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A summary of all the events happening in October 2023
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Help solve a puzzle.
Come and share your current project with our Gympie Library Craft Group. Bring along a piece you’re working on - be it knitting, sewing, crochet or cross stitch - and share ideas with others.
Come along and make some friends, have fun and test your knowledge with trivia questions.
Join us for a First 5 Forever Story Time session
Join us for a Tinker Table each Monday afternoon at the Gympie Library Makerspace from 3.30 – 4.30pm
Join us for a First 5 Forever Baby Bounce session at Gympie Library
Join us for a First 5 Forever Story Time session at Gympie Library
Join us for a First 5 Forever Rhyme Time session at Gympie Library
Come down and get hands-on in one of our fun, relaxed sessions. No bookings required but space is limited.
Join others to discuss books and have a chat.
Have a recipe you want to share? Need some new ideas on what to cook?
We make all sorts of greeting cards, so come and join us for a fun morning
Join us for a Tinker Table each Friday afternoon at the Kilkivan Library from 3.30 – 4.30pm.
Here’s your chance to join other writers in practicing and honing your literary skills – every third Friday of the month at Gympie Library.
Calling all artists! Join us at Tin Can Bay Library to share work and ideas, seek advice from other talented eyes and connect with artists in our community.
Join us at the Goomeri Library for Mahjong Mornings
Join us at Tin Can Bay Library for a wonderful afternoon playing Mahjong.
Join us at Rainbow Beach Library for a fantastic morning of fun and creativity. Each session covers something different, with the aim of exploring different avenues of art.
If you are looking for something fun to do in Gympie on the King's Birthday long weekend check out Duets: Part Deux.
Enjoy morning tea at Kilkivan Public Hall from 9.30am to 12pm
Join in the fun with a game of cards, scrabble, chess, backgammon and more.
Join us for a four week course as we teach you the basics of sewing.
Come to the library and create a unique handmade card.
New to the world of iphones? Learn how to get started on your iphone.
Collect some flowers or leaves and press them into clay and create your own beautiful pendants.
Come down to the Goomeri Library to test your word knowledge and enjoy a friendly game of Scrabble every Thursday from 1pm.
Are you looking to get started with machine sewing?
Join us at the Kilkivan Library for a special World Space Week Storytime!
Join us as we celebrate 25 years of the Gympie Regional Gallery
Take part in the experiments and games; draw, write, dance and explore the scientific mysteries of our weird and wonderful world.
Join in a day of fun and bowls at Imbil Community & Sports Club.
Celebrate our Seniors with a BBQ lunch from 1pm, raffles and live entertainment at the Tin Can Bay RSL Hall.
Join Fiona McArthur as she discusses her new book, As the River Rises, a suspenseful tale of love, redemption and finding your path when you feel surrounded.
F5F this week welcomes Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles as well as any significant, senior family members to join in our story-time.
The Old’s Cool Health Matters project will be bringing a series of free pop-up health clinics and community education workshops to Gympie, Tin Can Bay, Imbil & Kilkivan in October, for Senior’s month.
Have fun and stay safer with your iphone. We show you how to use the camera to take great photos, how to block nuisance messages and how to get some peace and quiet.
Lions Club of Gympie’s monthly community morning tea will be especially sweet for Seniors Month.
Celebrate all things Harry Potter... come to the library to find your inner wizardry and witchery powers.
Come dressed as your favourite character and share in themed activities.
Press colourful flowers in transparent contact paper and create your own stained glass suncatchers.
Want to try 3D Printing but thought it looked too hard?
Join us at Gympie Library for a fun morning creating beautiful cards to send to family and friends.
Curra Community Hall is hosting a free afternoon tea to celebrate Seniors Month.
Test your knowledge on the 'who, what, where' from the early Goldfields and mining era.
Emergency Services demonstrations and displays.
Meet in the library foyer for a walk and talk through the Fiveways area looking up Caledonian and Calton Hills for a talk about the discovery of gold in Gympie and the subsequent Gold Rush.
New to the world of phones? Learn how to get started on your Android Phones.
This course offer expert tips on taking great photos
Lillian Muchiri’s book, Looking Back to Move Forward, is inspired by her childhood growing up in a small village in Kenya.
Cricut makes it easy to make something unique and remarkable in just a moment’s notice.
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition with artist Heinke Butt.
Explore the world of wicking beds with Pete from the Gympie Community Garden. A
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian author of crime fiction.
Come along to the Gympie Senior Citizens Centre and connect with services for older people as well as recreational and social groups in the Gympie region.
Have fun and stay safer with your phone. We show you how to use the camera to take great photos, how to block nuisance messages and how to get some peace and quiet
Join us for a virtual walkthrough the ancient capital of King Alfred the Great!
BYO Book to the library and meet with fellow book lovers for a chat about the author, and the ‘read’ that you have found interesting and or exciting.
Join us for some spooky fun as we get ready for Halloween by decorating a bucket to collect lots of Halloween goodies in.
Celebrate National Recycling Week with us as we bring the love of reusing and recycling to the Library!
Celebrate Family History Month as you explore online and borrowable library resources.
The Emblazer Laser machine is utilized for the high-quality engraving and cutting of wood and other materials.
Join other locals at Tin Can Bay Library for a cuppa and a chat.
Learn how to overcome any challenges or fears that may be stopping you from achieving your study goals.
Bring a picnic to Memorial Park to celebrate Queensland Grandparents Day.
Be brave, very brave and come into the library and find the Ghost Crabs.
Join us at the Gympie Library Makerspace for spooktastic craft activity featuring the Cricut machine.