Oakland Public Library

Your Library January 2016

From Laundry to Landscape How to Set Up a Greywater System for Your Home and Garden reywater may not be a hot topic, but it should be. If current climate Gpredictions come true, along with occasional relief during El Niño years, Californians can expect dry conditions in the coming decades. During prolonged dry periods, the reuse of greywater—water used once for laundry or other household duties—is a responsible way to maintain a lush garden. The Tool Lending Library is offering a class to show how a simple, affordable, and easily maintained laundry-to-landscape (L2L) system can be installed in your home. Brian Munson, a greywater installation expert, will demonstrate how you can plan and install an L2L system that is legal without a permit, as long as you follow 12 basic guidelines. Mr. Munson will discuss designing and building a system for your home and landscape. Once a mock-up is drawn based on your needs, we’ll go over materials needed and then discuss the amount of water you are using that can be recycled into the garden and types of soaps that are Brian Munson, greywater installation expert suitable for greywater systems. This program is produced by Greywater Action with the support of the Friends of the Oakland Tool Lending Library. And of course, most of the tools required for installing a greywater system are available for check-out at the TLL. Tool Lending Library, Temescal Branch Community Room, Saturday, January 16, 1pm

81st Avenue Branch Five-Year-Old Birthday Party he 81st Ave Library is turning five years old. Come to T the party and join in the fun with cupcakes, children’s activities, and more! 81st Avenue Branch, Saturday, January 30, 1–4pm Home Sweet Oakland re you new to Oakland? You’re invited to an open house for A new residents! Meet and mingle with real live Oaklanders, get tips, ask questions, and enjoy light refreshments Rockridge Branch, Tuesday, January 26, 6:30pm

January Closures On Exhibit Fri, 1/1 Library closed for New Year’s Day

Mon, 1/18 Jack London Revealed The Oakland History Room has mounted an exhibit celebrating the life and career Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, all of author Jack London (1876-1916). Raised in Oakland, Mr. London went on to become an intrepid locations closed journalist, celebrated novelist, political activist, and adventurer. During his lifetime he was one of the country’s most popular authors. This year marks the centennial of his death at age 40. The exhibit will Tue, 1/ 19 feature personal letters, biographies, photographs, first editions of his fiction, commemoratives, and other Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday ephemera illustrating his literary legacy. Main Library, January 6 through March 31 observed at all branches except the Main Library and Brookfield War Comes Home: The Legacy For veterans, returning home from war can be both an exhilarating and and Eastmont branches challenging experience. Through private correspondence from almost every major conflict in U.S. history, War Comes Home: The Legacy offers insight into the thoughts and emotions of veterans and their families upon their homecoming. These intimate perspectives—from the Civil War era through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—reveal how war can shape a life, a family, and a community. This exhibition is a partnership with Cal Humanities and is a part of its War Comes Home initiative, which aims to raise awareness of and promote greater understanding of our veterans and explore the impact of war on our communities. Main Library, through February 14 oaklandlibrary.org Play and Collaboration by Michelle Champlin and Cassie Waldman Artists Michelle Champlin and Cassie Waldman invite their inner children out onto the canvas, with no attachment to result, technique, or serious practical purpose. Through this process, they continue to discover a renewed sense of inspiration, joy, and freedom. Reception to be held on Saturday, January 9, 11:30am–1:30pm, with light refreshments. Lakeview Branch, through January 31 The Sentence Unseen: Celebrating Resilience Local nonprofit organization Community Works has assembled an exhibit that bears witness to the unrecognized impacts of the U.S. criminal justice system—the collateral consequences of arrest and incarceration on all of us and our community—through stories, photographs, video diaries, and multimedia artwork. This is the second installation of the exhibit, featuring new pieces after a three-month run on Alcatraz Island. AAMLO, through January 25

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AARP Driver Safety Course efresh your driving skills and R learn the new rules of the road as well as research-based driving strategies to help you stay safe behind the wheel. Tak- ing the course could reduce your car insurance costs. This is a two-part class. Partici- pants must attend both the January 23 and January 30 sessions for credit. To register, please call (510) 482-7844. Dimond Branch, Saturday, January 23 & 30, Healthy Cooking 10am–2pm for the New Year tart the new year off right by making healthy S and delicious smoothies. Printed recipes and ingredients provided. Melrose Branch, Saturday, January 23, 2pm Get Hands-on eBook Help o you need help getting and using library eBooks, magazines, D music, and more on your device? The Oakland Public Library can help you get started with our rich collection of digital resources or help you troubleshoot problems. Sign up at oaklandlibrary.org/ebookhelp for a half-hour eBook Help appointment with a knowledgeable member of our staff (drop-ins are OK as time permits). Bring your Internet-capable laptop, phone, or tablet along with your library card number, library PIN, email address, and log-in information for your digital accounts, if any. Eastmont Branch, Mondays, 5–6:30pm Rockridge Branch,Tuesdays, 6–7:30pm Main Library, Wednesdays, 5–6:30pm Piedmont Avenue Branch, Saturdays 10:30am–12pm

