significance of sandpainting.

Join us in creating seasonal crafts with "Fall in a Jar"!

Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Central Library and explore the art of linocut printing at this special event. Nova Community Arts will teach attendees how to design, carve and print a linoleum block as a broadside…

Join us every Friday afternoon for a free-play session with LEGO-style bricks.