Looking for something to do and wondering what's on at your local library? We regularly update the monthly libraries calendar so check back regularly.
January
11 January
Living Green - Create your own Veggie Bed Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Learn how to build a simple raised veggie bed using recycled materials at the Jurien Bay Library from 10am to 12pm.
Would you like to build a simple raised veggie bed using recycled materials? If so, this is the workshop for you.
During this session learn about all the different options for making veggie beds and soil - from pots to raised beds, bought soil to “sand to soil” techniques. You'll get your hands dirty, making a bed from recycled tin and wood, and creating no-dig soil. Everyone will get a go and someone will get to take the bed home with them.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Create Your Own Veggie Bed - Eventbrite Booking Link
20 January
Living Green - Creating Compost Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Learn Shani's foolproof recipe for making great compost that smells great, feels wonderful and does incredible things for your garden.
Shani Graham from Ecoburbia is addicted to compost, and has been making great compost for years. This workshop will also include information about another alternative - keeping worms.
Whether you are a successful compost maker willing to share or just thinking about starting a composting system, come along to this workshop.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Creating Compost - Eventbrite Booking Link
Living Green - Basic Food Gardening Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Find out how to get great soil, how to plant seedlings, the importance of mulch, and what to grow for a bumper crop every season.
Are you keen to trying growing some food in your garden? Have you tried and failed to get a worthwhile crop?
This workshop will look at some of the basics - the structure, chemistry and microbiological life in your soil, how to get great soil, the best way to plant a seedling and seeds, the importance of mulch and how to choose what you should be growing in your garden. Bring along a soil sample from your garden and you will leave with everything you need to know to enjoy a bumper crop this season.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Basic Food Gardening - Eventbrite Booking Link
25 January - 11am and 1pm
Explore the Jurien Bay Marine Park
Join Marine Park Rangers to learn about the Jurien Bay Marine Park and what it means to be a marine park ranger. There will be interactive displays, educational talks and learn about the marine environment.
Meet a sea lion and other creatures of the sea.
February
8 February
Dinosaur Doings - Badgingarra Library
Join palaeontologists at 9.30am at the Badgingarra Library to exploring the prehistoric world of dinosaurs through fossils and make a fizzy dinosaur egg to take home! Have a roar-some time exploring the prehistoric world of dinosaurs! In this free workshop we explore the science of fossils, making a dinosaur impression fossil and learning how we know so much about creatures that went extinct 65 million years ago. Create a fizzy dinosaur egg to take home to hatch.
Book now at Badgingarra Library via email badgingarralibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au or Phone 9652 9233 to reserve your spot at this awesome free workshop proudly brought to you by the Shire of Dandaragan Libraries, Inspiring WA, Children’s Discovery, SciTech and JTSI – Department of jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Wednesday 15 February
Libby Bookclub for WA
The inaugural Libby Bookclub for WA will be taking place on 15 February at 7pm, hosted by David Allan-Petale and featuring an interview with Genevieve Gannon, author of The Gifted Son.
Copies of the book are available for loan from the Libby app with unlimited simultaneous loans so everyone can join in.
Thursday 16 February
STEAM at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy STEAM at Jurien Bay Library from 9.30am to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
18 February
Living Green - Water Water Everywhere Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Learn how to save water in your home with rainwater, greywater systems, drip irrigation and so many more water-saving tips for your home.
Do you worry about water availability into the future? Would you like to learn more about saving water in your home?
You'll even learn what you need to know to put in a bore. An innovative 'rainwater-collecting water house' makes learning easy and fun. You’ll leave inspired to implement some water saving ideas in your own home.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Water Water Everywhere - Eventbrite Booking Link
Tuesday 21 February
Better Beginnings Rhymetime at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhymetime from 9.30am at the Jurien Bay Library.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Every Tuesday
Tea and Chat at Cervantes Library
Come down to the Cervantes Library from 1.30pm every Tuesday for a cup of tea and chat. To reserve your spot contact the Cervantes Library on 9652 7647 or email cervanteslibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
March
Thursday 2, 16 March
STEAM at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy STEAM at Jurien Bay Library from 9.30am to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Tuesday 7, 21 March
Better Beginnings Rhymetime at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhymetime from 9.30am at the Jurien Bay Library.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Harmony Week Monday 20-26 March
Quake ‘n’ Shake- Badgingarra Library
Experience mother nature at its best… and worst by constructing your own working model volcano and testing structures on our earthquake platform. Experience the destruction of one of nature’s most ferocious forces first hand in this explosive workshop. Explore how and why volcanoes erupt, and make a working model volcano with a bicarb soda and vinegar eruption! Construct an earthquake proof structure to test out on our earthquake platform in an arms race between mother nature and humanity.
