New Children’s Area Launch
Children's AreaYou are invited to the official launch of the newly renovated Children's Area. Featuring special guest, children's minstrel, Raffi! Plus games, treats, new toys, stories and more.
Friday Game Night
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaFrom cards to dice to boards to pure imagination; board Game Nights at the Library hold no restrictions as to what to play, only what kind of play you want! Join all kinds of players of all skill levels in a safe space to dive into our massive board game collection, learn the rules of […]
VEX-IQ Robotics
Join us Saturdays for a fun and interesting drop-in course designed to transition young Lego-Robotics Programmers into VEX Robotics Competitors! This Course takes knowledge gained at the Lego Robotics level, and introduces students to VEX-IQ and Robotics coding language found at GISS and Lego Competitions around the world! If your child has enjoyed Lego Robotics […]
Indigenous Friendship Circle
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaThe Indigenous Friendship Circle is a space specifically for Indigenous People to socialize, connect, and share culture including drumming, singing, beading, food, skills sharing, bingo, language, medicine, and cousins. For more information email: cdick@saltspringlibrary.com
Drop-in Engineering Challenge
FabLabOn Mondays from 3:45 - 4:50, join the DROP-IN Engineering Challenge with Callum from the FabLab! 8 student program capacity. Suggested ages 8-13
Art: Charles Breth
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaArt Exhibition April 1-27 Artist’s Talk, Wednesday, April 17th, 1 – 2:30pm Recent Paintings by Charles Breth Local artist shows abstract paintings in acrylic on large scale panels. The art exhibit can be viewed when the Library Community Program Room is not in use Mondays-Fridays 10am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-3pm.
Knit Purl Community
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaWhere people come together, knit together, and share. Out of a love of knitting comes a space where folks can simply sit together and knit. Novice or über experienced everyone is welcome. Join us every third Wednesday of the month, 5-7pm.
Mother Goose
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaIn partnership with Family Place, The Library is proud to host ‘Mother Goose,’ a FREE and magical group experience for babies, young children (0-4 years) and their parents/caregivers. It is a well-recognized and respected oral language program that returns to tradition by using rhymes, songs and storytelling as a base for enriching parent-child lives and […]
Tech Tutoring
Library Meeting Room 103Tech Tutoring with Peter Fridays, 10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 1PM Bring any kind of device and technology-related questions for tech help with Peter. Book your fifty-minute one-on-one tech tutoring session with Peter by emailing info@saltspringlibrary.com or visiting the tech desk in person.
StoryWalk
Mouat ParkStoryWalk® is a self-guided supported-activity that allows children and adults to enjoy reading and outdoor activity at the same time. Every weekend, laminated pages from a children’s book is attached to signs, These signs are then sequentially installed from the front of the Library, down the street, then though Mouat Park toward the Rainbow Road […]