Mark your calendars! August 26th is 826’s Youth Literacy Day! 826 Valencia will be celebrating a decade of amazing student writing with the release of a special editi…
Print your Firelilly & Leonotronico Outsmart the Queen Shark coloring sheet! Tear down summer boredom! Color in this action shot of the robot lioness Firelilly and her hungry robocub Leontronico, w…
Summer is sweet, but school is sweeter. Every summer at 826 Valencia, we run Exploring Words Summer Camp, a reading, writing, and science intensive program for students from second to fifth grade. Fro…
Our summer season of student workshops got off to a great start last week! The Writing and Publishing Apprentices workshop for high school students kicked off a summer seminar series in which students c…
Bear is an avid cookbook reader, a word warrior (i.e. poet), a music junkie, a fromage fanatic, and an all-night dancer. He began volunteering with 826 Valencia in 2011 fo…
On Wednesday, July 10, tickets for the City Arts & Lecture annual series “On Arts” go on sale! Beginning in September, City Arts and Lectures will begin this season&…
This week, we released two articles by Bay-Farer reporters Stella Pfahler and Brian Moore on the topics of free speech on MUNI and the three str…
CBS San Francisco recently honored 826 Valencia co-founder Dave Eggers as one of the city’s “Best Local Authors.” Eggers in particular is honored for “serv[ing] huma…
The Huffington Post recently published an interview with local writer and 826 Valencia board member Vendela Vida. The interview concerns the release of Always Apprentices — a collection of conversat…
