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Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape - Inspired by L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón

In-Person Program

2024-07-08 16:00:00 2024-07-08 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape - Inspired by L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Book, One County book, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. For adults. Acton Agua Dulce Library - Meeting Room

Monday, July 08
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-07-08 16:00:00 2024-07-08 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape - Inspired by L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Book, One County book, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. For adults. Acton Agua Dulce Library - Meeting Room

Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Book, One County book, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. For adults.

Paint an L.A. Weather Landscape inspired by our One Book, One County book, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón and the following book passage:

“It’s always nice out.”

“People around the country tend to think so. East Coast people, people from the Midwest. They say, ‘There’s no weather in L.A. It’s always seventy-two and sunny,’ but that’ inaccurate. Few people consider our five seasons to be different from one another, but they are. You know this. I know this because we’ve lived here all our lives. Ah, but go ahead and tell this to someone back east. Our winter rainy season overlaps with our sunny and mild spring, then with our jacaranda season, our horribly hot late summer, and the Santa Ana season. That’s five seasons there. Of course, some people in town would include the award season, but that’s not climate-related unless Oscars’ red carpet gets rained on. And then, what about the drought, the winds, the marine layer, the brushfires, the gigafires, the mud-slides, the landslides, the flash floods, the atmospheric rivers…” 

About One Book, One County

One Book, One County is a community reading program for Summer 2024 that celebrates collaboration, education, and conversation across our county and emphasizes the power of connected libraries to create connected communities. This program is unique because instead of one book for one library system, all 9.8 million County residents are invited to read one book together, with supportive programming provided by a network of partnered Los Angeles County library jurisdictions. Learn more about this initiative at LACountyLibrary.org/onebook. 

About L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón
The 2024 selection for One Book, One County is L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. Published in 2022, L.A. Weather is a New York Times bestseller that follows the Mexican-American Alvarado family during a year in Los Angeles “as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.”

María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel, L.A. Weather, is a Reese’s Book Club pick and the winner of the Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards, 2022. Her first novel Esperanza’s Box of Saints, (Santitos in Spanish) has been the number one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List, it has 21 foreign editions and is read in over 86 countries. Her second novel is González & Daughter Trucking Co. (Transportes González e Hija, S.A. in Spanish.) María has been an L.A. resident for forty years.

Acton Agua Dulce Library

Phone: 661.269.7101

Hours
We're closed Friday July 04
Mon, Jun 30 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 02 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 Closed
Sat, Jul 05 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Jul 06 Closed

About the branch

In 2003, John Brevidoro and his brother, Robert, donated 1.5 acres of land on Crown Valley Road in Acton to the County of Los Angeles for the site of a new County library to serve the residents of the communities of Acton and Agua Dulce in northern Los Angeles County. The Brevidoro brothers donated the land in memory of their parents, Christopher C. and Ida G. Brevidoro, the founders of the Colombo Lilac Ranch in Acton.

The library itself is named in honor of their father, Christopher Colombo Brevidoro, who emigrated from Genoa, Italy to California in November 1920. The children's reading area within the library is named in honor of their mother, Ida Ghio Brevidoro, a native Southern Californian.

The Library opened on September 29, 2010.

Upcoming events

Tue, Jul 01, 10:30am - 11:30am
Meeting Room
Let’s get ready for school! Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, and movement while learning school readiness skills and having fun. For ages 2 - 5 with their parent or caregiver.

Thu, Jul 03, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Meeting Room
Storytelling is a fun way to encourage vocabulary development in young children. Create a portable storytime board that features colorful felt shapes to create and share your own stories! For ages 2-5 with caregivers. 

Tue, Jul 08, 10:30am - 11:30am
Meeting Room
Let’s get ready for school! Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, and movement while learning school readiness skills and having fun. For ages 2 - 5 with their parent or caregiver.

Tue, Jul 08, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Meeting Room
The Summer Discovery Program is all about learning and experimenting. Come and use the engineering design process to create a unique toy with moving parts. For ages 7- 12.
This event is full

Wed, Jul 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room
Learn the basics of watercolor painting through Georgia O’Keefe’s distinct style and create unique floral artworks! For teens ages 13 – 17.

Mon, Jul 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room
Test your engineering skills and learn about air movement and displacement, then create your own hand-held air cannon and complete to see how far you can launch a pom-pom across the room! For ages 13 - 17.

Tue, Jul 15, 10:30am - 11:30am
Meeting Room
Let’s get ready for school! Enjoy books, songs, rhymes, and movement while learning school readiness skills and having fun. For ages 2 - 5 with their parent or caregiver.

Wed, Jul 16, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Meeting Room
Join us at a Summer Discovery Program where we will create clay monsters using model magic. Children learn color theory by mixing different color model magic to create secondary and tertiary colors. For ages 5 - 12.

Thu, Jul 17, 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Meeting Room
Have fun learning about colors by visiting multiple color sorting stations! Children will enhance fine motor skills as they experiment with playdough, stickers, blocks, pom-poms, and more! For ages 2 – 5 years old with parents or caregivers.

Sat, Jul 19, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Meeting Room
Make your new favorite mug with guest artist Ana Parkinson. Learn how to design and apply glaze to a premade ceramic mug. Your pieces will be fired are returned to the library for pick up. For adults.
This event is full

Tue, Jul 22, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Meeting Room
Learn the basics of machine sewing or strengthen your skills by making a small tote bag to take home! For adults.
This event is full

Thu, Jul 24, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room
The Summer Discovery Program is about learning. Come and learn about simple machines like gears, levers, and more. Then combine them together to create your own chain reaction contraption. For ages 7- 12.

Tue, Jul 29, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Meeting Room
Learn about some of the rulebreakers in architecture and put your own structural engineering skills to the test by building a stick structure! For kids ages 5 – 12.