West Neighbourhood House is hosting a monthly Reading Party ‘Resilience Reads’, launching on Thursday, October 30th, 2025.
Join us to share the joy of reading, while building climate resilience knowledge. Neighbours are invited to discuss a book they are reading, tell stories, and empower each other to explore community-driven solutions. Each party will start with a quiet read and reflect time, with opportunities to join group discussions later on over refreshments.
The featured book of the month for October is ‘The Annual Migration of Clouds’ by Premee Mohamed. You can also choose to bring a different dystopian book that shares a scary future ecological crisis!
Upcoming Schedule
Below is a list of scheduled events, including the books that we will be reading. Exact dates and times will be disclosed at a later date.
OCTOBER – Climate change is scary
The Annual Migration of Clouds’ by Premee Mohamed or your favorite horror/suspense book!
NOVEMBER – We need bees on Earth
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde or your favourite animal-centred book!
DECEMBER – The folly of fossil fuels
American War by Omar El Akkad or your favourite dystopian read!
JANAURY – New resolutions we can make.. through the kaleidoscope of Indigenous climate science
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer or your favourite book that leaves you seeing our natural world differently!
FEBRUARY – The power of Black-led community-building in a climate crisis or Octavia’s ecological crystal ball
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler or your favourite Octavia opus!
MARCH Choose Your Own Adventure: Fiction / Non-Fiction pick
- Climate changes everything, doesn’t it?
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson or your favourite time travel read!
- Ways we can actually win for the future.
The Story of More by Hope Jahren or your favourite non-fiction progressive read!
APRIL – Learning from trees for Earth Month
The Overstory by Richard Powers or your favourite book to read in a park, a grove, or even a glade, a forest, a garden!
MAY – All women are water defenders
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta or your favorite book featuring water!
JUNE – Righting our relationship with land
Earth Keeper by N. Scott Momaday or your favourite book that shares how words are medicine!
JULY – Climate migration or the borders between us are not lines that divide us, but seams that connect us
Gun Island / The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh or your favourite island setting summer read!
Summer Reading with Kids inspo: Ghosh’s graphic novel, Jungle Nama, is a fairytale retelling also featuring the Sundarbans islands
How to Register:
To register for an upcoming event, please fill out the form in the link below: