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Our 2026 Fundraiser: Auction Open for Bids!

Our Annual Benefit Fundraiser consists of an Online Auction and a Cocktail Party.

Click HERE to see our fabulous Auction offerings and start bidding. Bidding is open until Wednesday, October 28 at 7:45 pm.

Our Cocktail Party is on Wednesday, October 28 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in our own heritage building. Please join us for a gala evening in support of our educational programs for the community.

Go HERE to buy Party tickets and donate via CanadaHelps. You’ll get your tax receipt right away by email.

For more info and help purchasing tickets, contact Lavina Alonzo at lavina@atwaterlibrary.ca or 514-935-7344.

Our 2026 Fundraiser

Our Annual Benefit Cocktail Party is set for Wednesday, October 28 in our own building. Please join us for a gala evening in support of our educational programs for the community.

Go HERE to buy Party tickets and donate via CanadaHelps. You’ll get your tax receipt right away by email.

In conjunction with the benefit party, we’re having an Online Auction from Friday, October 16 to October 28. Bidding closes as the Party winds down.

For more info and help purchasing tickets, contact Lavina Alonzo at lavina@atwaterlibrary.ca or 514-935-7344.

Computer and Device Courses

Let us help you upgrade your command of digital technology.

Click HERE for our schedule of useful courses and workshops.

Our patient and well-qualified instructors will give you confidence and useful skills.

Our class sizes are small (maximum 8, average 4) and we have the latest in equipment.

To book courses, please contact Taegan Schell: taegans@atwaterlibrary.ca or 514-935-7344.

Bookshop

Our volunteer-run Bookshop is open FOUR days a week – Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday – from 12 noon to 3:00 pm (except for statutory holidays). We’re selling donated books, DVDs and CDs at bargain prices.

The Bookshop is located in the sous-sol near our Tupper Street entrances.

We welcome donations of books in good condition and ask donors to use our Tupper Street accessible entrance for deliveries.

Creative Writing Workshops

Calling budding writers! Registration is now open for AWE Creative Writing Workshops in the Atwater Library Bookshop Meeting Room.

Poet and translator Katia Grubisic is leading a 3-hour workshop on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 10:30 am and poet and novelist Tawhida Tanya Evanson, in collaboration with Lectures Logos Readings, is leading one on Tuesday, November 17, 2026 at 10:30 am.

These AWE workshops are part of a series of creative writing and art-making workshops being funding by Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada.

Places are limited. For more info and to register, please send an email to: awe@atwaterlibrary.ca.

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