Leave the Searching to Us: Personal Reading Suggestions
You love to read. You’re busy. Leave the searching to us!

Get personal reading recommendations - for all ages - from your library staff.

Simply fill out this short form, and we'll get back to you with your personal reading suggestions.
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Find Your Next Read
Creepy TRUE CRIME Books for the Fall 👻🍂

All true stories of crimes, cons, cults, and more.
Picture Books about Bringing Home a New Baby

Picture books to help older siblings understand and prepare for a new baby in the family.
Upcoming Events & Programs
Virtual Community Book Club
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Thursday / November 24 / 7 - 8:30 pm /
Online on Zoom

For our next Community Book Club, we are reading Gathering Moss.
We are happy to host this month’s book club in collaboration with Squamish CAN!

Everyone is welcome!

Registration:
Email library@squamish.ca to sign up.
Monthly Drop-in (in-person)
Legal Advocacy Drop-In
Monday / November 28 / 10 am - 2 pm / Squamish Library

The Legal Advocacy Program offers free advocacy support and assistance to financially restricted individuals and families in Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton.
Art Hour (in-person)
Blackout Poetry with Yin Xzi Ho
Wednesday / December 7 / 7 - 8:30 pm / Library Meeting Room

Join local poet Yin Xzi Ho and the library for an evening of blackout poetry!
What is blackout poetry?
Erasure poetry, also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion of the text, creating a wholly new work. (from Academy of American Poets)

Registration:
Please email library@squamish.ca to register.
Volunteer Meeting (in-person)
Friends of the Library Meeting
Thursday / December 8 / 12:30-1:30pm Library Meeting Room

The primary purpose of the “Friends” is to contribute to the pleasant, welcoming atmosphere at the library and to encourage more people to enjoy what the library offers, thus making our Library a real “community” place. Everyone welcome.
Author Event (in-person)
Author Talk with Lisa Duncan
Wednesday / December 14 / 7 - 8:30 pm
Library Meeting Room

Join local writer Lisa Duncan for an author talk and reading from her debut memoir, Chasing Africa: Fear Won’t Find Me Here, based on her solo travels from South Africa to Kenya in 1996.

Registration:
Please email library@squamish.ca to register.
In-Person
Kids' Library Book Club
Thursdays / 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Library Meeting Room

Come to the library and hang out with other library lovers. Check out books, read to a teen buddy, get recommendations, play some board games or maybe do a craft.

This program is geared towards children in grade 2 and older.

Registration:
Please register at https://signup.com/go/Crasyxn
Sign up will open each week on Monday at 8 am.
In-Person
Family & Baby Storytime
Please note: Registration is required for all storytimes!
Storytimes take place in the Library Meeting Room.

📚 Family Storytime:
Tuesdays // Fridays // Saturdays:
10:30 - 11 am

🧸 Baby Storytime:
Tuesdays // Fridays: 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Teddybear Storytime & Craft with Julie
Every second Wednesday of the month:
5 - 5: 30 pm
Next: Wednesday, December 14
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FOYER Gallery: NEW Exhibition
ON NOW at the FOYER Gallery in the Squamish Library

A Celebration of the Art and Live of ALAIN GORGIEN
‘Steward of the Forest’ – painted wood, clay & mixed media sculptures

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19, 12 – 2 pm, Foyer Gallery. Everyone welcome. More info here.

COVID in the House of Old - Seven Wooden Storytelling Chairs

These Storytelling Chairs sit at the heart of the COVID in the House of Old exhibit, speaking to seven lives indelibly altered by the pandemic’s spread through long-term care. Each individual, represented by a chair, stands in place for hundreds or thousands of Canadians who faced similar circumstances.

More info and virtual gallery here.

Visit the current Foyer Gallery show at the library during library hours, or view the virtual gallery, including Q&A with the artists, on the Foyer Gallery website.