On July 11, 2018 at Alderney Gate Public Library, Halifax Public Libraries, Sun Life Financial, and our community members (including Joel Plaskett!) celebrated the beginning of a new musical venture.
Sun Life Financial donated 150 instruments to our Library collection in an effort to make the arts more accessible to our community.
Violins, guitars, ukuleles, keyboards, doumbeks, mandolins, banjos, and bongos in varying sizes are now available to be borrowed from all 14 Halifax Public Libraries branches. The collection also features a Tenor guitar donated by JUNO and East Coast Music Award-winning artist, Joel Plaskett.
Just like a book, instruments can be checked out with your library card and are loaned for three week periods.
Check out photos from the launch event below.
Does this strike a chord? Visit our Sun Life Musical Instrument Lending Library page to browse the collection and begin your symphonic masterpiece.
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The Library celebrates the launch of its Instrument Lending Library
Sun Life presents a cheque to the Library
Sun Life presents a cheque to the Library
Debbie LeBel, Director of Access, Halifax Public Libraries
Deputy Mayor Waye Mason
Paul Joliat, Assistant Vice-President, Philanthropy and Sponsorships, Sun Life Financial
SunLife gives the Library a guitar painted by David Arrigo
Joel Plaskett performs on the Tenor Guitar he donates to the Library collection
Tara Gault, Debbie Label, Åsa Kachan, and Joel Plaskett with his donated Tenor Guitar
A Tenor Guitar signed by Joel Plaskett
Chief Librarian & CEO Åsa Kachan speaks to media
The Team Behind Halifax’s SunLife Financial Instrument Lending Library
Joel Plaskett performs
Joel Plaskett performs
Joel Plaskett performs
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