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¡VIVA! at the Library: Fun and Free Festivities Abound

September 12, 2024

Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with SFPL's exciting lineup of programs. Dive into Latinx culture, creativity and history through our diverse and dynamic events—all free at the Library. And this is just a taste.

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Tricycle Music Fest Rolls Back into Town for Its 13th Year of Family Fun This October

September 11, 2024

Celebrate thirteen years of Rock! Play! Learn! with San Francisco Public Library’s hit music celebration for children, Tricycle Music Festival.

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Library Hosts Archival Exhibition Celebrating SF Open Studio's 50th Anniversary

September 3, 2024

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San Francisco Black Film Festival Brings Hometown Celebrity to Library

June 12, 2024

Afternoon of film shorts will be followed by screening of feature film Armed and live Q&A with actor/writer/director Mario Van Peebles

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Internet Archive Awarded Grant Money to Digitize San Francisco Public Library’s San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records (1947 –2009)

May 20, 2024

San Francisco Public Library will digitize the 22 linear feet of the photographs in the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records (1947 –2009), a collection on the redevelopment of the Western Addition, Hunter’s Point and Yerba Buena neighborhoods.

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FROM WHEN THE EARTH TREMBLED TO X-MEN: NEW FILM TALKS FOCUS ON SF’S CINEMATIC GLORY

May 17, 2024

San Francisco Public Library hosts free series Cinematic San Francisco

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Turn Up the PRIDE at San Francisco Public Library

May 16, 2024

Celebrate Pride with San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), dubbed the “Queerest. Library. Ever.”

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Find Your Roots at San Francisco Public Library

May 7, 2024

The Library’s first Genealogical and Family History Conference aims to give people the tools to discover where they came from—and all for FREE

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GLIDE Historical Records Find Home at San Francisco Public Library

May 6, 2024

Learn about the remarkable Rev. Cecil Williams in the GLIDE Historical Records at the San Francisco History Center.

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Catch an Intimate Glimpse of a Bygone Era of Trans Community in Debut Documentary The Stroll

May 2, 2024

Director Kristen Lovell joins in-person for free screening

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