Events Calendar

You must sign up in advance: Literacy tutors are available Mondays and Wednesdays for grades K-6.

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

Join us for an exciting workshop where participants will learn the basics of nature journaling and create a page to submit to the LA Nature Quest journaling contest!

Join the Library's social worker, Rachelle Clayton Smith, for a bi-weekly journaling support group. You will learn how to reflect through writing, explore your creativity, and build stress relief skills! You can connect with others on their wellness…

Children are invited to share the joy of reading with our STAR volunteer. Come three times and take home a free book.

A program designed to enhance reading skills for children of all ages!

Student Zone is an after-school homework and study area for K-12 students that provides free computer access, printing, and guidance from a Student Zone homework helper.

Come meet with lawyers in the Van Nuys Branch Library for a free consumer debt clinic.

Walk-in tutoring is available for any adult who needs help with internet searches, filling out forms, English conversation, reading, writing, resumes, and applications, studying for citizenship tests, and basic cell phone and computer use.

Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, a young girl discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life that seems too good to be true.

Join STAR Reader Pam and nurture a love of reading. Young readers receive a book after 3 visits.

We will bring out hundreds of blocks and participants can stretch their imaginations and build away!

Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a hands-on session on sourdough starters and pancakes, featuring samples, butter- and cream-making, a kids’ zine, and a chance to bring a clean jar if you want to take a starter…

Learn how to carve and print your own linoleum print, or linocut.

Join us for the amazing interactive Wacko Show, featuring laughs and magic tricks.

Join the Watts Teen Council to get involved with the library and make a positive impact in the community.

Need to earn volunteer hours? Join Pio Pico's Teen Council! You'll develop leadership skills, plan programs for teens at the library, decorate the teen space, and more.

Come and build the challenge of the day or make your own creation. Ages 5-11.

Practice basic computer skills. This program is for beginners.

Celebrate the 2026 LA Nature Quest by learning about how birds use their different beaks, then make a bird feeder to take home!

Walk-in tutoring is available for any adult who needs help with internet searches, filling out forms, English conversation, reading, writing, resumes, and applications, studying for citizenship tests, and basic cell phone and computer use. No…

Children are invited to share the joy of reading with our STAR volunteer Paul. Take home a free book after reading with Paul three times.

Walk-in tutoring is available for any adult patron who needs help with Internet searches, filling out forms, English conversation/reading/writing, job or school resumes and applications, studying for citizenship tests, and basic cell phone and…

Join our Teen Council to gain valuable skills such as leadership, critical thinking, collaboration, and civic engagement. For ages 11-18.