Digital Art
Bring your tablet or iPad and explore free art creation apps. Participants can also make virtual art with DigiLab’s Tilt Brush, which lets you paint a 3D space using virtual reality. Registered.
October 13, 7:00-8:30 pm Nellie McClung Branch
Green Screen
For ages 13-18. Calling all future film producers, serious actors and stand-up comedians: the DigiLab green screen is ready for your close-up. Plan and produce your own green screen video and choose almost any setting as your backdrop with the click of a few buttons. Registered.
October 26, 4:00-7:00 pm Juan de Fuca Branch
Intro to Arduino
Design the control panel for a spaceship. Program a door to open with a series of taps. Fashion a crystal ball to answer your tough questions. Do all this and more with Arduino, an open-source platform that teaches coding and electronics through easy-to-use hardware and software. Find inspiration in some ready-made Arduino projects and then learn to make your own in this two-part program. Registered.
November 10 and 17, 4:00-5:30 pm Central Branch
Contest Corner Guess the 2017 Book Prize Winners Guess the winners of the 2017 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. Review the shortlists online and make your pick. One winner for each book prize will receive a copy of the shortlisted books. Enter at gvpl.ca/contests. September 13-October 11
Tiny Story Writing Contest Can you pack vivid descriptions, original characters and surprising plot twists into a narrative of only 420 characters? We want to hear your tiny stories! Contest runs September 19 to October 29. Submit your entry online at gvpl.ca/contests.
Register at gvpl.ca or call 250-940-4875.
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