San Francisco Public Library

Refresh your LinkedIn, portfolio, or personal brand with a professional headshot. Portraits will be taken by Bay Area photographer Sarah Deragon, known for creating natural, authentic headshots.
📍 Main Library, 4th Floor — Steve Silver Music Center
📅 Sun, June 21, 2026 | 12:15–2:00 PM
💲 Free
Register starting June 7: https://on.sfpl.org/ProfessionalHeadshot
Dress professionally and arrive early for your selected time slot .

🎤 Come to our next Poem Jam on June 11. San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck and feminist poet Robin Becker celebrate Midsummer Count, Becker’s new poetry anthology, with poet Elaine Brown and special guests at SFPL’s Monthly poetry reading.✨

Thursday, June 11, 6-7:15 pm Latino Room (lower level)

https://on.sfpl.org/06-11-26

Kick off at the opening reception for The Unbuilding Archive: Liberated Futures for the Site of Compton's Cafeteria Riot — a new exhibition in the Hormel LGBTQIA Center that imagines an alternative future while honoring the legacy of resistance at the intersection of Turk x Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin.

Featuring historic photographs, maps, archival materials and new art from local artists, the exhibition centers trans liberation while recognizing that all systems of domination are intertwined.

👀 Exhibition teasers:
1️⃣ Hyland Hotel Queen’s Protest, 1973
2️⃣ Turk & Taylor, United Railroads, 1906
3️⃣ Tenderloin Times, 1993
4️⃣ “Exploded View,” 2026
5️⃣ Rincon Hill, 1851
6️⃣ “Freshwater Spring,” 2026
7️⃣ Tenderloin Times, 1978

Thurs, June 4 | 6–7:30 p.m.
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, 3rd Floor
Main Library

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Looking for your next summer read? Check out this year’s hot titles at San Francisco Public Library! ☀️📖

Read now for free in print, digital and audiobook formats. Explore our staff's summer reading recommendations, including book-to-movie adaptations, graphic novels, romantasy picks and literary reads, at on.sfpl.org/summerreads2026.

Tomorrow, National Creativity Day, come draw from the movie La Llorona. Basic materials are provided, and all levels are welcome. This is a wonderful way to let go and explore your creativity. There is no instruction or feedback, but there is an opportunity to share drawings at the end. and due to pauses for drawing, the full film will not be shown. Saturday May 30th, 11 AM - 1 PM at the Main Library in the Latino/Hispanic Room (Lower Level). Join us!

👀See this fabulous video of San Francisco's Youth Poet Laureates Karan Gupta, Aisha McCulloch and Tika Zahiri reading for National Poetry Month at the Main Library. San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim hosts, with musical interludes on the butterfly harp performed by Harriet Lim ✨

https://on.sfpl.org/4f4p0U2

Team SFPL had a blast celebrating at Carnaval this past weekend!

🎵The Main Library celebrates the 90th birthday of composer Terry Riley with a free piano concert. Acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill performs several of his remarkable compositions along with music composed in his honor by Sam Adams and Danny Clay. ✨

Sunday, May 24, 2-3:30 pm Latino Room (Lower Level)

https://on.sfpl.org/05-24-26