Oakland Public Library

Your Library October 2016

Revolution is a Daily Struggle: Remembering the ’s Social Programs

o commemorate the 50th anniversary of T the founding of the Black Panther Party, the Oakland History Room will showcase the group’s innovative and much-needed survival programs, which from 1966 to 1982 aided many people in Oakland and around the . Black Panther Party historian Billy X Jennings will share stories of how the Panthers provided the impoverished in the African American community with free food, medical care, legal assistance, senior services, political education, and much more. An exhibit featuring Black Panther Party newspapers, photographs, books, articles, and ephemera accompanies this program. The exhibit is located on the second floor of the Main Library in the Oakland History Room. Main Library, Bradley C. Walters Community BILLY X JENNINGS Room, Wednesday, October 5, 6pm

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Images of the Black Panther Party, 50 Years Later Author Talk with Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames he Black Panther Party burst upon our consciousness when Bobby Seale and Opening Reception for T other Panthers marched upon the State Capitol in Sacramento—armed Revolutionary Grain with guns. This approach electrified a generation of black youth. he new exhibit at AAMLO But the Panthers did not encourage hatred. They sought instead to features recent portraits of Black build a community through service to the people, providing free T Panther Party members as they look food and clothing. The Panthers gave purpose to the aimless, today, taken by documentary angry youth who loitered on street corners, molding these young photographer Suzun Lucia Lamaina. people into disciplined, hard workers who served their community The show, which commemorates the and showed respect for mothers, fathers, and elders. 50th anniversary of the founding of the Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames have co-authored a new BPP in 1966, will be on display Panther book, Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers, to be published BOBBY SEALE (PHOTO: through February 2017. by Abrams this month. The photos capture the work, the sorrow, the hope, the fear, SIMON SCHLUTER) AAMLO, Saturday, October 22, 3pm and the many collective joys that limn the experience of those involved with propelling the Black Panther Party into the international spotlight. Join us in discussion with Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames about the evolution and eventual publication of their work. There will be a book sale and signing after the program. Main Library, West Auditorium, Thursday, October 20, 7pm On Exhibit The library’s programs are Black Love: Photography by Sonjhai Meggette Sonjhai Meggette’s photographs explore family, community, and fashion in black and white. generously As Ms. Meggette puts it, “I am committed to raising public awareness of how authentically beautiful we are by reinforcing positive images with supported by the photography.” Eastmont Branch, October 1 through December 31 Friends of the Oakland Fire Art Project: Art Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Oakland Hills Firestorm The Oakland Hills firestorm of October 1991 Public Library, a nonprofit killed 25 people and destroyed over 3,000 homes. A year later, the Fire Art Project, orchestrated by Ruth Block, appeared in 35 venues membership organization. throughout Oakland and Berkeley, displaying art created in response to the fire. This month, Rockridge Branch gallery is exhibiting many pieces For more information or to from the 1992 Fire Art Project, featuring work by artists James C Palacios, Joell Jones, June Felter, Jennie Jabbour, Raphael Shevelev, Darrell join, visit www.FOPL.org. Hunger, Carolyn Burgess, and Andy Bergers. Rockridge Branch, October 1-31 Revolution is a Daily Struggle: Remembering the Black Panther Party’s Social Programs To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, the Oakland History Room has mounted an exhibit to showcase the BPP’s innovative and much-needed survival programs (1966-1982) that aided many people in Oakland and around the United States by providing them with free food, medical care, oaklandlibrary.org legal assistance, and political education. The exhibit features BPP newspapers, photographs, books, articles, and ephemera from the group’s heyday. Main Library, through November 30 Suzun Lucia Lamaina: Revolutionary Grain Recent portraits taken by documentary photographer Suzun Lucia Lamaina are the result of a five-year project in which she traveled throughout the United States chronicling the lives of former members of the Black Panther Party. The black and white portraits provide the viewer with the opportunity to see what former members look like today. Their stories, which accompany Ms. Lamaina’s portraits, give first-hand accounts from the former Panthers about what it was like to be in the Party and what they are doing now as a continuation of the work they started in their youth. Ms. Lamaina’s original prints will be exhibited. AAMLO, October 22 through February 28

Oakland Public Library : 1 Events for Adults Litquake and the Oakland Public Library Present: Lit by the Lake in the Library

