Atwater Library and Computer Centre

FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Dr. Nathalie Cooke and Ariel Buckley give an illustrated talk on CuiZine, an exciting new online journal that explores food in Canada from scholarly, creative, multidisciplinary, and multicultural perspectives. CuiZine goes where no print journal has gone before, with sound and image as well as text.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12:30 pm
To celebrate Scotland's immortal bard, ROBERT BURNS, Peter McAuslan, President of the St. Andrew's Society of Montreal, gives a talk and George Barclay addresses the haggis.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Di Heyse Yiddenes gives a rousing musical performance.  Billed as "Montreal's all-girl Yiddish, doo-wop, and klezmer group", the musicians are Maria Demacheva, violinist; Viviane Gosselin, cellist; and Fiona Stuart, Yiddish singer, accordionist, and guitarist.

Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Muslim Harji gives an illustrated talk on Africa entitled "Cycling Odyssey from Cairo to Capetown: A Journey Across Africa in Search of Hope".

Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Poet Ian Ferrier performs poems (and music) exploring whether love really does make you crazy.  A refresher course on how to survive and even thrive on VALENTINE'S DAY.

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 12:30 pm
To celebrate BLACK HISTORY MONTH, author Frank Mackey discusses and reads from his new book, Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal (published by McGill-Queen’s University Press).  The book will be on sale and there'll also be a display of books and DVDs from the Atwater Library's specialty Black collection.

Friday, February 26, 2010 at 12:30 pm
WORDS AND MUSIC: Writer Lisa Pasold reads from and discusses her debut novel, Rats of Las Vegas, set in 1940s Vancouver and Las Vegas. And saxophonist Dave Turner plays music of the era.

Friday, March 5, 2010 at 12:30 pm
For INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, McGill Professor Jane Everett gives a talk about Gabrielle Roy’s reflections on the lives of women.

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Dr. Hugh McQueen, Concordia University emeritus professor of engineering, gives a presentation on Montreal's Victoria Bridge for its 150th anniversary.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 12:30 pm
To celebrate ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the group CRAIC-ATAC performs traditional Irish music with joie de vivre.  Band members are Claude Bertrand on guitar and bouzouki; Janet Laskey on fiddle, small harp and low whistle; Jocelyne Patenaude on button accordion and hurdy gurdy; and singer Donna-Marie Sullivan Marosi, who also plays the bodhrán (celtic drum).

Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Michael Harrison gives a talk on the book he co-authored with James Ferrabee, entitled Staying Connected.  It's a history of Montreal's venerable investment service firm, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, known popularly as the "3 Macs".  

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 12:30 pm
WORDS AND MUSIC: Author Catharine Fleming McKenty discusses her new book, Polly of Bridgewater Farm: An Unknown Irish Story, and award-winning fiddler Sarah Burnell plays Irish music.

Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Michael Lenczner, founder of Île sans fil, gives an illustrated talk on Technology and Social Change.

Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Founder and Artistic Director Linda Leith gives a preview of the upcoming 2010 Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, the theme of which is "Reading the World": http://bluemetropolis.org/Festival

Friday, April 23, 2010 at 12:30 pm
To mark ISRAELI BOOK MONTH, Israeli writer Amir Gutfreund discusses his work.  The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival is collaborating in this event.  At the event, the Consulate General of Israel will present the Atwater Library with a collection of Israeli books in English and French translation.

Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 12:30 pm
WORDS AND MUSIC: Award-winning writer Eric Siblin discusses his bestselling book, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, and Montreal Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Brian Manker performs excerpts from the Bach Cello Suites.  The book will be on sale at the event

Friday, May 28, 2010 at 12:30 pm
James Martin gives a talk on humanitarian Tony Walsh (1898-1994), a founder of Montreal's Benedict Labre House, on the anniversary of his death. The Atwater Library has the biography by John Buell entitled Travelling Light: The Way and Life of Tony Walsh.

Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Author Elizabeth Waterston gives an illustrated talk on L.M. Montgomery entitled "Anne of Green Gables -- and Afterwards".  The Writers' Union of Canada is providing financial assistance through the National Public Readings Program of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Please click here to view the event list for January-June 2009.
Please click here to view the event list for September-December 2009.

The Atwater Poetry Project, an almost-monthly reading series, was founded in 2004 by Montreal poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei, and is currently directed by Katia Grubisic. Featuring exclusively poetry, the Atwater Poetry Project is unique in Montreal. The series brings together local, national and occasionally international poets, offering audiences a chance to hear their favourite writers live, and introducing them to poets whose work they may not have known. Over the years, the Atwater Poetry Project has presented the work of Canadian poets such as Robin Blaser, Christian Bök, Nicole Brossard, Jean-Marc Desgent, Phil Hall, Erín Moure, M. Nourbese Philip, Goran Simic and Betsy Warland, as well as international writers such as Andrés Ajens, Flor Aguilera García and Ida Börjel, among others. The readings are sponsored by the Atwater Library, the Writers' Union of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Thanks to all of you who took part in our survey, and congratulations to Tanis Franco, who has won a prize pack from Brick Books!

