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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
Mon, Feb 10 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Feb 11 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Feb 12 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Feb 13 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Feb 14 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Feb 15 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Feb 16 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, Feb 18, 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, Feb 19, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Meeting Room
Build your own catapult and take on your friends to see who has the best aim, the best distance.  Learn all about force, accuracy, and kinetic energy as you make your own catapult. For ages 13 - 18.

Mon, Feb 24, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Meeting Room
Join us to learn about the history and impact of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. You will have the opportunity to be inspired by the message of activism through service by creating your own commemorative coaster. For adults.

Tue, Feb 25, 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, Feb 26, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Meeting Room
Join us in learning about  and creating customized marble run mazes so that the marbles can twist, turn, and spin with incredible velocity. The marbles will swivel, zig zag and zoom through your constructions.  For ages 5 - 12.

Sat, Mar 01, 11:00am - 11:45am
Meeting Room
Join us for a session of play, curiosity, and creativity with infant toys, art supplies, puppets, and more! For ages 0 - 5 with their parent or caregiver.

Tue, Mar 04, 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, Mar 05, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Meeting Room
Through Libby, you can enjoy free eBooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines with your library card. Join us to learn how to set up your account, navigate the website/app, and access materials, as well as pick up some other tips! For adults.

Tue, Mar 11, 10:30am - 11:30am
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, Mar 13, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room
Are you a fan of graphic novels, manga or anime? Join us with our guest artist, former Simpsons and King of the Hill illustrator Carlos Nieto III, who leads a workshop on how to design and draw your own cartoon characters! For ages 12 - 18.

Tue, Mar 18, 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, Mar 18, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room
Be an author, illustrator, and publisher all in one. Get on the perzine scene and create a do-it-yourself mini-magazine reflective of you. We’ll supply the materials; you supply the inspiration! For teens ages 13 - 17.