Summer Reading
Sign up for Summer Reading at http://solanolibrary.com/summer-reading. It’s easy to participate!
Earn virtual badges by tracking hours read and activities completed.
The online reading challenge is open to all ages.
Finding Snowy
Once per week your child can claim a Snowy Prize.
Look at the picture of snowy posted on the front door of the Rio Vista Library. Let staff know where Snowy was in the picture, tell staff your name and get a prize.
Prizes can be picked up whenever we are open. Call 1-866-572-7587 to talk to Rio Vista Staff about claiming your prize.
Make & Take STEAM kits
Pick up a new kit once per week.
Kits can be picked up whenever we are open. Call 1-866-572-7587 to make an appointment to get your kit.
Digital Storytime
Mondays in June
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
We are taking storytime online! Join us for songs and stories with some of your favorite children’s staff! Storytime videos will be posted to the Library’s YouTube channel Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:30am. Come join the fun!
Digital Storytime
Wednesday in June
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
We are taking storytime online! Join us for songs and stories with some of your favorite children’s staff! Storytime videos will be posted to the Library’s YouTube channel Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:30am. Come join the fun!
Digital Summer Reading events:
Fridays 11:00-12:00
We’re taking Summer Reading programs online! Summer Reading performance videos will be posted to the Library’s Facebook page Fridays at 11am throughout June and July. Come join the fun!
· June 12, 2020: Magic Dan
· June 19, 2020: Ventriloquist Steve Chaney
· June 26, 2020: Puppet Art Theater
Cooking with Cathy: Cannoli Cream Dip
Thursday, June 04, 2020
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Solano County Library’s Cooking with Cathy is back with another recipe demo! This week we’re making cannoli cream dip! This easy dip recipe tastes just like the inside of a cannoli! Yum! This is a Facebook Live event.
Essential Oils Virtual Program
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Zoom
Join us for Virtual Essential Oils class, led by wellness advocate, Laura Ray via Zoom on June 9 from 3pm to 4:30 pm. She will be covering the following topics:
-How essential oils work
-How oils can help with sleep, digestive issues, seasonal threats, kids, cleaning, and more
-Differences in the various oils
Not Your Average Book Club- Virtual Book Club
Thursday, June 11, 2020
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
We want to connect readers during social distancing! Join our “Not Your Average Book Club”, a genre based virtual book discussion. This month’s theme is Historical Fiction.
Register in advance for this meeting: Zoom Meeting
Virtual Graphic Novel Book Club
Thursday, June 18, 2020
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
Come to our all NEW Graphic Novel Virtual Book Club. This month discuss George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy” readily available through our ebook platform Hoopla solanolibrary.com.
Solano County Library’s Virtual Happy Hour
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Zoom
Adults 21 and over are invited to join us for Solano County Library’s Virtual Happy Hour. We miss you and want to know what you have been up to during the shelter in place. Grab your favorite beverage (alcoholic or non) and join us as we talk about what people have been reading, eating, drinking, learning, streaming, and watching. Feel free to bring your pet! …
Writing Workshop: Online Story Gathering Project
Limited space – Register today
Monday, June 08, 2020
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Solano County Library and Berkeley-based StoryCenter invite you to join a special online story sharing and writing workshop for our community. During these times, we thought it important for people to have a chance to gather and listen to each others’ stories, and make something creative, a short written story (one page). The program will have you respond to a simple prompt, and lead you through a simple group feedback process, with then a chance to re-write and share your story. The gathering will be led by one of StoryCenter’s facilitators, with years of experience in creating safe and supportive spaces for helping people share stories, in person as well as online.
Requirements
You will need internet access and a computer, smart phone or tablet able to run the Zoom conferencing software (most newer computers can).
If you are interested, just go to https://www.storycenter.org/story-gathering-solano and apply/register.
Agenda for the meeting:
Overview
Prompt and Preparing
Story Circle – Group sharing and Feedback
Re-write
Sharing
About StoryCenter
StoryCenter has been doing these processes for the last 25 years with communities like ours around the world, and the last four years working with libraries here in California as part of the California Listens program with the California State Library.
“Freeing Your Life With Words” with Susan Wooldridge
ZOOM
Thursday, June 18, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Join us at a workshop that will make you feel excited about language and self-expression.
First we’ll gather (and steal) words from books of poems And dictionaries to create a group “word pool. Soon we will delve into what our soul, heart and mind says as we write about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going. Throughout, Susan will share her journals and describe her own writing process. We will talk about noun/verbs, opposites and the mystery of words. We will welcome both laughter and tears. Sharing work is always optional.
