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 […]
Neighbourhood Story Time
Children's AreaA NEW spin on a classic program. Children's Stories read by the people that you meet each day! Every Friday from 11AM-11:30AM, The Library hosts Family Story Time, and all ages event with stories for readers of all level and ability, from babies to 7 year olds. Traditionally, this program fosters early literacy, creates positive […]
Youth Board Games & Chess Club
Children's AreaEvery Friday afternoon at the library we will have our large selection of board games available for youth to get together and have some fun. Snacks provided!
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 […]
Book Launch and Journaling for Self-Love Workshop
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin Lynda Monk to celebrate the launch of Affirmations for Self-Love: A Motivational Journal with Prompts for Self-Worth, Self-Acceptance, & Positive Self-Talk. Be inspired to go to the page to Journal for Self-Love in this one hour mini-workshop. Bring your journal and favourite pen to this nourishing and creative time together. Take time to go […]
Sea Slugs to Sea Stars
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaSea Slugs to Sea Stars: Challenges and Resilience in Salish Sea Marine Life, presented by David Denning As the growing climate crisis changes our world more rapidly than we might have imagined – with forest fires, drought, increased storms, etc. – we might ask ourselves how it is changing our local Salish Sea. Through colourful […]
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
William Deverell
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin us for an evening with bestselling author William Deverell. His new book The Log-Shot Trial will soon be in bookstores. Arthur Beauchamp is mortified. A revised biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he decides to write a memoir to set the record straight as he […]
Art Jam: Joseph Reville (aka CJ) and Sherman Sherwood
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaOriginal digital art by outsider artists. Opening Reception, Thursday, June 13th at 2-4pm Art Exhibition June 13 – July 30 The art exhibit can be viewed when the Library Community Program Room is not in use Mondays-Fridays 10AM-5PM, Saturdays 10AM-3PM.