EAST BAY AUTHORS LUCY JANE BLEDSOE, ALI ETERAZ, YANG HUANG, LISA MCGUINNESS, NAYOMI MUNAWEERA, AND KATE JESSICA RAPHAEL

elebrate the variety of literary talent in the Chicago Quarterly Review, storySouth, and was the Target Book Club selection for CEast Bay in a special after-hours event at Crossborder, NPR, The New York Times, and The January 2016. Her second novel, What Lies Oakland’s Main Library. Six authors come Guardian. Between Us, was hailed as one of the most together this year to read from their newly Yang Huang grew up in mainland China. Her exciting literary releases of 2016. published books. Enjoy a glass of wine, take a debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Kate Jessica Raphael is a Bay Area feminist seat, and make new friends while you meet some Book Awards Silver Medal, Next Generation Indie and queer activist, journalist, writer, and radio of our top local authors. Book Awards Gold Medal, and Living Now Book host. She lived in Palestine for 18 months and in Our 2016 panel features Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Ali Awards Bronze Medal. She lives in the East Bay 2015 published her first novel,Murder Under the Eteraz, Yang Huang, Lisa McGuinness, Nayomi and works for UC Berkeley. Bridge: A Palestine Mystery. Set in the northern Munaweera, and Kate Jessica Raphael. Author and editor Lisa McGuinness has West Bank, it’s the first English language mystery Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s newest novel, A Thin written several books including Caffeinated Ideas with a Palestinian policewoman as a protagonist. Bright Line, is an American love story with Cold Journal, Meaningful Bouquets, and the novel It won the IPPY silver medal for mystery and is a War complications. She’s won a Yaddo Fellowship, Catarina’s Ring, as well as a gaggle of children’s finalist forINDIEFAB in both mystery and the Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award, the Arts books including The Dictionary of Extraordinary multicultural fiction. She’s working on the second and Letters Fiction Prize, a California Arts Council Ordinary Animals and The New York Times book in the series. Fellowship, and two National Science Foundation bestseller Bee & Me. Admission is a suggested $5 donation, Artists and Writers Fellowships. Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a benefiting Litquake and the Friends of the Oakland Ali Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Thousand Mirrors, was long-listed for the Man Asia Public Library (admission includes complimentary Writers’ Grotto. He is the author of the memoir Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was wine for attendees over the age of 21). Children of Dust, the short story collection short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Main Library, 1st Floor Study Area, Friday, Falsipedies & Fibsiennes, and the novel Native Literature and the Northern California Book Award. October 14, 6:30pm Believer. Mr. Eteraz’s work has appeared in the It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia Library Activities Adults TUE, 10/11 Oakland Knows Jack (London): Oakland Knows Jack (London): Free Computer Help, Elmhurst, Discuss Oakland’s 2016 Ballot White Fang Book Discussion, White Fang Book Discussion, 2pm SAT, 10/1 Lakeview, 6:30pm Golden Gate, 6pm Measures, Elmhurst, 5:30pm Résumé Help, Main, 4:30pm Celebrating 50 Years in Oakland Knows Jack (London): Start & Run a Small Business: Oakland Ballot Measure THURSDAYS Fruitvale / Celebrando 50 años Discussion, West Oakland, White Fang Book Discussion, An Operation HOPE Workshop, en Fruitvale, César E. Chávez, 5:30pm Montclair, 6:30pm Temescal, 6pm ESL Conversation Club, Main, 12pm 2pm Oakland Knows Jack (London): Spanish Conversation Group, Discover Your Past:­ Explore Know Your Ballot, Temescal, White Fang Book Discussion, Dimond, 6:30pm Genealogy with Ancestry ESL Conversation Club, César E. 2:30pm Online, Piedmont Avenue, 6:30pm Dimond, 6:30pm Discover Your Past:­ Explore Chávez, 4pm MON, 10/3 Genealogy with Ancestry FRI, 10/14 THU, 10/27 SATURDAYS Online, Piedmont Avenue, 6:30pm Career Building Workshop, Litquake and the Oakland Radical Mycology, Main, 6:30pm Free Computer Help, Elmhurst, Brookfield, 5pm THU, 10/20 12pm Public Library Present: Lit by FRI, 10/28 TUE, 10/4 the Lake in the Library, Main, Author Talk with Bobby Seale English Conversation Group, At Last Book Club, Main, 3:30pm 6:30pm and Stephen Shames, Main, 7pm Martin Luther King Jr., 4pm Spanish Conversation Group, SAT, 10/29 Dimond, 6:30pm SAT, 10/15 SAT, 10/22 LAWYERS IN THE LIBRARY Education is Life Author Book WED, 10/5 Children’s Clothing, Book, and Oakland Knows Jack (London): Main, 1st through 4th Thu, 6pm; Signing and Workshop, AAMLO, Toy Swap, Dimond, 10am White Fang Book Discussion, 2nd through 4th Wed, 6pm

