The 2011/2012 membership form is now available. You need to download, print and return BOTH the membership form AND the liability waiver along with the $25 membership fee.
2011/2012 Membership Form
Liability Waiver
The 2011 Human Library at EPL
Join us at EPL SQUARED for our second Human Library…part of EPL’s huge outdoor book sale and festival in Sir Winston Churchill Square!
What is a Human Library?
EPL’s Human Library allows readers to “borrow” a Living Book (real people on loan!), and through talking and sharing, learn about the life of a person who at first may seem very different. Human Library events are a way for people to share their stories, gain inspiration, break down barriers and/or erase prejudices that separate people from each other. Readers will learn about the lives of different people, listen to their stories and ask questions about their experiences, lifestyle, job, beliefs and background.
What are Living Books?
Living Books are people who have interesting and/or inspirational stories to tell that are often about the experiences they have faced because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, job, lifestyle or cultural background.
How do I sign out a Living Book?
Take a look below at the 16 Living Books available in our Human Library catalogue. Find one you like and click the “Checkout” link to reserve your Living Book. Then come down to Sir Winston Churchill Square on August 26 to read your book! Also, please read our Guidelines for Readers.
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EPL SQUARED – Your Library Inside Out!
Join EPL on the “Square” for a whole lot of fun! Edmonton is festival city so why not a library festival! We are taking over Sir Winston Churchill for one day and one day only. Visit our used book sale and enjoy stories, music, games and a whole lot more family fun.
Friday, August 26, 2011
EPL SQUARED
Sir Winston Churchill Square
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
2nd Annual Audience Participation Showing of The Princess Bride
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
7 p.m.
Learn more on the EPL Website.
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Show What You Grow – Friday August 26
EVENT – Show What You Grow – Friday August 26, 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Blatchford Hanger in Fort Edmonton Park
Cost $5
The Edmonton Horticultural Society’s Show What You Grow Show, presented in partnership with Fort Edmonton Park, is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the growing season and your gardening successes. Celebrate Local Living! Show off your garden harvest, meet other gardeners, and see what has been growing in Edmonton.
Come compete fro prizes in vegetable, floral, fruit, creative and photography categories for boht adults and children. Unlimited entries and weekend admission to Fort Edmonton in included in the cost.
For more info visit the Edmonton Horticultural Society page.
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Mark Your Calendar For Another Fun HLSA Event!
Event: Medieval Day
Date and Time: Monday, June 6th, around 1:30 pm
Ages: All
Cost: Free
Location: Emily Murphy Park
Description: Cum all yee kings and queens, knygts erraunt, lords and ladies, lads and lassies, all, Come hey, ho, to the greene wood now let us go, sing hey.y and ho! There shall we have a luvlee feast. Hey, ho, sing hey and ho! Bring with you sum foods that we can share, a liquide to soothe the thirst and goods to trade or sell if there should be a marketplace.
The marketplace will begin about 2p.m. Don’t forget to wear your period attire. Please bring wares to sell (in the past we have had food sellers, medicines, armor to rent, jugglers, acrobats, swords, ….. ) use your imagination.
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Camp Shakespeare (July 4-23, 2011) ENROLL NOW!
The Freewill Players are dedicated to inspiring young people through the artistry of Shakespeare. Camp Shakespeare’s mission is to take the Bard’s plays off the page, out of the heads and into the hearts and bodies of our students.
Under the tent at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park, students will learn the basics of stage fighting, and meet with the designers, directors and actors that make the Festival possible. Students will trod the boards just as Shakespeare intended: outdoors! This is a truly unique summer camp for children in Grades 3-12.
Classes are led by dedicated theatre instructors who will guide the children through Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream using games, theatre exercises, music and movement.
- Each class will be visited by the professional actors, designers, and directors from the Freewill Shakespeare Festival.
- Each class will receive instruction on basic Stage Fighting from a professional fight choreographer.
- Each student will have the opportunity to rehearse, play and perform for family and friends on the Heritage Amphitheatre mainstage.
- Each student gets in FREE to see one performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 2011 Freewill Shakespeare Festival, plus two extratickets for family members.
