Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.
Rated PG 13
Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.
Rated age 12+, for brief, strong language
Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
As extreme weather intensifies and also affects more and more people, how can we adapt? This episode of NOVA explores traditional knowledge and new solutions that can help us cope.
Ages 12+
This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate
Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
Communities around BC will be hosting a series of film screenings and panel discussions about the root causes of flooding, landslides and drought in BC. The film, Trouble in the Headwaters, is a hard-hitting 25-minute documentary by filmmaker Dan Pierce, which examines the disastrous 2018 flood event in Grand Forks, BC and the hydrological connection to clear-cut logging in the Kettle River Watershed.
Join us in New Westminster to watch the film, and engage in a discussion panel with the filmmaker, Daniel Pierce, and forest hydrologist, Dr. Younes Alila.
Ages 12+
Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
Eating for Tomorrow is a powerful climate documentary that exposes the truth about our global food system — and offers hope for a better future.
Narrated by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, this eye-opening film explores how our dietary choices contribute to climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental collapse — and what we can do to reverse course before it’s too late.
This award-winning documentary is visually stunning, emotionally moving, and filled with practical solutions that can help heal the planet, protect animals, and secure a future for humanity.
Ages 12+
Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.
Rated age 14+, includes swearing, some reference to sex and nudity, violence with comic intentions
Join us for our Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
While electricity availability doesn’t guarantee wealth, its absence almost always means poverty. Juice takes viewers to Beirut, Reykjavik, Kolkata, San Juan, Manhattan, and Boulder to tell the human story of electricity and to explain why power equals power. The defining inequality in the world today is the disparity between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. In fact, there are more than 3 billion people on the planet today who are using less electricity than what’s used by an average American refrigerator. Juice shows how electricity explains everything from women’s rights and climate change to Bitcoin mining and indoor marijuana production. Juice explains who has electricity, who’s getting it, and how developing countries all over the world are working to bring their people out of the dark and into the light.
Ages 12+
Join us for our Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
The Magpie River, located in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, is one of the last great rivers to flow freely in this part of the world. Nestled in a spectacular mountainous landscape, this mighty river flows through an unspoiled boreal forest, inhabited by caribou, wolves and bears. In March 2021, it became the first river in North America to obtain legal personhood, joining pioneering countries such as Bolivia and New Zealand, which have also recognized the rights of nature to rivers and forests, granting them protections comparable to humans.
Ages 12+
Join us for our new Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub. For this special presentation, the filmmaker, Vivian Davidson, will be present for the film and discussion!
In a world where food waste is the third largest contributor of CO2 globally and is sadly all too often ignored, innovative people will show the economic, social, and environmental benefits of what can happen when it is addressed. Food Synergy confronts this issue head-on, offering an inspiring and solutions-driven approach to food waste by spotlighting practical, often simple strategies that can be applied across the entire food supply chain.
Set primarily in British Columbia, Canada, Food Synergy demonstrates that while food loss is a global issue, the innovative solutions shared can inspire worldwide change. By presenting hopeful, real-life stories, the film empowers viewers to embrace more sustainable practices and redefine their relationship with food.
Ages 12+
Join us for our new Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.
For our third screening we will watch The Ants and the Grasshopper (2021). Anita Chitaya is a farmer in Malawi who has brought progress to her village by transforming the way they think and work together. But when the effects of climate change show indisputable signs of irreversible damage to her land and community, Anita travels to America to meet with farmers, activists, climate skeptics, and legislators to persuade them to save her home by first saving the planet.
Ages 12+