Fort Bragg Library

Tech Help
2024-09-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-10-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-10-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-10-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-10-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-10-31 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Tech Help
Most Thursdays
1:00-2:00 pm*
*by appointment only
Got a new device and don’t know how to work with it? Need help downloading eBooks or eAudiobooks?
You’re in luck!
The Fort Bragg Library offers free, guided tech help for those who are tech challenged. Tech Help is available most Thursdays from 1:00-2:00 p.m. (by appointment only).
Sign up at the desk or give us a call @ 707-964-2020 and we’ll get you started!

America Speaks ~ September Adult Book Group
2024-09-26 16:00 - 17:00
September Adult Book Group
America Speaks
Of the Moment
speeches from American History
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 4-5 pm
This month’s meeting has the extra pop of discussing a unique and lasting form of literature: the public speech.
This selection presents various viewpoints—some controversial, some widely-accepted.
All in all, they represent important advances in how and who we imagine ourselves.
Printable America Speaks book club packet
Included in the packet are:
1796, George Washington – Farewell Address to Troops
1854, Chief Seattle of the Coast Salish Treaty Oration
1863, Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg Address
1865, Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
1872, Susan B. Anthony – After Being Convicted of Voting
1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt – Four Freedoms speech
1961, John F. Kennedy – First Inaugural Address
1963, John F. Kennedy – “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech
1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – I Have a Dream” speech
1986, Cesar Chavez, Wrath of Grapes speech (excerpts)
1984, Ronald Reagan, 40th Anniversary of D-Day Landings
1987, Ronald Reagan, “Tear down this wall” speech
2024, Kamala Harris, DNC Convention acceptance speech

Storytime
2024-09-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-11 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-25 10:30 - 11:00
STORYTIME
MOST FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
10:30-11

Join us for some fun stories, fingerplays and songs.
Storytime is for kids and their grown-ups.
Stories are geared for the 0-6 age range but older siblings are always welcome.

LEGO® & Games
2024-10-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
LEGO® & Games
Most Tuesdays
2-4 pm

Kids and families!
Beginning Sept. 10, LEGO® & Games will be most Tuesdays, 2-4 pm.
Check the calendar for updates.

Teen D&D
2024-10-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-16 15:00 - 17:00
Teen D & D
(ages 12-18)
First & Third Wednesdays
3-5 pm

Bring yourself, bring a friend to Teen Dungeons and Dragons @Fort Bragg Library. No experience is necessary but if you’re already a master, you can still have fun creating characters and participating in the campaign with the newbies to the game. Don’t know how to play? Not to worry. We’ll teach you!
Materials and snacks provided by Friends of the Fort Bragg Library.
Space is limited so it’s best to sign-up ahead of time.
See you at the Castle…er…Library!

FYI—The fantasy game, Dungeons and Dragons, has been around for decades and with recent publicity stemming from such sources as The Big Bang Theory, a new resurgence in popularity has D&D going strong. The library loves D&D because it’s a game of endless possibilities driven by the players and their imaginations and, as you know, librarians love imagination!
“The popularity of D & D over the past four decades hasn’t declined. It’s a creative and inexpensive form of entertainment because all you need to play is a rule book, and the library has many rule books available for check out,“ said John Hilbert, Southern Oaks Library. “Games can be played over long spans of time and players can get as involved in creating characters as they want to,” he concluded.

Open Mic Poetry
2024-10-03 19:00 - 20:00
Open Mic Poetry
First Thursday, 7-8 pm
In person
Poets and Friends,

Readers and Audiators (Ear Gladiators game to listen)~Mark your calendars! Furst Thursday, er, First Thirsday, yes, FIRST THURSDAY is our newly proclaimed Poetry Open Mic in Fort Bragg.
Dan, the librarian at Fort Bragg Public Library, has already reserved us a Room for First Thursdays, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Let me state all that info again for people who prefer it in columnar format:
Poetry Open Mic
First Thursdays
7:00- 8:00 PM
Join us to read your original poetry aloud, or maybe other authors’ work you are moved to share. Come to listen, come as moral support, or just come as you are.

Contact Dan Hess, Branch Manager, for more information and the ZOOM link hessd@mendocinocounty.org.

Rhyme Time Story Time
2024-10-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-05 10:30 - 11:00
Rhyme Time Story Time
Most First Fridays and First Saturdays
10:30-11 am
In the Children’s Room
Preschoolers!
Do you like to shake, rattle and roll? Do you like a little musical rhyming?
Then come on down to the library and get your groove on at Rhyme Time Story Time at Fort Bragg Branch Library! Every first Friday of the month, 10:30-11 am and every first Saturday, 10:30-11.