Library Activities Adults Writers’ Support and Critique Spanish Reading Group Martin Luther King Jr., Sat, 1/16, Teens Group, All writers welcome. (Intermediate and Advanced), 12pm Rockridge, 1pm Temescal, 3pm Sat, 1/2 Melrose, Tue, 1/19, 5pm Sat, 1/2 Job Club, 81st Avenue, 11:30am Tue, 1/19 Tuesdays Montclair, Tue, 1/12, 6pm Chávez Teen Advisory Board, César E. Chávez, 11am Tue, 1/5 Lakeview Book Club, Lakeview, Covered California Education Rockridge, Tue, 1/5, 5pm Rockridge Teen Advisory Board, 6:30pm and Enrollment, West Oakland, Temescal, Tue, 1/5, 6pm Spanish Conversation Group, 5pm Rockridge, 1pm Dimond, 6:30pm Spanish Conversation Group, Dimond, 6:30pm English Conversation Group, Computer Help Wed, 1/6 Thu, 1/7 Melrose, 6pm 81st Avenue, Tue, 4:30-6:30pm & Teen & Tween Craft Cart, Sat, 1/23 Sat, 12pm Career Online High School, Thursdays Eastmont, 2pm West Oakland, 3pm AARP Driver Safety Course, Asian, Sat, 11 am Dimond, 10am Curso de Nutrition y Cocina Fri, 1/8 Saludable / Nutrition and César E. Chávez, Tue, 4-6pm & Sat, 1/9 Healthy Cooking for the New Cooking Class for Spanish Sat, 11am Asian Branch Teen Advisory Club de Lectura en Español / Year, Melrose, 2pm Speakers, 81st Avenue, 10am Group Meeting, Asian, 4:15pm Spanish Book Club, César E. Dimond, Tue, 12:30-2:30 pm & Chávez, 11am Tue, 1/26 ESL Conversation Club, Sat, 1pm Sat, 1/9 Eastmont, 1pm Job Club, 81st Avenue, 11:30am Book Discussion Group, Golden Eastmont, Mon, 3 pm Dimond Teen Advisory Board, Gate, 6pm ESL Conversation Club, Main, Dimond, 11am Stress Relief Through Mind Elmhurst, Wed, 2pm & Sat, 12pm 2pm Power, Lakeview, 2pm Lakeview Writers! with Selene Main, Wed, 6pm; Sat, 10am; & Steese, Lakeview, 6pm Wed, 1/20 Lawyers in the Library Sun, 1pm Tue, 1/12 Home Sweet Oakland, Video Games, Elmhurst, 2:30pm Main, 1st through 4th Thu, 6pm; Melrose, Sat, 11am Book Discussion Group, Rockridge, 6:30pm 2nd through 4th Wed, 6pm Mondays Dimond, 6:30pm Rockridge, Sat, 2pm Fri, 1/29 Bankruptcy Lawyer at Main, GameZone 13+, Eastmont, Lakeview Book Club, Lakeview, Wed, 1/6, 6pm eBook Help 3:30pm 6:30pm Last Friday Book Club—At Last, Main, 3:35pm 81st Avenue, Tue, 1/19, 5pm Eastmont, Mon, 5pm Tuesdays Sat, 1/16 Brookfield, Mon, 1/11, 5pm & Main, Wed, 5pm Sat, 1/30 Tween Tuesdays, Eastmont, Children’s Book, Clothing, and Wed, 1/13, 11am Piedmont Avenue, Sat, 10:30am AARP Driver Safety Course, 3:30pm Toy Swap, Dimond, 10am César E. Chávez, Thu, 1/14, Dimond, 10am Rockridge, Tue, 6pm Girls Who Code Club, César E. From Laundry to Landscape: A 4:30pm Free for All/Freedom for Chávez, 5pm Greywater Workshop, Tool Dimond, Tue, 1/5, 6pm Lending Library, 1pm Some­­—Boundaries without Teen Study Hall, César E. Bars: An Inaugural for Quarterly Eastmont, Mon, 1/11, 5pm Chávez, 6pm Phone and Gadget Help: “How FIRST Saturday Poetry Elmhurst, Sat, 1/2, 12pm do I Use this Thing?!”, West Readings at Main, Main, 2pm Oakland, 1pm

Your Library : 2 Information Session: Career Online High School areer Online High School (COHS) offers adults the opportunity to earn an Caccredited high school diploma and a career certificate. The Oakland Public Library is offering a limited number of scholarships to qualified adult learners, ages 19 and over, who want to earn a diploma. Join us for an information session to learn more about the Career Online High School program, eligibility criteria, and the enrollment process. Or visit www.oaklandlibrary.org/diploma West Oakland Branch, Thursday, January 7, 3pm

