Fort Bragg Library

Tuesday Closure for Martin Luther King Day
2025-01-21 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Martin Luther King Day
Tuesday Closure
January 21, 2025
All Mendocino County Libraries will be closed in observation of the holiday.
For your convenience, our book drop is always open when we are closed and our digital library is available 24/7.
We will be open regular hours Wednesday, January 22nd.

Kids Craft Time
2025-01-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-12-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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!

Storytime
2025-01-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-11 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-12-20 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.

Tech Help
2025-01-16 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-01-09 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-01-02 13:00 - 14:00
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!

Teen D & D
2025-01-15 15:00 - 17:00
Teen D & D
(ages 12-18)
First & Third Wednesdays
3-5 pm

Bring yourself, bring a friend to Teen D & D @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!

LEGO® & Games
2025-01-14 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-07 14:00 - 17:00
LEGO® & Games
Most Tuesdays
2-5 pm
Kids and families!
Check the calendar for updates.

Kids Giant Memory Match Game
2025-01-11 14:00 - 15:00
Kids Giant Memory Match Game
Saturday, January 11, 2025, 2-3 pm
Kids, 3 & up, win stickers by matching famous book pictures.

Friends of the Fort Bragg Library Annual Membership Meeting
2025-01-11 10:30 - 12:00

Poetry Writing Workshop
2025-01-09 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.

Library at Farmer's Market
2025-01-08 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!

Creative Writing Workshop
2025-01-08 14:00 - 15:30
Creative Writing Workshop
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
Wednesday, January 8 , 2-3:30 pm
This month: NONFICTION with Kailyn McCord
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 writersmendocino.org.

About Kailyn McCord:
Kailyn writes fiction and nonfiction in Fort Bragg, California, where she also teaches writing at Mendocino Community College. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Literary Hub, Brevity, The Believer, The Cincinnati Review, The Master’s Review, Alta Journal, Pleiades, and New York Magazine, among others. She holds a BA in English literature from Reed College and an MFA in fiction from the University of New Orleans, where she was the editor of Bayou Magazine.
With support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ucross Foundation, Writing by Writers, and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Kailyn writes about land, the West, fire, addiction, and true love. When not writing, she likes to be outside. (bio courtesy of https://kailynmccord.com)

Rhyme Time Storytime
2025-01-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-03 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 consecutive Friday and Saturday of the month, 10:30-11.

Open Mic Poetry
2025-01-02 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.

December Holiday Closure
2025-01-01, 2024-12-31, 2024-12-28, 2024-12-27, 2024-12-26, 2024-12-25, 2024-12-24

Holiday Open House 2024
2024-12-21 14:00 - 16:00
Holiday Open House
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 2-4 pm
Holiday Music provided by local musician, Jan Kessner

Come, see what your library has been up to all year and learn about our future plans. While you’re here, refresh yourself with our holiday treats provided by library staff and the Friends of the Fort Bragg Library.
