Jon van Tamelen launches The Ancestor, a non-fiction sailing adventure where the author acquires a 38-foot wooden smuggling boat on the island of Carriacou in the West Indies. With stone ballast and no engine and no instrumentation, but with an old lifeboat compass, plastic sextant and a roll of charts the author sails to Vancouver, […]
Featured poet is Natalie Meisner. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. Reader sign-up at 6:45. One poem per reader.
Aly Coy presents Unpacked, a memoir of checked baggage, about Coy's five years spent travelling in Western Europe. Salt Spring Public Library. 6 to 8 p.m.
Victoria author Joy Davis gives a reading and talk on her new book about small island living at the Salt Spring Public Library on Wednesday, June 19. 6:30 p.m.
Launch of Patricia Flood's book about Salt Spring artist Susan Benson's theatre design career. Mahon Hall. 5:30 p.m.
Celebration for new Mother Tongue Publishing book containing new essays, memoirs and poems by 40 island writers. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Launch of My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother, and Me at SS Public Library. 1 p.m.
Listen to work by queer writers and pay tribute to Taryn Muldoon, the celebrated poet, spoken word performer and community activist who is moving to Nova Scotia this fall to attend university. SS Public Library. 7 to 9 p.m.
Salt Spring author celebrates the release of Little Juniper Makes it BIG. SS Public Library. 1 p.m.
Anne Fleming presents her children’s book, The Goat, a touching modern fairy-tale for young and old readers alike, about connecting to others, embracing difference, and facing your fears. Fleming is the award-winning author of five books of fiction and poetry including Gay Dwarves of America. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m.
Teen Book Club is an opportunity to get together, eat snacks, and talk about books at the library, taking place on the first and third Tuesday of each month.
This month's book is Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin. The Salt Spring Island Public Library book club, open to all and free of charge, meets from 1 – 3 pm on the fourth Thursday of each month. Meet other book lovers and have fun discussing an interesting read.
Salt Spring author Chris (CC) Humphreys reads from his latest novel, Smoke in the Glass. SS Public Library. 7 p.m.
Salt Spring author and photographer Diana Hayes reads from Labyrinth of Green, Poems and Photographs. SS Public Library 7 p.m.
Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will […]
Featured poet Chris Muscat writes about the unseen, ecology, grief and beauty. He has self-published half a dozen chap books and is currently working on two books of poetry to be released in 2020. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. Reader sign-up at 6:45 p.m.. One poem per reader.
Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will […]
Maggie Squires and Drew Bodaly present Gulf Island Lakes: New Work (2014-2019) on Salt Spring's St. Mary, Cusheon and Blackburn, and Cortes' Hague and Gunflint. SS Public Library. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will […]
Marissa Stapley launches The Last Resort, an instant national bestselling thriller by visiting Toronto-based author and journalist. Salt Spring public Library. 7 p.m.
Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will […]
The Salt Spring Island Public Library book club, open to all and free of charge, meets from 1 to 3 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month. This month's pick is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
Toronto write Eufemia Fantetti launches My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir — a powerful and witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will — and Salt Spring's Brenda Brooks presents her much-anticipated second novel, the noir-ish Honey. Salt Spring Public Library. 3:30 p.m.
Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will […]
Salt Spring writers who contributed to Mother Tongue Publishing's Love of the Salish Sea Islands anthology will read at the Salt Spring Public Library. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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