News from the Library
🌷 Reminder: CLOSED Monday, May 19 for Victoria Day
🌌May 18th is International Museum Day 2025. Visit a museum for free using one of our Museum Passes↗.
📌Kids and families↗
🎨 Thursday, May 15 from 6-7 pm - Crafting a Story Book Club↗: Do you know a child who is new to independent reading? Join us for a story and then craft or artwork about the story and characters. Registration required↗. For kids ages 5-8 and their adult reading partner.
🎲 Monday, May 19th from 4:30-6 pm - Youth Scrabble↗: an incredibly exciting activity that provides a challenging and stimulating... Drop-in for ages 10-18
🐻 Thursday, May 22 at 6:30pm - Pajama Storytime↗: An evening storytime for children of all ages with their adult or guardian. Feel free to wear your pajamas (or not), bring along your favourite stuffie, blanket and your adult for stories, rhymes, and quiet songs. Ages 4+. Drop-in program.
🎩 Saturday, May 24 at 10:30-11:30am - Family Storytime with Gillian Reid↗: Stories, rhymes and songs for children of all ages and their parents or caregivers. Local children's book illustrator, Gillian Reid↗, will read some of her beautiful picture books before leading everyone through some crafts. Family program for ages 4+. Drop-in.
📌Adults
✍ Thursday, May 15 from 3-4 pm. Calling all writers to the monthly Writers Groupp↗ This is a space for exploring your own unique ways of expressing yourself in a safe and supportive environment. Stories, reflections, poetry, memoirs or whatever you want to write, you are welcome here. Drop-in.
💼 Friday, May 16 at 10:30 am-12:30 pm - Employment Support at the Library↗: Are you looking for work? Unemployed or underemployed? Drop-in to meet one-on-one with an Employment Counsellor from the Pinecrest-Queensway Employment Services team. Bilingual support is available.
📷 Tuesday, May 20, at 2-4 pm. How to Take Better Vacation Photos↗: Learn how to more effectively tell the story of your vacations through pictures, regardless of what kind of camera you use. Lynda Buske from the Ottawa PC Users' Group and the Orleans Photo Club will show you how to take photos that need no captioning. Register online to reserve your seat.
🎨 Thursday, May 22 at 6:30-8:30 pm. Calling all Slow Stitchers and Handcrafters↗": Whatever your craft, please join us for a fun, welcoming get together to work on your own projects. Looking forward to meeting new friends and hope to see you there! Everyone and all ages welcome to drop-in.
📖 Le jeudi 15 mai 19h à 20 h. Club de lecture RD↗. Les francophones et francophiles de Barrhaven sont invités au Club de lecture RD. Participez à nos rencontres sociales et discutez de livres de langue française. Livres disponibles à la réception au 2e étage. Ce mois: L'apocalypse selon Magda↗ par Chloé Vollmer-Lo.
📚Other literary events
2025 Trillium Book Award Finalists
Established in 1987 the Trillium Book Awards recognizes excellence of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing. See the 2025 finalists↗
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