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Join the Library, Indigenous drum groups, and dancers from Treaty 7 to learn about the different dances performed at a powwow. You'll also learn about protocols and what to expect...
Read more about "Powwow Trail 101 - Tsuut'ina Powwow Demonstration"Learn that science can be slippery, squashy, stretchy, and slimy. Experiment with squishy putty to discover why some materials stretch and some break, see if a needle can pass...
Read more about "Slippery Science"Join us during Stampede for live music daily, featuring local songwriters and musicians.
Read more about "Stampede 2023 Live Music – Sidney May Weich"Experience a virtual farming simulation that explores world food sustainability! Manage your own farms in Kenya, India and Canada while balancing the needs of social, economic and...
Read more about "STEM Explorers: Journey 2050"Australia is legendary for its wildlife. From venomous snakes to living dragons to the largest reptile on earth! Join us and meet some of the lizards, snakes, and frogs that call...
Read more about "STEM Explorers: Reptiles of Australia"Join us for a free screening of Love in the Time of Fentanyl, an intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighbourhood ravaged by the...
Read more about "Love in the Time of Fentanyl"Join us for a fun-filled, hands-on art therapy workshop where you’ll build a confetti cannon to blast out kindness! Investigate kindness from a self-compassionate lens and...
Read more about "Spread Kindness! - Be Your Own Best Friend"Yasmin Haskell is Professor of Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia and Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. She...
Read more about "The 2023 Craigie Lecture - An Evening with Yasmin Haskell"Sign up for a Family Reading Kit Book Club. Receive additional activities, resources and special event invitations, right to your inbox, twice this year!
Read more about "The Barren Grounds: Family Reading Kit Book Club"Celebrate the launch of “Olya & Olena Escape the Invaders” with author readings and an instrumental concert by Volodymr Shyba streamed from Ukraine. The book is about two young...
Read more about ""Olya & Olena Escape the Invaders" Launch Party"Say goodbye to 2022, and hello to 2023! Join us for a family-friendly, fun-filled day to ring in the New Year. Activities will include a family dance party, a special storytime, a...
Read more about "NYE at Calgary Public Library"From the windswept hills to protected valleys, gravel resources to sandstone outcrops, the local landscape has helped shape the development of Calgary. Join Dr. Lynn Moorman (Mt...
Read more about "CCHS: The History of Calgary’s Landscapes"Canada is going to the Moon with Canadarm3 on the Lunar Gateway and the first Canadian Lunar Rover on the lunar surface. These missions allow Canada to participate in global space...
Read more about "RASC: Canadian Lunar Robotics with Chantelle Dubois"You dig in the dirt and find a long, skinny creature squirming along. It’s a worm, right? Maybe not! Dig a little deeper into bug science and learn the difference between...
Read more about "STEM Explorers: Squirmy Wormy Bug Science (Ages 6 to 12)"Join the Library’s 2023 Children’s Artist in Residence, Sumin Choi, and discover the fun in developing your own character and bringing their stories to life, with hands on art...
Read more about "Children’s Artist in Residence 2023: Design Your Own Character"