BC Libraries Present: Conversations on Climate
British Columbia’s public libraries have come together to create a new virtual author series to bring new insights and voices to library users in every corner of the province: BC Libraries Present. Public libraries are known as centres of dialogue on many important ideas in their communities. To build upon that role, Public Library InterLINK has partnered with many libraries, both big and small, to host these events and bring award-winning authors to library users across the province.
Conversations on Climate is the topic for this inaugural season of the series. Climate touches everyone’s lives, homes, jobs, and even their reading choices, thus making it a natural place to start. Launching in October, this series will bring three compelling voices to present their recent climate-related works to a broad BC audience.
“BC Libraries Present: Conversations on Climate” is a free, live-streamed event series. Follow the series on CrowdCast at: https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present
Or get all the details from your local library.
BC Libraries Present: Conversations on Climate
October 3: Kim Stanley Robinson: Imagining a Better Climate Future
Amidst the urgency and anxiety of the climate crisis, speculative fiction can help us find hope by showing what an alternative, better future could look like. In The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a world ravaged by climate disaster, where humans find ways to change politics, technology, and the economy to win the fight against climate change.
November 8: John Vaillant: Our New Fire Weather
Fire has changed communities across BC this year. After the most devastating wildfire season in recorded history, many are wondering how these fires got so big, what we can learn from our current responses, and whether we are prepared for an ever warming future. John Vaillant’s book Fire Weather has become a de-facto guide on the new dangers posed by these fires supercharged by a warming planet.
December 7: Brandi Morin: On the Frontlines of Indigenous Land Defence
Indigenous communities are on the frontlines of the most devastating climate catastrophes across the world. They are also leading the most powerful movements to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry -- major culprits of these disasters. Reporter Brandi Morin will share her experiences on what it is like to report from protest movements, and how Indigenous activism is pushing towards a brighter climate future.
“BC Libraries Present” is a project of BC’s public library federations, coordinated by Public Library InterLINK, with the generous financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.