November 1, 2018 - December 28, 2018 @ Display Case, 2nd Floor
Simple and accessible, Michael Kesselman’s sculptures portray common objects in unexpected forms that are surprising, intelligent, beautiful, and humorous. Is a chair with five legs still a chair? What happens when two eggs sit at the helm of a beater? What’s the point of an inverted chair impersonating a cello? Made from incongruous components, they suggest something with a unique form, content, and purpose. In their oddity, they attempt to define the essence of things by disrupting our expectations. Kesselman was born in Baltimore, raised in Arizona, and has lived and worked as an artist and writer for many years in the Bay Area. ** Display Case, 2nd Floor **
November 6, 2018 - January 5, 2019 @ Art Gallery 1st Floor
This exhibition features two projects completed by students in College of San Mateo's Intro to Graphic Design class, taught by Professor Vera Fainshtein. While creating their Typographic Illustrations, students were asked to think about type as an expressive visual element. The objective of the second assignment was to design currency for a specific target audience (i.e. universal or a particular country). To find out more about degrees, certificates, and the digital media courses offered at College of San Mateo, check out www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/digitalmedia or email Prof. Vera Fainshtein at fainshteinv@smccd.edu. ** Art Gallery, 1st Floor **
November 18, 2018, 10:30 AM - 3:30 PM @ Beresford Recreation Center
Please come for 1 hour, 2 hours, or come for the full day-anything will help!
November 18, 2018, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Fitzgerald Field, Central Park
Holiday Magic Begins in San Mateo! Santa’s Arrival, Ice Skating and Holiday Lights in Central Park Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 6:00 p.m. Fitzgerald Field, Central Park Celebrate the opening of San Mateo on Ice and the holiday season in San Mateo’s historic Central Park! Santa makes a grand entrance on a fire engine with the San Mateo City Fire Department. Enjoy performances by Peninsula Skating Club figure skating performers Jazmine Gapasin, Joanna Bang, Arianna Lee, Melody Jing, Ava Stephens, Olympian Polina Edmunds and the Nazareth Ice Oasis production group “Beauty and the Beast”. The evening ends with a magical celebration of light during the Tree Lighting Ceremony (!!!) in Central Park and along El Camino Real.
November 18, 2018, 6:00 PM @ Central Park
Celebrate the opening of San Mateo on Ice and the holiday season in San Mateo’s historic Central Park! Santa makes a grand entrance on a fire engine with the San Mateo City Fire Department. Enjoy performances by Peninsula Skating Club figure skating performers Jazmine Gapasin, Joanna Bang, Arianna Lee, Melody Jing, Ava Stephens, Olympian Polina Edmunds and the Nazareth Ice Oasis production group “Beauty and the Beast”. The evening ends with a magical celebration of light during the Tree Lighting Ceremony in Central Park and along El Camino Real.
November 19, 2018, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM @ Book Bubble
For children ages 0 to 5 years old. Build your child's language skills through stories, songs and rhymes in Spanish and English. Third Monday of every month. ** Book Bubble **
November 19, 2018, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM @ San Mateo Senior Center
November 19, 2018, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Personal eBook help for parents and children. Each 30 minute apointment will provide one-on-one help with borrowing and downloading library eBooks and eAudiobooks to your mobile devices. Discover the variety of eResources available for FREE from the San Mateo Public Library. Please bring your library card and mobile device to your appointment. Registration is required.
November 19, 2018, 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Stories and crafts for ages 4 and older. ** Marina Library **
November 19, 2018, 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM @ Children's Area -- Book Bubble
Independent readers can read to a trained therapy dog. Make a friend and practice your reading. ** Children's Area -- Book Bubble **
November 19, 2018, 7:00 PM
November 20, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Books and songs and rhymes for children 2 years old and younger, with adult. ** Marina Library **
November 20, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM @ Children's Area -- Book Bubble
Interactive rhymes and songs, with short books, entertain infants under 12 months with a caregiver. ** Book Bubble **
November 20, 2018, 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
November 20, 2018, 11:15 AM - 11:40 AM @ Children's Area -- Book Bubble
November 20, 2018, 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Stories and crafts for ages 4 and older. ** Hillsdale Library **
November 20, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM @ Teen Lounge, 3rd Floor
Want to earn volunteer hours and help out the library? Join the San Mateo Public Library's Teen Task Force! Come hang out with your friends, eat snacks, and work together on a library project while earning community service credit. For ages 13-18. *** Teen Lounge, 3rd Floor ***
November 20, 2018, 5:30 PM - 8:15 PM @ Oak Room, 1st Floor
Join us for pizza and a movie! For students in the 7th - 12th grades. Movie is rated PG-13. Run time is 2 hours 13 minutes. Sign up required. ** Oak Room, 1st Floor **
November 20, 2018, 6:45 PM - 7:15 PM
Get ready for bed with stories and action rhymes. ** Hillsdale Library **
November 21, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Stories, rhymes and songs for children 3 years old and younger, with an adult. ** Hillsdale Library **
November 21, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM @ Book Bubble
Stories and rhymes and songs for children ages 3 and 4 years old. ** Book Bubble, First Floor **
November 21, 2018, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM @ Cedar Room, 1st Floor
Practice your conversation skills at this drop-in conversation group that is designed to give adult English language learners an opportunity to speak in an informal, relaxed atmosphere. ** Cedar Room, 1st Floor **
November 21, 2018, 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
November 21, 2018, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM @ Book Bubble
November 21, 2018, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM @ Book Bubble
For school age children ages 4 and older -- Explore your curiosity and creativity through books and special age related activities.
November 22, 2018, All Day
City Hall and respective offices will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving Day.
November 22, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Stories, rhymes and songs for children ages 1 and 2, with an adult. ** Book Bubble **
November 22, 2018, 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM @ Laurel Room -- First Floor
Stories, rhymes and songs for children ages 1 and 2, with an adult. ** Laurel Room **
November 22, 2018, 11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
November 23, 2018, All Day
City Hall and respective offices will be closed in observance of Day After Thanksgiving
November 24, 2018, 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM @ Book Bubble
Stories, rhymes and songs for children ages 3 and younger. ** Book Bubble **