Book now at Badgingarra Library via email badgingarralibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au or Phone 9652 9233 to reserve your spot at this awesome free workshop proudly brought to you by the Shire of Dandaragan Libraries, Inspiring WA, Children’s Discovery, SciTech and JTSI – Department of jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Every Tuesday
Tea and Chat at Cervantes Library
Come down to the Cervantes Library from 1.30-3.30pm every Tuesday for a cup tea, a chat and art activities. To reserve your spot contact the Cervantes Library on 9652 7647 or email cervanteslibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
18 March
Living Green - Green Cleaning Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Learn about common chemicals in cleaning products and how to create homemade using basic ingredients and have all your tricky cleaning questions answered.
Have you thought about why a greener cleaning regime is important? Do you want to learn more about the common chemicals in cleaning products and how they differ from the basic ingredients in homemade ones? Come along and try out a few home made products by making an all-purpose cleaner and a basic bathroom cleaner.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Green Cleaning - Eventbrite Booking Link
April
Every Tuesday
Tea and Chat at Cervantes Library
Come down to the Cervantes Library from 1.30-3.30pm every Tuesday for a cup tea, a chat and art activities. To reserve your spot contact the Cervantes Library on 9652 7647 or email cervanteslibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Tuesday 4 April
Better Beginnings Rhymetime at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhymetime from 9.30am at the Jurien Bay Library.
Bookings essential, to reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Thursday 6 April
9.15am Educational Talk at Jurien bay Library
Interactive Display. Educational Talks for school and home-schooled children . Discover some of the sea creatures that call the Jurien Bay Marine Park Home.
Bookings essential, to reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Thursday 6, 27 April
STEAM at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy STEAM at Jurien Bay Library from 9.30am to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
Bookings essential, to reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
12 April
Living Green - Seed Saving and Plant Propagation Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
Find out the simplest seeds to collect and other ways to reproduce plants.
Do you have plants that go to seed in your garden? Would you like to learn how to collect, store and use those seeds?
Come and find out the simplest seed to collect, and those that are too hard for a home gardener. You will also learn other ways to reproduce plants - from simple division to taking cuttings.
You will leave this session with the enthusiasm to start collecting seed in your garden, and the knowledge to propagate your own seedlings.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Seed Saving and Plant Propagation - Eventbrite Booking Link
Friday 14 April
11am & 1pm Jurien Bay Marine Park Talk at Jurien bay Library
Interactive Display. Educational Talks. Discover some of the sea creatures that call the Jurien Bay Marine Park Home.
Join the Marine Park Rangers to learn about the Jurien Bay Marine Park and what it means to be a marine park ranger.
Suitable for all ages, bookings essential, to reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Youth Week 14-21 April
Celebrate Youth Week: “Becoming: With others we dream”
The focus is on how young people can dream themselves a better world (no matter how big or small), and then use their skills, love, care, and knowledge to bring others up with them to help realise it. Actions and achievements of the individual are nothing without the context of their community. To become in the world, you have to dream with others.
Mixed Media Workshop with Local Artist Linda Quanchi - 9.30 am Beach House & 1.30pm Light House - at Jurien bay Library
Limited spaces, bookings essential, to reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
19 April
Living Green - Preserving the Harvest Workshop at Jurien Bay Library
If your garden produces bumper crops, or you'd like to take advantage of cheap seasonal produce, learn how to preserve tomatoes, fruit and more, including pickles, olives, jams and cordials using the water bath method and drying produce using the sun.
Bookings are essential and can be done on the Eventbrite link below, by calling 9652 0810, or emailing jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Living Green - Preserving the Harvest - Eventbrite Booking Link
Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
The 2023 Randolph Stow Young Writers Awards writing competition is now open and will run until COB Monday 3 July 2023.
The competition is open to all students from Years 3 to 12 who live or study within the Midwest as defined by the Education Department of Western Australia.
The Award provides a wonderful opportunity to encourage students in the art of creative writing. The competition is divided into two categories, poetry and prose and students are eligible to enter both categories, but only one entry is permitted for each category. Entries are to be a single piece of work written by one person.
More information about the competition including Terms and Conditions can be found on the entry form, which can be downloaded from the website under the Randolph Stow tab. More information is available from your Local Shire of Dandaragan Library
https://library.cgg.wa.gov.au/Profiles/library/Assets/ClientData/Documents/RSYWA_Entry_Form_2023.pdf
May
Every Tuesday
Tea and Chat at Cervantes Library
To reserve your spot contact the Cervantes Library on 9652 7647 or email cervanteslibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Wednesday 3 May
All Wired Up - Badgingarra Library
All Wired Up Get all wired up with real-world circuitry using LEDs, switches, motors and buzzers, and discover the role and function of these common electronic components.
