Fun with the HUB; author talk, guide dog and more at the County libraries

Join the HUB in Bloomfield

The Hub (EarlyON PEC) visits the Bloomfield Branch Thursday, June 5 for a popup playgroup from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Illustrator Meg Hewick will read from her book “The Troublesome Twenty” and children and families will have the opportunity to explore the newly refreshed children’s space, thanks to the Friends of the Library. All are welcome, please register by emailing jessicag@thehubcentre.ca

Make Time
Thursday, June 5
1:30-3:30pm
Wellington Branch
A new open studio time at Wellington Branch Library (an expansion of the library program “DiscARTed”) will The group will meet biweekly on Thursdays from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. Please feel free to bring whatever you are working on: collage, book binding, knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting, rug hooking, sketching and painting etc. Please bring your own supplies. If you wish, discarded books will be provided for book art projects. Come on your own, come with a friend or spend time ‘making’ with others. Share, connect, communicate and create.

Author Talk: Ashley Elizabeth Best
Thursday, June 5
7 – 8 pm
Picton Branch

Ashley-Elizabeth Best will discuss her collection of poems, Bad Weather Mammals.
“The sick should be good. / It is a kind of undoing,” Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. Bad Weather Mammals navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite “ODSP 1, 2, & 3,” which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times — while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. Bad Weather Mammals disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative.

Meet Walker at storytime

For this special edition of storytime, meet Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide in Training Walker and learn about the important work of dog guides. Saturday, June 7 10:30 a.m. Picton Branch Library all welcome