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The City of Menlo Park's libraries offer a variety of programs, including art events, author talks, info sessions, craft sessions, music events, and more. To make the most of our programming efforts and this meetup page, we’d love for you to get involved. If you come to a program, say hi and let us know you saw it on meetup. If you have an idea for something you’d like to see at the library, send us a message. The library is a great space for community meetups and we’d love to play a role in making those connections!
See more events at our calendar, and check our hours and holiday closures.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Asian Animal Tales with Roopa MohanBelle Haven Library, Belle Haven Community Campus, Menlo Park, CA
People of all ages will be enchanted by Roopa’s wild tales of animals from across Asia!
Listen as Storyteller Roopa Mohan shares Pan-Asian tales of all sorts of animals: clever, sneaky, courageous, surprising, funny! Learn about the origins of these stories told throughout the Asian diaspora.
About Roopa Mohan:
Roopa Mohan shares stories internationally with audiences of all ages, telling personal narratives, tall tales, myths and legends she heard growing up in South India. She enjoys engaging her audience and enhancing her stories with Indian dance gestures and movement. As a storyteller and docent for school groups at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, she tells folktales around objects in the museum’s extensive collection.
Roopa serves on the Board of the Storytelling Association of California, leading a project to bring storytelling to underserved schools. She is an active member of Asian American Storytellers in Action, contributing to their ongoing project for children and families, celebrating cultural diversity and equality.
Roopa is also a Chautauqua Scholar, portraying her historical character, Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
About Storytelling:
- Storytelling is telling stories, without using a book.
- It’s an ancient art form that predates libraries, and books and writing.
- It’s not necessarily for children!
- Traditional-style storytelling creates unique images in the mind of each listener.
According to the National Storytelling Network, “storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination. In storytelling, the listener imagines the story.”
This free event received funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.
Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
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@menlolibrary on Twitter/X - Tea & TarotMenlo Park Library, Menlo Park, CA
Join us for tea and conversation around the tarot deck.
Socialize and practice your skills reading the tarot. Although this isn’t an instructional course, meet like-minded people who can share their tarot experiences.
Decks won’t be provided, but tea and tarot-themed book recommendations will, so prepare to get cozy and pull some cards.
BYO cards and join us!
This free event received funding support from the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.
Sunday, May 18, 3-4pm
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@menlolibrary on Twitter/X - Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Group: This is How You Lose the Time WarLink visible for attendees
Join us online to talk about This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent finds a letter. It reads, “burn before reading.”
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hell-bent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.
Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something that could change the past and the future.Monday, May 19, 2025 | 06:30 PM - 07:45 PM
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@menlolibrary on Twitter/X - Day Worker Dreams: Traveling StitchesMenlo Park Library, Menlo Park, CA
Each square of every quilt in the Traveling Stitches exhibition depicts the stories, memories, dreams, ideas and hopes of the day worker who created it. Meet Mountain View Day Worker Center Executive Director Maria Marroquin, and learn about the quilting project and the stories of the people behind it.
The Day Worker Center’s quilt project was launched in 2010, part of the center’s English language-learning program. More than 140 men and women created quilt blocks depicting what was on their minds, pouring their passions, hopes and concerns into these small squared of fabric.
Maria Marroquin and art facilitator Naomi Zamir will visit the library to talk about the quilt project and the Day Worker Center and its participants.
Traveling Stitches: Quilts Made at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View is on display at Menlo Park Library May 14-June 24, 2025.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
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