Programs

From the basics of internet searching to building your first website, we have a technology class for you!

These early language and literacy workshops provide free professional development for early childhood educators (ECE), childcare providers, and adults working with young children in the community.

Learning English? VPL offers regular conversation circles for people interested in improving their English.

From popular feature films to documentaries that spark ideas and conversation – we’re showing the movies you want to see!

Learn how to trace your ancestry using the library’s digital and print collections.

Who doesn't love an adorable frog a.k.a. the darlings of the Internet? Make your own needle-felted frog, complete with with a fun and fuzzy photoshoot with your new frog friends!

For teens ages 13-18.

Firehall Branch | Thursday, July 18 | 2-4:00 p.m.

Kids in Grades K – 7 can drop by participating branches anytime to write and illustrate their own book and we’ll make it available for other kids to read in the library!  

We welcome groups from schools, child care centres, and other children’s programs in Vancouver to visit our libraries.

Through the storyteller in residence, VPL seeks to honour Indigenous cultures and to promote intercultural understanding and communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Submit your writing and artwork and you could be featured in ink, a teen journal for writing and visual art published by Vancouver Public Library.