Past Events in "January 1, 2010"
Book Club at the Parkgate Branch Library
Where: Parkgate Branch Library
When: First Wednesday of each month, beginning October 7
Get ready for another fantastic book club year! Please join us for some lively discussions about some wonderful books. Cost: $20 per person, to be collected at registration or at the first meeting.
Registration begins Tuesday, August 11th. Space is limited; you are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Register in person at the Parkgate Branch, by phone at 604-929-3727, or by email: kushnere@nvdpl.ca. Book pick-up info will be provided when you register.
Date: October 7, 2009 - October 7, 2009Book Talk: Six String Nation
WHERE: Capilano Branch Library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver
Come hear Jowi Taylor talk about his book Six String Nation that chronicles the journey of one special guitar, from conception through construction to the road it still travels across our land.
The Six String Nation guitar, Voyageur, is made from sixty-seven pieces of Canadian history including: Pierre Trudeau’s canoe paddle, the Grey Nuns convent in Winnipeg, Paul Henderson’s hockey stick, the sacred Golden Spruce of Haida Gwaii and Maurice Richard’s 1955–56 Stanley Cup ring!
Date: October 1, 2009 - October 2, 2009Movie Appreciation and Screenwriting Tips
WHERE: Lynn Valley Main Library, Program Room, 1277 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver
Free; registration required. Call 604-984-0286 (ext: 8144)
Whether you’re a beginning screenwriter or simply fascinated by movies – you’ll enjoy this Wordsmythe.ca seminar on how screenplays work and how movies get made.
This free Screenwriting Essentials introductory seminar illustrates the many decisions a screenwriter faces in crafting a feature-length screenplay; from characterization, to structure, to surprise and not-so surprise endings. And how it all gets implemented into a big screen movie.
Join Jana Williams at the Lynn Valley Main Library for this fascinating presentation.
About Jana Williams:
Jana Williams conducts Wordsmythe seminars throughout the Pacific Northwest. She currently teaches screenwriting at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and is available for online coaching through her website www.wordsmythe.ca
Internet Basics: Introduction for the Novice
CAPILANO BRANCH
3045 Highland Blvd.
Please register for sessions: 604-987-4471
Your days of being baffled by the Internet will soon be over. Learn all the basics and more in this hands-on session.
Free of charge
Date: October 13, 2009 - October 13, 2009Internet Basics: Email
CAPILANO BRANCH
3045 Highland Blvd.
Please register for sessions: 604-987-4471.
Learn all the basics about email and more in this hands-on session.
Free of charge
Date: October 23, 2009 - October 23, 2009Internet Basics: Introduction for the Novice
LYNN VALLEY MAIN LIBRARY
1277 Lynn Valley Road
Phone 604-984-0286, ext. 8116 to register for sessions.
Your days of being baffled by the Internet will soon be over. Learn all the basics and more in this hands-on session.
Free of charge.
Date: October 27, 2009 - October 27, 2009Using the Library Catalogue: Basics and beyond
PARKGATE BRANCH
3675 Banff Court
Phone: 604-929-3727
Parkgate sessions are drop-in.
Learn all the basics about using the online library catalogue and more in this hands-on session.
Free of charge.
Date: October 29, 2009 - October 29, 2009Book Talk: Tragedy at Second Narrows
WHERE: Capilano Branch Library, Potlatch Meeting Room, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver
Free. Registration is required. Call 604-987-4471.
Hear Eric Jamieson talk about and show images from his new book Tragedy at Second Narrows, which documents the Second Narrows bridge collapse - an unforgettable event in Vancouver’s history.
On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers.
Tragedy at Second Narrows unravels one of Vancouver's great mysteries with all the appeal of a gripping detective novel. Eric Jamieson has returned to the scene of the tragedy and reconstructed the tragic event with scrupulous care, introducing the entire cast of politicians, construction bosses, engineers and ironworkers; he relives those terrifying moments when the structure began to crack and drop like the bottom was falling out of the world.
Join us for this captivating talk!
Date: October 15, 2009 - October 15, 2009Meet Your MLA - Jane Thornthwaite
WHERE: Lynn Valley Main Library, Fireside Area, 1277 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver
Everyone welcome; No registration required; Free.
Join Jane Thornthwaite, MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour, for one-on-one chats in to the Lynn Valley Main Library’s fireplace area.
About Jane Thornthwaite:
Jane Thornthwaite was elected MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour in May 2009.
Since 2005, Jane was a School Trustee for the North Vancouver Board of Education and topped the polls in both the 2005 and 2008 municipal elections. She was elected Chair of the North Vancouver Board of Education in December 2008.
Previously, Jane was a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (B.Sc., B.H.E.) with a 22-year career in health care. Jane's work experience includes positions in hospital dietetics and community health, an instructor for a third year Nutrition course at UBC, a Corporate Nutritionist and a National Sales Representative for an international pharmaceutical firm.
Jane has an extensive volunteer career on the North Shore and has lived in North Vancouver for over 19 years.
Date: October 17, 2009 - October 17, 2009SFU Philospher’s Café
With moderator Mark Battersby, PhD
WHERE: Lynn Valley Main Library, Program Room. Everyone welcome; registration not required. Admission $5.
Our first Philospher’s Café in September was a resounding success. With over 30 people engaging in lively discussion, the evening was full of insight and inquiry.
Join the fun on October 21 when we ask:
Is morality all relative and subjective or are there moral truths? No formal philosophy training required; real life experience desired. Come early, stay late.