The Annex Food Hall and First 5 Ventura County Partner to Offer Storytime and Crafts for Monthly Kids Club

OXNARD — The Annex Food Hall invites friends and family to a morning of storytime and crafts in partnership with First 5 Ventura County and the Oxnard Public Library.

Talk, Read, Sign – a program developed by First 5 California, encourages early literacy skills through programs that boost language comprehension and curiosity. Through a partnership with First 5 Ventura County and the Oxnard Public Library, The Annex Food Hall will host a monthly Kids Club, where developmentally appropriate stories will be selected and performed by a children’s librarian from the Oxnard Public Library system.

To encourage library storytime, the Oxnard Public Library will be on-site during Kids Club to sign friends and family up for a library card. Children are also eligible to receive a free bilingual book from First 5 Ventura County during the September Kids Club after they visit a local library storytime or checkout a book.

After storytime, children are invited to participate in a craft activity presented by The Annex Food Hall. The Annex Food Hall will also offer healthy, kid-friendly drinks and snacks for purchase at participating tenants.

  • Who: The Annex Food Hall at The Collection at RiverPark
  • What: Kids Club Storytime and Crafts presented by The Annex Food Hall, First 5 Ventura County and the Oxnard Public Library
  • Where: The Annex Food Hall, across from Copper Blues on Collection Blvd
  • When: Last Wednesday of every month at 10:30 a.m.

Kids Club is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.thecollectionrp.com/connect. For more information about First 5 Ventura County and their programs, please visit www.first5ventura.org