Halloween Costume Swap, Rockridge, 11:30am 11am Piedmont Avenue, 10am Designing Your Bay-friendly Bankruptcy Lawyer at Main, Art + Words: Remembering the Garden, Rockridge, 11am African American Quilt Guild Wed, 10/5, 6pm Revolution is a Daily Struggle: Meeting, West Oakland, 1pm Oakland Hills Fire, Rockridge, Remembering the Black Writers’ Support and Critique 11am 81st Avenue, Tue, 10/18, 5pm Panther Party’s Social Group: All Writers Welcome!, La Palabra Musical / The Music ESL Conversation Club, Dimond, Brookfield, Mon, 10/10, 5pm; Programs, Main, 6pm Rockridge, 1pm of the Word, César E. Chávez, 1pm Wed, 10/12, 11am ’s Family and His 3pm THU, 10/6 César E. Chávez, Thu, 10/13, Photos, Temescal, 2:30pm Oakland Knows Jack (London): MON, 10/31 ESL Conversation Club, 4:30pm Jingletown Poetry Reading and White Fang Book Discussion, Library Advisory Commission Eastmont, 1pm Tue, 10/4, 6pm Open Mic, César E. Chávez, 3pm Martin Luther King Jr., 3pm Meeting, Main, 5:15pm Dimond, SAT, 10/8 Opening Reception for Eastmont, Mon, 10/10, 5pm TUE, 10/18 MONDAYS Halloween Costume Swap, Revolutionary Grain, AAMLO, Elmhurst, Sat, 10/8, 12pm eBook Help, Eastmont, 5pm Piedmont Avenue, 10am Oakland Knows Jack (London): 3pm White Fang Movie Night, Melrose, Tue, 10/25, 5pm TUE, 10/25 TUESDAYS Fall Temescal Children’s Elmhurst, 5pm Montclair, Tue, 10/11, 6pm Clothing Swap, Temescal, Computer Help, West Oakland, Start & Run a Small Business: Club de Lectura Familiar para 10:30am 2pm Rockridge, Tue, 10/4, 6pm An Operation HOPE Workshop, Principiantes en inglés \ Club de Lectura en Español / West Oakland, 5pm Beginner Book Club for eBook Help, Rockridge, 6pm Temescal, Tue, 10/4, 6pm Spanish Book Club, César E. Families, César E. Chávez, 4pm Chávez, 11am “Queer & Trans Artists of Color” WEDNESDAYS Vol. 2 Book Launch, César E.

Chávez, 6pm One-on-one Résumé Assistance, Martin Luther King Jr., 10am

Your Library : 2 “Queer & Trans Artists of Color” Radical Mycology Vol. 2 Book Launch ungi are everywhere around us. They form complex symbioses with F plants and animals—critical roles that keep all ecological webs intact. ince 2013, Nia King Mushrooms and other fungi are deeply woven in the history of the Earth and S has been interviewing all human cultures. Today, mycology (the study of fungi) offers great potential queer and trans artists of for addressing a wealth of global issues. color about their lives and Author Peter McCoy is touring across the U.S. work for her podcast, “We to share information from his new book, Radical Want the Airwaves.” In Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with 2014, she published a Fungi. This event will be a reading/presentation/ collection of interviews show-and-tell on fungal ecology, mushroom called “Queer & Trans cultivation, mycoremediation, and more. Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives.” Come Founded in 2006, Radical Mycology is a celebrate the release of Volume 2 at a talk show-style launch party, grassroots movement based on teaching the featuring live interviews with artists Elena Rose, Juba Kalamka, Luna importance of mushrooms and other fungi for Merbruja, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. There will be free, personal, societal, and ecological resilience. home-cooked Middle Eastern food, and ASL interpretation will be provided. Main Library, Bradley C. Walters Community Room, Thursday, October César E. Chávez Branch, Tuesday, October 18, 6pm 27, 6:30pm

