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🎀 Community Arts & Crafts Swap 🎀
Calling all crafters! Celebrate Earth Day by bringing in all those art supplies you don't need and swapping them for new ones! Help divert materials from the landfill and give them a chance to be used by someone else.
Donations may be dropped off at the Ruth E. Dickinson Branch during our hours of operation until Friday, April 21, 2023
Items must be in new or like new condition. Only arts and craft materials will be accepted.
Join us on Earth Day Saturday, April 22 from 10 am to 12 pm for the swap!
🌍 Friday Flicks: Earth Day 🌍
Join us on Friday, April 21 at 4:00 pm for back to back screenings of two films from the National Film Board (NFB) in honour of Earth Day:
What Rhymes with Toxic by Lynn Smith (2021) 5 minutes
Sovereign Soil by David Curtis (2019) 1 hour and 31 minutes
Recommended for ages 14+
📚 Ruth E. Dickinson Recommends (for Kids!) 📚
Apartment 713 by Kevin Sylvester
For ages 10-12
With nowhere else to go, Jake and his mother move into an apartment in the Regency, a building that was once elegant but is now dilapidated. Jake explores the building and when the forbidden door of apartment 713 opens, he walks through it and travels into the past - back to the heydays of the Regency in the 1920’s.
He meets up with a new friend, Beth, and together they explore the Regency discovering hidden rooms, hidden drawers and many secrets. If Jake can get back to the present, he hopes to use these secrets to restore the Regency to its former glory. Will Jake ever be able to find his way back to the present day?
This 5-star time travel novel explores the culture of the 1920's and is sure to delight fans of mysteries! Kevin Sylvester is the well-known Canadian author of the Neil Flambé mysteries, the MINRS science fiction books and the Hockey Super Six series.
👨💻 Gordon Korman Virtual Event 👨💻
Calling all teachers! OPL would like to invite you and your class to join our virtual author event with Gordon Korman on Friday, May 26 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am! Register your class as soon as possible to reserve a spot! For elementary school students grades 3 and up
Gordon Korman will discuss brainstorming, developing characters, dialogue, and humour. He will then answer questions submitted in advance by classes from across Ottawa
Submit your class' questions by Friday, May 19 by email
We are encouraging all classes/students to read at least one Korman book before the event. This year he published his 101st book! Here is a list of his books available at the Ottawa Public Library