Marin Chinese Cultural Association Lion Dance Team

Saturday, February 12 at 11:30am, Town Hall Plaza

The incredible Lion Dance Team is back to perform in San Anselmo! Celebrate with the Marin Chinese Cultural Association as the Lion Dance Team performs traditional Lion Dances for Lunar New Year. Bring everyone out to enjoy the show! For all ages. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Anselmo Public Library and the Library Parcel Tax.

Memory Kits at your San Anselmo Public Library

Your San Anselmo Public Library received a grant from the California State Library Mental Health Initiative and the Southern California Library Cooperative, awarding your library a series of kits intended to aid families with members experiencing Dementia/Alzheimer's. Research indicates that interactive and multi-sensory materials used with people experiencing Dementia/Alzheimer's promote positive results. We now have seven kits to offer our community:

Three Memory Lane Kits: Hands-on activity kits based on a familiar decade
1940s
1950s
1960s

Three Memory Activity Kits: Hands-on activity kits based on the stages of Dementia/Alzheimer's
Beginning to Middle Stages
Middle to Late Stages
Late Stages

Caregiver Kit: This kit has four books and five information brochures to support caregivers with family members experiencing Dementia/Alzheimer's.

All kits check out for three weeks and must be returned inside the San Anselmo Library.

Spotlight on Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedimma Nkedmdili "Nnedi" Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and Africanfuturism for all ages. Africanfuturism is a cultural aesthetic and philiosphy of science that centers on the fusion of African culture, history, mythology, point of view, with technology based in Africa, and not limiting to the African diaspora. She defined Africanfuturism in her 2017 TedTalk.
Nnedi Okorafor is the first black woman to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. She's best known for her award-winning Binti novellas, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, and Remote Control. Her latest Africanfuturism novel, Noor, was published in November 2021.