Events Calendar

Learn the basics of technology! The workshop is recommended for adults that want to build essential digital skills. No experience or equipment needed. This 8-hour training (two 4-hour sessions) will help you build confidence with everyday technology…

BambinO is a unique opera created for babies aged 6–18 months.

Caregivers, if your child is a confident walker but just learning about sports, this beginner's soccer practice is for you. Children will learn which part of their feet to use, how to do basic stretches, and how to try scoring a goal with foam soccer…

Join us for a Pride Month-themed MakerSpace to create 3D items, sewing projects, zines, stickers, and buttons.

Learn how to make and break a secret code! Spell out a special message on a bracelet.

Join us for a creative, inclusive, and relaxing coloring activity that celebrates diversity, self-love, and pride.

Teens, please join us for a Vietnamese spring roll making workshop. These rolls are scrumptious and a healthy choice of food. They are served cold, non-fried, and filled with fresh crunchy vegetables, herbs, and rice noodles and wrapped in rice paper…

Take a captivating journey to the Red Planet with retired NASA/JPL Project Manager David Lehman. Delve into the allure and the mysteries of Mars, learn about past and current Mars space missions, and find out how we could journey to Mars someday in…

Create colorful friendship bracelets to keep or share with family and friends in honor of Pride Month.Haz pulseras de amistad para usar o compartir con familia y amigos en honor al Mes del Orgullo.

Artist and educator Taty Hernandez will guide you through an introduction to Indigenous Futurism to (re)imagine and dream up new worlds. Participants will get to be hands-on with clay to tell a story through clay sculptures. Take home a small…

Join us for a Centennial Book Club discussion of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, part of Los Angeles Public Library’s Central 100 celebration. Published in 1926, this classic mystery follows Hercule Poirot as he unravels a shocking…

Join us in the Taper Auditorium at Central Library for the Central Soccer Celebration as we screen the FIFA World Cup 26™. Join us in the comfortable, air-conditioned Taper Auditorium at Central Library for the Central Soccer Celebration as we screen…

George Takei has shown the world many faces: actor, author, outspoken activist, helmsman of the starship Enterprise, living witness to the internment of Japanese Americans, and king of social media. But until October 27, 2005, there was always one…

In this ribald mockumentary, Tony Award winners Ben Platt and Molly Gordon play longtime best friends and drama instructors at a rundown Theater Camp (2023, rated PG-13) in upstate New York. A diverse young band of queer aspiring actors and singers…

Celebrate LGBTQIA Pride Month by making a community flag. Paint a strip that tells your story, and we will put them all together to create a symbol of our community.

For children who know how to play or would like to learn the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Ages 6+.

Join us for an afternoon of board games and card games. Feel free to bring your favorite game from home!Open to middle and high school students.

Join us for a Kids' Book Club. This book club is designed for students in grades 2-4.

Join chef Jessica Wang for a hands-on pickling workshop, introducing folks to basic concepts in fermentation and vinegar pickling for the home kitchen.This program is generously funded by the Platt Friends of the Library.

LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) will provide presentations, interactive games, and a free mobile app to teach patrons of all ages how to properly sort their waste and be more sustainable.

Join us for our Summer With the Library program! We will be making colorful art with Rainbow Scratch paper and decorating our own rocks. Don't forget to sign up for our Summer With the Library Challenge and receive prizes while supplies last. Please…

Calling all predators, prey, and everyone in between! Get ready to go wild at the Westwood Library for a special screening of Zootopia 2. Join Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde as they return to the urban jungle for their newest adventure. Bring your family…

Join us as we make beaded rainbow bracelets to celebrate Pride Month!

Join our Teen Book Club this summer! In our first meeting on June 23, we will begin the book The White Guy Dies First together, with yummy snacks to get everyone excited and ready to read!At our second meeting on July 21, we will share our final…