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Joy At the End of the World: A Writing Workshop

The climate crisis is becoming more urgent every year, but it’s so big and scary that we often struggle with where to start. In this hands-on writing session, we’ll make space for our feelings and work toward achievable individual and collective ideas for healing ourselves and our planet. With a mix of small group discussion, journalling, meditation, and resources from the Climate Wayfinding program, come discover that joy is possible as we engage our imaginations to create a better, fairer, sustainable world for everyone to live in.

 

Please bring a notebook and pen.

 

Julianne Harvey is an author, innovator, and nurturer in South Surrey, BC, the traditional unceded territories of the Semiahmoo First Nation and the Coast Salish Peoples. She’s the author of six books and wrote film reviews for a weekly newspaper for four years. Her work has appeared in pulp Magazine, WestWord, Freelance, and UPPERCASE Magazine.

Julianne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, a BA in Creative Writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a certificate in Counselling Skills from Vancouver Community College.

Julianne runs Ruby Finch Books and speaks at large conferences to thousands of writers and teachers on writing, resilience, risk, and creative practices. Her newest book, a post-apocalyptic climate novel called Post Civ, is available now. She loves to wrestle through the messy areas of life with those who long to dive below the surface chatter.

 

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

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Tunisian Crochet

Tunisian Crochet uses the technique of knitting and crocheting to create a fabric that is dense and squishy with a beautiful texture. Make a coaster using medium weight yarn and 7 mm size regular crochet hook or Tunisian Crochet hook. Learn foundation row, forward row, return row, basic Tunisian simple stitch (TSS), bind off and the slip stitch. Crochet hook and yarn will be provided.

This is suitable for ages 6+ but those under the age of 10 must attend with an adult.

 

If class is full, please send an email to askus@nwpl.ca to be put on the waitlist.

Meneka Repka Art Workshop (Ages 8-12)

Join this year’s Summer Reading Club artist for a fun and interactive online workshop. We will learn about being a book illustrator, and read Meneka’s upcoming book “The Mango Monster”. We will also make our own monster bookmarks! Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

Let’s Make Seed Balls! (Ages 5-10)

Join Gardens4Kids for a fun activity where we will make seed balls to take home and plant in our gardens – or anywhere else! Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

Astronomy on the Go (ages 7-12)

Presented by the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre! Participants will learn about the Moon’s unique environment and develop their own moon rover concept using Ozobot coding robots. Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

How to Draw Manga (Ages 12-18)

Join local artist Janice from Young Artists Place for an interactive step-by-step workshop on how to draw manga faces! Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

Spirit Stone Workshop with Ernie Cardinal (Ages 7-12)

Join Ernie Cardinal, nêhiyawak (Cree) knowledge keeper and program manager at the Spirit of the Children Society, as he shares medicine wheel teachings with sage, cedar, sweet grass, tobacco, and willow fungus. Children will then put these teachings to use in a hands-on spirit stone activity. Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

Medicine Wheel Workshop with Ernie Cardinal (Ages 12-18)

Join Ernie Cardinal, nêhiyawak (Cree) knowledge keeper and program manager at the Spirit of the Children Society, as he shares medicine wheel teachings with sage, cedar, sweet grass, tobacco, and willow fungus. Teens will put these teachings to use while learning how to make a deer hide medicine bag. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

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Collections and Memories with New Westminster Heritage

Join heritage staff and explore fascinating artifacts from the museum’s teaching collection. In this hands-on session, discover how historical community objects keep special memories and stories. Participants will learn how to create their own “me-museum” using meaningful items from home! Parent participation is required for this program. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.

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Bridges Workshop: Journal Comics and Zine Making

Local artist and graphic novelist, PJ Patton, will be leading a workshop on journal comics and zine making.

This hands on workshop requires registration and has limited spots. It is suitable for adults and teens. Please register below.

About the Workshop Presenter

A man with dark hair and a checked shirt looks into the camera.PJ Patten is a self-taught graphic illustrator, tattoo artist, and poet whose work is influenced by the intersection of his Japanese heritage with his American military upbringing. Patten’s parents met in Japan where his father was stationed, and the family was raised in Huntington Beach, California where he started airbrushing surfboards in the popular surfing community. 

Patten’s own lived experience of homelessness and addiction as a young adult led to the publishing of his first published book Tower25: Strung Out, Homeless, and Standing Up Again. The evocative and emotional illustrations in the book are inspired by the traditional Japanese artform of Haiga, which blends watercolour painting and haiku. Patten uses inkstone and brushes that belonged to his Oba-chan (Japanese for “grandmother”) that she herself used to create art. His preferred mediums are acrylic paints on canvas, pen, ink, watercolours on paper.

As part of his mental health journey, Patten spent ten years living at a buddhist retreat center, immediately after which he began working on his graphic novel Tower 25. He is currently the visual artist in residence for Changing the Conversation Series Around Homelessness based in Metro Vancouver. Patten has led graphic novel workshops for at-risk youth and given talks on comics and his own recovery story. He has had his paintings and drawings exhibited in and around Vancouver B.C., and is currently working on a new project – also a graphic novel – telling the stories of the children who spent time in Canada’s Japanese Internment Camps.  

Patten is a grateful resident on the unceded and stolen lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueum peoples who have been here since time immemorial. He operates out of his studio in Burnaby, where he also makes his home with his wife and two stepsons.

About Arts New West

With a stylized A on the left hand side, the words read Arts New West in turquoise.Founded in 1967 as the Arts Council of New Westminster, Arts New West is a not-for-profit community arts organization built by artists and arts groups with a shared interest in visual, performing, and literary arts. Our goal is to foster, support and promote the arts for all age groups, cultures and Indigenous community members.

About Wildfires Bookshop

On an orange background the text in pale pink, WildFires Bookshop.Wildfires Bookshop is a queer + south asian owned space, located on the stolen and occupied territories of the Halq’emeýlem speaking peoples. We curate books that celebrate both historically and presently excluded voices and stories, and serve as a community-building space that encourages the joy of learning, connection, and care.