2011 CAMP SESSIONS:
Shakespeare’s Mainstage: Grades 10-12
JULY 4-8, 9:00am – 4:00pm
Fee: $240 per child
Final Presentation before the matinee on July 9
Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains: Grades 7-9
JULY 11-15, 9:00am-4:00pm
Fee: $240 per child
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Final presentation before the matinee July 16
Shakespeare’s Clowns I: Grades 3-6
JULY 18-22, 9:00am-4:00pm
Fee: $240 per child
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Final presentation before the matinee July 23
For more information or to enroll:
Contact the Youth Programming Director, Tara Brodin at 780.752.9072 or tara@tarabrodin.com.
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Home Business for Home Learners Fair
Do you have a business or would you like to start one? Let us build a market place for a day!
Bring your business ides to share with other kids. Bring your product, art or service to sell. Bring your money to shop around. Promote a charity, collect donations. Are you a baker, a herbalist or a jewellery maker? Do you like to do a hairdo, massage, or manicure? Do you take care of pets, cut grass, wash cars or clean houses?
Your business could be well established, a start up or just an idea in your mind and heart. Teach others about your business; learn from a successful home businessman and extend your business network.
Advertise it! Come up with banners, fliers and business cards. Be a part of our vibrant local economy. To reserve a table contact Nadia.
Our flourishing market place will showcases many unique businesses. Among them you will find a bakery, a jewelry store, a hair stylist, a fisherman supply store, a pancake eatery and many more. Please contact me with your name and your business name/structure to reserve your table. Tell friends and relatives – it is important to have our stores full of customers.
Date and Time: May 30th, 1 pm
Who can book a table?: young entrepreneurs (age 2 20) and their supporting parents
Cost: Free
Location: Emily Murphy Park pavilion
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New Calendar of Events
The May-June Calendar of Events is now up in the Members section.
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May Day Celebrations
Come celebrate spring with us!
What: May Day potluck celebration, with wreath making, food and dancing around the May Pole.
When: Sunday, May 1st, 1 pm
Where: Hawrelak Park, by the playground
What to bring: wreath making materials such as flowers, ribbons, scissors, willow strips, etc., plus something to share for the potluck lunch
Free event suitable for all ages.
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Muttart Conservatory Ladybug field trip
On February 23, a number of HLSA children got to enjoy a ladybug themed field trip at the Muttart Conservatory.
The first order of business was some time in one of the Conservatory classrooms, where the children got to see a slide show about ladybugs, their life cycles, and the different types there are. We were also given some basic safety rules for visiting the pyramids, stressing the importance not to touch any of the plants so as not to hurt them – or be hurt by them! Then everyone got to move to a different classroom, where the children got to get their hands dirty, planting tiny Fuzzy Tradescantia to take home later.
The first pyramid visited was the Tropical pyramid. Here, the children got to split into groups, where they could take turns where goggles that gave them a “bug’s eye view” of the world – with the child wearing the goggles being guided by their partners to make sure they didn’t run into anything! Here, they got to look for a coffee plant, orange tree and pineapple.
Next up was the Arid pyramid, where the need for a no touching rule became clearly obvious! Even the gravel might have cactus spines hidden in them. Before everyone got a chance to look around, our guide handed out three bags for the children to pass around. Each child got to reach into the bag and try to guess what they were feeling. No peeking allowed! After everyone had a chance to reach into the bags, the children got to tell what their guesses were. One was a plastic cacti, and we learned about how the spines protected the plants. Another was a small wax candle, and we learned about how many plants have a waxy coating to act as a sun screen. The third bag had a velvety piece of cloth, and we learned about how some arid plants have fuzzy surfaces to help them trap moisture longer. Before leaving the Arid pyramid, our guide showed us how much water there was in a single leaf from a succulent plant.
- Ladybug about to be released.
The third pyramid we visited was the Temperate pyramid. Here the children were each given a small bug box with a magnifying lid. They each got to look at their ladybug through the magnifier before everyone let their ladybugs loose wherever they wanted, so the ladybugs could eat the aphids and help protect the plants in the pyramid.
The last pyramid visited was the Show Pyramid. This one is changed regularly. During our visit, the display theme was Valentine’s Day, with several heart shaped beds of flowers and displays. Here, each child was given a card with several different colours on it. They could then wander around the pyramid, trying to find at flowers that matched the colours.
- Fuzzy Tradescantia
After neartly two hours visiting the pyramids, the children got to claim their plants. Many families stayed longer to have their lunches in the central courtyard, under the small pyramid skylight.
It was a great field trip that everyone seemed to enjoy!