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Voter Information Events
Saturday, Jan. 18 Voting in the Primaries: What You Need to Know (Main Library): Get nonpartisan election information, including how procedures in San Mateo County have changed since the last Presidential election.
Saturday, Jan. 25 Voter Registration (Main Library): Register to vote for the first time, or change your voter registration if you have moved, changed your name or changed your party.
Poster Art
The Menlo Park Library Foundation and Facebook Analog Research Lab are sponsoring a "My Community" Youth Poster Exhibition. Leading up to the event, we present a series of artist-led workshops at the Belle Haven Branch Library, open to adults, teens, and students in Grades 2 and above.
| Saturday, Jan. 18 | Risograph Printing 101 |
| Sunday, Jan. 26 | High-Contrast Papercut Posters |
| Saturday, Feb. 1 | Illustrating Yourself and Your Neighbors |
| Sunday, Feb. 9 | Changing Our World with Public Posters |
The American Advertising Calendar Plate
Tuesday, Jan. 21 (Main Library): We're starting the new year by taking a look at some old plates! Learn about the clues they give us about our country's rural past.
Knitting Meetup
Meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 7-9 p.m. to crochet, knit, sew and laugh! All skill levels welcome.
The Prairie Rose Band
Saturday, January 25 (Belle Haven Branch): Music of the Old West and of the West that never was: a fun, toe-tapping, sing-along-if-you-like performance of songs you forgot you ever knew, and songs you never knew at all!
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
Escape to other worlds through sci-fi, fantasy, horror, dystopia, and more. Meets at the Main Library on the 4th Monday of each month from 7:15-8:30 p.m.
January 27: 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
February 24: All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
Adults Paint Like Pollock
Tuesday, Jan. 28 (Main Library): Sign up to mark the birth anniversary of Jackson Pollock by trying your hand at painting in his style!
Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?
Wednesday, Jan. 29 (Main Library): Documentary: Sometimes thrifting can be extremely rewarding. This may or may not be one of those times.
Spinners Meet
It's a brand-new group! Meet up with hand spinning enthusiasts to spin and share techniques and ideas on creating your own beautiful unique yarns. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your spindles, spinning wheels or e-spinners! Meets the first Sunday of each month from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Uneven Ground: Inequity on the Mid-Peninsula
Monday, Feb. 3 (Main Library): Journalist Kate Bradshaw talks about her reporting on how land use affects health in the communities of North Fair Oaks, East Palo Alto, and Belle Haven.
Storyteller Kiran Rana: Nasruddin Visits the City
Tuesday, Feb. 4 (Main Library): Meet Nasruddin Hodja, the “wise fool” of Central Asia! Storyteller and Sufi master Kiran Rana will share tales of this enigmatic and spiritual figure both in his original setting, and in the U.S.
Starting Your Garden
Wednesday, Feb. 5 (Main Library): Get some great advice--and free seeds--from some gardening experts!
A Visit with Harriet Tubman
Saturday, Feb. 8 (Main Library): Don’t miss this legend brought back to life, in a special one-woman show by actor Betty Slater.
Board Game Meetup
Would you like to play a game? Drop in and join us on the second Sunday of each month, from 12:30-3:30 p.m., for a chance to relax and unwind with other adults! A variety of games will be provided, and our facilitator will help explain how to play. Feel free to bring a game of your own to share!
Film Screening: Baltimore Rising
Tuesday, Feb. 11 (Main Library): Documentary chronicling the protests in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, showing the efforts of people on all sides fighting for justice and a better city. Rated TV-MA
Literature Book Club
Drop in to discuss a wide range of contemporary literary works: novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. Meets at the Main Library on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7:15-8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 11: Improvement, by Joan Silber
E-Library Tips
Wednesday, Feb. 12 (Main Library): Drop in, and we’ll show you how to use your electronic device and library card to get free access to streaming video, e-books, museum passes, and so much more!
Film Screening: Ruby Bridges
Thursday, Feb. 13 (Main Library): Rated PG: Join us for a docudrama about Ruby, and the New Orleans school desegregation crisis of 1960.
Soul of a Nation:
Art in the Age of Black Power
Tuesday, Feb. 18 (Main Library): View works by African American artists inspired by the Civil Rights struggle, shared by a docent from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Author Event: John Billheimer
Wednesday, Feb. 19 (Main Library): Our Mystery Readers Group welcomes the author of the Owen Allison mystery series, as well as “Hitchcock and the Censors,” a nonfiction book tracing the rise of movie censorship.
Film Screening/Discussion: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Wednesday, Feb. 26 (Main Library) The influential silent film, an expressionist horror classic from Germany, turns 100!