SPRING TOUCH SUMMER 2019 kpl.org SPRING/SUMMER 2019 2 Grow and Bloom Hello! Thank you for picking up the Spring & Summer 2019 issue of our new, improved In Touch magazine. With this fresh update, we wanted to bring you stories about the donors, volunteers, partners, and library users who help to make Kitchener Public Library a strong part of an incredible community. We’re also highlighting the many ways you use Kitchener Public Library — the things you learn; the programs you attend that make you laugh, or sing, or ask questions; the businesses and cultural ventures you’re creating with support from the library; and — of course — what you enjoy reading! We’d like to thank the following contributors and participants who helped to create this magazine: The Blondes, Jessica Rediker, Joe Martz, the Waterloo Historical Society, William Muir and Centre in the Square, Samantha Kristoferson and Emilio Garcia of KW Professional Organizers, Susan Demeter and family, Glodeane Brown, Emily Urquhart, Brett McNeil, Beth Bowles, Paige Bush, and The Community Edition, Lee Brooks and Robin Molloy. You can find a full schedule of all our activities at kpl.org/programs, and look for a printed program guide, published four times a year, in your copy of Active Kitchener magazine. You can also pick up a program guide at any library location and find it online at kpl.org/intouch. As the days get longer and the sun shines brighter, we hope In Touch brings you inspiration for all the ways you can grow and bloom with Kitchener Public Library. Mary Chevreau CEO Kitchener Public Library 11 32 SPRING/SUMMER 2019 3 26 4 12 28 INSIDE 2 Grow and Bloom 12 Book Pedaler 19 85 Queen 30 Jump In 2018 Fun Facts 4 Spring Forward: 20 Strings Attached 31 Juneyt Plays in a 7 Day Challenge 13 Flummoxed by Space That Feels Your Phone? 22 Grow with Like Home 6 Dog Days These Books 14 Join the Club 32 Moving Image 7 Art & Artists 24 Your 15 School’s Out Neighbourhood 34 Exceprt from 8 Create, Record, for Summer Library 'Why I Wake Early' and Share by Mary Oliver 16 Your Voice, 25 Our Ink, Our Stories 9 Creating Community Your Community 35 Afterword with a 3D Printer 26 Where Everybody 17 Listen Up! Knows Your Name 10 Beyond the Page 18 Fitting in 28 Eyes on the ION 11 Five Faves Giving Back SPRING/SUMMER 2019 4 Spring Forward: Your life is busy and can sometimes feel overwhelming. We want to help you shed those feelings and spring forward with the season. That’s why we asked KW Professional Organizers to come up with seven daily challenges to help you get started. Since 2012, Samantha Kristoferson and Emilio Jose Garcia have been partnering with Kitchener Public Library, generously leading free workshops to share education about everything and anything i Samantha Kristoferson to do with organizing, minimalism, and self care. & Emilio Jose Garcia KW Professional Organizers SOCIAL BODY want to empower you to feel and be your best. Audit your week. Where Meal plan the next 7 days. For Are you ready? Try this are you spending your beginners, start with dinner only. 7 day Challenge —› time? Does your calendar You’ll discover less stress, better match your goals? food, and money saved. FAMILY MIND You define your family. You can meditate. Make a phone call today Protect 5 minutes for this practice to someone you want to sometime throughout your day. catch up with. STUFF WORK Let’s declutter a drawer. Time to tidy. Take 30 minutes to Pick a spot: Kitchen, office, create a clear working area for bedside table. Sort, purge, yourself. Put things away, and Video Tutorials systematize, and enjoy. make room to highlight a favourite We all learn in different ways. photo or piece of art. Some of us are better learners with visuals, some of us with written instructions. That’s GIVING BACK why KW Professional Organizers created video Think of three things you’re tutorials to go along with each grateful for. Afterwards, of the challenges. Want more go out of your way to do For more info on organization, help? Watch the videos here: something selfless. Big or minimalism, and self-care: kwprofessionalorganizers.com/kpl small, you decide. kwprofessionalorganizers.com o Find Your Why o Soulful Simplicity Check out these books by Simon Sinek by Courtney Carver recommended by Samantha and Emilio (plus one that they wrote!) To keep your momentum going forward. t Organizing for the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern o Minimalist Kitchen by Melissa Coleman o A Recipe for an Extraordinary Life by Emilio Jose Garcia & Samantha Kristoferson o In Gratitude by Jenny Diski SPRING/SUMMER 2019 FEATURED ARTIST – JACQUELINE GORI Jacqueline