BC Field Trips

Books in Suitcases Book Club

Offered by

Last updated on

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

Experience type:

Virtual Field Trip

Program Description

Inside the waiting room of the Port Moody Station Museum you can find many old and beaten up suitcases. Each suitcase is filled with the contents of a person’s life.

The suitcases were created by student’s from Burnaby North Secondary. Their task was to imagine what an immigrant would bring on their journey to Canada.

The suitcases contain, necessities like clothes and shoes, but more importantly there are items of memory - pictures, letters, diaries. Items which provide safety and comfort.

Currently we all are forced into lock down. We self isolate to bring the curve down, together we all help to overcome this pandemic.

We are undertaking a personal journey, cut off from our normal busy lives.

Books provide us with endless places for our mind to travel, books can be companions during our isolation, books allow us to travel back and forward in time.

Join the Port Moody Public Library and Port Moody Station Museum and share your book with us. What book would be your travel companion, or is your rock in theses uncertain days?

Join us on this imaginary journey and please share your book with us all.

Big Ideas

Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.

Trip Details

City:

Port Moody

For Grades:

Teachers Only

Months Available:

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Days Offered:

Tuesday

Times Offered:

Outside of School Hours

Duration:

See notes. minutes unless otherwise stated.

Maximum Students:

See Additional Notes.

Offered In French:

Also Offered For:

Adult Groups

Packages Provided:

No Packages Provided

Fee Details

Fee Notes:

The book club is free and held every last Tuesday of the month. Togther with the Port Moody Public Library and the Port Moody Station Museum is holding a book club. The club is held virtually via Zoom.