Downtown StoryWalk®
2025-04-30, 2025-05-01, 2025-05-02, 2025-05-03 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Fort Bragg Library StoryWalk®
From April 15 to May 3, 2025, families can walk their way through the book Diminuta by Silvina Rocha. Start at the library and follow the businesses in order, reading more pages of the giant book at the different stops along the way. Collect a special prize at the last stop!
Participating businesses, in reading order: (Start at the Library then follow the map in this order)
1. Fort Bragg Branch Library
2. Spunky Skunk/ Racine’s
3. Art Explorers
4. The Book Store and Vinyl Café
5. Mendocino Chocolate Company
6. The Discovery Center for Noyo Center for Marine Science
7. Windsong Used Books and Records
8. Cowlick’s Ice Cream
9. Mendocino Cookie Company
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from Save the Children. The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg Hubbard Library. For more information, please contact Fort Bragg Branch library at 707-964-2020.
StoryWalk® Map Mapa del StoryWalk®

Biblioteca Fort Bragg StoryWalk®
Del 15 de abril al 3 de mayo, las familias pueden caminar el libro Diminuta de Silvina Rocha. Empieza en la biblioteca y sigue las empresas en orden, leyendo más páginas del libro gigante en las diferentes paradas del camino. ¡Recoge un premio especial en la última parada!
Empresas participantes, por orden de lectura: (Empiece por la Biblioteca y siga el mapa en este orden)
1. Biblioteca Fort Bragg
2. Spunky Skunk/ Racine’s
3. Art Explorers
4. The Book Store and Vinyl Café
5. Mendocino Chocolate Company
6. The Discovery Center for Noyo Center for Marine Science
7. Windsong Used Books and Records
8. Cowlick’s Ice Cream
9. Mendocino Cookie Company
La financiación de este programa procede de una subvención de Save the Children. El proyecto StoryWalk® fue creado por Anne Ferguson de Montpelier, VT, y desarrollado en colaboración con la Coalición de Ciclistas y Peatones de Vermont y la Biblioteca Kellogg Hubbard. Para más información, póngase en contacto con la biblioteca Fort Bragg Branch en el 707-964-2020.

Tech Help
2025-05-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-22 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!

Open Mic Poetry
2025-05-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
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.

Storytime
2025-05-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-23 10:30 - 11:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
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.

Scam Awareness Workshop
2025-05-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
SCAM AWARENESS WORKSHOP
Saturday, May 3 at 2-3 pm
Fort Bragg Branch Library invites the community to become scam-savvy on Saturday, May 3 at 2 pm. Learn how to protect yourself from identity theft, banking and government scams, and “phishing” scams – phone calls pretending to be someone you trust or emails or texts asking you to click on a link.
This workshop will help you identify potential scams, offer tips to stay ahead of the game, and outline some resources available if you’ve already been scammed.
For more information, please visit www.mendolibrary.org or contact Fort Bragg Branch at 707-964-2020.

LEGO® and Games
2025-05-06 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-13 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
LEGO® & Games
Most Tuesdays
2-5 pm
Kids and families!
Check the calendar for updates.

Teen D & D
2025-05-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
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!

Poetry Writing Workshop
2025-05-08 15:00 - 16:30 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
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.

Family Movie Saturday
2025-05-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Family Movie Saturday
Saturday, May10, 2025, 2-3:30 pm

Movie: TBD

Snacks provided.

Creative Writing Workshop
2025-05-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Creative Writing Workshop
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
Wednesday, May 14 , 2-3:30 pm
This month: Make it Funny: Humor with Sharon Bowers
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.

Aron Lee Bowe aka Sharon Bowers is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. She was the first place winner of the Rosalie Fleming Memorial Humor Prize from the National League of American Pen Women. Her graphic novel, Amazed & Elated, Depressed & Deflated, won an Independent Publisher’s Silver Medal in 2016. Her next book, Alpha Ding, was published in 2018. Her third graphic novel: Journey to the Anthropocene was published in 2022.
Visit her website at http://www.aronleebowe.com/

Library at Farmer's Market
2025-05-14 14:30 - 16:30 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Library at Farmer’s Market
Most 2nd and 4th Weds of the month
Downtown, Franklin St

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!

Kids Craft Time
2025-05-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
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!

Members Only Pre-Sale
2025-05-23 16:00 - 19:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Members Only Pre-Sale
Friday, May 23, 2025
4-7 pm
The Memorial Weekend Book Sale features thousands of unique titles in every genre imaginable.
In addition to books, the Friends have a nice selection of DVDs, audiobooks and CDs for sale.
Proceeds from the Book Sale go toward helping the library finance special collections and provides lots of fun, educational programming.
Help support your library at the Friend’s Memorial Weekend Book Sale.
Memberships are $10 per calendar year. You can join the Friends by signing up and paying your dues at the Library beforehand or pay at the door.
All proceeds go to Friends of the Fort Bragg Library.

Memorial Weekend Book Sale
2025-05-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Memorial Weekend Book Sale
Saturday & Sunday
May 24 & 25, 2025
10 am – 4 pm
The Memorial Weekend Book Sale features thousands of unique titles in every genre imaginable.
In addition to books, the Friends have a nice selection of DVDs, audiobooks and CDs for sale.
Proceeds from the Book Sale go toward helping the library finance special collections and provides lots of fun, educational programming.
Help support your library at the Friend’s Memorial Weekend Book Sale.
*Members Only Sale: Friday, May 23rd, 3-6 pm. Memberships are $10 per calendar year. You can join the Friends by signing up and paying your dues at the Library beforehand or pay at the door.
All proceeds go to Friends of the Fort Bragg Library.

Memorial Weekend Book Sale
2025-05-24 10:00 - 16:00 | CA
