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Join the Library with our partners at the University of Calgary for a variety of thought-provoking exercises and discussions that will help us examine our shared colonial history.
Read more about "Recognizing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation"Please return your resource sharing items directly to staff at any Calgary Public Library location. Do not use the self-return book chutes.
Read more about "Returning items"What do opera stories sound like? You get to decide! Join a Calgary Opera teaching artist and three professional musicians in this interactive, family-friendly music and story...
Read more about "Opera 212: Storytime at the Opera"FascinAsian is pleased to be partnering with CBC Calgary for the Asian Changemakers series. This event will feature five Asian Changemakers in the categories of Community...
Read more about "FascinAsian Film Festival 2024: CBC Asian Changemakers Presentation"The opera house doors are open, and you’re invited! In this opera discovery session you’ll learn about opera as an artform, the story behind Calgary Opera’s next show, as well as...
Read more about "Opera 212: Unpacking Opera - Marriage of Figaro"Learn about the cultural, social, and built history of our city with our friends from
Read more about "Historic Calgary Week is July 22 — August 1"Say goodbye to 2023, and hello to 2024! 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 "New Year's Eve at Calgary Public Library"You can have up to five active loan requests at one time. Holds are counted against the general 50-item hold limit for Calgary Public Library members.
Read more about "Borrowing items"A professional teaching artist from Calgary Opera will show you how tuning in deeply to selections of acoustic classical music through mindful listening can help you slow down and...
Read more about "Opera 212: Mindfulness & Classical Music"It’s a story that couldn’t have been scripted any better, according to the Library’s CEO Bill Ptacek.A search for a business to operate the café in Central Library led to two Calgary entrepreneurs seeking to do something iconic in their hometown. Gareth Lukes and Eric Hendry are partnering on LUKES, a 2,000-square-foot café opening in November 2018 that promises to be welcoming, collaborative, and responsive.Gareth Lukes is the third-generation owner of the popular Lukes Drug Mart. Eric Hendry, a former Model Milk chef who has worked around the globe, is back in Calgary at award-winning restaurant Bar Von Der Fels.Lukes and Hendry first partnered to bring soft-serve ice cream back to Lukes Drug Mart last summer. Their new collaboration is poised to be just as delicious.Operating within one of the city’s most important cultural gathering spaces is a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Lukes, speaking at the Jan. 16 announcement for the new café.“Like the Library itself, which is inclusive and accessible, we believe food can serve to bring families and people together to fuel discussion and stimulate learning,” he said. At LUKES, visitors can expect an approachable and interesting menu with affordable prices, plus an emphasis on local, healthy, and sustainable choices, Hendry said. Councillor Druh Farrell, a member of the Calgary Public Library Board, described Lukes and Hendry as people who embody Calgary’s entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit. “It’s their commitment to Calgary that makes their partnership so special for the new Library,” Farrell said at the Jan. 16 announcement. “Together, their vision, experience, and local know-how will elevate the visitor experience at the Library.”Three Questions for Gareth Lukes and Eric HendryIf you could cook for any author, who would it be?Eric Hendry: Ernest Hemingway.What’s your favourite book?Eric Hendry: Probably 1984 by George Orwell. I think it has some relevance in this day and age, which I like about it now.Gareth Lukes: I’d say Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. I just like the bizarreness of that book.What role has Calgary Public Library played in your life?Gareth Lukes: I remember always going as a kid and checking out books. The Library is a great resource, and it’s just a great place.Eric Hendry: Fish Creek Library was iconic when I was growing up in the south. I love to read. For sure, the Library plays a role in community, and that’s what we want to do as well.
Read more about "Stories Meet the Duo Behind Central Library’s Café"The opera house doors are open, and you’re invited! In this opera discovery session you’ll learn about opera as an artform, the story behind Calgary Opera’s next show, as well as...
Read more about "Opera 212: Unpacking Opera - Beauty and the Beast"Calgary Public Library Announces New Program in Partnership with Calgary Fire Department MEDIA RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 8, 2019Calgary, AB — The Calgary Public Library in partnership with the Calgary Fire Department is thrilled to announce a new program that launches this week.From January through June, children and families will have the opportunity to participate in weekly drop-in Firefighter Storytimes at select Library locations. Visitors will enjoy a story read by a local firefighter, and, availability and weather permitting, a tour of a working fire engine – a special experience for children of all ages. This unique partnership will also see firefighters sharing life-saving fire safety tips with the communities in which they serve.“What better way to inspire early learning and literacy in children than with real-life firefighters reading to them?” said Mark Asberg, Director of Service Delivery for the Calgary Public Library. “These local heroes are helping to set the foundation for future learning. We are proud to be working with our partners at the Calgary Fire Department to bring lifechanging programs like this to Calgary’s youngest citizens.”The Library first partnered with the Calgary Fire Department for Engine 23, a popular early learning installation at the old Central Library. Following firefighter and truck visits during 2018 Love Your Library Day, a plan was made to pilot an expanded storytime program across the library system. After the closure of the old Central Library, Engine 23 was moved into storage and plans are underway to install it at a new community library location in 2019.“The Calgary Fire Department encourages our members to visit public libraries in our communities and spend some time reading to children,” says Calgary Fire Chief Steve Dongworth. “I want to thank the Calgary Public Library for working with us to help spark a love of reading among children and ensuring they have access to the reading resources they need.”The Library locations selected for the pilot program were chosen based on their proximity to local fire stations. Storytimes will take place on Sunday afternoons at two different Library locations, beginning at 2:00 pm. Each storytime will last about 30 minutes.A full list of dates and locations of upcoming Firefighter Storytimes can be found at calgarylibrary.ca/programs.Calgary Public LibraryCalgary Public Library, with 688,000+ members and 21 locations, has been inspiring the life stories of Calgarians for more than 100 years. It is currently the second largest library system in Canada and the sixth largest municipal library system in North America, with Calgarians borrowing more than 14.6 million physical and digital items and with 6.8 million in-person visits last year. The awe-inspiring 240,000 sq. ft. new Central Library — the newest gathering place for our city — opened on November 1, 2018.- 30 -Media Contacts:Mary KapustaDirector, CommunicationsCalgary Public Library403.774.7256Mary.Kapusta@calgarylibrary.caGemma PasquarelliAccount ExecutiveEdelman403.817.0622Gemma.Pasquarelli@edelman.com
Read more about "Stories"Fair Entry Service at Village Square Library Today the City of Calgary opened two new customer service locations for its Fair Entry subsidized services application process. This new application process means that Calgarians applying for City-subsidized programs apply only once to have their income qualified for all five programs.Prior to the introduction of Fair Entry, Calgarians who wanted to access any of the fee subsidy programs at the City would have to apply and prove their eligibility separately for each program.The Calgary Public Library is pleased to partner with the City of Calgary to create a service counter location for the City's Fair Entry program at Village Square Library, in addition to the service location on the 3rd floor of the Municipal Building.Learn more about the Fair Entry program on the City's website.
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