Holiday shopping lists continue to grow but our wallets never do! Adulting 101 is featuring “Broke Holidays” at Chatham Branch on Thursday, December 12 at 6:30 pm. This is your opportunity to gather your friends and create gift-worthy presents for your loved ones or to keep for yourself. A fun night where we put your crafting skills to the test! Wearing an ugly Christmas sweater is encouraged!

This is a great opportunity to be together with friends or as an office get together. Registration is required, please search “Broke Holidays” at search.ckpl.ca or call 519.354.2940 to register.

The choristers of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regional Chorus invite you to celebrate the season with their 'Songs of Joy' Christmas Concert.  Silent auction and light refreshments following the show.  Tickets are available at St. Thomas' Anglican Church office, at the door or see hperc.ca for more contact information. Cost: Adult - $20, 12 & under - $5, any youth interested in joining the choir and 1 adult - Free.

 Les 50 choristes de Bella Voce chantent le lumineux Oratorio de Noël composé en 1734 à Leipzig. Cette oeuvre est consituée de 6 cantates qui étaient chantées lors des 6 célébrations entourant Noël, le Jour de l'An et l'Épiphanie. Bella Voce présentera un version concert.

Les solistes invités sont: Gerda Findensein (soprano), Marie-Annick Béliveau (alto), Michel Schrey (ténor) et Antoine d'Aragon (basse).

L'auteur Alain Labonté agira comme narrateur. L'Orchestre des Seigneuries (25 musiciens) sous la direction de James Copland accompagne la prestation.

Admission 30$. Billetterie de la Maison des arts, Ovation.

Enjoy a fun night of trivia!  $15 admission includes pizza for all players. Cash bar & raffle table available. Doors 6:30pm; trivia 7pm.

Tables of 8 players - register solo, couples or team.  To register please email TheKinetteClubOfGrimsby@gmail.com

Join the Centennial Choir of Cornwall on Friday, December 13th at 7:30 pm in Aultsville Theatre for their
concert, “Celebrate Christmas.”  Under the guidance of Lisa Zeran, director and Felicity Svenson,
accompanist and assistant director you are sure to enjoy songs of the season. Tickets are available from
any choir member, the Kiosk at Cornwall Square and Home Hardware at the corner of Pitt and
Thirteenth Streets. Adults $20 and children 12 and under $10.

KFPL inaugurates Constellations lecture series with Gender: Your Guide

The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving.

Kingston Frontenac Public Library is pleased to announce the inauguration of its Constellations lecture and demonstration series with the Kingston/Katarokwi paperback launch of Dr. Lee Airton's Gender: Your Guide (2019, Simon & Schuster). Airton is an author and Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University. Their gender-friendly guide to gender diversity empowers readers with the skills we need to “welcome all of the ways that people do gender.” The work has been called "a must-have for everyone" (Washington Post), "a warm, inviting guide to a complicated area" (Globe and Mail), and "an invaluable resource for both new and veteran allies" (Library Journal).

On Monday, November 11, Airton will be at KFPL’s Central branch (130 Johnson Street) from 7 to 8:30 p.m.  Airton will read from the work, discuss its contents, and field questions from the audience.

Constellations is a new series of lectures and demonstrations encompassing politics and identity, science and technology, arts and letters, and practical skills relevant to contemporary life. Conceived and developed by KFPL’s New Adult Advisory Board (NAAB) with Teen and New Adult Services Librarian Graeme Langdon, Constellations aims to stimulate imagination and facilitate lifelong learning for all of the communities within our community.

For more information visit: https://calendar.kfpl.ca/event/3323759

About KFPL

KFPL’s primary purpose is to make a positive difference in the lives of everyone in Kingston-Frontenac. We aim to achieve this purpose by helping residents transform today’s vast information resources into the solutions, facts, know-how, inspiration, and entertainment they need to learn, solve problems, read, engage with their community and reach their personal aspirations.

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Media contact: For more information please contact KFPL Teen and New Adult Librarian Graeme Langdon at 613-549-8888, ext. 3527, or glangdon@kfpl.ca.

Get to know your community supports! Panel discussion with community support services. All welcome, Q & A, prizes and refreshments. Learn about brain health, safety, community supports, and living well with dementia. To register, please call 905-687-3914.

Kingston Frontenac Public Library is delighted to announce the latest Telling Your Story Showcase: Writings from the Seniors' Writing Workshop.  Readings will be given by participants from the five-week memoir-writing workshop led by award-winning author Jean Rae Baxter this October in Sharbot Lake.  Having honed their stories during that process, these writers will now be sharing excerpts from the memoirs and family histories they created during the workshops.

"It's impressive what a wide range of stories these seniors have to share," says Programming and Outreach Librarian Anne Hall.  "Each one is a powerful episode from a life well lived.  I think they'll be of interest to everyone, not just to friends and family of the participants."

This event will take place in St Andrew’s Anglican Church hall, at 1028 Elizabeth Street in Sharbot Lake, on Tuesday, November 19, at 2 p.m.  Admission is free to all adults on a first-come, first-served basis — no registration is required.