Circus fun at the Summer Reading Game Kick-off Party! |
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Monday to Thursday
10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday:
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
GPPL will be closed:
Friday, July 1
Canada Day
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Join us from July 3 to August 27 for a summer of fun, creativity, and prizes! This year’s theme is Jungle! Keep an eye on our social media accounts and website for updates.
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The seed library is now OPEN, and ready for your leftover seeds to share with our community. How does a seed library work? Gardeners “borrow” seeds from the library at planting time. At the end of the growing season, they save seeds from the plants and return a portion of the seeds to the Library. We are still accepting seeds of all types. Please drop your labeled seeds off at the Customer Service desk, Attention: Marci.
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Surprise! Our Surprise Bags are so popular, we’ve decided to make them a monthly event. For $5.00 we will put together a surprise bag for you with a minimum of 5 hardcover books per bag. For an extra $5.00 they’ll come in one of our GPPL canvas bags (on request). First come, first serve. Once we sell out, check back each month for new bag options. Send an email to sales@gppl.ca with the genre(s) you want, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Romance
Historical Fiction
Suspense Thriller
Made into Movies
Family Drama
Supernatural Elements
Canadian Content/Author
Check out another Culture
Christian Fiction
General Fiction
General Mystery
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The Little Free Plant Library |
Similar to our plant swap, but always available! Drop off a plant, or take a plant. Located next to our seed library. For more information please email Marci at mbanack@gppl.ca
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Looking to quickly pick up your items from GPPL? Curbside Pickup is available. To arrange for pickup, please call 780-532-3580 to book a time. The last appointment for Curbside Pickup is 15 minutes before closing.
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Based on real-life, Five Wives by Joan Thomas is a compelling story about living in an ideological bubble: the magical thinking, the personal bargains, and the devastating consequences of clinging to mythologies at odds with the real world. Five Wives follows the lives of the missionaries’ wives who were left behind after their husbands were killed in the jungle of Ecuador in 1956. Governor-General Award Winner (2019)
Join the Itty Bitty Book Club. This month’s book is available at the Customer Services Desk or via curbside pickup. When you return the book, submit the enclosed form. It’s the perfect low-commitment book club experience and gives you the chance to win branded Library swag!
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Join career counselor Bonnie Maguffee for the following career coaching workshops. Albertans who are underemployed, unemployed, or at risk for unemployment are welcome. Register online at gppl.ca or call 780-357-7455. Presented in partnership with R. Work Group.
Social Media and Job Hunting
Learn how to use online resources and keep looking for work even during these unprecedented times. This workshop provides an overview of using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram in the context of your job search.
Date: Friday, June 24
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Interview Skills for Professionals and New Grads
Learn effective interview skills, especially if you are looking for a job in a new industry. Understand how to handle online interviews and how to determine if the job is the right fit for you based on the interview.
Date: Saturday, June 25
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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English Conversation Club |
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What are the benefits?
- Practice your English
- Learn about Canadian culture
- Connect with people and make friends
- Share experiences
Basic knowledge of English is required. Presented with The Grande Prairie Centre for Newcomers. This program takes place in person and on Zoom. *
Monday & Friday sessions take place at the Grande Prairie Center for Newcomers (10014 99 Street, Suite 505). When you register you will receive a link to join the meeting by default. Register at gppl.ca or call 780-357-7455
Date: Wednesdays & Fridays (April 20 – June 29)
Date: Thursdays (April 21- June 30)
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30
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Dungeons and Dragons: Virtual RPG Sessions |
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Are you ready to play Dungeons and Dragons? Join us for an unforgettable adventure in the Forgotten Realms, alternating Tuesdays from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. We will be using D&D Beyond and Zoom to run the campaign.
