Perth Union Library

Queer Connection's Book Club
2025-07-17 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | Common Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Join Queer Connection’s Book Club!
Email QCLBookClub@gmail.com to reserve your spot. Walk-ins welcome if space allows.
Limited copies of each title may be available through the library.
Please read the book before the meeting!

Library After Dark with School House
2025-07-19 20:30 - 23:00 | Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
The Library After Dark fundraising concert series returns to the Perth & District Library with a concert featuring School House!
This summer event, offered in partnership with Stewart Park Festival, offers a chance for people who love music to see top notch artists in a unique, alternative space and support the Perth & District Library.
School House is a folk band from Ottawa. After moving in together in 2021, the three best friends discovered that their new home was a century-old school house — inspiring the name and giving them a dedicated space to create. They were awarded Group of the Year at the 2024 Ottawa Music Awards and their debut release was named Album of the Year by Ottawa Faces Magazine.
Their sound was born around a campfire, taking turns sharing songs and joining in three-part harmony. They combine upbeat singalongs with emotive folk ballads to bring a wise, yet youthful perspective to the Canadian folk music scene. Releasing their debut album in 2023 and an Acoustic EP in 2024; the band has amassed over 500k online streams.
Doors open at 8:30 pm and music starts at 9:00 pm. You can also enjoy a beverage from the cash bar during the show, and spend intermission under the lights of the library garden! Thank you to Perth Brewery for the generous donation of beer!
In these final hours before the show, tickets are now $15! Tickets are available for purchase here or at the door.

Beaded Bracelets Craft
2025-07-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Learn about the Indigenous practice of beading while creating your own beaded bracelet. This craft is suitable for youth ages 8-13 and requires fine motor skills. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

Dot Art Craft
2025-07-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Learn about and create traditional Indigenous dot art and explore the role art plays in Indigenous cultures. The craft is suitable for kids aged 5-12, but youth of all ages are welcome! This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

Metis Music and Dance Workshop
2025-07-24 13:00 - 14:30 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Participate & learn about Metis music, dance and culture. Please wear comfortable shoes.
Please reserve a free ticket below.

African Newspaper Dolls Craft
2025-07-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Create your very own African doll out of newspapers while discussing African cultures. This craft requires fine motor skills and is suitable for youth aged 8-13. Registration is required. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending).

Flower Basket Weaving
2025-07-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Weave an African-style flower basket and make pipe-cleaner flowers to put inside it! This craft is suitable for ages 5-12, but youth of all ages are welcome! This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

Meet the Naturalist: Rachel Needham
2025-07-31 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Stop by the library to ask Rachel all your nature questions. Rachel can recommend some nature books and other nature resources. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

LEGO Robotics: Sumo-Bot Competition
2025-08-05 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-06 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-07 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-08 10:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-09 10:00 - 12:30 | Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Have you ever wanted to build and code your own robot? Have you ever wanted to see it battle to the end with another bot? Join us to learn to build a Sumobot with LEGO Spike and program it with beginner-friendly coding, and put your creativity to the test! It’s battle time! Flippers and pushers are all allowed!
Ages 8-15. Registration required. Enjoy this free program! (2 sessions max per child)
This program is made possible with funding from Lanark County and The Elizabeth Kelly Foundation.

Marigold Garland Craft
2025-08-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Make your own tissue paper marigold garland and learn about the significance of marigolds in Indian culture. This craft is suitable for youth aged 8-13 and requires fine motor skills. Registration is required. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending).

Diwali Candle Holder Craft
2025-08-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Create your own diwali candle holder (with LED lights) and learn about Diwali! This craft is suitable for ages 5-12, but youth of all ages are welcome! This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

LEGO Lounge
2025-08-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Let your imagination run wild and build something fun using the library’s extensive LEGO collection. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

Lizard Keychain
2025-08-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Make a beaded lizard keychain! This craft is suitable for ages 5-12, but youth of all ages are welcome! This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). This is a drop-in event, so no registration is required!

DIY Sugar Scrub
2025-08-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Create your own sugar scrub scented with essential oils! This craft is suitable for youth aged 8-13 and registration is required. This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending).

