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January 2020
MUSE: Open Mic at the Library
It's a new year...so anything goes! Share 5 minutes of poetry, prose or song on whatever moves you! Sign up in advance by calling the library at 604.886.2130 or sign up at the event.
Find out more »February 2020
Writing workshop with Arushi Raina
For youth ages 12+ "Let's work together to write in voices--familiar, unexpected, and sometimes strange. Let's talk about what it means to be different. Let's reach people with words." ARUSHI RAINA grew up in South Africa and has also lived in India, Egypt, Nigeria, the US, UK, and most recently, in Vancouver Canada. Her debut novel, When Morning Comes is set in apartheid South Africa and explores the lives of four very different teens on the brink of a youth…
Find out more »Author Event : The Soweto Youth Uprising in Fact & Fiction, with Arushi Raina
At this author talk, “The Soweto Youth Uprising in Fact and Fiction,” novelist Arushi Raina provides glimpses of apartheid South Africa through pictures, fiction and facts, followed by a discussion on how moments in the stories and histories echo with current events in Canada and internationally. ARUSHI RAINA grew up in South Africa and has also lived in India, Egypt, Nigeria, the US, UK, and most recently, in Vancouver Canada. Her debut novel, When Morning Comes is set in apartheid…
Find out more »Book Faire
Feb 7-9. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
Find out more »LGBTQ2 Book Club at the Gibsons Public Library
The LGBTQ2 Book Club discusses The Best Kind of People, by Zoe Whittall, over coffee and muffins. Books are available for borrowing from the Gibsons Public Library (ask at front counter for the book). For more information, contact Andrea Routley at aroutley@gibsons.bclibrary.ca. Please note: This book club is for LGBTQ2 readers and allies to discuss LGBTQ2-authored books from an LGBTQ2 perspective.
Find out more »Reading Series: TBA
Sadly Lindsay Wong had to cancel. Watch for new author to be announced. By Donation
Find out more »Off the Page play reading
In Lowest Common Denominator by Dave Deveau, Harmony is trying to get back on her feet post-divorce, and ends up on a blissful, booze-filled date with Peter, an insurance salesman. But when she walks in on her seventeen year old son Trevor kissing him it unleashes something powerful and sacred in her. Their three lives are set in motion – perpetually intertwined. Lowest Common Denominator explores the often-controversial world of intergenerational relationships and unleashes the darkness that exists just underneath…
Find out more »Black History Month Celebration
Gibsons' 5th annual Black History Month Celebration! African food tasting and demos, short film screenings from Black Strathcona, launch of "I Am Still Your Negro," by Valerie Mason-John, a talk on "History and Geography of Blackness in BC" with Dr. Handel Wright, Nigerian dance and more! FREE. (Donations for food are gratefully accepted but not required.) Presented by the Black History Month organizing committee and the Gibsons & District Public Library. Generously sponsored by the Gibsons Public Market and TD…
Find out more »March 2020
Book Faire
March 6-8. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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April 3-5. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
Find out more »Reading Series: Kathy Page
British and Canadian author Kathy Page has written seven novels as well as short fiction and nonfiction. Her works have been shortlisted for major awards, and her most recent novel, Dear Evelyn, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2018. One reviewer says of it: “. . . Kathy Page has created a poignant literary work of art. The result is a timeless page-turning masterpiece.” Another warns: “. . . you will never look at your partner the same…
Find out more »April 2020
Reading Series: Alicia Elliott
Alicia is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario. With her essay A Mind Spread Out On The Ground she made her mark as an author, and in 2018 won the ABC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. In 2019 her first collection of essays, bearing the title of that first essay, appeared and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction. A review describes it as: “A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in…
Find out more »May 2020
Book Faire
May 1-3. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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May 15-17. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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Book Faire
June 5-7. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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June 19-21. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
Find out more »July 2020
Book Faire
July 3-5. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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July 17-19. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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July 31/Aug 1-2. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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38th Annual Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
Aug 13, 14, 15, 16. Canadian literary festival featuring writers of a wide range of genres; events take place in the 500-seat open air Festival Pavilion in the Rockwood Gardens
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Aug 14-16. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
Find out more »September 2020
Book Faire
Sept 4-6. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
Find out more »October 2020
Book Faire
Oct 2-4. Fri 12 to 5, Sat 10 to 5 and Sun 10 to 3. Up to two boxes of gently used donated books are appreciated (Fri/Sat only).
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