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Encouraging Creativity and Community

The adult arts and crafts classes offered at the Del Mar, Solana Beach and Rancho Sante Fe libraries bring together community members of all backgrounds to participate in the process of creating. They offer a wide range of hands-on art classes. As an instructor, it is very rewarding to see both the beautiful products they make, and to watch the students enjoy the experience of expression. There is a great sense of camaraderie and support between the classmates Thank you to the Friends of the Library for making it all possible.

Alpine Library sponsored Ukulele Jam Club

In the beginning of January 2025 the Alpine Library said they would welcome us the use of a room to have a Beginning Ukelele Club 2x a month. They also printed off and compiled 10 music notebooks to help get us started and said they would help print off new music to add to our collection of songs. 12 months later 16 ukelele musicians preformed 9 Holiday songs at the Alpine Library Holiday Get Together and we were told it was the biggest turn out ever. We continue to enjoy our 2x Uke Jam Sessions and along with next years…

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Public libraries matter to me , I grew up with a libraries all different neighborhoods in a large metropolitan midwestern city. I could go to and read or get many type of books such as , autobiographies, biographies, history, fiction, non fiction, poetry, monologues and so much more. The mindset and laws during those periods were changing in this country. I lived to see a lot of laws change. And so called Colored, Negro, to become known as African Americans artist.Books help me get a good understanding of how divided this place called America and called the land of the…