These campaigns have started, please contact Mikyla at mmeyer@gppl.ca after registration for more information. Audience: ages 9 to 14. Maximum: 8 participants
Dates: Tuesdays, every other week
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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These aren’t regular crafts, these are playful crafts. Enjoy exploring new mediums of crafting with other children. Each week will be a different creation, so feel free to take part in what suits your creative side best. This week we will make fingerprint foliage. Audience: ages 6 to 8. Maximum: 12 participants
Date: Friday, July 8
Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: Sky Story Room
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Want to learn how to annotate but just don't know where to start? We've got you covered! Join us at GPPL for an annotation workshop on July 5 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, where we will go over all of the basics of annotation and you will get a beginner annotation kit! Please bring your own book to annotate. Registration required. Age: 13+
Dates: Tuesday, July 5
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Rotary Training Room
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Bring your favourite furry friend for a picnic in the park! This will be a 1.5 hour, two-week outdoor series where participants will be encouraged to bring their favourite stuffed animal to hear a story, eat snacks, and do a craft.
These sessions focus on the book Humanimal: Incredible Ways Animals Are Just Like Us! by Christopher Lloyd. We will explore the complex emotions and behaviours of animals. Audience: ages 6 to 9. Maximum:12 participants
Dates: Tuesdays, July 5 and 12 (Participants will need to attend both sessions)
Time: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Mamawe Concourse (patio behind the library)
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Death Café If death is inevitable, why is discussing it socially taboo? Let’s make time to talk about it! Join us to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death. Through open conversation, we aim to increase awareness of death and help people make the most of their lives. Our discussion will have no agenda, objectives, or themes. Please note this is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. Presented with Grande Prairie Palliative Care Society.
This meeting will take place in person and on Zoom. When you register you will receive the Zoom link by default. *When you register please indicate if you plan to attend in person or on Zoom. Register online or call 780-357-7455.
Date: Last Wednesday of every month (June 29)
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room / GPPL Virtually Anywhere
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Have fun at the park with GPPL! Enjoy stories and outdoor games at Lion's Park. Audience: families of all ages
Date: Saturday, July 9
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Lion’s Park
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Summer Kickoff Teen Hangout |
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What time is it? It’s SUMMER TIME!!! Come to GPPL for an afternoon hangout to kick off summer! Ages: 12 to 18
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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Whether you're new and want to learn more about the songwriting process or a seasoned songwriter looking to get feedback, the Songwriter's Circle is a great Library program that encourages camaraderie, feedback, and collaboration. This group meets on the last Monday of every month. For more information contact Susan at susanpicard@gmail.com.
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Rotary Community Room
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Be Creative: Makerspace Room |
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Have that creative itch that needs scratching? With the creative technology offered in our Makerspace Room, you can express your creative side. Use a green screen, a lightbox, or create a podcast. Staff will be available to give you access to the equipment and help with minor technical questions – all creative activities are up to you! Bookings are 2 hours at a time and are limited to one individual (or group) per booking.
Date: Wednesday, June 29
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm,
Date: Wednesday, July 6
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Date: Thursday, June 30
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Date: Friday, July 8
Time:10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Date: Saturday July 2 from
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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Baby and Toddler Time (parented) |
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Bond with your baby and enjoy interacting with your little ones in this fun-filled program with fingerplays, rhymes, songs, and stories all designed to stimulate early literacy and social development. Siblings are welcome. Audience: recommended for ages 0 to 4 Maximum: 15 participants
Dates: Mondays, July 4 and 11 & Wednesday, July 6
Time: 10:30 am to 11:00 am
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Wellness Exchange is a series of skill-building workshops that focus on increasing our ability to cope with change, build resiliency, and improve our overall well-being. The skills are taught in a series of five workshops. Topics covered are problem-solving, positive activities, managing reactions, helpful thinking, and healthy connections. Presented in partnership with Alberta Health Services.
Date: July 11 to 15 (five consecutive sessions)
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
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Join us to explore and build things from your imagination! Design your own city, animal habitat, machines, and more all through paper and tape projects. Inspired by the resource Engineering with Paper. Audience: ages 9 to 12. Maximum: 12 participants
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Sky Story Room
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Join us to explore and build things from your imagination! Learn about forces, motion, community, animals, architecture, and machines all through paper and tape projects. Folding techniques and scissors will be used. Inspired by the resource Engineering with Paper. Audience: ages 6 to 9. Maximum: 12 participants
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Sky Story Room
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Tired of looking at your same ol’ houseplants? Or do you have an overabundance of the same type and want to get rid of some? Well come to the plant swap! Bring in your clippings or potted plants ready to go to their new home, or take something new. Please only bring in pest and disease-free plants. Now hosting the first Wednesday each month.
