End of Year Christmas Sessions
All programs for children and youth will be concluding in the week ending 14 Dec 2018. You may like to attend special sessions with a festive flavour at Nunawading, Blackburn and Bulleen branches, or join our Christmas activities at all preschool sessions at Vermont South (3–14 Dec) and The Pines (10–14 Dec).
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A Christmas Movie Night - Elf
Rated G. Join us for a fun-filled Christmas movie as Buddy (Will Ferrell), an elf from the North Pole, goes in search of his real dad in New York City. Bring along your own beanbag, low camp chair or picnic rug and cushion. BYO snacks and drinks! All welcome.
Fri 14 Dec | Doncaster Library, 6.30pm
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Bedtime Christmas Storytime
Come dressed up in a Christmas costume or wear your pyjamas and bring your favourite teddy bear to this special Christmas Storytime. There will be songs sung and stories told and maybe even a visit from a very special guest... All welcome. No registration required.
Wed 19 Dec | Doncaster Library, 7 – 7.45pm
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SUMMER READING CLUB:
Ensure your children keep up their reading skills this summer and beat the 'summer slide'
Reading is an essential skill for everyone. It’s the vital foundation of a child’s learning and engagement in schooling but this can drop off over the summer months. Our Summer Reading club encourages children to keep reading over the school holidays and to play along in the in this year’s curious creatures game.
Follow the map, read each day and go in the draw to win!
Register in any branch or online.
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YOUR READING SHELF
Summer Reading Inspiration for Adults
Are you stuck in a reading rut? Want to read more but just don’t know where to start? Tired of waiting on your favourite author to write their next book and need some reading inspiration?
Tell us what you like and don’t like by filling in our online form. Staff will send customised titles to your chosen branch within the week and all for free! Think of it as your personalised reading shelf. We do all the work and all you have to do is enjoy the reading.
Fill in your reading preferences form now!
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Craft Together
Come and bring your latest crafting project, meet others, get advice and share your crafting ideas. Bring your own crafting supplies. All ages welcome.
Every third Wednesday of each month
Wed 19 Dec | Doncaster Library, 6.30pm
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Tabletop Gaming Club
Tabletop games are expensive. Getting a group together to play them can be hard. Drop by every Wednesday to perfect your skills in strategic games like 'Pandemic' or 'Terraforming Mars', or pop in just once for a quick game of 'Exploding Kittens'. Games World Doncaster helps us choose the most popular games - and they can help you learn to play, too.
Every Wednesday | Box Hill Library, 4 - 7pm
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Your Local Book Shelf
If you live in Warrandyte and have published your own book, why not share it with our welcoming community at Warrandyte Library? Add your title to our local book shelf for others to borrow and share your work over a cuppa. This initiative will run from December until the end of February..
Sat 1 Dec | Warrandyte Library, opening hours
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Gender Equity Storytimes
WML will be presenting four special storytimes as part of the 16 days of activism against Gender based violence campaign. In our storytelling sessions, we will use stories that present both boys and girls with the message that their futures are not limited or predetermined by their gender, and that they all have equal worth and equal potential - and deserve equal respect.
Tues 4 Dec | Nunawading Library, 11am
Wed 5 Dec | Doncaster Library, 11am
Fri 7 Dec | Box Hill Library, 11am
Mon 10 Dec | Bulleen Library, 11am
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Author Talk: Margrit Zalisz
Join author Margrit Zalisz as she shares her own inspirational journey of becoming a writer, what’s involved and how you too can become a published author. Margrit will talk about her latest book The Time to Love, a work of romantic fiction exploring complex relationships, set against the background of alluring islands and Tuscan skies.
Wed 5 Dec | Bulleen Library, 2pm
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Homegrown: Cooking Demonstration & Prizes
Professional cook Amber will make the recipes from the winning Homegrown competition entries for all to enjoy, and our winners will receive their well-deserved prizes. Come by to taste pork and chive dumplings, and traditional scones!
Wed 5 Dec | Box Hill Library, 4.30pm
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Kris Kringle Book Swap and Circle
Come along to a special Book Circle where we chat about books over coffee and cake. Bring along a wrapped book of your own (new or second-hand) that you want to gift to someone else, and we will exchange our books so everyone goes home with a present. It’s all just a bit of festive fun!.
Tues 11 Dec | Box Hill Library, 10.15am
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Yarn Bombing @ Bulleen
The pillars at Bulleen Library began to pull up their socks in winter, but we need your help to finish the project! By dressing the pillars in knitted or crocheted 20cm x 20cm squares, Bulleen Library hopes to make the library space ever more cosy and inviting – and we want to show off your work to do so. We will provide limited stock of yarn, plenty of patterns to get you started, and tea and coffee. BYO knitting or crochet needles, any extra yarn, and your enthusiasm!.
Fri 7 & 14 Dec | Bulleen Library, 2 - 5pm
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Millennials' Book Circle
Join us for a Book Circle for those aged between 18 and 35! Discuss what you’ve been reading in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, meet new people, with tea and snacks provided. Led by a librarian.
Wed 19 Dec | Doncaster Library, 6.30pm
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Walking Book Group
Come and join our walking, talking book group. An hour-long, gentle stroll around Blackburn Lake Sanctuary, headphones in to listen to a few chapters of a classic talking book (eAudiobook). Take out your headphones at the end and have a chat about the recent chapters.
NOTE: This is now a self-facilitated group, meaning that staff will support the program but the walk itself will be self-guided. Please pick up a Self-Facilitated Walking Book Group Book Guide and Kit from the Blackburn Library desk.
Saturdays | Meet at Blackburn Library, 10am
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST:
Book Club meeting space available
Are you looking for somewhere to host your own book club?
Wanting some inspiration and a cosy place to come and have a cuppa while you and your group chat over the latest bestseller? Why not make Warrandyte Library your new book club meeting place?
Available Thursday and Friday afternoons, 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Contact Warrandyte Library on 9895 4250.
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HOW TO BOOK
Bookings are essential for most library events, except regular children's programs i.e. storytimes, baby karaoke and lego. Bookings can be made through our events page, or by calling or dropping into one of our branches.
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