Don’t get your wires crossed as we get all wired up! In this workshop we explore the fundamentals of electricity, creating simple circuits using Snap-on electronics kits.
Experiment with electronic circuits using wires, LEDs, switches, motors, buzzers and batteries, and quickly discover how complicated they can get!
Tuesday 16 May
Better Beginnings Rhymetime at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhymetime from 9.30am at the Jurien Bay Library.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Wednesday 17 May
SLWA -Light Colour Action – STEM Kit - Badgingarra Library
Lets look at light / Teleidoscopes and Kaleidoscopes / Making Shadow Puppets
Book now at Badgingarra Library via email badgingarralibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au or Phone 9652 9233 to reserve your spot at this awesome free workshop proudly brought to you by the State Library of WA and Shire of Dandaragan Libraries
Wednesday 24th of May
National Simultaneous Storytime (NNS)
9am, Jurien Bay Library
This annual event is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and its purpose is to promote the value of reading and literacy. During NSS, people of all ages come together to read the same story at the same time. This creates a powerful sense of community and encourages young people to develop a lifelong love of reading.
Thursday 25 May, 9.30am
STEAM at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy STEAM at Jurien Bay Library from 9.30am to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Wednesday 31 May, 9.30am & 1.30pm
Learn the skill of Basket Weaving – with Glenda the Basketcase Lady
9.30am & 1.30pm, Jurien Bay Library
All ages and abilities welcome, limited spaces, bookings Essential
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
June
Thursday, 1 and 15 June
STEAM at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy STEAM at Jurien Bay Library from 9.30am to learn about science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Tuesday, 6 June 1pm – 2.30pm Jurien Bay Library
Wednesday, 7 June 10.30am - 12pm Badgingarra Library
Thursday, 8 June 1pm – 2.30pm Cervantes Library
Online Library Services Workshops
Want to learn how to use your device & library membership to borrow books, graphic novels, movies and more for free?
Free Event, for all ages and abilities. Please contact your local Shire of Dandaragan Library for more information
Every Wednesday
Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info and ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people.
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, plants, seedlings, seeds, and flowers. A free Community initiative for all ages and abilities.
Wednesday, 7 and 21 June
Better Beginnings Rhymetime at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhymetime from 9.00am at the Jurien Bay Library.
To reserve your spot contact the Jurien Bay Library on 9652 0810 or email jblibrary@dandaragan.wa.gov.au.
Monday 26 June - Saturday 1 July
Jurien Bay, Cervantes and Badgingarra Libraries will be closed for stocktake.
The libraries will be open as normal from Monday 3 July, 2024.
July
Better Beginnings
Jurien Bay Library
Every Wednesday during school term
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Dandaragan Public Library
Wednesday, 26 July (Music and Movement)
Sessions start at 9am with a welcome, rhyme and Storytime followed by a craft session and morning tea. Please bring a gold coin donation for morning tea, we will provide the fruit, plus a treat for the parents/carers. All are welcome to attend.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free community initiative for all ages and abilities.
August
Better Beginnings
Jurien Bay Library
Every Wednesday during school term
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Dandaragan Public Library
Wednesday, 23 August (Book Week)
Sessions start at 9am with a welcome, rhyme and Storytime followed by a craft session and morning tea. Please bring a gold coin donation for morning tea, we will provide the fruit, plus a treat for the parents/carers. All are welcome to attend.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free community initiative for all ages and abilities.
September
4 September – 27 October
Scribblers Festival
Explore the World of Creative Bravery
Scribblers Festival celebrates creativity, literacy and the special place local libraries hold in the hearts of children and parents. Each year over 15,000 feather shaped bookmarks are hidden in the children’s and young adult section of libraries across Western Australia with five rare Golden Feathers waiting to be found by lucky young readers as part of the annual Golden Feather Hunt.
Feather finders have the opportunity to win a variety of prizes, but most of all, fuel their love of reading and libraries.
The Scribbler’s Festival is an annual festival of literature and arts for young people, it invites young people and the young at heart to celebrate the magic of storytelling and brings together authors, illustrators, and other storytellers from Perth, across Australia, and around the world to empower and engage young readers through interactive sessions and workshops.
Sound like fun? Feather shaped bookmarks are scattered throughout the children’s and young adult sections of our Shire of Dandaragan libraries.
Don’t miss any of the action - Golden Feather Hunt at your local library.
