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Gibsons & District Public Library strives to connect our community to the world of culture, knowledge and ideas. Always free.

06/04/2026

📚🌈Come join our book club discussion of Betty Baxter’s new book, Outspoken, on Wednesday June 10th from 3:30 - 4:30pm!

Everyone welcome, even if you haven’t read the book!Register on our website.

An Olympian recounts her experiences as a young gay athlete and coach in the 70s and 80s, turning discrimination into celebration.

When Betty Baxter was hired to coach the Canadian women’s volleyball team in 1980, she was met with a media frenzy as the first woman in the position. Then her career was cut short—Baxter was fired in January 1982 and tossed from volleyball at age twenty-nine because of rumours about her sexual orientation.

This personal memoir chronicles Baxter’s journey from a small-town prairie girl discovering her passion for sports, through the years of international success, including harsh coaches, excruciating training regimes and the inequities in the sports system, especially for a closeted gay athlete. After her abrupt dismissal, Baxter turned to activism, seeking equality for women, initiating a new coaching school and working for a healthy, visible LGBTQ+ community through the internationally recognized Gay Games.

Outspoken: A Journey from Olympic Athlete to Activist exposes the persistent flaws of elite sport in Canada. It lays bare a system so resistant to change that forty years later the same issues, particularly for women, remain under scrutiny. But it also highlights the resilience and perseverance required of marginalized athletes to survive. Most of all, it champions the capacity to succeed.

06/03/2026

Join us to recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day by watching a powerful documentary on Haida resistance and environmental justice.

Film screening: The Stand
Wednesday June 10th at 6:00 pm

On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future. In a riveting feature documentary drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, award-winning director Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time) recreates the critical moment when the Haida Nation’s resolute act of vision and conscience changed the world.

Runtime: 95 min.
Shown with closed captioning.

Registration required, please register on our website.

05/29/2026

Curious about artificial intelligence and what it means for your everyday life? There’s still space to join our talk on Cybersecurity for Seniors the AI Edition. May 30th from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. This workshop is tailored to seniors, but all are welcome who would find it useful.

This friendly, easy-to-follow workshop will introduce you to the basics of AI, how it’s being used today, and how it’s changing the world around us—including online safety.

We’ll also cover common scams and security risks, and share practical tips to help you protect your personal information and feel more confident navigating the digital world. No prior tech experience is needed—just bring your questions!

Please register on our website.

Delivered by Jay Calvert of Cyber Smart Canada.

05/20/2026

Join us on Thurs May 28th from 2:00 - 3:00 pm for a reading with Daniela Elza and Catherine Elizabeth McNeil on the topics of belonging, displacement, relocation, home.

Daniela will read from “Is This an Illness or an Accident?” (Caitlin Press, 2025) and SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). Catherine will read poetry from emily and elspeth which follows two women and their unique paths to love and each other in San Miguel, Mexico, Hardy island and Vancouver, BC and from under the influence about a poet growing up in the seventies and the amazing possibilities of living free of limiting ghosts into present unhampered touch. She will also read from her new manuscript the cartography of belonging about relocation, belonging, displacement and home.

05/16/2026

A beautiful day for the Salmon Release Festival here at the Chapman Creek Hatchery!

Come on by to make a button and pick up our summer reading program guide!

05/14/2026

Join us for a reading from Theresa Kishkan’s book The Art of Looking Back: A painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze. Wednesday May 27th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.

At 23, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young, she was flattered, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. He drew and painted her for a few months, after which she went away for a year. When she returned, she was determined not to resume the relationship.

But the artist made contact with her after the birth of her first child and became a family friend, bringing gifts of paintings. Those images hung in Theresa’s home, and one in particular reminded her almost daily of her younger self, in ways both positive and not so much. She avoided looking too closely at his images of her and at his long, passionate and often troubling letters.

Decades later, while sorting old correspondence, she was taken back to those early days and began, at last, to write about her relationship with the now-deceased artist. The Art of Looking Back is a meditation on the male gaze, on reclaiming one’s younger self, and on agency: how we lose it, how we find it again. This poetic memoir asks questions about older men and younger women and girls, and the persistence of that dynamic in art.

05/07/2026

Just your friendly neighborhood library folks gearing up for a book delivery!

If you see us around town give us a wave👋

Did you know we have library locker available at the Gibsons & Area Community Centre? You can pick up library holds and return books there!

https://gibsonslibrary.ca/the-library-locker-at-the-gacc/

We also offer homebound library services supplying library materials to people who are unable to come into the library due to chronic illness, vision loss, or mobility concerns.

https://gibsonslibrary.ca/homeboundlibraryservices/

Call or visit the library to learn more about either of these options!

05/05/2026

📚We’re excited to introduce our new Multilingual Collection!

This growing collection includes fiction and non-fiction in five different languages: Spanish, French, Ukrainian, Filipino and Japanese.

Our hope is that people will now be able to enjoy books in their first language, and use these new resources to learn a new language.

These physical books complement the range of digital language resources our library offers including Mango, LOTE4 Kids (Languages other than English), and Bibliotheque Numerique. All of these databases are freely accessible with your library card!

For more information check out:
https://gibsonslibrary.ca/multilingual-collection/

04/24/2026

Join us tomorrow from 2:00 - 3:00 pm as local author Marion McKinnon Crook reads from her new book- Bloomsbury to Barkerville: The Life of Florence Wilson.

From the literary circles of Charles Dickens to gold-rush saloons in the Cariboo, this remarkable true story chronicles the fascinating life and intrepid spirit of Florence Wilson (1823–1902).

From poet to prospector to entrepreneur, Florence is best remembered in the frontier town of Barkerville, BC. She was the heart of the community, bringing entertainment and culture to a town dominated by transient male miners. In Barkerville, her fortunes rose, fell, and literally went up in flames in the great fire of 1868. But she always rebuilt and regrouped. Bloomsbury to Barkerville is a sweeping yet intimate portrait of an intrepid, ambitious woman.

04/17/2026

In conjunction with the and their launch of Spirit Rising: Japanese Canadian Voices of the Coast (launching tomorrow!) join us for this screening of Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story on We’d April 29th from 6:30 - 7:30pm.

🎥This feature-length documentary tells the story of the Asahi baseball team. In pre-World War II Vancouver, the team was unbeatable, winning the Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The former Asahi members survived by playing ball. Their passion was contagious and soon other players joined in, among them RCMP officials and local townspeople. As a result, the games helped break down racial and cultural barriers. This remarkable story is told with a combination of archival footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactments.

⚾️Join us for this screening, register on our website.

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470 South Fletcher Road
Gibsons, BC
V0N1V0

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 7:30pm
Thursday	10am - 5:30pm
Friday	10am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+16048862130

Website

https://gibsonslibrary.ca/

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