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This workshop will help you develop and share your writing with a supportive group led by WritersCorps. We will play with form, performance, and other arts to engage your creative self. All levels of writers welcome! Open to teen writers 12-19. For information or to register contact Eric at 557-4426 or ehannan@sfpl.org

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.

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

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

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.

Learn to create dynamic cartoon characters, backgrounds, and storylines. Teens will learn how to draw characters that have expression and movement.
Our materials will include pencils, markers and a sketchbook. You will produce several cartoon scenes and the start of a comic book.
The class is taught by Cara Goldstein, a credentialed teacher with ten years of experience and a Yale National Teacher Fellow in 2010.
Workshop limited to 15 people, registration begins 2 weeks in advance.  Ages 12-18.
For more info contact Lisa Fagundes at lfagundes@sfpl.org 415 355 2822

Learn how to bust a move and spin on the floor with Destiny Arts instructor Mika! 

Space is limited.

Ages 8 and up.  For more information contact Maricela Leon-Barrera at mleonbarrera@sfpl.org

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.

Join Jonathan Silverman of Feel the Earth in this two-day workshop for Teens.  Learn about Victory Gardens, how to start and care for a garden in our neighborhood and learn about an exciting volunteer opportunity that would allow you to work with the Mission Branch Library Garden through the summer and fall.  (Partaking in the workshop does not mean you have to commit long term.)

Questions?  Contact Teen Librarian, Maricela Leon-Barrera at mleonbarrera@sfpl.org

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.

Come learn the ancient art of jewelry making!

Jeweler extraordinaire, Chelsee Robinson, will guide you in learning the latest techniques and applications.  Work with real stones, crystals, beads and more to create a beautiful necklace, bracelet or earrings.  All materials provided.  Space is limited.

For ages 10-18

For more information and to register, please contact: Dorcas at dwong@sfpl.org

Join Jonathan Silverman of Feel the Earth in this two-day workshop for Teens.  Learn about Victory Gardens, how to start and care for a garden in our neighborhood and learn about an exciting volunteer opportunity that would allow you to work with the Mission Branch Library Garden through the summer and fall.  (Partaking in the workshop does not mean you have to commit long term.)

Questions?  Contact Teen Librarian, Maricela Leon-Barrera at mleonbarrera@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 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.

Mobile Movie Making!

In this workshop, teens will learn the craft of movie making and will make their own one minute movie using the skills they accquire. These skills include camera basics and composition, video pre-production and planning, video production, and editing. Teens will go home with their own self produced movie! All equipment provided.

Space is very limited. Please register online for this workshop here

Media realeses are required for all participants and will be emailed after registration.

For questions, please call or email Eric Hannan at 415-557-4426

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

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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.