Events

Every first and third Thursday of the month from 10am to 12:30pm Please ask for a 30-minute appointment to reserve a spot.

Dungeons & Dragons Club This club is for ages 12-17 interested in learning how to play Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (5e) and Sixth Edition (6e).  All experience levels in D&D […]

Carpinteria Birdwatchers are a group of people in and around Carpinteria, CA, who enjoy birdwatching. We have evening birdwatching meetings once a month at 6:00 p.m. on the third — […]

Unstructured open free play with Magna-tiles, Brio trains, Kapla blocks, and the occasional messy project. For ages 3 – 11ish.

Join us for Gaming Club! This club is for teens interested in gaming in all its forms! Board games! Card games! Tabletop Roleplaying Games! Video Games! We will work out what we want to play each meeting as a group, and some days we might just hang out, make D&D characters, and talk about our […]

Todos los niveles de inglés son bienvenidos. En la Biblioteca Comunitaria de Carpintería. Sin costo alguno. All English learners at any level are welcome. Free of charge.

Especially for children who can’t attend during the week, little ones and their grown-ups are invited to join Preschool Story Time on the third Saturday of every month at the Carpinteria Community Library. Led by our very own librarian, Pauline Nelson, this fun-filled program will delight children with stories, songs, and games. ???? When: 10:30 […]

Little ones and their accompanying grown-ups are invited to attend Preschool Story Time on Monday mornings at the Carpinteria Community Library. With our very own librarian, Pauline Nelson, leading the story time. She will captivate her audience with stories, songs and games. Free weekly program geared toward ages 2 to 5. Story Time takes place […]

Join us for tea, a reading, and a conversation about Heartwood by Amity Gaige! This compelling novel explores the complexities of family, memory, and the ties that bind us. With Gaige’s sharp prose and deeply human characters, Heartwood invites us into a story that’s both intimate and haunting — perfect for sparking thoughtful discussion. Find it in our catalog. […]

The Carpinteria Writers Group has been in existence for nearly twenty years. Membership is free and open to the public. Poets, novelists,  bloggers, nonfiction writers, short story writers as well as people working on their memoirs are all welcome. Some members are published, others wish to be, and some write for their own amusement or […]