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Virtual Reality Suite

Brandon Public Library is pleased to announce the addition of two Oculus Rift S computers to our programs. The Virtual Reality Suite is currently being rolled out to high school students aged 13-17, with expanded programming in planning.

A signed parent/guardian waiver and student user agreement is required to participate in Virtual Reality programs (one-time waiver will be kept on file for your student). The waiver and agreement is available for download as a PDF by clicking below:

Signed waivers may be returned to the library in person or emailed to the program co-ordinator at Programs@wmrl.ca.

11dec1:00 pm4:00 pmScrabble Club1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Brandon Public Library

12dec11:00 am12:00 pmStorytime11:00 am - 12:00 pm Carberry North Cypress Library

12dec4:30 pm5:30 pmCoder Dojo4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Brandon Public Library

12dec7:00 pm9:00 pmNFB Film Club7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Brandon Public Library

Event Details

This club will showcase films from the National Film Board of Canada. A different film will be shown each time with casual discussion to follow.

Sept 12- Metamorphosis. A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper's film Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world, and the birth of another. Metamorphosis captures the true scale of the global environmental crisis. Forest fires consume communities, species vanish, and entire ecosystems collapse. Economic growth, tied to increased speed of resource extraction, has created a machine with the capacity to destroy all life. But this crisis is also an opportunity for transformation. Through a tidal flow of stunning images, Metamorphosis carves a path from the present to the future, and offers a bold new vision for humanity and the world.

Oct. 10- What is Democracy? Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated philosophers, trauma surgeons, factory workers, refugees, and politicians—What Is Democracy? connects past and present, emotion and the intellect, the personal and the political, to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.

Nov. 14: Up the Yangtze. This award-winning documentary follows the Shiu family as their home is destroyed by the rising waters of China’s Yangtze River - a consequence of the Three Gorges Project, the largest hydroelectric dam in history.

Dec. 12- Lords of the Arctic. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Caroline Underwood focuses on Northern wildlife and its close and tragic relation to climate change, which affects all of the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. The example of the polar bear, studied by biologists for the past 20 years, is revealing. Scientists are also concerned about the precarious situation of bowhead whales and belugas, not to mention seals, walruses and many species of birds. Are the lords of the Arctic in danger of ending their reign over their kingdom of ice and snow?