Great Canoe Adventure Day! CURRENTLY FULL
2025-08-19 09:00 - 15:30 | Stewart Park, 41 Mill Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada
Each Adventure Day will be at or near your local library, giving us a chance to explore your neighbourhood’s ecosystems from the water. The schedule features three “stations”: the canoe tour, building a birdhouse, and a wild survival workshop, along with many team-building games and citizen science activities. During the canoe tour, we will revisit key concepts like wetlands, watersheds, food webs, biodiversity, invasive species, plant and animal identification, the water cycle, and the history of indigenous peoples’ relationship with land and water. We will also collect water samples for testing later. Participants, both children and adults, must sign the waiver as part of registration to go in the canoes. Parents are welcome to join us. While on the water, there’s a target ratio of one adult for every three younger children (aged 5-7). One adult will be present for every five children who are eight years of age or older. Eva Moons, an outdoor education teacher from Ottawa, will lead the Wild Survival session. Recent news stories have highlighted frightening situations of kids alone outside. This workshop aims to empower and educate kids on how to cope and solve problems if they find themselves in such situations. It will cover navigation, map reading, and other fun skills. To ‘build’ on our bird research, we will construct wooden birdhouses for common backyard species. This activity involves basic math, geometry, carpentry, and a touch of artistry. To give the canoe guides time to prepare for their final trip, after our second break, we’ll hold a physics lesson, game, and contest with renowned science teacher Peter Au. We will end the day with water testing of our collected samples, benthic examining (squirmy things we find in the water), and a closing circle.

Reserve a ticket for each participant including parents and please fill out this waiver

End of Summer Party!
2025-08-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Garden – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, ON, K7H 1T2, Canada
Join us from 2-3 in the Library Garden as we celebrate the end to another fun TD summer program! We will have cupcakes, games, music, and other fun activities! Winners will be drawn for the prizes!
This event will take place in the library garden (or inside, weather depending). Drop in!

Film Club Fridays @ Studio Theatre Perth
2025-09-05 | Studio Theatre Perth, 63 Gore St E, Perth, ON, K7H 1H8, Canada
Screenings are on select Fridays 2pm & 7pm.
Regular film admission at the door is $12 cash (debit or credit).
You can also buy a film pass. Film passes are $50 for 5 films of your choice.
Film Club passes are available for purchase at the box office or at the Perth & District Library (please note that the library only accepts cash or cheque).
To learn what’s playing visit https://studiotheatreperth.com/film-club-fridays/

Film Club Fridays is a fundraiser of the Perth & District Library. Thank you for your support!

