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Video gaming for teens and tweens! Bring a friend to challenge on our big screen. We will have video games here, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only please). For more info, contact Ileana at ipulu@sfpl.org or (415) 355-5757.

Video gaming for teens and tweens!  Bring a friend to challenge on our big screen.  We will have video games here, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only please).  For more info, call (415) 355-5660.

A bilingual (English/Chinese) after-school teen activity. Workshop activities include: bilingual blog publishing, digital photography, database learning, gaming, homework help and more. For teens, ages 12 and older.

Free photobooth pictures at Excelsior Branch! Bring your friends and leave with a strip of pics. For ages 12-18. Contact Marla at mbergman@sfpl.org or 415-355-2868 for more information.

Come play PS3 games on our big screen in the Potrero meeting room!

We have a selection, but you can bring your own T or E rated games to share.

Challenge your friends to determine who is the ultimate gamer!

♦ Some snacks will be provided! Snacks!!!♦

Ages 10-18 welcome

For more info, contact Lisa Fagundes at lfagundes@sfpl.org or 415 355 3822

Join Summer Reading Teen Volunteer Training to help the Summer Reading Program at Chinatown Branch Library and gain community service credits. Limit to twenty-five participants. Pre-registration is required. For teens, ages 13 to 18 years old. For information, please contact Jewel at Chinatown Branch Library, Tel: (415)355-2888 or jewelchen@sfpl.org

Let's play teen video games: Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports etc. For teens & tweens, ages 8 to 18 years old.

Get the best of both worlds! Video gaming for teens and tweens! Bring a friend to challenge on our big screen. We will have video games here, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only please).

On break from your game?  Make a button to decorate your bag, jacket, shirt, hat or whatever. Materials provided. For more info, contact Ileana at ipulu@sfpl.org or (415) 355-5757.

Come play PS3 games on our big screen in the Potrero meeting room!

We have a selection, but you can bring your own T or E rated games to share.

Challenge your friends to determine who is the ultimate gamer!

♦ Some snacks will be provided! Snacks!!!♦

Ages 10-18 welcome

For more info, contact Lisa Fagundes at lfagundes@sfpl.org or 415 355 3822

Join us for Lego Night and get your inner builder into gears!   And while you are here, sign-up for SFPLs largest annual event -- Summer Reading! This is an all age event and family participation is incouraged.

Teen DJ workshop with KMEL & Project Level

Program for Tweens and Teens, ages 11-18

Come learn how to spin and scratch records with KMEL and Project Level

No musical experience needed.

For more information please contact Eric Hannan

Vie for the title of best gamer in the Sunset!  Bring a friend to challenge in a movie theater-type environment.  We will have games on hand, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only, please).

For more information contact Tony at aluini@sfpl.org or (415) 355-5700

Origami Shinta Arifin

A bilingual (English/Chinese) after-school teen activity. Workshop activities include: bilingual blog publishing, digital photography, database learning, gaming, home-work help and more. For teens, ages 12 and older.

Come play PS3 games on our big screen in the Potrero meeting room!

We have a selection, but you can bring your own T or E rated games to share.

Challenge your friends to determine who is the ultimate gamer!

♦ Some snacks will be provided! Snacks!!!♦

Ages 10-18 welcome

For more info, contact Lisa at lfagundes@sfpl.org or 415 355 3822

Come play on the XBOX Kinect and Wii systems or play ping pong and board games. Don't feel like gaming make something fun with duck tape.

Snacks provided.

For ages 11 - 18.

Teen space in the meeting room. Activities include gaming, doing homework, and sometimes a movie. Ages 11-18. For more information, contact Marla at mbergman@sfpl.org or 415-355-2858.

Learn about endangered species, while meeting some of the coolest snakes and lizards on our planet! Teressa Kileen shares her vast knowledge and love of reptiles with curious people of all ages! For more info, contact Marla, (415) 355-2858 or mbergman@sfpl.org.

A bilingual (English/Chinese) after-school teen activity. Workshop activities include: bilingual blog publishing, digital photography, database learning, gaming, home-work help and more. For teens, ages 12 and older.

Join us for video games on the Wii at Mission Branch!  Game On!, is your oportunity to bring your friends and play together on the big screen.  (We have games, but if you decide to share, please bring games rated E or T, thanks!) Ages 8- 18. 
Questions?  Email Maricela Leon-Barrera or call (415) 355-2800.

A bilingual (English/Chinese) after-school teen activity. Workshop activities include: bilingual blog publishing, digital photography, database learning, gaming, home-work help and more. For teens, ages 12 and older.

Join us to assemble and program a lego robot using Lego Mindstrom kits.  All materials provided.

Space is limited.

Ages 9 and up.  For more information contact: Maricela Leon-Barrera at mleonbarrera@sfpl.org.

Free, safe, and temporary tattoos in the tradition of Africa and India. 
Choose your own design and learn how to apply it with henna. 
Henna artist Rachel-Anne Palacios will show you how, and will help apply a design on participants. 
Program limited to 25 people. 
For ages 12-19. 
This event requires a signed parent permission form for those under 18. 
To request a form and sign up, or for more information, please contact Lisa Fagundes lfagundes@sfpl.org or call 415 355 2822

Vie for the title of best gamer in the Sunset!  Bring a friend to challenge in a movie theater-type environment.  We will have games on hand, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only, please).

For more information contact Tony at aluini@sfpl.org or (415) 355-5700

Vie for the title of best gamer in the Sunset!  Bring a friend to challenge in a movie theater-type environment.  We will have games on hand, but feel free to bring your own Wii games (rated E or T only, please).

For more information contact Tony at aluini@sfpl.org or (415) 355-5700

Step to Poetry is a colorful literary art installation on the Main Library's staircase written by WritersCorps youth. The youth, who range in age from 12 to 19, attend an afterschool workshop run by WritersCorps at the Main Library. The installation will be on view from May 10 through June 10, and consists of nine brief poems about popular culture.

A launch event will take place on Friday, May 17 at 6 pm, featuring a stair crawl from the first to fifth floors with WritersCorps youth performing their poems along the way. Space is limited and an RSVP to the event is required as the event takes place after library hours. Contact hello@writerscorps.org or (415) 252-2546.