March Library Happenings
Event Highlights
Literally How: Get hands-on experience learning or developing a new skill every month
This is a new monthly series at North. March's topics are:
Learn how to be a barista — Tuesday, March 3 at 4:30 pm
Learn how to be a library aide — Tuesday, March 17 at 4:30 pm
Spring Series: Weekly Art Workshops with the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA)
Fridays from 3:30 - 5 pm at Central
Saturdays from 10:30 am - 12 pm at West
How Money Works: Financial Literacy for Everyone
Tuesday, March 3
6 pm
Tarea Hall Pittman South
Dungeons & Dragons for Teens
1st & 3rd Wednesdays
3:30 pm
Central
Family Game Night
Thursday, March 5
5:30 pm
West
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention Spring Stitch
Saturday, March 7
1 - 5 pm
Central
Come celebrate Women's History Month with a full day of concerts, workshops, and jams spotlighting women musicians and their impact in old time music, featuring a Stairwell Sisters reunion!
Red Lightning Woman Power
Saturday, March 7
12 pm
North
Red Lightning Woman Power is a Bay Area–based Indigenous women’s singing collective grounded in ancestral songs, storytelling, and living tradition. They will share songs of hope, love, and renewal.
The Prom Dress Pop-Up
Saturday, March 7
2 pm
Claremont Branch
Attention high schoolers! Find and take home your perfect prom dress.
Ramadan Storytime with Iqra Tales
Saturday, March 7
3 pm
Central
Author Talk with Terena Scott
Raising Rhia: a Mother's Fight for a Joyful Life
Monday, March 9
6 pm
Central
Combat Robotics Presentation by UC Robotics Team for Grades 3-5
Tuesday, March 10
3:30 pm
North
Drop-in Guided Meditation
Wednesday, March 11
12 pm
Central
Cozy Crafts: Promoting Comfort, Warmth & Relaxation
This month's craft is pressed flower bookmarks.
Saturday, March 14
11 am
Claremont
Chorus Song Circle
Saturday, March 14
2 pm
Tarea Hall Pittman South
Author Talk with Ruth Whippman
BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
Monday, March 16
6 pm
Central
Whippman will be in conversation with Bay Area personality, author, and award-winning producer Lauren Schiller.
Herbal Healing for Menopause
Tuesday, March 17
6 pm
North
Storytime & Community Cafe
Workshop for caregivers that provides resources for managing life challenges.
Wednesday, March 18
10:30 am
West
Creative Writing Space
Wednesday, March 18
4 pm
West
Wildflowers of the Bay Area
with David Margolies from the East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
Saturday, March 21
12 pm
Central
Author Talk with Caitlin Keliiaa
Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Saturday, March 21
1 pm
North
Bike Friendly Driver How-tos
Saturday, March 21
1:30 pm
Tarea Hall Pittman South
All Ages Art Club
3rd Saturdays
2 pm
Claremont
Author Reading & Craft with Monisha Bajaj
A Year of Kites
Saturday, March 21
3 pm
Central
Healthcare Advance Directives
Monday, March 23
10 am
Claremont
Quilt Pattern Workshop: Sew Cathedral Windows
Tuesday, March 24
10 am
Claremont
Teen-Moderated Author Talk with Maggie Tokuda-Hall
A Year of Kites
Tuesday, March 24
6 pm
North
Tokuda-Hall is the author of numerous award-winning, best-selling children’s and young adult books including Love in the Library, The Mermaid the Witch and The Sea duology, Squad, and The Worst Ronin. She has been called “... one of the most unflinching voices in contemporary genre literature.”
SpringFest: Crafting and Music for All Ages
Thursday, March 26
4 pm
Claremont
Astrology Salon with Sarah Weinberg
Saturday, March 28
2 pm
Claremont
Bingo Before Dark
Tuesday, March 31
3 pm
Tarea Hall Pittman South
Virtual Book Club: Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Tuesday, March 31
2 pm
Zoom
Exhibit + Artist Workshop: Roots Unveiled
Roots Unveiled, curated by Bay Area-based artist Nimisha Doongarwal, examines how immigrant identity is carried through the quiet rituals of everyday life.
The series portrays ordinary moments cooking, walking, shopping, resting, meditating, not as simple routines, but as emotional bridges between past and present, home and displacement. The work offers intimate portraits of how cultural roots endure through lived experience rather than inherited symbols.
View the exhibit on the 5th floor of the Central Library from February 2 - Wednesday, March 31.
Register for the Roots Unveiled artist workshop on Monday, March 23 from 3 - 5 pm at Central and learn how to add collage layer appliques onto canvas. All supplies provided. Registration required.
The Black Panther Party in Berkeley: An Archival Exhibit and 60th Anniversary
The Black Panther Party in Berkeley: An Archival Exhibit and 60th Anniversary Celebration is curated by former Black Panther Party member, founder of the Panther Alumni Association and Archive, It’s About Time, Billy X Jennings.
Through rare, often one-of-a-kind archival photographs, art pieces, newspapers, and other unique ephemera, the exhibit offers a new perspective on the people and stories that made the Black Panther Party such a lasting, vibrant, and compelling presence in Berkeley and beyond.
View the exhibit on the 2nd floor of the Central Library from February 2 - May 29.
Opening reception for The Black Panther Party in Berkeley is on Saturday, March 21 at 2 pm.
Learn more about The Black Panther Party in Berkeley exhibit
Save the Dates
Spring Break Programs
North Branch and West Branch are teaming up to offer some great programs throughout Berkeley Unified School District's Spring Break week!
Kicking off the week is a Mariachi Luz de Oro de Berkeley performance at North Branch on Tuesday, March 31 at 3 pm.
Also, catch Mariachi Luz de Oro de Berkeley at Claremont on Thursday, March 12 at 4 pm!
There are hundreds of upcoming library programs for all ages and a diversity of interests:
Many library programs are funded by the generous support of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.
Thank you, Friends!
Love the Library? Join the Board of Library Trustees
Apply by 5 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The City of Berkeley begins accepting applications today, Wednesday, February 25, 2026, to fill two vacancies on the five-member Board of Library Trustees (BOLT).
Candidates must be residents of Berkeley and should be public library champions, passionate about lifelong learning and community engagement.
A demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion is essential.
In addition, candidates with leadership, business, management, strategic planning, marketing and/or administrative skills are encouraged to apply.
Learn more about the Board of Library Trustees role and how to apply.
Thank you!
Working together to make a great public library extraordinary...
Thank you, Foundation & Friends!
Holiday Reminders
All Libraries are closed on Monday, March 30.
eBooks, eAudiobooks, newspapers, music, movies & more are available 24/7 at berkeleypubliclibrary.org.