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Boomerang Bags Barrie

Drop-in Community Sewing Bee

Save a plastic bag. Learn sewing skills while making reusable fabric community bags for customers to take and return from participating local stores.

Volunteers can help with any of the following tasks:

  • Sew or learn to sew (BYO machine) there are two Library machines that may be available.
  • Fabric cutting, pinning and ironing.
  • Assemble do-at-home kits.

Boomerang Bags Barrie has a large goal that can only be accomplished with small and meaningful motions. They are working together to establish a support network for the Barrie Downtown that will eventually be extended to other neighbourhoods throughout the city in order to encourage plastic bag alternatives. Their mission is to start a conversation about consumption and action through community mobilization.

Boomerang Bags Barrie is working to provide free reusable bags fabricated out of locally recycled textiles to shops in the Downtown core that can be borrowed by shoppers who have forgotten their reusable bags. Community members donate fabric and other textiles which are then transformed into reusable bags by volunteer sewers. The bags can later be returned to any participating location in Barrie for another forgetful environmentalist to use.  

Find them on instagram: boomerangbagsbarrie and facebook: boomerang bags barrie.






AGE GROUP: | Teens | School-Aged Kids | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Tinker Lab / Creative Spaces |

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Downtown Branch

AskUs@barrielibrary.ca
Phone: 705.728.1010

Hours

 

 
We're closed Tuesday July 01 due to Canada Day
Mon, Jun 30 9:30AM to 9:00PM
Tue, Jul 01 Closed
(Canada Day)
Wed, Jul 02 9:30AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jul 03 9:30AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Jul 04 9:30AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Jul 05 9:30AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 06 9:30AM to 5:00PM

About the branch

Our Downtown Branch is centrally located in the Downtown core at the corner of Worsley and Owen Streets. The building and facilities are fully accessible. Enjoy a beverage or a small snack from our Café located inside the lobby, use our complimentary wifi, experiment with technology and maker tools, or soak up the sun on our Rooftop Reading Garden.

Upcoming events

Wed, Jul 02, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Gathering Place

Wed, Jul 02, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 02, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Oro Lions Room,Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 02, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Angus Ross Room

Thu, Jul 03, 11:00am - 11:30am
Gathering Place

Thu, Jul 03, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Gathering Place

Thu, Jul 03, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Oro Lions Room

Fri, Jul 04, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Sat, Jul 05, 10:00am - 10:30am
Reading Garden

Sat, Jul 05, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Sun, Jul 06, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Mon, Jul 07, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Gathering Place

Mon, Jul 07, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Gathering Place

Tue, Jul 08, 10:30am - 11:30am
Tinker Lab

Tue, Jul 08, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Tue, Jul 08, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Gathering Place

Tue, Jul 08, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Creative Spaces
This event is full

Wed, Jul 09, 10:00am - 11:00am
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor ,Reading Garden

Wed, Jul 09, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 09, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Angus Ross Room

Thu, Jul 10, 10:00am - 10:30am
Reading Garden

Thu, Jul 10, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Thu, Jul 10, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Oro Lions Room

Fri, Jul 11, 10:00am - 10:30am
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor

Fri, Jul 11, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Sat, Jul 12, 10:00am - 10:30am
Reading Garden

Sat, Jul 12, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Sun, Jul 13, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Mon, Jul 14, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Mon, Jul 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor ,Reading Garden

Tue, Jul 15, 10:30am - 11:30am
Tinker Lab

Tue, Jul 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Gathering Place

Tue, Jul 15, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Gathering Place

Wed, Jul 16, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 16, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Reading Garden,Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 16, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Wed, Jul 16, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Angus Ross Room

Thu, Jul 17, 10:00am - 10:30am
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor

Thu, Jul 17, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Oro Lions Room

Thu, Jul 17, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Angus Ross Room

Fri, Jul 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Sat, Jul 19, 10:00am - 10:30am
Reading Garden

Sat, Jul 19, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Sun, Jul 20, 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Angus Ross Room

Sun, Jul 20, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Mon, Jul 21, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Mon, Jul 21, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Angus Ross Room,Reading Garden

Tue, Jul 22, 10:30am - 11:30am
Tinker Lab

Tue, Jul 22, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 23, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 23, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 23, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 23, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Angus Ross Room

Thu, Jul 24, 10:00am - 10:30am
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor

Thu, Jul 24, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Thu, Jul 24, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Oro Lions Room

Fri, Jul 25, 10:00am - 11:00am
Tinker Lab

Fri, Jul 25, 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Sat, Jul 26, 10:00am - 10:30am
Reading Garden

Sat, Jul 26, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Sun, Jul 27, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Mon, Jul 28, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Mon, Jul 28, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gathering Place,Reading Garden

Tue, Jul 29, 10:00am - 11:00am
Gathering Place

Tue, Jul 29, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 30, 10:00am - 11:00am
Downtown Children's Picture Book Area, 2nd Floor ,Gathering Place,Tinker Lab

Wed, Jul 30, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Wed, Jul 30, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Angus Ross Room

Thu, Jul 31, 10:00am - 11:00am
Gathering Place

Thu, Jul 31, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tinker Lab

Thu, Jul 31, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Oro Lions Room