Hang out with other kids, share fun books and enjoy a variety of activities in this drop-in after school program.
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If you grew seeds in your garden this summer, join us for a hands-on seed cleaning event to get your newly harvested seeds ready for storage (or donation to our seed library). We will be threshing, winnowing, screening and sorting seeds of all types. Bring your seed material from your garden to clean together and consider donating your extras to the seed library!
If you have large quantities of bulky seeds or have divided some bulbs and have some to share, bring them to the event in an informal sharing of your crops.
Meet outdoors in the parking lot at the Main Branch – weather dependent. If it’s pouring rain we’ll be inside in the Auditorium, but it may not be possible to do such messy work inside!
Bring seeds to clean, seeds and bulbs to share, and some small bags or envelopes to take new seeds home again.
Celebrate a summer of reading at our free Summer Reading Club Wrap-up Party!
- Family Dance Party with DJ Rock ‘N’ Beau
- Free book giveaway with Literacy New West
- Photo station, craft table, colouring
- Sensory-friendly space
- Toddler zone with New West Family Place
- Activities with the New West Museum and Archives and the Fraser River Discovery Centre
- Live visit from a mermaid!
Please note that the party will take place at the Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia Street.
Library staff may take photos during this event to be used for internal promotional purposes by the library. If you prefer not to have your picture taken, please speak to a staff member.
Connect with other new parents in this casual opportunity to socialize and share. Drop-in.
Please note that this program takes place at Anvil Centre.
Connect with other new parents in this casual opportunity to socialize and share while your babies play.
Drop-in
Come join our beginner knitting class to learn the basics. Knitting uses two needles to create stitches and loops of yarn in a row. We will learn how to make a small coaster using medium weight yarn and a pair of 5 mm needles to cast-on, knit stitch, purl stitch and bind-off.
Knitting needles and yarn will be provided.
Suitable for ages 8+. Those under age 10 must attend with an adult.
Connect with other new parents in this casual opportunity to socialize and share while your babies play.
Drop-in
Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.
This month we watch Mid-August Lunch
2008, 1 hour 15 minutes.
An utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni resides with his 93-year-old mother in their ancient apartment.
The condo debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager’s mother, all will be forgiven. Then the manager also shows up with an auntie, and then a doctor friend appears with his mother in tow… Can Gianni keep these lively mamas well fed and happy in these cramped quarters?
Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.
This month we watch the Bookshop
2017, 1 hour 52 minutes.
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?
Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Punctuate your day with some shared entertainment.
This month we watch To Dust
2019, 1 hour 31 minutes.
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.
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