Girls Club! Program for Teen Girls @ Albert Campbell
CALLING ALL TEEN GIRLS!
Are you interested in doing something fun (and free!) after school? Do you enjoy hanging out with your friends and making new ones? Would you like to try new things in a girls-only environment? Then come and join our Girls Club at the Albert Campbell branch of the Toronto Public Library!
- WHO: Girls age 12-16
- WHAT: A different activity each week. Watch movies, learn new dance moves, play games and sports, make jewellery, try out leadership activities, and gain new life skills. Share ideas, meet friends, and have fun!
- WHEN: 4-6 p.m. every Wednesday for six weeks, starting January 16, 2013
- WHERE: In the auditorium at Albert Campbell, 496 Birchmount Road (Birchmount and Danforth Road)
- WHY: Because being a teenage girl can be harder than it looks. But it can also be FUN!
To sign-up, call 416-396-8900. Space is limited so register early. This program is presented in partnership with Griffin Centre.
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Interested in reading some honest writing about what it feels like to be a girl? Check out these great anthologies by and for girls and young women:
GirlSpoken: From Pen, Brush, & Tongue is a collection of intensely personal stories, journal entries, poetry, and artwork by Canadian girls and young women aged 13-19.
The book is assembled into four main sections: "voice: telling truths about ourselves and our girlhoods"; "beauty: rants & reflections on love, desire & the beauty beast"; "strength: speaking out about our struggles & calling for change"; and "becoming: tales of where we've been & visions of where we're going."
This is the kind of book you can open to any page and find something genuine and moving expressed there. You might even recognize something of your self.
She's Shameless: Women Write About Growing Up, Rocking Out, and Fighting Back is an anthology of frank and funny first-person accounts about what it's like to be young and female and ignored by the mainstream: as young women of colour, as queer youth, as artists, as activists, as freethinkers.
This book is organized into five parts: "Breaking the Good Girl Mould"; "Things They Didn't Teach Me in Health Class"; "Getting Grounded: Run-ins with Authority"; "Relationships: For Better and Worse"; and "Extra Credit: What I Wish I'd Known All Along." It was put together by the same people who founded Shameless Magazine and features lots of awesome local writers, like Emily Pohl-Weary and Zoe Whittall.
Bonus: check out this interview the library did with one of the book's editors, Stacey May Fowles!
Have you ever wished you could go back in time and give advice to yourself when you were younger? What do you think you would say?
In If I'd Known Then: Women in Their 20s and 30s Write Letters to Their Younger Selves, 35 women write candid letters to their younger selves full of advice about how to handle their actual past experiences with bad relationships, bullies, eating disorders, and crises of faith. Contributors include:
- Jessica Alba, actress
- Julia Foudy, Olympic gold medalist
- Zainab Salbi, activist
- Ariel Schrag, comic book artist
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