Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month at Brampton Library

[May 1, 2014, Brampton] - Brampton Library celebrates the South Asian Heritage Month with book displays and children’s storytimes to highlight this special month. Children’s storytimes are designed to help them become aware of and understand their own culture and the culture of others.
The Library is continuing to acquire a variety of books, magazines, CDs and DVDs for adult and children in South Asian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Tamil, and Urdu languages. In addition to serving this growing community, children’s bilingual books are also available, which feature stories in both English and another language. These unique children’s picture books are a fantastic way to help develop literacy skills and promote continued use of home languages. Free storytimes on South Asian Heritage Month are offered at the following locations:

• Gore Meadows Branch (10150 The Gore Rd., Brampton ON L6P 0A6)
• Cyril Clark Branch (20 Loafer’s Lake Lane, Brampton, ON L6Z 1X9)

Wednesday May 14 at 6:30pm

• South Fletcher’s Branch (500 Ray Lawson Blvd., Brampton, ON L6Y 5B3)

Thursday May 15 at 6:30pm

• Four Corners Branch (65 Queen St. E., Brampton, ON L6W 3L6)
• Chinguacousy Branch (150 Central Park Dr. Brampton, ON L6T 1B4)

Brampton Library also provides a range of services to meet the needs of people within our community such as English conversation circles, computer workshops, Hindi and Punjabi Book Clubs, women’s circle and settlement workshops on various topics.

For more information or to attend a storytime celebration, please contact:
Program Contact: Media Contact:
Sarala Uttangi Mandy Siu
Multicultural Services Coordinator Marketing & Communications Manager
Phone: (905) 793-4636 x 4256 Phone: (905) 793-4636 x 4372
Email: suttangi@bramptonlibrary.ca Email: msiu@bramptonlibrary.ca
Wednesday May 14 at 10:30am
Wednesday May 21 at 7:00 pm
Monday May 26 at 7:00pmStarBuzzOnline