Gori’s dog has Gori was able to present saved her life five times Arden with the painting since she got him about when they met before Dog Days four years ago. Trained a Centre in the Square 6 as a support service performance. Artist combines her talent with dog, Samson is a yellow Much of her time, her love for service dogs Labrador retriever who however, is spent on helps calm her symptoms helping to raise funds for of post-traumatic stress non-profit organizations disorder, which include t that work with pets and Jacqueline Gori anxiety, depression, and service dogs. She does this suicide attempts. by planning, collaborating Because Samson has given with authors, and creating her so much, she wants artwork for books. to give back in a way she “My way of coping was to knows how: by creating art. throw myself into a project “I’ve been an artist for that was life-saving, and most of my life. However, life giving,” Gori says. in August 2015, I was “I especially love drawing diagnosed with PTSD. for charity.” It was then my focus She partnered with New went to dogs,” she says. Hamburg author Nancy Gori has drawn hundreds Silcox for the first book of dogs, and one graphite In Service: Portraits of Dogs portrait takes about 20 that Change Lives, published hours to create. She draws last year. Proceeds from every hair on the dog using books sales go to National a full range of graphite Service Dogs. pencils, creating about Projects in the works two commissioned pieces include Workin’ Like A Dog, per month. Do’in Nuthing Like a Cat with She likes to play with the proceeds going to Kali’s dog for about an hour before taking “ I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE DOG GIVES photos that she’ll ME NATURALLY, AND SEE THE JOY use as source material for the THE DOG GIVES ITS OWNER. YOU CAN finished piece. SEE DISTINCT PERSONALITIES.” “I want to see what Wish Cancer Foundation the dog gives me naturally, (a cancer charity for and see the joy the dog pets) and I Love Labs: gives its owner. You can The Cooperslane Legacy, see distinct personalities.” for Canine Support When Passions Collide The only time she did Services, which helps not draw from her own people train their own Portraits by Jacqueline Gori photographs was when service dog. In the Art Gallery at Central Library she painted Jann Arden’s When she’s not working July, 2019 Morkie. Gori was given on commissions, or permission to take it from creating dog portraits her Instagram account. Gori will also demonstrate her techniques for books, Gori operates After posting the finished in the Artist at Work program in July. Ontario Art School from project, Arden wrote, her home in Breslau. Details at kpl.org/artist-at-work “It’s just so good.” SPRING/SUMMER 2019 Art & Artists 7 We’ve got new exhibits by talented local artists at Central Library each month. Just drop in during open library hours. The Art Gallery is located on the lower level. You can also meet the artists at their opening reception, and be inspired by artist-at-work demonstrations each month. MARCH JUNE The Eternal in the Now The Raucous Joy of the – Sight and Insight Raven's Call – Art Gallery Paintings and drawings A Rusted Development by Jon Tobin – Theatre Lobby Opening reception: Mixed Media by Chandra Rice Wednesday, March 6, Opening reception: 7 - 8:30 pm Thursday, May 30, 7 - 8:30 pm APRIL JULY Eavesdropping Paintings by When Passions Collide Isaac Watamaniuk Canine Portraits: Sketches and Opening reception: paintings by Jacqueline Gori Thursday, April 4, Opening reception: 7 - 8:30 pm Thursday, July 4, 6:30 - 8 pm MAY Kitchener Waterloo AUGUST Society of Artists Members Show Leftie Selfie Opening reception: Alternate-hand drawings and Thursday, May 2, paintings by Meg Leslie 7 - 8:30 pm Opening reception: Thursday, August 1, 6:30 - 8 pm o Vista by Dennis Merchant CHILDREN’S ART SHOW Central Library Theatre Lobby Gallery, Ages 4 – 12. Bring a drawing or painting into July 13 – September 7 any of our library locations from June 1 - July 6. Meet the Artists: Thursday, July 18 at 6:30 - 8 pm Art pieces will be mounted and displayed. For more info go to kpl.org/art-exhibits and kpl.org/artist-at-work SPRING/SUMMER 2019 8 Create, record, Heffner Studio continues to evolve and grow, so get ready to get your voice out into the world! Kitchener Public Library is excited to be moving forward with the renovation of its popular media lab, Heffner Studio. This creative area, located on the main level at Central Library, will provide library members with free access to the tools, space and support to create, edit, and share their digital media projects.