Oakland Knows Jack Jack London’s Family and His Photos (London): White Fang ather with Jack London’s family for G the introduction of a new book, Jack Book Discussions London: The Paths Men Take, published by Contrasto Books of Rome, Italy. The book oin us for a discussion of Jack presents an extensive selection from more London’s White Fang. This is a J than 12,000 documentary photographs and One City, One Book discussion, so works of photo journalism that Mr. London we’ll be talking about White Fang all left behind. It includes, for the first time, high over Oakland, including several OPL quality offset printed reproductions of the locations. This is a great book for the photographs in London’s landmark book, whole family, so grab a copy and join People of the Abyss, describing the us for a fun and exciting conversation! conditions of urban poverty in London at the JACK LONDON WITH HIS DAUGHTERS BESS AND JOAN Dimond Branch, Tuesday, October 11, 6:30pm beginning of the 20th Century. Videos made from his photographs will be shown. Lakeview Branch, Tuesday, October 18, 6:30pm Along with presentations from the book, Jack London's direct descendants, including Montclair Branch, Tuesday, October 18, 6:30pm his great-granddaughter, artist and activist Tarnel Abbott, and as many of her relatives as Rockridge Branch, Saturday, October 22, 11:30am we can gather, will be on hand for casual discussion and interaction. Emiliana Tedesco of Contrasto Books will be on hand for questions on the publication, and copies will be Martin Luther King Jr. Branch, Saturday, October available for purchase. 22, 3pm Temescal Branch, Saturday, October 15, 2:30pm Golden Gate Branch, Tuesday, October 25, 6pm Library Activities Teens FRI, 10/14 TUE, 10/25 SATURDAYS SAT, 10/8 Let’s Meet in the TeenZone to Crafternoon in the TeenZone, Game Day, 81st Avenue, 3pm Litter Walk, Elmhurst, 10:15am SAT, 10/1 Make Papel Picado, Brookfield, Eastmont, 3pm Chávez Teen Advisory Board, 3:30pm TUE, 10/11 WED, 10/26 César E. Chávez, 11am Asian Branch Teen Advisory Families & Kids NorCal Bats: Real Information West Rockridge Teen Advisory Group, Asian, 4pm Let’s Meet in the ’Zone, About this Halloween Icon, Oakland, 3:30pm SAT, 10/1 Asian, 1:30pm Group, Rockridge, 1pm SAT, 10/15 PAWS to Read, West Oakland, Video Games, Asian, 2pm FRI, 10/28 Family Forts and Library Camp Youth Leadership Council, Main, 11:30am Out, 81st Avenue, 3:30pm Egg Carton Crafts, Melrose, TUE, 10/04 11am 3:30pm Cardboard Challenge, Martin NorCal Bats: Real Information Let’s Meet in the ’Zone: Egg TeenZone Pop-up: Perler Beads Luther King Jr., 1pm About this Halloween Icon, SAT, 10/29 Carton Art, Lakeview Branch, Bookmarks, 81st Avenue, 1pm Learn the Game of Chess, Rockridge, 7pm 4:30pm César E. Shrinky Dinks, Rockridge, 2pm Papel Picado Craft, Dimond, 1pm WED, 10/12 Chávez, 2pm WED, 10/5 Take Things Apart, Asian, Open Studio: Build, César E. A Beautiful Mess, Montclair, 3pm 2:30pm Magical Mask Making, Asian, Chávez, 1:30pm Pop-up TeenZone, Montclair, LEGO Mania!, Elmhurst, 3:30pm 1:30pm 2:30pm WED, 10/19 Off the Hook, Melrose, 3pm MONDAYS THU, 10/13 Teen Movie, Eastmont, 2pm Let’s Meet in the TeenZone to MON, 10/3 Teen GameZone, Eastmont, LEGO Mania!, Main, 3pm THU, 10/6 Make Papel Picado, Martin BANANAS Child Care Referrals Luther King Jr., 2pm 3:30pm Afterschool Art, Asian, 3:30pm Let’s Meet in the ’Zone, Dimond, and Subsidy Information, 3:30pm Videogames on the Big Screen, TUESDAYS Eastmont, 12:30pm FRI, 10/14 Elmhurst, 3pm Game Day, Martin Luther King Jr., FRI, 10/7 TUE, 10/4 Family Classes with Tandem, THU, 10/20 3pm César E. Chávez, 3:30pm The Beat Within: Writing LEGO Mania!, 81st Avenue, Tuesday Tween Games, Workshop, Eastmont, 3:30pm Let’s Meet in the ’Zone, Dimond, 3:30pm SAT, 10/15 3:30pm Eastmont, 3:30pm SAT, 10/8 WED, 10/5 PAWS to Read, West Oakland, FRI, 10/21 WEDNESDAYS 11:30am Dimond Teen Advisory Board, Crab Cove, Asian, 10:50am Teen ’Scape, Rockridge, 1:30pm Dimond, 11am Monthly TeenZone Craft PAWS to Read, 81st Avenue, Native American Cultural Day, Program, This month: make a Chávez GameZone, César E. 1:30pm Melrose, 1pm Shrinky Dinks Book Covers, perler bead bookmark, Main, Chávez, 3pm Third Saturday Chess, Lakeview, Asian, 2:30pm 2:30pm A Beautiful Mess, Elmhurst, Teen Game Day, Asian, 3:30pm 3:30pm 1pm Egg Carton Decorating Crafts, The Beat Within: Writing Open Play: Build, Golden Gate, César E. Chávez, 3pm Workshop, Eastmont, 3:30pm THURSDAYS Montclair Book Worms, Montclair, 4pm 2pm WED, 10/12 Let’s Meet in the ’Zone, Golden Game Day, Dimond, 3:30pm Off the Hook, Melrose, 3pm Let’s Meet in the ’Zone, Gate, 3:30pm Teen GameZone, Eastmont, FRI, 10/7 TUE, 10/18 Elmhurst, 3pm SAT, 10/22 3:30pm LEGO Mania!, Piedmont Avenue, 3:30pm NorCal Bats: Real Information Electronic Paper Cutting Girls Who Code, César E. About this Halloween Icon, Workshop, Asian, 2:30pm Chávez, 5pm LEGO Mania!, Dimond, 3:30pm Montclair, 1pm

