Come enjoy loud and live music in the library at our first In the Stax Music Fest!
This music fest will have vendors selling zines, records and vintage posters with two live music performances from Bay Area bands Burning Curtains and our feature band, Skip the Needle. We will also have a Build a Beat Workshop where you can learn to make music using Ableton Live software.
We are looking for our 2025 Berkeley Youth Poet Laureate! If you are interested in applying, come check out our application workshop where we will help you with your resume and selecting poems to submit. Open to Berkeley residents and students ages 13-18.
Join us for an evening of live music and conversation at the Hillside Club where author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton will discuss her book, On the Rooftop with host Lewis Watts, author of Harlem of the West.
Listen to live jazz music by the legendary all women big band Melba's Kitchen.
* If families express interest in this new program, it may be offered weekly. Show up and let us know or mention it to staff the next time you are at West branch.
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