Salt Spring Public Library & Theatre Alive present: An Evening of Poetry featuring Susan Musgrave and guest poets—The Tipi-Ten: Tina Biello, Barbara Botham, Charlotte Caron, Marlene Dean, Diana Hayes, Libby King, Janet Miller, Mary Ann Moore, Rena Patrick and Linda Thompson. Refreshments & rooks for Sale. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m.
Book Launch and Illustrated Talk by Kerry Mason for The Unheralded Artists of BC #10. Salt Spring Public Library. 3 p.m. Arthur Pitts (1889-1972) born in London, UK, pursued a career of art and adventure, first in South Africa with the Zulus, then Canada. He travelled more than 4,000 miles in British Columbia and Alaska, […]
Local author presents newest kids' book Up in Arms. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m.
Book reading with Lisa Richter, Jane Eaton Hamilton, and Natalie Meisner. Hosted by Ayla Heeds. Q &A to follow. Salt Spring Public Library. 8 p.m.
Launch event at the Salt Spring Library Program Room. 7 p.m. We live in one of the most connected times on earth but never before have we been so lonely, so alienated from each other, from ourselves, and from the natural world. Whether this manifests as having difficulty finding community, feeling anxiety about your worthiness […]
The author presents selected readings, photos and a Q&A at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room at 3:30 p.m. In the spring of 2009 Marie made a commitment to walk 800 kilometers through Spain in the hope that she could eat all the chocolate she could find. What she didn’t expect to find was […]
Event with Kim Tebbutt (author) & Sarah Penhale (illustrator) at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room at 3:30 p.m. Learn about the steps it took Kim and Sarah to imagine, illustrate and self publish a children’s book. Art display runs Jan. 2 – Feb. 2 from 10 am-5 pm.
Book launch at Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 3 p.m. In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a humour columnist at the Victoria Times Colonist. Revisiting his most—and least!—popular columns, Knox weighs the potential benefits […]
Book launch of work by Salt Spring's Claire Sicherman at the Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. When her son almost died at birth and her grandmother passed away, something inside of Claire Sicherman snapped. Sicherman grew up reading Anne Frank and watching Schindler’s List with almost no knowledge of the Holocaust’s impact on her […]
Nowick Gray presents two new genre-busting novels — Red Rock Road, Light Blue Sea, and The Last Book — at Salt Spring Public Library. 7:30 p.m.
Melanie Wood's deep sea dive into the emotional pain and poetry of Shane Koyczan, revealing new shades of his colourful personality. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.
Salt Spring Public Library. Reader sign-up 6:45 p.m., open mic at 7 and reading by guest poet at 7:30.
Kate Harris, the author of the new travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders, joins the Salt Spring Forum for a wide-ranging conversation about writing, travel, and much more. ArtSpring gallery. 7:30 p.m. Cycling the Silk Road first in western China and then from Turkey to the Himalayas – and crossing all kinds of borders – Harris’ […]
This month's book is Folly by Laurie R. King. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m. The Salt Spring Island Public Library book club, open to all and free of charge, meets from 1 to 3 pm on the fourth Thursday of each month. Meet other book lovers and have fun discussing an interesting […]
With featured poet Lottie Devindisch at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 7 p.m. with sign-up at 6:45 p.m. One poem per reader. Featured poet reads at 7:30 p.m.
Bellingham author presents Klee Wyck Journal at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 3 p.m.
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