Join in celebrating Black History Month at the Hayward Area Historical Society! This week, families are invited to make collages inspired by Alma Thomas’s beautiful paintings.

Plus, there’s an opportunity to make your own dragon or lantern for Lunar New Year!

As always, there’s also a book/toy nook to play in and a free play art table and coloring pages that are always available.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with us at the Hayward Area Historical Society! Decorate paper dragons and make paper lanterns to ring in the Year of the Snake.

For those with shorter attention spans, our toy/book nook is available for play. We also host a free-play art table.

All ages, no reservation required.

It's the season for cider, cookies, and crafts! In addition to visiting our history and art galleries, you can pop in to the museum on Saturdays in December to make a salt dough ornament and other festive crafts while enjoying hot cider and cookies in our little elves workshop.

It's the season for cider, cookies, and crafts! In addition to visiting our history and art galleries, you can pop in to the museum on Saturdays in December to make a salt dough ornament and other festive crafts while enjoying hot cider and cookies in our little elves workshop.

It's the season for cider, cookies, and crafts! In addition to visiting our history and art galleries, you can pop in to the museum on Saturdays in December to make a salt dough ornament and other festive crafts while enjoying hot cider and cookies in our little elves workshop.

No Dia de los Muertos celebration would be complete without skulls! On the last day of our wonderful community exhibit, come decorate a skull mask to wear for the day!

As Day of the Dead approaches, we all need a skeleton buddy. Come decorate your very own skeleton friend.

Looking to add a little more joy to your October Celebrations or a gift for someone special? Then drop by the Pop-Up Shop offering unique and one-of-a-kind Dia de los Muertos themed folk art and jewelry. Come support local artisans!

Learn about the symbolism of monarch butterflies in Dia de los Muertos imagery and make your own monarch before they all migrate south.

Day of the Dead Festivities are filled with bright and happy colors! Add vibrant colors to your festivities with your very own tin foil art. Also learn about the role the marigold plays in Dis de los Muertos celebrations and make your own tissue paper marigold.

Lead Paranormal Docent Gail Reilly will speak about investigating McConaghy House and Meek Mansion over the last decade and share her experiences from not only our sites, but other historical venues from around the state.

Free | Registration Full

Hayward/South County Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) Chapter invites you to a Voter Information and Registration Event. BWOPA partners with The Links Incorporated Eden Rose Chapter, the Hayward-South County NAACP, and the League of Women Voters of the Eden Area. Light refreshments will be provided.

The presentation will include information regarding:

• Why your vote is important

• An overview of elections: National, State, and Local

• The pros and cons of Assembly and Senate bills

• How you can get out the vote

• Voter information question and answer session

• On-site voter registration

Free | Registration Required

As we all know, the Hayward area is known for being a great place to grow fruits and vegetables, so much so that we often have more on our trees and in our gardens than we know what to do with! Lucky for us, there is ForestR. ForestR is a nonprofit organization that offers many programs, but fruit tree gleaning is their specialty. Join us on June 1st to hear more about ForestR’s programs and how their fruit-gleaning service can help redistribute the overabundance your fruit tree produces.

Free | Registration Required

Stop by the Museum for a morning story time and a Mother’s Day craft!

Moo! Baa! Oink! Cluck-cluck! A barnyard can be a noisy place. Come celebrate with us as we sing about Old McDonald, count 5 little piggies, and look for the green sheep. For more information about our family programs, click here.

$5 program fee per adult, Free for HAHS Members

This June will be Eric Carle’s 89th Birthday! Celebrate this beloved children’s author, the creator of hungry caterpillars, lonely fireflies, and grouchy ladybugs. We will share many of his stories, and make art inspired by his playful illustrations. For more information about our family programs, click here.

$5 program fee per adult, Free for HAHS Members

Between 1883 and 1929, Andrew Carnegie funded the building of over 2,000 public libraries. Some of those historic structures stood in San Leandro and Hayward. Join Annalee Allen, noted local historian, Oakland Tribune columnist, and former board member of the Oakland Heritage Alliance, as she shares the lasting legacy of the local Carnegie libraries.

$5 program fee, Free for HAHS Members

Firefighters, construction workers, mail carriers - we see so many community helpers every day. Help sort the mail, try on a firefighter’s hat, or build a tall building with blocks, as we share songs and stories that celebrate all the people in our neighborhood!

Toddler Time is a family program geared towards children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. Together, we share songs, games, crafts and stories, for a morning full of learning and smiles. Older siblings are always welcome. Toddler Time takes place on the second Thursday of each month from 10:30 AM -11:30 AM. $5 program fee per adult.

Join acclaimed author and speaker Regina Mason as she shares the story of her search for her great-great-great-grandfather, William Grimes, and her startling discovery that he had written the first American autobiography of a runaway slave. His story ignited an essential American literary genre, but is largely forgotten today. His story, and her search to uncover it, are retold in a new film, Gina’s Journey: The Search for William Grimes. In this reenactment documentary that bridges two centuries, both Mason and her forebear Grimes defy the odds of their times to tell their stories.

Program Schedule

1:00 - 1:30: Introductions & Film Background

1:30 - 3:00: Film Screening: Gina’s Journey: The Search for William Grimes

3:00 - 3:30: Q&A, Book Signing

Admission to the museum is free, but there is a $5 suggested donation for the program.

This program is presented in partnership with the Women’s Ministry of Palma Ceia Baptist Church. Program sponsored by KMS Unique Angels & Gifts.

Explore butterflies, caterpillars, all kinds of creepy-crawly friends – make a coffee-filter butterfly, or a googly-bug-eyed headband for dramatic play! Toddler Time is a family program geared toward children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. Older siblings are always welcome.

Come celebrate the Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) with a full day of crafts and activities to remember the lives of loved ones who have passed. Get your face painted, create a silly skeleton, decorate traditional sugar skulls to take home, and enjoy a special concert by Hayward's own young musicians, the Mariachi Juvenil.

Craft a spooky spider web, and join us for stories, songs, crafts, and fun! Don’t forget to wear your costume! Toddler Time is a family program geared toward children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. Older siblings are always welcome.

Around the neighborhood or around the world, join us for crafts and stories that reflect our many cultures, and how we are connected. Toddler Time is a family program geared toward children ages 1-5 and their caregivers. Older siblings are always welcome. More information about our family programs is available here.

Japanese Americans experienced tremendous violations of civil liberties during World War II and their experiences continue to resonate today.

Join us for a screening of the pivotal documentary And Then They Came for Us (2017), followed by a round-table discussion. Sponsored by the Eden Township JACL.

Speaker Biographies

Don Tamaki is a celebrated local lawyer who helped clear Fred Korematsu’s conviction for resisting detention during WWII, and recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the Travel Ban case (Trump v. Hawaii).

Satsuki Ina, born in the Tule Lake maximum security prison during WWII, is a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of trauma, and the producer of two award-winning documentary films about Japanese American incarceration (Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon).

Benita Jain, from the Immigrant Family Defense Fund, has worked with multiple national organizations focused on defending the civil rights of immigrant communities. She monitors and analyzes legislative proposals, and helps to provide legal resources to fight the targeting of immigrants with criminal arrests and convictions. The Immigrant Family Defense Fund is doing local, concrete work on a daily basis to provide legal representation and support to California families facing separation, detention and deportation. 

Doing our part to recycle reduces the amount of waste that gets sent to landfills, conserves natural resources, and saves energy. Come for this month’s Toddler Time to learn more about the benefits of recycling and what you can do to help through stories, crafts, and activities. For more information about family programs with HAHS, click here or call (510) 581-0223.