Join this year’s Summer Reading Club artist for a fun and interactive online workshop. We will learn about being a book illustrator, and read Meneka’s upcoming book “The Mango Monster”. We will also make our own monster bookmarks! Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
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Join Gardens4Kids for a fun activity where we will make seed balls to take home and plant in our gardens – or anywhere else! Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Presented by the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre! Participants will learn about the Moon’s unique environment and develop their own moon rover concept using Ozobot coding robots. Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Join local artist Janice from Young Artists Place for an interactive step-by-step workshop on how to draw manga faces! Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Join Ernie Cardinal, nêhiyawak (Cree) knowledge keeper and program manager at the Spirit of the Children Society, as he shares medicine wheel teachings with sage, cedar, sweet grass, tobacco, and willow fungus. Children will then put these teachings to use in a hands-on spirit stone activity. Children age 8 and under must have an adult participate with them. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Join Ernie Cardinal, nêhiyawak (Cree) knowledge keeper and program manager at the Spirit of the Children Society, as he shares medicine wheel teachings with sage, cedar, sweet grass, tobacco, and willow fungus. Teens will put these teachings to use while learning how to make a deer hide medicine bag. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Join heritage staff and explore fascinating artifacts from the museum’s teaching collection. In this hands-on session, discover how historical community objects keep special memories and stories. Participants will learn how to create their own “me-museum” using meaningful items from home! Parent participation is required for this program. Registration required; register below. If the event is full, please email youth@nwpl.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Local artist and graphic novelist, PJ Patton, will be leading a workshop on journal comics and zine making.
This hands on workshop requires registration and has limited spots. It is suitable for adults and teens. Please register below.
About the Workshop Presenter
PJ Patten is a self-taught graphic illustrator, tattoo artist, and poet whose work is influenced by the intersection of his Japanese heritage with his American military upbringing. Patten’s parents met in Japan where his father was stationed, and the family was raised in Huntington Beach, California where he started airbrushing surfboards in the popular surfing community.
Patten’s own lived experience of homelessness and addiction as a young adult led to the publishing of his first published book Tower25: Strung Out, Homeless, and Standing Up Again. The evocative and emotional illustrations in the book are inspired by the traditional Japanese artform of Haiga, which blends watercolour painting and haiku. Patten uses inkstone and brushes that belonged to his Oba-chan (Japanese for “grandmother”) that she herself used to create art. His preferred mediums are acrylic paints on canvas, pen, ink, watercolours on paper.
As part of his mental health journey, Patten spent ten years living at a buddhist retreat center, immediately after which he began working on his graphic novel Tower 25. He is currently the visual artist in residence for Changing the Conversation Series Around Homelessness based in Metro Vancouver. Patten has led graphic novel workshops for at-risk youth and given talks on comics and his own recovery story. He has had his paintings and drawings exhibited in and around Vancouver B.C., and is currently working on a new project – also a graphic novel – telling the stories of the children who spent time in Canada’s Japanese Internment Camps.
Patten is a grateful resident on the unceded and stolen lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueum peoples who have been here since time immemorial. He operates out of his studio in Burnaby, where he also makes his home with his wife and two stepsons.
About Arts New West
Founded in 1967 as the Arts Council of New Westminster, Arts New West is a not-for-profit community arts organization built by artists and arts groups with a shared interest in visual, performing, and literary arts. Our goal is to foster, support and promote the arts for all age groups, cultures and Indigenous community members.
About Wildfires Bookshop
Wildfires Bookshop is a queer + south asian owned space, located on the stolen and occupied territories of the Halq’emeýlem speaking peoples. We curate books that celebrate both historically and presently excluded voices and stories, and serve as a community-building space that encourages the joy of learning, connection, and care.
Expertise is not only a requirement of self-help or instructional nonfiction. It is also an important component of narrative nonfiction. It galvanizes reader attention and makes the content proposition compelling to editors and readers. In this workshop JJ Lee (fashion writer, memoirist, dark historical fantasy/horror author) walks you through a worksheet that helps you hone your expert appeal for narrative nonfiction, Instagram Reels, YouTube, podcasts, and other forms of nonfiction content creation. A perfect way to enhance the concept and treatment of your next nonfiction project.
This is a hands on workshop with limited space. Please register to secure your spot.
About the Workshop Presenter
JJ Lee is a former CBC broadcaster and art critic. He wrote the memoir The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. He is the editor of the Christmas-themed anthology series Better Next Year and is the acquisitions editor for New Westminster publisher Tidewater Press. He produces the true crime podcast Stand Up Eight with Lenore Rattray. It peaked at #18 in True Crime charts. He teaches nonfiction at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and writing and podcasting at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
About Arts New West
Founded in 1967 as the Arts Council of New Westminster, Arts New West is a not-for-profit community arts organization built by artists and arts groups with a shared interest in visual, performing, and literary arts. Our goal is to foster, support and promote the arts for all age groups, cultures and Indigenous community members.
Writers from New Westminster and Greater Vancouver can sign up for a 45-minute, one-time, one-on-one consult with an editor who will provide specific feedback and recommendations based on your submitted work. The session can be in-person or online.
How does it work?
- Consults will take place on the second Thursday evening of each month.
- For each session, available times are 5pm, 6pm, and 7pm and are arranged by appointment only.
- Appointments are 45 minutes in length
- Appointments will be conducted either remotely online, via Zoom or in person at the library.
- Your appointment time will be confirmed via NWPL. Once confirmed, you will be given information on next steps
- You can submit up to seven pages of poetry or prose, 7 pages maximum. Work must be double-spaced with the title and your name on each page with the page number on the bottom.
- Each person is eligible for one session only; multiple and/or repeat sessions cannot be booked.
- Please note, confirmed registration is required at least 7 days prior to the consultation date. This is to ensure there is enough time to provide thoughtful feedback on the work submitted for review.
For more information and to register, email NWPL at AskUs@nwpl.ca
For more information on the SFU Writer’s Studio, visit them online.