Library’s Creative Club starts
- Jan Cook
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library announces the first meeting of the library’s free Creative Club on Saturday, Oct. 20.
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at the Lakeport Library, 1425 N. High St.
The club will meet on the third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m.
At this inaugural meeting Amy Patton of the library staff will present an introduction to color theory by creating color wheels with paints and colored pencils.
Patton will also introduce and demonstrate a new library resource that allows Lake County Library patrons to use their library cards for unlimited access to Creativebug, a free video library of craft classes.
Creativebug offers more than 1,000 classes in yarn crafts, jewelry, quilting, art and design, sewing, paper crafts, food, home and kids’ crafts. Creativebug can be found at http://library.lakecountyca.gov on the Resources tab.
In future meetings, Creative Club members will share their experiences using Creativebug and the projects that they’re working on.
The library supports creativity in Lake County with the new digital resource Creativebug, with books and through craft clubs that meet in the libraries.
The new Creative Club in Lakeport and the existing craft-focused clubs at Upper Lake Library and Redbud Library are just one aspect of the ways in which the library helps residents explore their creative sides.
Creativity is important in everyday life. It helps us expand our perceptions and find new ways to solve problems. Also, being creative is fun.
Lake County is one of 10 libraries across California that have received grants to create community-driven makerspaces through a pilot program from the California State Library and the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Funding for Creativebug comes from this grant.
The Lake County Library is on the internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary.
Jan Cook is a library technician at the Lakeport Library.