Oakland Public Library : 3 Discover Your Past: Explore Genealogy with Ancestry Online oin us for our genealogy workshop featuring the Ancestry Library J Edition database. During this workshop you will learn how to search the U.S. Census, birth, marriage, death, military, and immigration records, and start your own ancestral chart. Bring your own laptop or tablet or follow along with us. Space is limited, so call (510) 597-5011 or stop by the Piedmont Avenue Branch to make a reservation. Piedmont Avenue Branch, Tuesday, October 18 & 25, 6:30pm

Know Your Ballot Career Education is Life embers of the League of Women Voters of Oakland will Building Mbe on hand to present the pros and cons and to facilitate Author Book Signing discussion of the ballot measures and propositions that are up Workshop for a vote in the upcoming General Election in November. ertified career coach and Workshop Oakland voters have some significant and controversial issues and personal trainer he African American Museum & Library at to decide at the polls. These include a measure establishing an C Rich Harper will facilitate a Oakland (AAMLO), in collaboration with independent police oversight commission, a measure T career building workshop for the nonprofit GEMS, Inc., presents a one-day authorizing a $600 million general obligation bond to fund adults to encourage, literary community enrichment event. The infrastructure improvements and affordable housing, the Renter motivate, inspire, and prepare gathering will feature meet-and-greet and Protection Act of 2016, and a bond measure to support the them with the skills necessary book signings with authors, writing seminars, Oakland Unified School District. Questions regarding Ranked to succeed in the workforce. storytelling, poetry, entertainment, and literacy Choice Voting (RCV) will also be addressed. Brookfield Branch, Monday, education outreach. Temescal Branch, Saturday, October 1, 2:30pm October 3, 5pm AAMLO, Saturday, October 29, 11am Elmhurst Branch, Tuesday, October 11, 5:30pm West Oakland Branch, Tuesday, October 11, 5:30pm