Stress Relief Through Mind Power Calling atherine Walters, certified hypnotherapist African Cand lifestyle coach, shows how to release stress and create a more balanced lifestyle American using proven techniques that access your own Poets mind power. he 26th Annual Cel- Lakeview Branch, Saturday, January 9, 2pm T ebration of African American Poets and Their Poetry festival takes place February 6 at the West Oakland Branch. This year’s theme is #blacklivesmatter: The Politics of Blackness. Tax Help is Coming All poets are welcome to eed help filing your income tax forms? The participate. To register, N Oakland Public Library and the AARP can please call (510) 238-7352 help. Every year, starting in early February, the by Friday, January 23. AARP sends trained volunteers to several library locations to provide free tax assistance. Locations and schedules will be announced in the February calendar. The service will continue all the way up to tax day, April 15.

Library Activities

Wednesdays Wed, 1/6 Art! Poetry! Music! for the New Sat, 1/30 Montclair, Thu, 11:30am Teen ’Scape, Rockridge, 2pm A Beautiful Mess, Freeform art Year / ¡Arte, poesia, musica 81st Avenue Five-Year-Old program for kids. Elmhurst, 3pm para el Año Nuevo! César E. Toddlers 18 mos–3 yrs GameZone, César E. Chávez, Birthday Party, 81st Avenue, 1pm Chávez, 2pm Asian, Wed, 10:30am 3pm Montclair Book Worms, Family Dance Class with Luna Montclair, 4pm Off the Hook, Melrose, 3pm Game Day, Asian, 3:30pm Dance Institute, 81st Avenue, Dimond, Wed, 10:15 & 11am 1pm Golden Gate, Thu, 10:15am Thu, 1/7 Wed, 1/20 Thursdays Kids’ Community Garden, Lakeview, Wed, 10:10am Afterschool Graphic Novel Art Bots, Always wanted to make GameZone 13+, Eastmont, Elmhurst, 1pm Club, Piedmont Avenue, 3:30pm a robot? Learn how to make one Main, Sat, 10:30am 3:30pm that can draw. Asian, 2:30pm Mondays Montclair, Thu, 10:15am Fri, 1/8 Pop up TeenZones Thu, 1/21 Arts & Crafts, Brookfield, 4:30pm Piedmont Avenue, Wed, Lego Club, Lakeview, 3pm 81st Avenue, Sat, 1/23, 1pm Board Games, Piedmont Avenue, 10:15am Lego Club, Asian, 3:30pm Wednesdays Brookfield, Fri, 1/8, 3:30pm 3:30pm Rockridge, Thu, 10:30am It’s Your Move: Chess Clinic, Dimond, Thu, 1/21, 3:30pm Sat, 1/9 Sat, 1/23 West Oakland, 3pm Temescal, Wed & Thu, 10:30am Elmhurst, Wed, 1/13, 3pm Litter Walk, Elmhurst, 10:15am Litter Walk, Elmhurst, 10:15am Saturdays Preschool 3-5 yrs Golden Gate, Wed, 1/20, 3:30pm Wed, 1/13 Temescal Children’s Clothing Baby Play Date, Golden Gate, 81st Avenue, Thu, 10:30am Martin Luther King Jr., Tue, 1/12, Swap, Temescal, 10:30am LegoMania, Elmhurst, 3pm 11am Brookfield, Wed, 10:30am 4:30pm MPACT (Moving Parents and A Beautiful Mess, Freeform art Chess, César E. Chávez, 11am Eastmont, Tue, 10:30am & Thu, Melrose, Wed, 1/13, 1:30pm Children Together) Dance program for kids. Montclair, Classes, West Oakland, 10:30am Tight Knit & Crafts, César E. 2pm Montclair, Wed, 1/6, 1:30pm 3:30pm Chávez, 2pm Family Dance Class with Luna Elmhurst, Wed & Thu, 10:30am Piedmont Avenue, Thu, 1/14, Thu, 1/14 Dance Institute, 81st Avenue, Main, Mon, 10:30am 3:30pm PAWS to Read with Bark 1pm The Word Party, Dimond, 3:30pm Therapy Dogs Piedmont Avenue, Wed, 11am Temescal, Thu, 1/21, 1pm Make Your Own Buttons, Design MAKE | Thursdays, Piedmont 81st Avenue, Wed, 1:45pm Rockridge, Thu, 10:30am West Oakland, Fri, 1/22, 3:30pm and create buttons you can pin to Avenue, 3:30pm your shirt or backpack. Dimond, Montclair, Wed, 1:30pm families all ages 1pm Families & Kids Sat, 1/16 Asian, Sat, 11am Third Saturday Chess, Lakeview, Wed, 1/27 Storytimes César E. Chávez, English & 1pm Sat, 1/2 MPACT (Moving Parents and Spanish, Wed, 11am Baby Bounce 0–18 mos Plus One: San Francisco Children Together) Dance Learn the Game of Chess, Dimond, Tue, 7pm Dimond, 1pm Chamber Orchestra’s “Very Classes, West Oakland, 10:30am Dimond, Wed, 10:30am First Concerts” Program, Main, Lakeview, Sat, 10:30am Mad Scientists’ Club, Elmhurst, Lakeview, Wed, 11am Off the Hook, Melrose, 3pm 1:30pm 3pm Main, Tue, 10:15am Rockridge, Sat, 10:30am

