Women in the Colonial Era

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

The Salt Spring Island Historical Society is honoured to welcome Snumithiya Jillian Harris for her talk “Women in the Colonial Era”. Jill Harris is a knowledge holder, Elder, and former Chief of the Penelakut Tribe. Among her current projects, Elder Harris is working with the search for residential school missing children. Her studies in ancestry, […]

 

A.C. Bibby: Ferco Rising

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

Join us for the book launch of Ferco Rising, the debut sci-fi novel of A.C. Bibby. A.C. Bibby will read from their first part of the Altus Chronicles. For countless years, the Hara and the 'Nekams' lived out of sight of each other. Until a Haran civilian enters the mines, and the consequences reach far […]

 
Event Series Teen Lounge

Teen Lounge

Teen Area

Visit the “Lounge” in the teen zone, every Wednesday afternoon.  Dive into our stash of new art supplies, adult colouring and reverse colouring activities, tarot and oracle cards, a mini escape room, a SAD (happy) lamp, architect’s Dragon Bloz (Eiffel Tower and Big Ben), snacks and games! 13-19. 

 

Peter Levitt

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

Please join award-winning poet, translator and Zen teacher, Peter Levitt, author of 17 books of poetry, prose and translation, as he launches Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women, co-translated by Rebecca Nie.

 
Event Series Teen Lounge

Teen Lounge

Teen Area

Visit the “Lounge” in the teen zone, every Wednesday afternoon.  Dive into our stash of new art supplies, adult colouring and reverse colouring activities, tarot and oracle cards, a mini escape room, a SAD (happy) lamp, architect’s Dragon Bloz (Eiffel Tower and Big Ben), snacks and games! 13-19. 

 

Poetry Open Mic

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

With featured poet Carlie Blume. CARLIE BLUME is a 2017 graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio. Her work has appeared in The Maynard, Train: a poetry journal, Canthius and more. Her debut collection of poetry, Gigglepuss was published in 2022. Sign-up for the open mic starts at 6:45. One poem per reader, max. […]

 
Event Series Friday Game Night

Friday Game Night

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

From 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 […]

 
Event Series Teen Lounge

Teen Lounge

Teen Area

Visit the “Lounge” in the teen zone, every Wednesday afternoon.  Dive into our stash of new art supplies, adult colouring and reverse colouring activities, tarot and oracle cards, a mini escape room, a SAD (happy) lamp, architect’s Dragon Bloz (Eiffel Tower and Big Ben), snacks and games! 13-19. 

 

Poets of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC

Join us for a poetry reading with: Brian Day Diana Elser Shirley Graham Peter Levitt Adelia MacWilliam Paul E. Nelson Ricardo Ruiz Matt Trease Ursula Vaira Ann Graham Walker