Chinese and Russian e-books on the OverDrive site

There are now Chinese and Russian e-books on the OverDrive site.
They can be accessed easily by clicking on the Chinese e-books and Russian Title squares on the page.
Also, if you click on a Genre on the top, like fiction, those in that Language, appear under Language on the left side of the page.

Matheus Poli presents World Music Concert

Brazilian composer Matheus Poli and band present an uplifting concert of Latin Jazz and World Music, featuring original compositions and songs from around the world.

Date:  Saturday, May 11, 2013

Time: 2:00 – 3:30 pm

Location: Central Library Mark Taper Auditorium

All Ages Welcome.

 

Thursdays@Central: Japanese Tea Ceremony

 

The Ogasawara Ryu Sencha Do Japanese Tea Ceremony School was established in Japan about 100 years ago.  Although the history of the matcha ceremony is much older and well known, Ogasawara Ryu involves the making of tea from tea leaves as opposed to tea powder. 

 

The Southern California Branch of the Ogasawara Ryu Sencha Do is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.  Please help us celebrate this event by attending our tea ceremony, a performance that involves all of your senses, guaranteed to be beautiful, cultural, and tasteful.

Three Ogasawara Ryu Sencha Do Japanese Tea Ceremony School teachers, Suiyu Kovacs, Suibi Bevington, and Suishin Kobayashi, will be presenting this tea ceremony.

 

April 11 (Thursday) 12:15 – 1:00 pm,  Meeting Room A.

The program is sponsored by Bruckman Rare Book Friends.

 

 

Mango Languages Database

Mango Languages is our new, free online language-learning database including:

Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Latin American and Spain), Tagalog, Vietnamese.

Mango also has English language courses for speakers of 6 different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian.

Learn on the go with the Mango Mobile app for iPhone and Android.

In addition, we also have PowerSpeak Languages, our other free online language-learning database.

L.A. Community Klezmer Band Holiday Concert

The L.A. Community Klezmer Band will be presenting a holiday program at the Robertson Branch Library, 1719 S. Robertson Blvd.,  L.A. 90035, on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 2pm. There will be songs in English, Yiddish, Spanish and Ladino. The band has played at a number of community events including several at the Los Angeles Central Library.  



Previous concert performance.