Fort Bragg Library

Creative Writing Workshop
2025-03-12 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fort Bragg Library, 499 E Laurel St, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
Creative Writing Workshop
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
Wednesday, March 12, 2-3:30 pm
This month: Flash, Smash, Twist: Creating SHORT-SHORT MEMOIR with Karen Lewis
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 Karen:
Karen K. Lewis lives near Albion between the forest and the sea. She holds an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles. Karen leads workshops with California Poets in the Schools and is a former Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her fiction, essays, and poetry appear in journals including Literary Mama, Minerva Rising, Weave, Six Words About Work, and Iron Horse. A poetry chapbook Peace Maps is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (2020). https://www.wordjourneys.org/

LEGO® & Games
2025-03-11 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-04 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-25 14:00 - 17:00
LEGO® & Games
Most Tuesdays
2-5 pm
Kids and families!
Check the calendar for updates.

Preschool Dance Party
2025-03-08 14:00 - 15:00
Preschool Dance Party
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 2-3 pm
Kids, 0-6 and their grown-ups! Come and dance to your hearts content, maybe catch a bubble or two.

Storytime
2025-03-08 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-22 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-15 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-14 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.

Open Mic Poetry
2025-03-06 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.

Tech Help
2025-03-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-02-13 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
2025-03-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-19 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!

Spring Book Sale
2025-03-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-01 10:00 - 16:00
Friends of the Fort Bragg Library
Spring Book Sale
Saturday & Sunday
March 1 & 2, 2025
10 am – 4 pm
The Spring 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 Holiday Book Sale.
*Members Only Sale: Friday, February 28th, 3-6 pm. Memberships are $10 per calendar year. You can join the Friends by signing up and paying your dues at the Library, then you can participate in the members only Pre-Sale!

Baby Storytime
2025-03-01 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-02-28 10:30 - 11:00
BABY STORYTIME
FRI & SAT
Feb 28 & Mar 1, 2025
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.

Members Only Pre-Sale
2025-02-28 15:00 - 18:00
Friends of the Fort Bragg Library
Members Only Pre-Sale
Friday, February 28, 3-6 pm
Memberships are $10 per person per calendar year and can be purchased at the Library prior to the sale. Join the Friends or renew your membership today and participate in the members only Pre-Sale!

Adult Book Group
2025-02-27 15:00 - 16:00
Adult Book Group

Last Thursday of the month (except Nov/Dec)
Winter 3-4 pm, DST 4-5 pm
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!

Library at Farmer's Market
2025-02-26 14:30 - 16:30, 2025-02-12 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!

The Cat Drum~a shadow puppet show
2025-02-22 14:00 - 15:00
The Cat Drum
a presentation by Sean’s Shadows
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 2-3 pm
Join for some shadowy fun when Sean returns with his shadow puppets. All ages welcome.

Tuesday Closure for Presidents Day
2025-02-18
Tuesday Holiday
in observance of Presidents Day
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
All branches of Mendocino County Library will be closed Tuesday, February 18, 2025, in observance of Presidents Day. We will be open Wednesday, February 19, regular hours.

As always, our Book Drop is open when we are closed and our digital library content is available 24/7.

Kids Craft Time
2025-02-15 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!

Poetry Writing Workshop
2025-02-13 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.