Celebrating 50 years in Fruitvale! Rockridge Branch’s elebrando 50 años en Fruitvale! Please join us as we celebrate our 50th 20th Anniversary Party! ¡Canniversary in the Fruitvale community! The César E. Chávez Branch Library, formerly the Latin American Library Branch, was founded in 1966. It was one of the first ockridge Branch Library is celebrating 20 years at its public libraries in the United States to offer services and materials in Spanish, and was Rcurrent location! Enjoy fun, food, music, art, and of the first branch library in the United States exclusively dedicated to the Spanish-speaking course, books. Share memories and make new ones! All community. There will be an Afro-Latin jazz performance from Grammy-nominated John ages are welcome. Santos as well as face-painting, henna for teens, and other fun activities. Rockridge Branch, Saturday, October 22, 11:30am César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, October 1, 12pm Library Activities NorCal Bats: Real Information Family Classes with Tandem, TUESDAYS Tea with Tots / Canciones y Storytimes About this Halloween Icon, César E. Chávez, 3:30pm STEM Fun, Lakeview, 4:30pm Café, Elmhurst, 11:30am Melrose, 5:30pm FAMILIES all ages SAT, 10/29 Yoga en Familia / Yoga for Family Dance Classes with Luna Dance, 81st Avenue, 1pm Asian, Sat, 11am WED, 10/19 Spooky Storytime at the Families, Elmhurst, 5:30pm Fix & Decorate your Bike with César E. Chávez (English & PAWS to Read, 81st Avenue, Piedmont Avenue Halloween WEDNESDAYS 1:30pm Celebration, Piedmont Avenue, the Scraper Bike Team, Martin Spanish), Wed, 11am 10am (call branch for exact Play Café, Melrose, 10:30am Luther King Jr., 1pm NorCal Bats: Real Information Dimond, Tue, 7pm location) About this Halloween Icon, Afterschool Art, Main, 2pm Tight Knit & Crafts / El Grupo Lakeview, Sat, 10:30am de Tejer y Manualidades, César Elmhurst, 4pm John “Eddie” Baldwin Chess Afterschool Art, 81st Avenue, Rockridge, Sat, 10:30am Tournament / Torneo de 2pm E. Chávez, 2pm FRI, 10/21 Ajedrez, César E. Chávez, 11am West Oakland, Tue, 11:30am LEGO Club, Lakeview, 3pm Afterschool Art, César E. Día De los Muertos, Dimond, Chávez, 3:30pm Free Meals BABY BOUNCE 0–18 mos Family Classes with Tandem, 1pm Dimond, Wed, 10:30am César E. Chávez, 3:30pm THURSDAYS and Snacks Dia de los Muertos, Lakeview, Lakeview, Wed, 11am Toddler Time, Golden Gate, SAT, 10/22 1pm For youth 18 years and younger 10:15am Main, Tue, 10:15am Dia de los Muertos, Martin Luther FREE MEALS FOR Drop Everything and Read Day, Montclair, Thu, 11:30am West Oakland, 10am King Jr., 1pm Play Café, Elmhurst, 10:30am KIDS & TEENS Litter Walk, Elmhurst, 10:15am Dia de los Muertos, Melrose, 1pm Yoga for Families / Yoga en 81st Avenue, Wed, 2pm, Tue-Fri, TODDLER 18 mos–3 yrs Familia, Melrose, 10:30am 4pm Rockridge 20 Year Anniversary Dia de los Muertos, Asian, 2pm Asian, Wed, 10:30am Party, Rockridge, 11:30am A Beautiful Mess / Desorden César E. Chávez, Tue-Fri, 4pm Dimond, Wed, 10:15am & 11am Día De los Muertos, César E. Magnifico, Melrose, 3:30pm San Francisco Chamber Chávez, 2pm Eastmont, Mon-Fri, 3:30pm Lakeview, Wed, 10:10am All Knit, Lakeview, 3:30pm Orchestra Very First Concerts: Dia de los Muertos, Golden Gate, Martin Luther King Jr., Tue-Fri, Main, Sat, 10:30am The Sound of Music, Melrose, 3pm FRIDAYS 4pm 1:30pm & 2:15pm Montclair, Thu, 10:15am Halloween Party, Elmhurst, 3pm Fix and Decorate Your Bicycle, Rockridge, Tue-Fri, 3:30pm Piedmont Avenue, Wed, 10:15am Día de los Muertos, Main, 2pm 81st Avenue, 2pm SHOCKING Halloween FREE MEALS Rockridge, Thu, 10:30am WED, 10/26 Storytime and Crafts, West Afterschool Art, West Oakland, IN THE TEENZONE Oakland, 4pm 3:30pm Temescal, Wed, 10:30am & Thu, Mad Scientists’ Club, Elmhurst, Main, Mon-Fri, 4pm 10:30am 3:30pm MON, 10/31 Afterschool Art, César E. Chávez, 3:30pm FREE SNACKS PRESCHOOL 3-5 yrs THU, 10/27 Halloween Parade and Trick-or- IN THE TEENZONE treating, Main, 4pm 81st Avenue, Thu, 10:30am Make a Patchwork Halloween SATURDAYS Main, Wed & Fri, 1:30pm Eastmont, Tue, 10:30am & Thu, Bag, Temescal, 3:30pm MONDAYS Read & Sing @ King / Leer y Cantar @ King, Martin Luther King FREE SNACKS IN THE 2pm CHILDREN’S ROOM FRI, 10/28 BANANAS Playgroup, Eastmont, Jr., 11am Elmhurst, Wed, 10:30am 1pm Main, Wed & Fri, 1:30pm 4th Friday Crafternoon, Golden Chess at Chávez, César E. Main, Mon, 10:30am Gate, 1:30pm Monday Arts & Crafts, Chávez, 11am Brookfield, 4:30pm Piedmont Avenue, Wed, 11am Rockridge, Thu, 10:30am

