Atwater Library and Computer Centre

For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series, author Susan Doherty discusses her acclaimed new book The Ghost Garden: Inside the lives of schizophrenia’s feared and forgotten.

The Atwater Library CONNECT Project presents a HANDS-ON WORKSHOP on Protecting Yourself Online. Liz Perrin shows how to be more aware of where you are and what you are doing online in order to better protect yourself and your information. ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required: Richard Cassidy: 514-935-7344 or richard@atwaterlibrary.ca.

For the Atwater Library Financial Literacy program, Richard Goldman, lawyer and legal plain language specialist with Éducaloi, conducts an information session on Powers of Attorney and Protection Mandates . Discussion with Q&A.

The Atwater Library Book Club, led by writer Mary Soderstrom, discusses Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. 

For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series, Sheila Barshay Goldbloom reflects on her life in conversation with journalist Royal Orr. Copies of her recently published memoir, Opening Doors, will be on sale.

FILMPOEM WORKSHOP: Poet Rachel McCrum facilitates the first in a series of three Saturday sessions creating original filmpoems with participants. Space is limited and ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required. For more information and to register: elise.m@videotron.ca.

For the Atwater Library Alzheimer Café, Lucile Agarrat, psychologist, Clinique de cognition, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, gives a presentation on caregiving: “Coping Strategies that Help Prevent Burnout.” With refreshments and discussion.

For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series, Keir Cutler performs Magnificence, his work based on his relationship with his late mother, May Ebbitt Cutler (1923-2011), former mayor of Westmount, founder of Tundra Books publishing house, and the author of the award-winning memoir set during her childhood summers at Mont-Tremblant.

WORKSHOP on How to Write an Autobiographical Monologue: Playwright and actor Keir Cutler, who has written ten original monologues, many of them autobiographical, shares his insights and vast knowledge. No registration necessary. Open to all and free.

For the Atwater Library CONNECT Project, Stephen Monteiro, a media and culture scholar at Concordia University, discusses the monetizing of our online behaviors: “How other people make money about what we say and do on the Internet.” Discussion with Q&A.