Creative Writing Workshops
2024-10-09 14:00 - 15:30
Creative Writing Workshops
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
2nd Wednesdays of each month, 2-3:30 pm
This month: GHOST STORIES – Get Ready for Halloween with
Rob Hawthorn
Writers of the Mendocino Coast are providing free monthly creative writing workshops for adults. All workshops are lead by published authors and will feature different genres and themes each month.
No sign-up is required. Just bring yourself, your BFF, your notebook and your pen.
For more information about the writing workshops, contact Writers of the Mendocino Coast at info@writersmendocino.org. You can also visit their website at writersmendocinocoast.org.

Rob Hawthorn is a husband, a father, a writer, a podcaster, and a bookseller who lives on Northern California’s Mendocino Coast. He began writing seriously. at the age of nineteen, when a story he submitted was published in a small science fiction magazine. Three years later, Rob tried his hand at writing for mainstream comic books. Currently, he’s working as a book seller and events coordinator for Gallery Bookshop, one of the best independent bookstores on the planet. His job as events coordinator has put Rob in touch with a vast community of writers and has helped him connect with an even larger community of readers and book lovers from around the world. Rob has two podcasts, one of which is about music, and the other is a book club that examines 1960s comics through a modern lens.

Library at Farmer's Market
2024-10-09 14:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-23 14:30 - 16:30
Library at Farmer’s Market
Most 2nd and 4th Weds of the month

Fort Bragg Branch Library is at the Farmers Market most 2nd and 4th Weds of the month. Stop by our table, say hi and check out all the happenings at the library! You might even get a free book!

See you at the Farmers Market!

Lemony Snicket Clue Game
2024-10-12 14:00 - 15:00
Lemony Snicket Clue Game
Saturday, October 12, 2024, 2-3 pm
“When things don’t go right, go left.” Lemony Snicket
Detectives, 8 and older, bring your super- sleuthing abilities and come help us solve Count Olaf’s mysterious murder!
Snickety snacks provided.

Poetry Writing Workshop
2024-10-13 15:00 - 16:30
Poetry Writing Workshop
Second Thursday of the month, 3-4:30 pm

Notes on the Art of Poetry
I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
in the world between the covers of books,
such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,,,
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words,
and each of which were alive forever
in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.
Dylan Thomas

Poetry writing is often referred to as the “effort to provide insight into the human spirit”. It encourages us to free our imaginations and express the human spirit in our own unique style.
The Fort Bragg Library Poetry Writing Workshops will include samples of the various styles and techniques of poetry writing, displays of published works, in-session writing exercises along with readings and discussions of individual works produced during the workshops.
Join us the second Thursday of the month, 3-4:30 pm, to find your hidden poet within! Workshops are free. For Adults and older Teens.

Tuesday Closure for Indigenous People's Day
2024-10-15
Tuesday Closure for Indigenous People’s Day
The library will be closed in observance of the Indigenous People’s Day holiday on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
We will re-open Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 10 am.
For your convenience, the book drop is always open when we are closed and our online digital library is available 24/7.
Reminder:
All County holidays that normally fall on Monday will be observed the following Tuesday by all Mendocino County Library branches.

Kids Craft Time
2024-10-19 11:00 - 12:00
Kids Craft Time
Most first and third Saturdays, 11 am – 12 pm at Fort Bragg Library.
All supplies provided.
You bring your enthusiasm, we’ll do the rest!

Adult Book Group
2024-10-24 16:00 - 17:00
Adult Book Group

Thursday, Oct 24, 2024, 4-5 pm
This month: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Are you interested in reviewing and discussing intriguing contemporary fiction and nonfiction books on a variety of topics? Then you will love our Adult Book Group!
Join us as we explore books of all kinds—fiction, special interests, current and past affairs, fun trends, memoirs, etc. The goal of the Adult Book Group is to offer readers a fresh approach to the traditional book club.
For placement on the reserve list, send an email to Branch Librarian, Dan Hess, hessd@mendocinocounty.org. You can also stop by the library or give us a call to reserve a copy of the monthly selection, 707-964-2020.
We look forward to sharing a reading adventure with you!

Kids Spooktacular Halloween ~ October 26
2024-10-26
Spooktacular Halloween for Kids
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Spooktacular Storytime 10:30-11
Join us for some (not so) scary stories and songs

Carnival Games 11-12
Win prizes playing carnival games

Drop-In Trick or Treat 1-5
Wear your costume and get a Treat Bag
