Some in-branch programs require registration with your library card. Please log in with your library account or follow this link to apply for a card online. You can also apply for a card in person at any of our 33 locations.
Wednesdays, May 08, 2024 - Jun 26, 2024
10:00am
90 minutes
8 sessions remaining
Participez à notre groupe de conversation, dans une ambiance amicale et décontractée, afin d'améliorer vos habiletés à converser en français.
Aucune inscription requise.
Participate in our conversation group so that you can improve your French language conversation skills in a relaxed and friendly environment.
No registration required.
Wednesdays, May 08, 2024 - Jun 05, 2024
6:30pm
60 minutes
5 sessions remaining
Do you already have some basic English language skills, and are you looking for a casual, friendly environment where you can practice your English speaking skills? All levels are welcome.
Join our free English conversation group!
Receive guidance from our leaders, meet new people and gain confidence in your ability to speak English.
Every Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30 pm (no conversation group on April 17)
Vous avez déjà une base en anglais et vous cherchez un endroit avec une ambiance décontractée et amicale pour pratiquer vos habiletés de converser en anglais? Tous les niveaux sont les bienvenus.
Joignez-vous à notre groupe de conversation en anglais! C'est gratuit!
Recevez des conseils, rencontrez de nouvelles personnes et gagnez de la confiance à converser en anglais.
Tous les mercredis soirs de 18h30-19h30 (sauf le 17 avril)
Saturday May 11, 2024 at 1:00pm
60 minutes
Join us for a program of short animated films by women of Asian descent!
In Flowing Home, two sisters separated by the war between North and South Vietnam are only able to connect through the letters they exchange to relieve their loneliness.
Winds of Spring tells the tender story of a young girl who, driven by the irrepressible need for self-fulfillment, decides to leave the family nest.
In Old Dog, an elderly pug named Henry must depend on his owner for help and companionship.
In A Prairie Story, a prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis from rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia.
Showa Shinzan tells the story of a young Japanese girl's relationship with her grandfather, a postmaster and amateur geologist.
The Zoo follows the parallel lives of a polar bear cub in a popular city zoo and a Chinese boy who visits him until they’re both in their twilight years.
Surfacing explores the passions of acclaimed musician and songwriter Sarah McLachlan, using her own words and drawings to guide us through her rich creative world, the founding of the groundbreaking Lilith Fair, and her philanthropic work at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music.
55 min. Multiple languages. Provided by the National Film Board.
Saturday May 25, 2024 at 1:00pm
60 minutes
Join us for a program of short documentary films by Canadian directors of Asian descent.
Through an intimate archive of the Chow’s family lineage, A Passage Beyond Fortune offers an homage to the culturally significant but buried history of Chinese-Canadian communities in Moose Jaw.
Highway to Heaven takes audiences into many of the temples, mosques, and churches that call No. 5 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, home, revealing unity despite difference across these diverse cultural spaces.
In love, amma, after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a young mother writes a letter to her daughter about their family’s collective journey to acceptance
4 North A is a celebration of the fleeting joys of life and a bittersweet reminder that we don’t always get the closure we seek.
56 min. Multiple languages. Provided by the National Film Board.
Mondays, May 06, 2024 - Jun 24, 2024
6:00pm
60 minutes
7 sessions remaining
Practice your English conversation skills in a relaxed and friendly environment. All levels are welcome to this drop-in program.
Mondays, May 06, 2024 - Jun 03, 2024
6:00pm
120 minutes
2 sessions remaining
Join author Michael F. Stewart for an evening of shared writing, support, and constructive criticism from peers. No experience necessary, all forms of writing welcome.
Mondays, May 06, 2024 - Aug 12, 2024
6:00pm
120 minutes
4 sessions remaining
Come and share your writing and participate in guided writing activities with other writers in the neighborhood. Writers of all genres and skill levels are welcome.
Mondays, May 06, 2024 - Jun 11, 2024
6:30pm
60 minutes
11 sessions remaining
Come join our homework club and get help with reading, math, science, French, English, etc. Led by United for Literacy. Ages 6-12. Drop in.
Joins-toi à notre club d’aide aux devoirs, pour recevoir de l’aide avec la lecture, les maths, les sciences, le français, l’anglais, etc. Avec des bénévoles de Littératie Ensemble. 6-12 Ans. Portes ouvertes, aucune inscription requise!
Mondays, May 06, 2024 - May 27, 2024
6:30pm
90 minutes
3 sessions remaining
Improve your French, share stories and make new friends!
Améliorez votre français, partager des histoires et faites des amis!
Monday May 06, 2024 at 7:00pm
90 minutes
Share the pleasure of reading and discussing books ranging from the classics to the contemporary, but mostly fiction, in a relaxed atmosphere
(If the first Monday of a month falls on a Civic Holiday, the book club will be postponed to the following week)
January 8 - The Trees by Percival Everett (US)
February 5 - The Magician by Colm Toibin (Irish)
March 4 - The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore (non-fiction)
April 8 - White Noise by Don DeLillo (US)
May 6 - What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Canadian, Giller)