(1) First-grader Nell Kerndt makes a card for her mother during Santa Monica Library’s "The Living Room Project" on Saturday, May 2, 2009. (2) Mitch and his son Isiah, 4, make Mother Day cards during the Living Room Project. (3) James Ghaffari, 20 months, plays Tic-Tac-Toe with his mother Lohne during the Living Room Project. (4) Anita Nepus, 90, hula hoop during the Living Room Project (5) Hoopnotica gives a class to children during the Living Room Project. (6) Henri Blits, 59, gives an uppercut to Robin Davidson, 52, while boxing on Wii Fit during Santa Monica Library’s "The Living Room Project" on Saturday, May 2, 2009. Blits knocked-out Davidson in the third round.

Activities during Santa Monica Library’s Living Room Project included live music, hula hooping, yoga, a film screening, a Mother’s Day card workshop, and a dance class. The Living Room project is designed to help adults rediscover the library as their community center, a place to connect, get active, and learn. The Living Room promotes the idea that adults can meet for lifelong learning and social connections in the comfort of the community library. Santa Monica Public Library is an environment where adults can keep learning, and where they can create and nurture an active lifestyle. "The Living Room” was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.