Author Event: Andrea Routley, This Unlikely Soil
Local author, former GDPL staff member, and Lamda Award finalist Andrea Routley reads from her new book of stories, This Unlikely Soil. Funny, incisive and sometimes heart-breaking, the linked novellas […]
Monday Morning Meditation
Mondays Using traditional Buddhist Dharma psychology to calm the mind and alleviate suffering, facilitator John Thompson will lead guided Dharma meditations for short and long term solutions, and discuss these […]
Knitting a Community
Library Mainil RoomDo you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Drop in to our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from […]
Tween Book Club
Get into the Halloween spirit with this spooky book, Small Spaces! 11 year old Ollie finds refuge in books but one ghostly story about the sinister smiling man won’t stay […]
Readers’ Open Mic
Do you love to read aloud with expression, or listen to someone reading? Here’s your chance to read aloud for all to enjoy (4 minutes max), every third Wednesday of […]
Addams Family 2
There’s no school October 21st and Halloween is right around the corner so come see a movie at the library! This is the spooky, goofy sequel to The Addams Family […]
KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Reconciliation through Education and Understanding In recognition of the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, we are honoured to have Syiyaya facilitators and Indigenous witnesses offer this unique educational event. This participatory workshop will help you understand how colonization of the land we now know as BC and Canada impacted the Indigenous people who lived here […]
Speak, Memory: The Role of Memory in Reading and Writing
With authors Bonnie Sherr Klein, Marion Crook, & Claire Finlayson A panel of local authors Bonnie Sherr Klein (Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability, and Beep, Beep, Bubbie), Marion Crook (Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin) and Claire Finlayson (Dispatches from Ray’s Planet: A Journey through Autism) will present […]