Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project
We’re excited to again present the talented youth of the annual Graton Writing Project, a series of writing workshops designed for middle and high school Native students from Sonoma County, California. The program culminates in a published…
Redefining Home
Featuring stunning literary debuts from authors who are enrolled members of the Akwesasne Kanienkehaka and the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, this panel centers the Native experience as influenced by modern political…
Garden of Possibilities
In a world contending with violence and erasure, what does it mean to plant a future? Garden of Possibilities gathers six poets who write toward abundance, resistance, and reimagined ways of being. Through language rooted in care, complexity,…
In Dialogue: Building Communities that Thrive
In a moment of global crises and heightened polarization, how do we foster belonging and minimize othering? How and where do we build bridges when so many communities and institutions are fracturing and re-constellating? Drawing on the panelists’…
Healing and Resistance
In the face of direct oppression and attack on vulnerable communities throughout our nation’s history, especially from the current administration, this moment demands all aspects of resistance: self-nourishment, community healing, and defiance…
The End of the (Fantastical) World: Complicated Relationships in Dystopia
If the world was ending, we’d want to be next to these dystopian reads that also warm the heart! The Art Thieves, a work of Cherokee Futurismby Andrea L. Rogers, begins amidst a climate crisis in 2052, when a high-school museum employee becomes…
Native Story Circle
Join us for a special Story Time Circle at the library, where these community members share the rich tradition of storytelling in their cultural circles. This unique experience offers children from all walks of life and backgrounds the opportunity…
Fighting for What You Love
From education to sports to the environment, we fight for what we love! Learn from three amazing picture books that tell true stories of inspiring people taking a stand against the norm. In Traci Huahn’s Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School,…
Bite-Sized Biographies: Picture Books of Resistance and Resilience
Join us in this exciting panel of picture book biographers depicting the lives of influential historical figures whose impacts were anything but bite-sized. Edie for Equality by Michael Genhart narrates the numbers-loving and LGBTQ-rights activist…