Events

How To Fold A Taco: Cómo doblar un taco Storywalk® at the Verdugo Hills Pool!

Join us every Monday this summer at Linnie Canal Park, also known as the Duck Playground, located on the Venice Canals, for a series titled Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan. Come to read, discuss, and enjoy the art!

Join us for storytime every Monday morning. We will share stories, songs, and fun fingerplays!

Read, sing, and play together at the library!

Join us the third Tuesday of each month for a lively discussion of our current selection. 

Read and discuss Nella Larson's short stories published in 1926 in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Central Library.

The Brentwood Nonfiction Book Club holds lively discussions of different nonfiction books each month. The group reads books with a wide range of styles, subjects, and perspectives. For information about upcoming selections, please get in touch with the library at brntwd@lapl.org. Copies of the selected books will be available for pickup at the library's circulation desk. 

In celebration of Central 100, join us for a discussion with Stephen Gee! He will be discussing his book Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and Architecture. 

Join us as we welcome Mirelle Ortega, local author/illustrator of River of Mariposas, Los Angeles Central Library POPS: Celebrating a Century of The Light of Learning and Magic: Once Upon a Faraway Land, for which she received a 2023 Pura Belpré Award Illustration Honor and an International Latino Book Award bronze medal. Mirelle will be sharing the book I Am, Yo Soy.

Learn about the earliest manga from over 500 years ago with award winning author-illustrator Sunny Seki.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library's Art, Music, and Recreation Department for an online conversation with authors Todd Marinovich and Lizzy Wright, celebrating the recent release of their book, Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction. Todd Marinovich, formerly a star quarterback at the University of Southern California...

Join us in the Community Room to hear local author Debra Miller discuss her new memoir, The Most Wonderful Terrible Person: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State.

Join LAPL's Art Department for a celebration of Andy Beta's newly published Cosmic Music, an in-depth biography of the jazz harpist, singer, composer and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane.