Events Calendar

Help turn the library sidewalks into colorful works of art! Join us for a fun outdoor chalk drawing event where you can create bright designs, inspiring messages, doodles, games, and summer-themed masterpieces. Whether you’re an experienced artist or…

Join us for a fun and relaxing time as we paint wooden animal cutouts.

Join Taty Hernandez of Lumbre Ceramics to learn about the development of the technology that is ceramics from the Mesoamerican time period to today! Children will play with clay and create a clay invention to take home. For ages 5 and up.

Join us for The Rainbow Beard Show, an interactive experience hosted by Ricky Rainbow Beard featuring puppets, games, stories, songs, and special guests. Every show explores a theme created for kids ages 4–8 (and their adults). This one is all about…

Make a design on thin plastic sheets and then watch as they shrink and harden in the oven! Easy to learn and super fun.

INCA, the Peruvian Ensemble offers a wonderful and colorful array of music and dances from Peru and the Andean region. Enjoy dancers performing in their traditional dress, listen to mystical music, and hear the unique sounds and instruments from Peru…

The program that others have tried to copy, but have not been able to duplicate! An educational and highly entertaining fast-paced show mixing comedy, music, interaction and information about ventriloquism and puppetry “secrets.” Audience volunteers…

Join us for a special program where we will have the experience of becoming one through rhythm and music, play, and song!This program was made possible with the generous support of the Friends of the Woodland Hills Library.

Join us to discover the basics of 3D printing and learn how to use fundamental 3D printing software and 3D pens.

Join us in the community room for an hour of science fun! Build your own fidget spinner using toy building bricks. An adult must accompany children under 13.

To help address the literacy crisis in Los Angeles and inspire children to enjoy reading, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF), in partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers, leads LA Reads, a literacy campaign that includes community Storytimes…

Join KongaKid in a fun, participatory, and interactive program where everyone gets to be a part of the groove.

Create sculptures from a foil base and design and decorate it with masking tape.

Children will be introduced to the idea of conservation, discuss strategies for supporting a healthy earth, then upcycle cast-off materials to create a new sculpture, toy, or functional item.

Join Ricky Rainbow Beard for a program about listening! The Rainbow Beard Show features puppets, games, music, and dance, for kids and anyone who wants to be a kid. The program focuses on creativity, play, and creating collective human experiences…

Celebrate Jim Davis' beloved Garfield comics with Garfield-themed crafts and a screening of The Garfield Movie.The movie will begin at 3 p.m. in the Community Room and is rated PG.Great for the whole family!

Middle-grade readers are invited to participate in our fun monthly book discussions. This month, we will be reading The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko.Please email gkim@lapl.org for the Zoom login information.

Join Ricky Rainbow Beard and their friends all the way from Rhode Island for an interactive experience that features puppets, games, stories, songs, and comedy.

Our Artist-in-Residence Debra Disman is back at the Northridge Branch for the year 2026-2027, beginning a series of monthly bookmaking programs in July, where you will learn to make a different book each session! No experience is required and there…

Join us for a laid-back day of art! Let's explore the amazing art pieces we can create using materials we find around us. All supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring any materials you would like to use.

ZOS!MO is the singer-songwriter moniker of award-winning Filipino American fictionist, poet, playwright, and culture bearer, Zosimo Quibilan Jr. His band, also named ZOS!MO, exclusively plays original Tagalog indie pop/rock, with songs from Quibilan…

Join us for a workshop on how to draw your own characters. This event is led by teens and is recommended for children ages 7 to 12. All supplies will be provided.

Learn about succulents and plant your own to take home. 

This program will be held outside on the library patio.

During the 10 sessions of the Astro Camp Community Partner Program at the Watts library, you will be trying fun science experiments, engineering challenges, and art projects to explore the universe with NASA. We have explored lots of objects in our…