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This Open House is the final in-person engagement opportunity in the City's 'Your Stories, Our Histories' project, an engagement initiative designed to explore the diverse history and heritage that exists within Kingston and incorporate it into the City’s updated Cultural Heritage Strategy.
Residents are invited to drop in to view panels depicting the trends and themes that have the emerged out of the engagement so far and offer any input they have on the ideas moving forward.
Join us for the final Engage for Change gathering of 2019. This talking circle will explore where we’ve come on the shared path of reconciliation in Kingston this year. We’ll build on our conversations around creating an Indigenous cultural space in the city and discuss a potential model to guide the relationship between Kingston’s Indigenous community and the municipal government.
Are you a writer 18 or older who is already working on a writing project, or who is ready to start one? If you're interested in meeting with a group of other writers to share your work and to give and receive constructive criticism and helpful suggestions, you'd be most welcome to attend the monthly meetings of the new Write On Sydenham Writers' Group.
On the second Thursday of each month, award-winning author Jean Rae Baxter will host a session for up to ten writers from 2 until 4 p.m. at our Sydenham branch library. You may come as often as you like, but because of space limitations we're asking all would-be attendees to register for each session. This may be done online through calendar.kfpl.ca or by visiting or phoning any open Kingston Frontenac Public Library branch. Registration for each meeting will open at 9 a.m. on the Saturday immediately before.
The next meetings will be on Thursday, December 12, and Thursday, January 9, at 2 p.m. at Sydenham branch. Both sessions are open to all adults, but seating is limited. To avoid disappointment, please register in advance online at calendar.kfpl.ca or by phone at (613) 549-8888, starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 7 and on Saturday, January 4.
For more information, visit www.kfpl.ca .
After a successful launch in September and October, Grownup Storytime returns to the Sydenham branch of Kingston Frontenac Public Library for another six weeks. This time the sessions will be held by the fireplace from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Many adults enjoy audiobooks, but there's something special about listening to someone read to you in person. It lets you enjoy not just a story but the company you're in. And hearing stories read aloud can even be good for you! Meghan Cox Gurdon (children's book critic for the Wall Street Journal) writes of the physiological benefits of hearing a story read aloud in her new book The Enchanted Hour: the Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction: "Stress hormones are decreased and bonding hormones increase."
Adults of all ages are invited to drop by the Sydenham branch each Monday to listen to stories, essays, excerpts or articles read by Programming Assistant Margi McKay. Feel free to bring your lunch — or perhaps your knitting. If the group feels like staying to talk about what they've heard, there'll be time for that as well. The first session of this new round will feature selections related to Remembrance Day.
Grownup Storytime will run from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Mondays at the Sydenham branch, from November 11 through December 16. Each weekly session of this drop-in program is open to adults of all ages, and no registration is required. Come to as many sessions as you like!
After a successful launch in September and October, Grownup Storytime returns to the Sydenham branch of Kingston Frontenac Public Library for another six weeks. This time the sessions will be held by the fireplace from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Many adults enjoy audiobooks, but there's something special about listening to someone read to you in person. It lets you enjoy not just a story but the company you're in. And hearing stories read aloud can even be good for you! Meghan Cox Gurdon (children's book critic for the Wall Street Journal) writes of the physiological benefits of hearing a story read aloud in her new book The Enchanted Hour: the Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction: "Stress hormones are decreased and bonding hormones increase."
Adults of all ages are invited to drop by the Sydenham branch each Monday to listen to stories, essays, excerpts or articles read by Programming Assistant Margi McKay. Feel free to bring your lunch — or perhaps your knitting. If the group feels like staying to talk about what they've heard, there'll be time for that as well. The first session of this new round will feature selections related to Remembrance Day.
Grownup Storytime will run from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Mondays at the Sydenham branch, from November 11 through December 16. Each weekly session of this drop-in program is open to adults of all ages, and no registration is required. Come to as many sessions as you like!