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Calgary Public Library Events: Engine 23 Opening Party
Sound the alarm! It’s the Engine 23 Opening Party at Fish Creek Library on April 20, 2024! The decommissioned firetruck is a child favourite and will be making its home in the newly renovated Fish Creek Library. Activities on April 20, 2024, will include a visit from the Fire Hound
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Locked Library: Thrilling Heroics
A brand-new Locked Library is coming on April 13, 2024, but can you unlock the mysteries of the past?! Locked Library: Thrilling Heroics brings mysterious artifacts, puzzles, and far-flung destinations, inspired by our favourite adventure novels. Puzzle difficulty is geared toward adults and while families have successfully escaped the Locked
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Are You Up For the Challenge? It’s the Calgary Public Library Ultimate Summer Challenge!
Remember the long, lazy days of summer when you were a kid? For me, they looked like playing outside, fighting with my brother over week-long Monopoly games, and getting a giant stack of books from the library. Calgary Public Library’s free Ultimate Summer Challenge is inviting both you and your
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Calgary Public Library My First Bookshelf – FREE Books For You to Love
Early literacy is so important in a child’s life – and so much fun! The Calgary Public Library is launching My First Bookshelf, in partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. They will fill your child’s home bookshelf and foster a love of reading for the whole family! With the My
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Adventure in an Afternoon: Early Learning Centres at the Calgary Public Library
Have you ever wanted to hunt dinosaur bones or fly a helicopter? Maybe you’ll find the perfect book in a forest or settle down to read in a rainbow! The Early Learning Centres at the Calgary Public Library have been revitalized over the last few years to make libraries a
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Join Calgary Firefighters for Storytime at Calgary Public Library
Join Calgary Firefighters at the Calgary Public Library for Firefighter Storytime! From January through June, children and families will have the opportunity to participate in weekly Firefighter Storytimes at select Library locations, featuring a story read by a local firefighter, and, availability and weather permitting, a tour of a working
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Free Drop-in Family Storytime for Kids Aged 2-5 at Your Calgary Public Library
The Calgary Public Library offers free storytime. Storytimes include for stories for babies, little walkers, boy-sterous stories about dragons and dinosaurs, french storytime hosted by Alliance Francaise, family storytimes and much more. […]
Three Reasons to Visit the Calgary Central Library This Winter (And Always!)
January 2019 I have always loved libraries, with their rows of books and the endless worlds to which you could escape. Growing up, I would walk down to our small-town library with my brother and cousins. We would confidently proclaim that we could read every book on a certain shelf over
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The New Central Library is Now Open!
October 2018 The 240,000-square-foot Central Library, located in East Village is now open. Did you know a Library membership is free to all Calgarians? Visit www.calgarylibrary.ca or sign-up in person. And in honour of the opening, there will be city-wide FREE transit on November 3 from 7 am to 7
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Kids Can Have Firetruck Adventures at Calgary Public Library’s Engine 23 (Central Library)
January 2017 Do your kids love fire trucks? Of course, don’t we all?! At the Central Library’s Engine 23 interactive installation, kids can put on their fire hats, pull on their coats, and act out their favourite fire truck daydreams and fantasies. Engine 23 at the Library is approaching its
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