Lucky Songs On the Road WORKSHOP
2025-09-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Frizell (Program) Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Join us at Perth & District Library, with support from Blue Skies In the Community, for an afternoon of workshops for songwriters and musicians, by songwriters and musicians!
“Lucky Songs”, a songwriters-in-the-round series hosted by Christine Graves, first emerged in Ottawa and is now hitting the road in September! The afternoon will consist of three workshops created and delivered by Christine Graves, umberlune, & Suzanne Nuttall. Each songwriter will also play a short set of original music!
Entry by donation – suggested $20.00 or PWYC at the door.
Please pre-register below.
Christine Graves is an exemplary contemporary Canadian folk-roots singer and songwriter. She has created a significant body of work, releasing five independent recordings on her own label Brave Music and touring Canada and parts of the US. Her love of genre busting, improvisation, community participation, multi-discipline arts and teaching mark her career as a quintessential and generous Canadian performer and creator. Christine spent two years as Artistic Director of Blue Skies Music Festival and five years as alto with the a capella world-music group Malaika. In 2017, she won a “Songs of Protest Songs of Hope” contest in Ottawa, bringing her back into the songwriting fold after a hiatus. Songs in a confessional style are Graves’ trademark. Social justice creeps in from time to time and makes inquiry into common issues without alienating listeners. Graves’ guitar playing is a solid back up to her elegant voice. Trained in vocal improvisation, she will sometimes delight an audience with a spontaneous solo. Everyone feels welcome into her performances.
Christine’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyP3Datq5CtvLw6EgUHgPwg
umberlune (uhm-ber-loon) is a bluesy, folk singer-songwriter with a punk rock ethos. Nuanced guitar, knock-your-socks-off vocals, and whistling solos, provide the launching pad for vivid, lyrical vignettes that go deep and then stick around for a while. At times dark or melancholy, often whimsical, and always honest, these songs are undeniably relatable. You’ll catch yourself singing them days later! Following the release of her 2023 debut album, Pretty Little Bones, and self-produced official music video for “Ghosts and Skeletons,” umberlune continues to create new music. You can find her performing in Ottawa and The Valley, as well as Kingston and The Seaway, while she works on her future projects. French language single, “Trois heures du matin” coming soon! Full length album, Lisp, expected for release in early 2026.
When not playing music, umberlune, alias Sarah Foster, RMT, is usually humming along to the songs in her head while working at her day job.
umberlune website: https://umberlune.com/
Suzanne Nuttall embodies the spirit of classic folk singer-songwriters mixed with the passion of 1970s soul. Her original songs cover the full spectrum of human emotions: from quiet odes to love and loss, to joyful rockers sprinkled with glitter and a dash of crunch! Her storied career began in Montreal in the early 90s when she formed roots duo BARE BONES with Patrick Hutchinson. Together, they released three albums, played Mariposa Festival twice, were voted “Best Local Unsigned Band” by readers of weekly newspaper The Mirror in 1994 and toured Canada from Charlottetown to Whitehorse. A music veteran with several musical projects created and spearheaded over the years – including her Toronto soul-funk band SUE de NYM – Suzanne eventually came full-circle and began performing and recording original songs under her own name, including “Trophy Wife” produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda. Catch her in her natural habitat… live on stage!
Suzanne’s “Trophy Wife” music video: https://youtu.be/dYFNvPPqvR8
Learn more about Blue Skies in the Community here!

Teen Book Club
2025-09-09 14:30 - 15:30 | Frizell (Program) Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Do you love reading and snacks? Join Teen book club to read, snack and hang out at the library!
Email htaber@perthunionlibrary.ca if you would like to join.

Meditation and Associated Practices
2025-09-10 13:30 - 15:00 | Frizell (Program) Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Mary Lou Mongeau guides participants through meditation and associated practices, including practical techniques for growth, self healing, becoming aware of our true self, and alignment with the Universal Consciousness.
In a session you might explore

meditation
energy centers
balancing techniques
dreams and synchronicity
journal keeping
an energy perspective on relationships
reactions to a process of change
assuming responsibility

Drop-in sessions. All are welcome!

Perth Code Club
2025-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 | Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott Street, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Sandra Theobald is returning to facilate a wonderful variety of coding workshops. Each day is a stand alone workshop and you may register for which dates you like.

Orange Shirt Day: Community Beading Workshop
2025-09-26 13:00 - 17:00 | Common Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
When Phyllis Webstad went to St. Joseph’s Residential School for the first time, she took with her a shiny new orange shirt that her grandmother bought for her. That shirt was taken away and never returned. It has become a symbol of the Every Child Matters movement. On September 30th, we remember and recognize the survivors of residential schools. The Perth & District Library is honoured to support this movement with a community beading workshop led by Shelley Bourgeois.

Participants will learn how to bead an orange shirt pin that they can wear in support of and to spread awareness of Orange Shirt Day. Please note, the beaded pins take 2+ hours to complete.

This program is free and open to 14+. Materials are provided. Bring your own snacks. Bring reading glasses if needed!
Donations are welcome to help cover the cost of supplies.

Please RSVP below.

Home School Hub
2025-09-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Frizell (Program) Room – Perth & District Union Public Library, 30 Herriott St, Perth, Ontario, K7H 1T2, Canada
Drop in and meet other homeschooling families at the library. This is an informal group and everyone is welcome. The program will run on select Tuesday afternoons from 1-3:00 pm. Please feel free to bring an activity, game, craft or a story to share.
