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In Song Sing On: A Songbook Sing-Along

Come join us for an inclusive group sing-along using the In Song Sing On songbook, an ever-growing collection of well loved and newly loved songs selected by a wide cast of contributors, with lyrics written down for the purpose of singing together.
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Weaving Together with Travis Meinolf

Artist Travis Meinolf hosts a weaving gathering with twenty simple looms prepared for use; together we will weave something big, or many smaller things, or perhaps some combination of bigger and smaller things.
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Roundtable Reading: Simon B. Rhymin’ by Dwayne Reed

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes spins rhymes in his head and dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper whom everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he’s just a Chicago fifth grader who’s small for his age and afraid to use his voice.
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¡Roundtable Reading Bilingüe!: The Donkey Lady Fights La Llorona and Other Stories / La Señora Asno Se Enfrenta a La Llorona y Otros Cuentos by Xavier Garza

Eleven-year-old Margarito is way past believing in Grandpa Ventura’s ghost stories, but he loves listening to them anyway. One dusky evening on his way home, he finds himself alone in the gathering dusk, crossing a narrow bridge. Suddenly, a woman in white floats toward him and calls out to him.
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Roundtable Reading: Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing

When shy, introverted Maya is assigned to a different fifth-grade classroom than her two best friends, she feels lonely and worried that she won’t make new friends. Until, that is, she puts her scientific and technological skills to use fixing up the abandoned robot she finds in a closet.
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Gallery + Studio: Live from Somewhere

Sometimes an artist sets the scene for something to happen, leaving room for us to imagine what that might be. Tammy Rae Carland’s selections for The Artist’s Eye, and her own works in the show, explore absence and presence, and uncertainty about being the center of attention.
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Gallery + Studio: Textured Mixed-Media Painting

Berkeley-based artist David Huffman fuses symbolic elements with mixed media to create artworks that tell a visual story. Basketball nets saturated in paint create texture, and layers of color create depth.
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Gallery + Studio: Expressive Landscapes

Informed by both traditional Chinese painting techniques and a lifelong exploration of experimental brushwork, Hong Kong artist Wesley Tongson created intricate and expressive paintings inspired by the natural world.
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Virtual Roundtable Reading: Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia

At Roundtable Reading, young readers are invited to read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. We will read together for about an hour. Children who participate at the event will receive a copy of the book in the mail to continue reading at home.
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Community Valentine Mail Art Party with No School

Come to the Art Lab for a Valentine’s Day mail art making extravaganza hosted by experimental arts education program No School. Explore collage, stamp, and various simple print processes to create pieces of mail art to send to your loved ones.
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