How To Start Your Hunt:
- Visit your local Shire of Dandaragan Library
- Select a book you would like to borrow
- Check out the book with the help of your friendly librarian
- Cross your fingers and open the book...
- If there is a feather-shaped bookmark inside do a victory dance and bring the feather to the librarian who will know exactly what to do next
- If there isn't a feather-shaped bookmark inside, chin up - you still have a great book to read AND you can have another hunt when you borrow your next book.
Golden Feathers - There are only FIVE of these rare feathers hidden in the whole of WA. The lucky finder of one of these, wins the grand prize of a VIP Festival Pass, and iPad and signed book pack
Silver Feathers - There are only 20 of these lucky feathers in the hunt. Find one of these and you win a signed book
Ruby Feather - Each participating library has one of these hidden in the shelves, and comes with an instant book prize
White Feathers - Colour these in, post a pic to social media tagging us @scribblersfest and @shireofdandaragan and you could win an instant prize!
Better Beginnings
Jurien Bay Library
Every Wednesday during school term
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Dandaragan Public Library
Wednesday, 27 September (Fire Truck)
Sessions start at 9am with a welcome, rhyme and Storytime followed by a craft session and morning tea. Please bring a gold coin donation for morning tea, we will provide the fruit, plus a treat for the parents/carers. All are welcome to attend.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free community initiative for all ages and abilities.
October
4 September – 27 October
Scribblers Festival
Explore the World of Creative Bravery
Scribblers Festival celebrates creativity, literacy and the special place local libraries hold in the hearts of children and parents. Each year over 15,000 feather shaped bookmarks are hidden in the children’s and young adult section of libraries across Western Australia with five rare Golden Feathers waiting to be found by lucky young readers as part of the annual Golden Feather Hunt.
Feather finders have the opportunity to win a variety of prizes, but most of all, fuel their love of reading and libraries.
The Scribbler’s Festival is an annual festival of literature and arts for young people, it invites young people and the young at heart to celebrate the magic of storytelling and brings together authors, illustrators, and other storytellers from Perth, across Australia, and around the world to empower and engage young readers through interactive sessions and workshops.
Sound like fun? Feather shaped bookmarks are scattered throughout the children’s and young adult sections of our Shire of Dandaragan libraries.
Don’t miss any of the action - Golden Feather Hunt at your local library.
How To Start Your Hunt:
- Visit your local Shire of Dandaragan Library
- Select a book you would like to borrow
- Check out the book with the help of your friendly librarian
- Cross your fingers and open the book...
- If there is a feather-shaped bookmark inside do a victory dance and bring the feather to the librarian who will know exactly what to do next
- If there isn't a feather-shaped bookmark inside, chin up - you still have a great book to read AND you can have another hunt when you borrow your next book.
Golden Feathers - There are only FIVE of these rare feathers hidden in the whole of WA. The lucky finder of one of these, wins the grand prize of a VIP Festival Pass, and iPad and signed book pack
Silver Feathers - There are only 20 of these lucky feathers in the hunt. Find one of these and you win a signed book
Ruby Feather - Each participating library has one of these hidden in the shelves, and comes with an instant book prize
White Feathers - Colour these in, post a pic to social media tagging us @scribblersfest and @shireofdandaragan and you could win an instant prize!
Better Beginnings
Jurien Bay Library
Every Wednesday during school term
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Dandaragan Public Library
Wednesday, 25 October (Out and About)
Sessions start at 9am with a welcome, rhyme and Storytime followed by a craft session and morning tea. Please bring a gold coin donation for morning tea, we will provide the fruit, plus a treat for the parents/carers. All are welcome to attend.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free community initiative for all ages and abilities.
November
Better Beginnings
Jurien Bay Library
Every Wednesday during school term
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Dandaragan Public Library
Wednesday, 29 November (Christmas Party)
Sessions start at 9am with a welcome, rhyme and Storytime followed by a craft session and morning tea. Please bring a gold coin donation for morning tea, we will provide the fruit, plus a treat for the parents/carers. All are welcome to attend.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free community initiative for all ages and abilities.
December
Every Wednesday during school term
Better Beginnings Rhyme time at Jurien Bay Library
Enjoy Rhyme time from 9am at the Jurien Bay Library. Every Wednesday during school term.
Every Wednesday
10am – 12pm Crop Swap at Jurien Bay Library
A great place to share garden tips, info & ideas. Bring a cuppa and have a chat with like-minded people
Swap homegrown vegies, fruit, herbs, flowers, plants, seedlings, seeds, or recipes.
A free Community initiative for all ages and abilities.