Events Calendar

Design your own creations using Air Dry Clay! All necessary materials will be provided.

Join your neighbors for an evening stroll through the heart of Highland Park! This summer, we aren't just walking for exercise—we’re on a mission to capture the iconic images that define our corner of L.A.Walk: A scenic group determined loop through…

Join us at the Brentwood Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library for our new French Conversation Group, designed for native and near-native French speakers. Connect with fellow Francophones as you engage with recent articles from the French press…

Join Sun Chung, a local skin & gut health specialist, for a relaxing guided meditation designed to calm the mind, ease stress, and support your body's natural healing. The series explores the connection between self-worth, the nervous system, and…

Join us as we visit the Songs of Stranger Things in this unique Bingo game. While this program is normally for adults, this time, youth and teens who are Stranger Things/80s music fans and would enjoy 1.5 hours of Music Bingo are invited. No Bingo or…

After his release from prison for a hit-and-run, the impulsive and childish Hong Jong-du befriends Gong-ju, the victim's daughter, who is suffering from severe cerebral palsy. Through a series of clandestine meetings, the two develop an improbable…

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Join us at the Cypress Park Library for our Summer Movies series featuring the 1985 classic Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox and Crispin Glover. Follow Marty McFly as he travels back to 1955, where he encounters familiar faces from the…

Join us to learn basic embroidery and contribute to a collaborative artwork inspired by Palisadian oral histories and the local landscape. No experience is needed, and the workshop welcomes ages 12 and up. Bring a spirit of creativity and openness…

Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on how to safely make kombucha and other fermented sodas at home. The presentation includes tasting samples and a kombucha zine. 

Please bring a clean pint or…

A group of friends is going through a midlife crisis. They decide to remake a favorite movie from their youth, but encounter unexpected events when they enter the jungle. A fun, action-packed, comedy movie. Rated PG-13.Starring: Jack Black, Paul Rudd…

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…

The award-winning AlmaNova Duo, flutist Jessica Pierce and guitarist Almer Imamovic, invites us on an adventure into Balkan music, with its youthful energy and resilience, haunting melodies and rich harmonies, jubilant rhythms, and virtuosic melodic…

Learn basic papermaking techniques utilizing recycled paper materials found around the home, such as junk mail, old homework, newspapers, or a variety of almost any kind of paper. Participants will make small sheets of unique handmade paper and use…

Join Certified Food Preservation Instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on how to safely make yogurt, butter, and a variety of soft cheeses at home. The presentation includes tasting samples, and a yogurt, butter, and cheese zine. Ages…

Acclaimed author discusses her new novel.

Through stories, music history, photography, and personal experiences, the panel will explore how East Los Angeles artists and communities helped shape Los Angeles's cultural identity during times of change and uncertainty.

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…

Join us for a conversation about The Night Travelers, by Armando Lucas. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she…

Join us for a family movie day! Snacks will be provided while supplies last.

Join us in making DIY foam stamps. All materials will be provided on a limited basis.

Celebrate Central Library's 100th anniversary with the music, dance, and excitement of the Roaring Twenties!

Join us Tuesday afternoons at Edendale for fabulous films!

Join certified food preservation instructor Brie Wakeland Muszynski for a presentation on how to make jams, jellies, and marmalades at home.This program is generously funded by the Platt Friends of the Library.