Teens

The 2022 North Shore Reads selection is Care Of by Ivan Coyote. The author will be in conversation with CBC’s Shelagh Rogers on the evening of Wednesday October 19th for our 2nd annual North Shore Reads event!  Join our librarians over Zoom to discuss this timely and moving book.

In the early days of the Coronavirus lockdown, like every artist and creator, writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote was faced with a calendar full of cancelled shows and a heart full of questions around what now? To keep busy while figuring out what to write about next, Ivan began to answer the backlog of mail and correspondences that had come in while they were on the pre-pandemic road: emails, letters, direct messages on social media, soggy handwritten notes found tucked under the windshield wiper of their car after a gig, all of it. In Care Of, Coyote combines the most moving and powerful of these letters with the responses they've sent in the months since the lockdown. Topics include finding peace within a difficult family; struggling to figure out one’s identity and fighting to have it accepted; the challenges of being a teen, and of becoming an elder; grief, joy, and everything in between.

This program is open to adults and teens. You can find copies of the book through Libby/OverDrive. You can also pick up a physical copy at Capilano branch or arrange a pickup at Parkgate, Lynn Valley, or Lions Gate Express by contacting Sara.

Registration required. Register online or call 604-987-4471, ext. 8175.

Restorative Justice is a system of criminal justice which focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large, as opposed to prosecution, punishment and/or incarceration.  This talk will give folks an overview of Restorative Justice in the province and the main work of the North Shore Restorative Justice Society (NSRJ) in our community. Included will be a brief history of Restorative Justice, it's connection to Indigenous ways of being and knowing, as well as information about the NSRJ’s other work with police and in schools. We also hope to have an experiential activity to showcase the work of the NSRJ in a more meaningful way. Bring your curiosity and your questions! This program is open to adults and teens.

About the presenter:  Sioned Dyer has been the Executive Director of the North Shore Restorative Justice Society for six years. She holds a Masters in Urban Studies from SFU where she focused on reconciliation as a municipal policy priority. Sioned has three young sons and feels grateful to live and work on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. 

Registration required. Register online or call 604-987-4471, ext. 8175.