Date: First Wednesday of each month
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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Magnets, coding, numeracy, and more! Join us in a weekly exploration into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) for preschoolers.
Registration is required. Please sign up for each date your child wishes to attend. Audience: ages 4 to 6. Maximum: 8 participants
Date: Tuesday, July 5
Time: 10:30 am to 11:00 am
Location: Linda Smith Story Room
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Join us weekly to garden. Each week will feature a different story, craft, and seed to learn about and plant. Simply take home an instruction sheet and your plant, and watch it grow! This week’s plant is the sunflower. Audience: ages 6 to 10. Maximum: 12 participants
Date: Friday, July 8
Time: 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Location: Mamawe Concourse (patio behind library)
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Are you curious about what makes robots work? Then come program small robots with us and learn! No experience is required. Audience: ages 8 to 12. Maximum: 8 participants
Date: Wednesday, July 6
Time: 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Location: Sky Story Room
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Aspiring or published, all are welcome to join this group of people who love to write. Swan City Writers meet on the first and third Wednesday of every month. For more information, please email Marci at mbanack@gppl.ca.
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Rotary Training Room
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Musical Munchkins (parented) |
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Enjoy songs, stories, and musical instruments with your little ones in this engaging program. Siblings are welcome. Audience: ages 2.5 to 5 years. Maximum:15 participants
Date: Wednesday, July 6
Time: 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Linda Smith Story Room
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Looking for ways to make new connections? Come to Coffee Club to meet new people and take part in games and other fun activities. Coffee provided. This program is for people with disabilities. Presented with Centerpoint Facilitation.
Time: 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Location: Teresa Sargent Hall
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Get creative and let your imagination come to life! This two-week program will introduce children to 3D design using Tinkercad. We will create something interesting together that you can take home. Participants will need to attend both sessions. This is a free program and you will not be charged for your 3D design after it's printed. Prints will be completed at a later date and will require pick up. No experience is necessary. Audience: ages 9 to 12. Maximum:12 participants
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Reading Lounge
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These aren’t regular crafts, these are cool crafts. Enjoy exploring new mediums of crafting with other children ages 9 to 12. Each week will be a different creation, so feel free to take part in what suits your creative side best. This week we will make potato art! Yes, we will use potatoes to be artists. Come learn how to make a potato stamp and use it to create art. Audience: ages 9 to 12. Maximum: 12 participants
Date: Friday, July 8
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Sky Story Room
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A sewing and quilting club is a great way to start or finish that project you have been working on! Meeting every Thursday of each month, get together with fellow quilters and sewers, and enjoy the comfort of friends while you sew. Please bring your own supplies. Please email Edna Smith at nvr.gv.up@hotmail.com for more information.
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Rotary Community Room
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Allow your child to enjoy exploring new mediums of crafting with other children. Each week will be a different creation, so feel free to participate with your child in what suits their creative side best. This week we will be creating fingerprint foliage.
As this program is designed to facilitate caregiver/child interactions no more than 3 children per adult. Thank you for your understanding. Audience: ages 3 to 5. Maximum:12 participants
Date: Wednesday, July 6
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
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In the mood for some friendly competition? Kick-off the weekend playing board games at GPPL. Come meet new people or bring your friends. This program is for people with disabilities. Board games provided. Presented with Centerpoint Facilitation. Register at gppl.ca or call 780-357-7455.
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Rotary Community Room
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Crazy things are happening in Baldur’s Gate. Rumours of a city vanishing, sightings of cultists of the Dead Three, and both the Flaming Fists and the council sitting leaderless.