Your Library : 4 Events for Families & Kids

Celebrate Día de los Muertos and Halloween! Make “Non-Sugar Skulls” for Día de los Muertos Halloween Party Join us at the library to celebrate and remember loved ones who have Trick or treat! Join us to celebrate Halloween with crafts, games, and passed by decorating skulls made from model magic with glitter, sweet treats. Costumes encouraged! feathers, and colored pens. Elmhurst Branch, Saturday, October 29, 3pm Main Library, Children’s Room, Saturday, October 22, 2pm Lakeview Branch, Saturday, October 29, 11pm SHOCKING Halloween Storytime and Crafts! Dimond Branch, Saturday, October 29, 1pm Come to the library for a SHOCKING Halloween family storytime! We will Martin Luther King Jr. Branch, Saturday, October 29, 1pm read scary stories, sing silly songs, and do a SHOCKING Melrose Branch, Saturday, October 29, 1pm experiment to see if we can make ghosts fly. Come in costume if you want and we will do a trick-or-treat parade César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, October 29, 2pm around the library. All ages welcome! Golden Gate Branch, Saturday, October 29, 3pm West Oakland Branch, Saturday, October 29, 4pm NorCal Bats Halloween Parade and Trick-or-treating! Get real information about a Halloween icon! Northern California Bats (NorCalBats) is dedicated to the rescue, Trick-or-treat at the Main Library in your scariest, shiniest, and rehabilitation, and release of bats throughout Northern best costumes. We’ll parade through Main, starting at the Children’s California. Members will tell bat stories, share Room, and head upstairs to wind around through the first floor, visiting the role bats play in the environment, and the Circulation Desk, First Floor Reference Desk, First Floor Computer bring live bats to show. Lab, and then up another flight to the TeenZone, Oakland History Room, and the Magazines & Newspapers Room. We’ll have stickers Asian Branch, Tuesday, October 11, 1:30pm and bookmarks in addition to candy! Rockridge Branch, Tuesday, October 11, 7pm Main Library, Children’s Room, Monday, October 31, 4pm Montclair Branch, Tuesday, October 18, 1pm Melrose Branch, Tuesday, October 18, 5:30pm Spooky Storytime at the Elmhurst Branch, Wednesday, October 19, 4pm Piedmont Avenue Halloween Celebration This special, off-site, slightly spooky storytime—appropriate for Make a Patchwork Halloween Bag toddlers—ties in with the Piedmont Avenue Halloween Parade. Join us Come by the library to make a unique patchwork Halloween bag with near the beginning of the parade at 10am. (Location TBA, please call members of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland. All materials (510) 597-5011 to find out where!) After storytime, families are invited to will be provided to make your craft to bring home. join the festivities and march in the parade, which will begin at 11am. At Temescal Branch, Thursday, October 27, 3:30pm the end of the parade, join us in front of Piedmont Avenue Elementary School for Halloween crafts and candy. Piedmont Avenue Branch (call branch for exact location), Saturday, October 29, 10am

Native American Cultural Day Fall Book Sale at the fter decades of struggling to protect her Bookmark Bookstore! A ancestors’ burial places, Corrina Gould and her allies occupied a sacred site to prevent its 721 Washington Street, October 13-16 desecration. When this effort failed, she vowed to Thursday, October 13: Members’ Preview, 50% off follow a new path—to establish the first women-led And for all book lovers: 30% off Friday, 10/14; urban Indigenous land trust. Join us to watch a film 40% off Saturday 10/15; 50% off Sunday 10/16 that tells this inspiring story. Other afternoon festivities include a raffle, native music and dancing, and arts Special sale opening hours: 10:30am–5:30pm and crafts for children. Refreshments will be provided. Sale proceeds benefit the Oakland Public Library Melrose Branch, Saturday, October 15, 1pm