2010 Atwater Poetry Project Schedule - FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 7 pm
Poets BRENT MACLAINE and RUTH ROACH PIERSON

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 7 pm
Poets SORAYA PEERBAYE and JASON GURIEL

Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7 pm
Poets ANNE COMPTON and JAMES LANGER

Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 7 pm
Poets HERMÉNÉGILDE CHIASSON, JO-ANNE ELDER and SONNET L’ABBÉ

Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7 pm
Poets WALID BITAR and SUSAN GILLIS

2009 Atwater Poetry Project

Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7 pm
Poets John Reibetanz and A.F. Moritz

Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7pm
Poets John Barton and Margaret Christakos

Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7 pm
Poets Susan Musgrave and Ken Babstock

Click here to download previous Atwater Poetry Project readings.
(in chronological order)

The Atwater Poetry Project Series 2009 is sponsored by

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

The Atwater Library Book Club is lead with intelligence and skill by author Mary Soderstrom.  (For her bio, see http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/12)  

FREE ADMISSION

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
An Oprah selection and source of the Oscar-winning movie.

Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 
Word-of-mouth best seller from France, told by a concierge-philosopher and a precocious 12 year old. 

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Distantly Related to Freud by Ann Charney
A coming-of-age story set in Montreal in the 1950s and '60s.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
Winner of the first Governor General's Award for this son of Italian immigrants who won last year's GG for Fiction for Origin of the Species. 

Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham
Long forgotten classic of Montreal in the 1940s - an international best seller. 

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 7:30 pm
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
A novel about a cellist who played in memory of the dead, by the Canadian writer.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay 
The 2007 Giller Prize winner. 

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
The latest novel by one of Britain’s most entertaining serious novelists.

Our Library has all the books and you can use our online catalogue to see if they're available immediately. 

To use the online catalogue, follow these steps:

• Go to our website: www.atwaterlibrary.ca
• Click on Catalogue near the top left corner of the screen.
  
• Follow the prompts to search.
  
• After you click on Search, if you see a green box by the title, it's available immediately; if there's a red box, you can phone 514-935-7344 to reserve it.

You can enjoy the discussion whether or not you've read the book.

 

Thursday, March 18 – 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Arlene Lund and Barbara Covington show how to knit cables in all shapes and sizes.  This is for people who already know how to knit and purl.
FEE $5 each - all proceeds for Library improvements. 
Phone Nisa Malli at 514-935-7344 to register and get the list of supplies needed.  Advance registration required.  20-person limit.

SUPPLIES

Essential
50 grams of light, solid (not variegated) coloured WOOL (not acrylic, cotton, mohair, etc)
4.5 – 5.0 mm straight knitting needles
Cable needle
Pen or pencil

Optional
Chart holder/stand
Highlighter pen
Stitch markers
Scissors

Click here to see the brochure of Winter 2010 computer courses and workshops

 

To get more information about computer courses and workshops, please click here

From left to right: Sammy Forcillo, Montreal City Councillor for Peter-McGill District; Ellen Bounsall, President of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre; Theodora Samiotis, Westmount City Councillor; Honourable W. David Angus, Senator; Helen Fotopulos, Montreal City Councillor and Executive Committee Member responsible for culture and heritage; Peter F. Trent, Mayor of Westmount; and Victor Drury, Westmount City Councillor.

For more information, please see  http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cp-nr/release_e.asp?id=1473&andor1=nr

Click here to see an alphabetical list of DVDs. 

To find out if a DVD is available immediately, use the online Catalogue to search.  If there's a green box on the left of the title, the DVD is available.  If the box is red, the DVD is out on loan but you can phone and reserve it: 514-935-7344.

To learn more about the Prize, click on http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/ 

If you click on the book cover or title, you'll go to our online catalogue. After you've reached our catalogue, click on the blue "Search" rectangle. If you see a green square, the book is available immediately. If the square is red, someone else has borrowed it but you can reserve it.

	The winner of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction The boy in the moon : a father's search for his disabled son / Ian Brown. Call #: 362.196 B881b
	Just watch me : the life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, volume two: 1968-2000 / John English. Call #: Bio T866e v.2
	René Lévesque / by Daniel Poliquin ; with an introduction by John Ralston Saul. Call #: Bio L662po
	The uncrowned king : the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst / Kenneth Whyte. Call #: Bio H4365w