Oakland Public Library : 3 Events for Families & Kids

Art! Poetry! Music! for the New Year / ¡Arte, poesia, musica para el Año Nuevo! oin us for an afternoon of art by Xochitl Guererro, Daniel Camacho, and Pete Villaseñor and poetry and J music by Naomi Quiñonez, Lucha Corpi, Juan Martinez, Xochitl Guerrero, Arnoldo Garcia, and Gina Madrid. Light refreshments will be served. / Vengan a celebrar 2016 con arte, poesia, y musica de Xochitl Guererro, Daniel Camacho, Naomi Quiñonez, Lucha Corpi, Juan Martinez, Arnoldo Garcia, Gina Madrid, y Pete Villaseñor. Habra botanas ligeras. César E. Chávez Branch, Saturday, January 16, 2pm

It’s Time to Play Winter Bingo! he Oakland Public Library is offering a fun activity for kids T to do at home or at the library: Winter Bingo! Come to any location and pick up a bingo card. Each square includes a fun, educational activity. Cross out each square as you do each activity, until you have done five activities in a row. Your rows can be up or down, across, or diagonal. When you have five in a row you have top left: Xochitl Guererro; BINGO! Come to your library and collect your prize before January left: Daniel Camacho; above: Pete Villaseñor 16. And before you come in, decorate your favorite square for us!

Dream It. Build It. Wreck It. Repeat. ids are natural engineers. We help them K realize it. Kids dive into our classes and exercise their innate gift for building. They come Plus One: The San Francisco away understanding fundamental principles of engineering and physics. The experience boosts Chamber Orchestra’s their confidence, creativity, and ability to collabo- “Very First Concerts” Program rate. Kids can't get enough. The Oakland Public Library is happy to once again host Play-Well olo, duet, trio, quartet, quintet... Open your ears wide and listen to the TEKnologies, whose engineers are experts in Smusic change and grow as we start adding players one by one. What helping children find their creative side through do YOU hear? building with LEGOS®. Join us! The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra is coming to the Oakland Public Elmhurst Branch, Saturday, January 2, 3pm Library to meet with our youngest patrons and listeners. The orchestra will give a delightful 20-minute presentation to teach musical concepts, offer hands-on activities, and encourage lots of movement and dancing. Seating is first-come, first-served and begins 20 minutes before concert time. Seating for two presentations will be offered the same afternoon. Main Library, Bradley Walters Community Room, Saturday, January 16, 1:30pm & 2:15pm Oakland Library Locations

Main Library Asian Branch Eastmont Branch Martin L. King, Jr. Branch Rockridge Branch 125 14th Street 388 9th Street, Suite 190 Eastmont Town Center 6833 International Blvd. 5366 College Avenue (510) 238-3134 (510) 238-3400 7200 Bancroft Avenue, Suite 211 (510) 615-5728 (510) 597-5017 Children’s Room (510) 615-5726 (510) 238-3615 BrookfieldB ranch Melrose Branch Second Start Adult Literacy 9255 Edes Avenue Elmhurst Branch 4805 Foothill Blvd. 125 14th Street 81st Avenue (510) 615-5725 1427 88th Avenue (510) 535-5623 (510) 238-3432 1021 81st Avenue (510) 615-5727 (510) 615-5812 César E. Chávez Branch Montclair Branch Temescal Branch 3301 East 12th Street, Suite 271 Golden Gate Branch 1687 Mountain Blvd. 5205 Telegraph Avenue African American Museum & (510) 535-5620 5606 San Pablo Avenue (510) 482-7810 (510) 597-5049 Library at Oakland (AAMLO) (510) 597-5023 Tool Lending Library 659 14th Street Dimond Branch Piedmont Avenue Branch at Temescal Branch (510) 637-0200 3565 Fruitvale Avenue Lakeview Branch 80 Echo Avenue (510) 597-5089 (510) 482-7844 550 El Embarcadero (510) 597-5011 (510) 238-7344 West Oakland Branch 1801 Adeline Street (510) 238-7352

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