Register now for this exciting opportunity to learn the basics of stop-motion animation from Clyde Petersen, a visiting filmmaker at the Reel Out Queer Film Festival! This program is co-presented with Reel Out and Queen's University.

Has holiday spending left your finances stretched thin?  Melissa Parsons from Resolve Credit & Financial Counselling Services will show how you can begin to take control of your financial life. Learn how to manage your money to avoid debt and to save for future expenses.  Free to all adults, but seating is limited. To avoid disappointment, please register in advance:  online at events.kfpl.ca or by phone at (613) 549-8888.  Tuesday, January 22, at Calvin Park branch at 7 p.m. and Saturday, January 26, at Isabel Turner branch at 2 p.m.  Both talks will be the same.

Are you a writer 18 or older who is already working on a writing project, or who is ready to start one? If you're interested in meeting with a small group of other writers to share your work, and to give and receive constructive criticism and helpful suggestions, check out the Write On Sydenham Writers' Group, now meeting on the second Thursday of each month. Free to adults, but seating is limited. To avoid disappointment, please register in advance online or by phone at (613) 549-8888, starting on Saturday, January 4.  Thursday, January 9, Sydenham, 2 p.m.

The Calvin Park Teen Advisory Group invites Kingston and Frontenac Teens to participate in The Graphic Novel Challenge over the winter break! Beginning on December 20th, every graphic novel or comic book you borrow from KFPL, read, and briefly report on will earn you one entry in a raffle to win a series of great prizes!