Register for this bi-weekly adventure, Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. Please email Colten at colten.meyer@gmail.com to reserve your spot. Maximum number of players: 6
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm
Location: FLRC
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Do you need to revamp your resume? Not sure where to start? Register for personal assistance. To book an appointment call Jill at 780-357-7473. If you have an old resume please email it to Jill at jkergan@gppl.ca prior to the session.
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Dig up treasure! Come listen to stories and have fun digging up jungle treasure. We will be using bins of sand and other dry sensory products for digging. Plus, you can take home any 2 of the objects you find. Audience: ages 4 to 8. Maximum:12 participants
Date: Thursday, July 7
Time: 2:15 pm to 2:30 pm
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Alberta Healthy Living Exercise Program |
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Are you interested in learning how to exercise safely and effectively? Join our free supervised exercise program for individuals 18 and up. Participate from home or in person at GPPL via Zoom.
- moderate-intensity exercises
- led by a Certified Exercise Therapist
- 2 times per week for 6 weeks
- 1.5-hour interactive exercise sessions that also include mini education topics to help make you an independent exerciser!
- small groups
- fun and safe real-time classes
Book now! Classes are starting immediately. To register please email mbanack@gppl.ca.
Regular class times include:
- Mondays and Wednesdays: 10:00 am to 11:30 am, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. 3:00 pm to 4:30 PM. 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
- Tuesdays and Thursdays: 10:00 am to 11:30 am, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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Explore new technology with your whole family. Drop by anytime between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm to explore and discover. There will be Sphero robots, VR headsets, and much more. Audience: families of all ages. Maximum: 20 participants at one time
Date: Wednesday, July 6, and Saturday, July 9
Time: Wednesday: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm & Saturday: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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Who doesn’t love coloring? Relax and color a picture of your own while enjoying a nice cup of tea. We will provide the coloring sheets, and colored pencils, or feel free to bring your own. This artsy group meets on the second Wednesday of each month. Adults only, please.
Date: 2nd Wednesday starting July 13
Time: 6:30 pm
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Family Night: Movie Night! The Bad Guys
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After a lifetime of legendary heists, notorious criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark, and Ms. Tarantula are finally caught. To avoid a prison sentence, the animal outlaws must pull off their most challenging con yet - becoming model citizens. Audience: families of all ages. Maximum: 50 participants
Date: Tuesday, July 5
Time: 4:45 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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One-on-One Technology Help |
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Need help navigating and understanding your technology? Get a device and have no idea how to use it? Come to GPPL with your device and any questions you may have to receive one-on-one help on any technology-related topic you need support with! Contact our Creative Technology Coordinator at 780-357-7476 or ctc@gppl.ca and set yourself up for an hour appointment to learn more about how to use your iPad, cell phone, and more.
Dates & Times: Tuesdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm or Thursdays from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: GPPL
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Macrame has been a popular way to decorate for decades, bringing texture and warmth into a home with knots that can be put together in unique ways to create one-of-a-kind wall hangings, plant holders, a hanging chair, and for this class, feathers! You will learn a basic knot, and leave with a beautiful macramé feather for your home. All supplies are included. Register online to save your spot. Adults only, please.
Date: Wednesday, July 13
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Willie Janssen Discovery Room
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Champions of the Grande Prairie Public Library |
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*NEW DATE* The Champions of Grande Prairie Public Library are holding their first Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, June 29 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. All are welcome to attend. Please email champions@gppl.ab.ca for a link to the meeting or for more information. |
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The Champions of Grande Prairie Public Library are launching their first in-person fundraiser! Look for the umbrella by the GPPL Ask desk to see how you can help Make it Rain with the Champions of GPPL! |
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The Champions have also partnered with Tru-Earth to support the library! Follow the link below to support GPPL with a purchase through Tru-Earth.
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Looking for a fun activity? We're ready anytime you are!
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Discover the digital content that is available with your free library membership including courses, language learning, educational resources, eBooks & audiobooks, and more!
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101, 9839 103 Avenue, Grande Prairie,
Alberta T8V 6M7
Phone: 780-532-3580
Fax: 780-538-4983
Information Desk: 780-357-7455
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