Name: Getting Juicy with Awfully Hilarious: Pillow Talk Book Launch
Start: 2026-02-12T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-12T20:30:00-08:00
Location: Whistler Public Library

December 2025
December 6, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

North Shore Authors Collection Book Sale

North Vancouver Public Library - Lynn Valley branch 1277 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Join us for an exciting Book Sale featuring the authors from the 2025/2026 North Shore Authors Collection! The North Shore Authors Collection celebrates the literary talent of North Shore authors by highlighting locally created content in all three North Shore libraries. This is your opportunity to purchase some of the titles featured in this year’s […]

Free
December 16, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Giant Silent Reading Party

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Are you stressed about the holidays or feeling a little lonely? The Vancouver Public Library is hosting a giant silent reading party to combat the holiday blues. Our "silent reading party" at the library is a social space where patrons can sit together and read in silence. Do you have book that you just haven't […]

Free
January 2026
January 28 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

North Shore Reads – A Couple’s Story of Confronting Chronic Pain

Online

In the fifth North Shore Reads, Kara Stanley, Simon Paradis, and Marsha Lederman discuss Stanley’s new book "The Pain Project." Ten years after her husband Simon Paradis’ catastrophic injury to his brain and spinal cord, Kara Stanley and Simon decide to spend one year researching pain, interviewing experts, reading self-help books, and trying new and […]

Free
January 29 | 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

An Evening with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Sintering: Making new worlds across difference In this talk, we will think alongside water as a theorist, a network and a map to making worlds beyond the one we have inherited from colonialism. –Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. A Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, […]
January 31 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The Strangest Thing in the Sea and Other Curious Adventures: an Afternoon with Author Rachel Poliquin!

North Vancouver Public Library – Parkgate branch 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Celebrate Family Literacy Week at Parkgate Library! Join us for an exciting, engaging, and interactive program with a local author. Rachel Poliquin explores wonder and curiosity in her gorgeous book The Strangest Thing in the Sea. During this program, Rachel will share the inspiration behind the book - then invite participants to dive deep into […]

Free
February 2026
February 3 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Follow Request: Speed Friending at the Library

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

We know it is tough to make friends in Vancouver so we're here to help. Bring your favourite book, e-book, graphic novel, DVD, podcast, blog or zine to discuss at this fun, casual, in-person event at Central Library. You'll have six minutes with each person to chat about the item you brought and see if […]

Free
February 7 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells with Bob Muckle

West Vancouver Memorial Library 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver, BC, Canada

In celebration of Heritage Week later this month, Bob Muckle, author of Once Upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells, will talk about British Columbia’s fascinating array of famous and lesser-known archaeological sites, from footprints left in mud on Calvert Island 13,000 years ago to remnants of COVID-19 left behind […]

Free
February 10 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Comic Pre-Launch Party: Passing in the Night

Cross & Crows Books 2836 Commercial Dr,, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Meet the author of Passing in the Night by Meghan Kemp-Gee, an upcoming graphic novel published by Vancouver-based publisher Shrimp Cult Press. Passing in the Night is the story of two star-crossed lovers, Ruth and Gloria. Ruth is a busy medical resident with a sleep disorder... and Gloria transforms into a giant flying lizard every […]

Free
February 10 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Incite: Maggie Helwig on Encampment

VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY – CENTRAL LIBRARY

Winner of the 2025 Toronto Book Award and one of CBC Books’ and the Globe and Mail’s best books of 2025, Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home.
February 12 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Getting Juicy with Awfully Hilarious: Pillow Talk Book Launch

Whistler Public Library 4329 Main Street, Whistler, BC, Canada

Join us at Whistler Public Library as we celebrate the launch of the latest and greatest from the Awfully Hilarious Project. First, we cringed and laughed at tales of first dates. Then, we nodded in agreement and horror as we read Period Pieces. Now, join us for the launch of the third book in the […]

Free

December 2025

January 2026

February 2026