Acomb Explore Library
Mon 5 Jun
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Free
Come and celebrate National Bookstart Week at York Libraries.
Join Cath Smithson from Kindermusik for singing and vocal play, musical instrument & object exploration, creative movement and dance and listening purposefully in a small, friendly setting.
Free but booking essential
Acomb Explore Library on (01904) 552651 or acomb@exploreyork.org.uk.
Tang Hall Explore Library :
Thu 1 Jun :
2.00pm – 3.00pm :
£5 per family
Join Thea Jacob from Song Box, for interactive storytelling with 3-9 year olds and their parents/carers. Study old photo albums, scrap books and maps from York Archive and help Thea bring to life characters and places from York’s past. Discover fascinating true stories and great resources for family projects, plus take home activities.
“We very much enjoyed this event. I very much liked the calmness of the space, content and your delivery. I particularly liked the map making, songs, rhyme as well as the story making. It felt different to anything else we have done.” Sara Mair with Izzy 3, “Lendal’s Last Ferryman” Jan 2017.
Book via Eventbrite or in person at Tang Hall Explore Library.
Acomb Explore Library :
Tue 30 May :
10.00am – 12.00pm :
£3 for 1 adult and 1 child, £4 for 1 adult and 2 children
Get creative making a lovely pencil holder, artist and designer Kathryn Richardson will show you how.
This fun activity is for children and accompanying adults to enjoy.
£3 for 1 adult and 1 child, £4 for 1 adult and 2 children.
Booking is essential and tickets can be booked at any library.
For more information contact Acomb Explore Library on (01904) 552651 or acomb@exploreyork.org.uk.
Join the Dringhouses Local History Group all day, and look at the best of their archives, as part of Community Archives Month.
Learn more about the local area, from Colonel Wilkinson to the ‘Knares Mire’. Colonel George Alexander Eason Wilkinson, last Lord of the Manor of Dringhouses, was born 25 Feb 1860 and inherited the Manor of Dringhouses in 1881. Fought in South African War and WW1, with distinction. On his death in 1941, he gave Dringhouses Library to the Council and people of Dringhouses in a Deed of Gift.
Bring your local history queries and perhaps buy a copy of the fascinating ‘Discovering Dringhouses 2: More Aspects of a Local History’ or the 1624 Samuel Parson’s map of Dringhouses.
All day session, just drop in.
For more information please call Lucy on (01904) 552674 or dringhouses@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Tue 23 May :
6.00pm – 7.30pm :
£5
Elizabeth Strout, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge, joins us to discuss her new collection of short stories, Anything is Possible.
In this new work, we are again with Lucy Barton as she imagines the lives of the people that she especially remembers and the people she has imagined that, in small ways, have remembered her too. For isn’t it true that we all hope to be remembered? Or to think in some way – even fleetingly – that we have been important to someone?
She will be discussing her wonderful catalogue of fiction and reading extracts from her new book.
Tickets are available from Waterstones on (01904) 620784 or www.waterstones.com.
Dringhouses Library :
Mon 22 – Sat 27 May :
Free
As part of the York international Shakespeare Festival, Dringhouses Library is having Shakespeare Week.
See an exhibition of local artist Ben Sawyer’s amusing Shakespeare-inspired comic-strips all week.
Zounds, Alack, and By My Troth is a weekly series of comic strips inspired by the works of William Shakespeare and drawn in old school black and white penciling. The site features pastiches of famous moments, illustrated sonnets and the continuing adventures of Will himself as he tries to get by as a jobbing Tudor playwright – aided and abetted by the mysterious wild-haired woman known only as The Lady.
Join us for some Shakespeare style songs and stories at our under 5s storytimes at 11am on Thursday 25 and Saturday 27, and sign up for our Shakespeare-a-thon on Tuesday 23 May, where we try to fill the building with Shakespeare’s timeless words all day – sign up at the library for a time-slot.
The Shakespeare-a-thon will be on all day Tuesday – come along and read some of Shakespeare’s fabulous work. Choose an extract from his 38 plays, sonnets, or poems, and read for 5-10 minutes. Sign up for a timeslot in advance or just turn up on the day. Help us to fill the library with Shakespeare’s wonderful words all day.
Come to our launch event then please come along during normal library opening times for our Shakespeare week long events.
For more information please call Lucy on (01904) 552674 or dringhouses@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Thu 18 May :
1.30pm – 2.30pm :
£2
‘Explore a Story’ is an interactive storytelling session for 2-5 year olds. The session uses props and games to get the children involved in bringing the stories to life.
The sessions give children the opportunity to use and develop their imaginations within the storytelling, and helps to develop their creative skills beyond the sessions also. This interactive style of storytelling shows the children different ways to read a story and opens up and re-imagines how the stories are put together.
Come with us through the swishy swashy grass on a bear hunt, with teddy to the moon, or on a perilous quest to find some secret treasure. They are encouraged to bring their own ideas and build them into the session on a journey through the imagination.
Available to pre book by coming into any York library or by telephone on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
Dringhouses Library :
Thu 18 May :
10.00am – 12.30pm :
Free
Come along to our coffee morning and booksale. Join us for some chat with friends and neighbours, some tasty cakes, and some bargain books!
All proceeds go to the Friends of Dringhouses Library, who support the library to be the best it can be.
Friends of Dringhouses Library is a group of local people who want to help Dringhouses Library to thrive and deliver a wide range of activities.
Their role includes fundraising, supporting one-off activities, acting as a link between the library service and the wider community, and promoting Dringhouses Library and Explore York Libraries and Archives.
Special offers available on the day, like buy a coffee and cake and get a free book!
For more information please call Lucy on (01904) 552674 or dringhouses@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Mon 8 May :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
Free
Discover the larger-than-life exploits and audacious projects of Shakespeare’s friend and rival, Ben Jonson, playwright and first poet-laureate of England.
Jonson wrote for Shakespeare’s company (in fact Shakespeare acted in several of his plays), but he also established himself as an independent literary force and elevated playwriting to a publicly respected art form. Without Jonson’s leadership in self-publication, many of Shakespeare’s plays wouldn’t have been published at all.
Learn about one of the greatest writers in the history of England ahead of a rare performance of his masterpiece, Volpone, in the York International Shakespeare Festival this May.
Tickets to be booked through eventbrite or speak to a member of staff at York Explore and we can book it for you.
For more information about the York Shakespeare Project who are the organiser of Shakespeare’s Rival : Ben Jonson please visit their website.
