Adult Programs

Title: Road Trip Rwanda

Author: Will Ferguson

Hope lives in Africa. Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins, Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious "Land of a Thousand Hills" with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu, a man who escaped Rwanda just months before the killings began. 
     From the legendary Source of the Nile to Dian Fossey's famed "gorillas in the mist," from innovative refugee camps along the Congolese border to the world's most escapable prison, from tragic genocide sites to open savannahs and a bridge to freedom, from schoolyard soccer pitches to a cunning plan to get rich on passion fruit, Ferguson and Munyezamu discover a country reborn.
     Funny, engaging, poignant, and at times heartbreaking, Road Trip Rwanda is the lively tale of two friends, the open road, and the hidden heart of a continent.

In this all-day workshop for adults (ages 19+), you’ll learn the basics of 3D printing by creating 3D models using 3D Design Software. In the morning we will teach you the basics of the online software TinkerCAD. In the afternoon, you'll work on your very own design which will be 3D printed at a later date (approximately 1 to 2 weeks). This bootcamp also includes a live demo of our TAZ 6 Lulzbot 3D printer! Coffee and baked goods have been generously donated by Starbucks Coffee.

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Have you ever wondered what Craniosacral Therapy is? Come learn more about how this gentle touch therapy can enhance healing throughout the whole body. Learn how to take your own health into your own hands with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

Join Roxi Harms as she discusses writing her new novel, The Upside of Hunger, from inception to publication. Hear how she met Adam and how they worked together over a five year period to create this debut novel, which recently reached #9 on the Amazon Canada Bestseller List.

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. 

If you’ve ever wished you could spend a month or more travelling and sightseeing overseas at a cost of only your airfare, this is the information for you!

Helen Kaulbach, a Kelowna author, has written a book on Home Swapping. It details their 14 year adventure living in other people’s homes. On Friday, June 7, she will talk about home swapping, its advantages, how it works and how to get started doing it.

Title: The Summer Before the War

Author: Helen Simonson

East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won’t come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master.

When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking—and attractive—than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing.

But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha’s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war.