Family Classes with Tandem e are excited to partner with W Tandem (formerly known as Raising a Reader, East Bay) to provide parenting and family classes to the Fruitvale community. These workshops are designed to help parents with children from birth to 5 years of age, but all are welcome. The first class will be “Word Play All Day.” The second class San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will be “The Bilingual Family.” The third Very First Concerts: The Sound of Music class will be “Sharing Stories; Sharing oin us as vibrating strings, buzzing reeds, and puffs of air all work together to make Feelings.” Childcare will be provided. J beautiful music. At this “Very First Concert,” you and your little ones will get to know a few César E. Chávez Branch, Friday, of your favorite instruments in the string, woodwind, and brass families, and learn about the October 14, 21 & 28, 3:30pm science behind their special sounds. Then make instruments to create music of your own! Melrose Branch, Saturday, October 22, 1:30pm & 2:15pm

Oakland Public Library : 5 Events for Events Families & Kids for Teens Constructive Fun for Kids Crafts and Activities for Teens Cardboard Challenge Programs for youth ages 12 to 18. All materials provided. Imagine it, build it, modify it. Come by the library for a Cardboard Challenge and see what you can create using a little cardboard and a lot Egg Carton Decorating Crafts of imagination. Come paint and decorate egg cartons with other teens. Martin Luther King Jr. Branch, Saturday, October 1, 1pm Lakeview Branch, Tuesday, October 4, 4:30pm Open Studio: Build César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, October 8, 3pm Melrose Branch, Friday, October 28, 3:30pm Have fun building cool things! We will create with new objects every month in this drop-in free play program. Appropriate for school age kids. Shrinky Dinks Book Covers Younger kids are welcome to join with help from their grown-up. Celebrate Teen Read Week by rocking all your favorite books! Make a César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, October 1, 1:30pm keychain or pin using Shrinky Dink plastic versions of book covers. Read for the fun of it! Crab Cove Asian Branch, Saturday, October 8, 2:30pm Meet amazing Bay Area wildlife! Come discover a different animal each month with a Crab Cove naturalist from East Bay Regional Parks. This will Rockridge Branch, Saturday, October 15, 2pm take place after Wednesday Mandarin and English Toddler Storytime (in lieu of playtime). Make a Bookmark with Perler Beads Asian Branch, Wednesday, October 5, 10:50am Join us in the TeenZone to create a perler bead bookmark. You’ll never lose your page again! Open Play: Build It! 81st Avenue Branch, Saturday, October 15, 1pm Come build something cool. We’ll have dry spaghetti and marshmallows, Jenga and LEGO. Take Things Apart Come take apart an everyday object and see what it is made of inside. Golden Gate Branch, Saturday, October 15, 2pm Learn how to look closely at objects and think critically about the various parts, purposes, and complexities within. BANANAS Child Care Referrals Asian Branch, Saturday, October 15, 2:30pm and Subsidy Information Make Papel Picado ANANAS offers child care referrals and resources to families with young Celebrate Day of the Dead by making colorful and elaborate designs B children and child care professionals in the Northern Alameda County with the decorative craft papel picado. cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, Piedmont, Emeryville, and Alameda. If you Brookfield Branch, Friday, October 14, 3:30pm need assistance with paying for child care, come visit the library to see if you Martin Luther King Jr. Branch, Wednesday, October 19, 2pm qualify for a subsidy program. Resource and referral counselor Debby César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, October 29, 2pm Alavarez (hablas Español) will be here monthly to help you with your child care needs. For more information about BANANAS see: www.bananasbunch.org Electronic Paper Cutting Workshop Eastmont Branch, Monday, October 3, 12:30pm Learn about our new electronic cutting machine and see what you can make for yourself. Participants will create their own customized design on the computer and then see it come to life with the electronic cutting Drop Everything and Read Day! machine. ring the whole family to the West Oakland Branch and Asian Branch, Saturday, October 22, 2:30pm B read, sing, and play to celebrate books and stories with Drop Everything and Read Day! A free continental Magical Mask Making breakfast will be served and every child will leave with his or Create magical masks to celebrate Halloween and Día de Los Muertos. her very own book to take home. This event is brought to Come by and make a goofy, fancy, gross, or downright spine-tingling you through a partnership with Lincoln Families (formerly mask! known as the Lincoln Child Center). Asian Branch, Saturday, October 29, 2:30pm West Oakland Branch, Saturday, October 22, 10am Oakland Library Locations

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