What does it take to be a leader? Don't say "balls." Because if you believe that, even though it definitely takes guts, grit and grace, you're overlooking a ton of talented candidates. We have that talent in spades in our communities. And some of them have agreed to sit on a panel on Tuesday night, … Continue reading Leading Women: an International Women’s Day panel on Women & Leadership at the Library, Tuesday, March 8, 7pm
I just picked up this brand new coffee table portrait collection at the library. Humans of New York is a 6 year old project of New York photographer Brandon Stanton. He takes people's pictures. The ordinary folk of New York City, where he lives. It began as a kind of census-taking. In images. He'd just moved to … Continue reading Wellness Reads: Humans of NY, a catalogue of human stories
Visit the Library on January 31st and help celebrate Family Literacy Day. In partnership with the Pemberton Multicultural Network, there will be a story to listen to, make a bookmark and do some fun origami.
Reading makes you a better person. So, the single most awesome way to self-actualize, in my opinion, might just be to get a library card. And then you can really next level things by joining the Pemberton and District Public Library's new Adult Book Club. They'll be reading books featuring strong, courageous and spirited women, under … Continue reading There’s a new book club in town…
It was a hideous pinky-purple with sponge-painted stars. The walls were plastered with quotes cut out from magazines that were haphazardly pasted out of context next to hundreds of photographs of friends and posters of punk bands and wakeboarding. There were at least 200 of those glow-in-the-dark-star and moon stickers on the ceiling, enough … Continue reading The Life Changing Magic Of Eating Croissants In Bed
It's a busy weekend in Whistler with the Writers Festival and Naturalists' Fungus Amongst Us Festival taking place. If you're planning on staying closer to home, don't miss MADE on Saturday, and a visit from Eric Walters, YA and Children's Book author at the Pemberton Library on Sunday. That's what you call an embarrassment of … Continue reading Meet YA and children’s Author Eric Walters at the Library, Sunday 18 Octoberm 11:30am
Ethical eating author Dr. Michelle Catherine Nelson will read from The Urban Homesteading Cookbook, her book about earthwise consumption, at the Pemberton Library on Thursday night. In the book, Nelson shares what she learned from her family history of backyard food production, her Ph.D. in conservation biology and sustainable agriculture, and a whole lot of trial … Continue reading Urban Homesteading talk at the Library, Thursday, October 8, 7pm
Leave your parents at home. Love this so much. Pemberton Library, you guys rock.
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