Haxby Explore Library & Oaken Grove Community Centre :
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Apr
Haxby Explore Library : Sat 23 Apr : 2.00pm – 3.00pm : £3
Meet the author Zoë Sharp
We’re very excited to have bestselling author Zoë Sharp with us for our World Book Night event. She’ll be at Haxby Library to talk about her experience as a writer. Zoë’s series of thrillers, starring heroine Charlie Fox, have featured in the bestsellers list 11 times.
Sat 23 Apr
Oaken Grove Community Centre : 10.00am – 11.00am : Free
Children’s story writing workshop
A bit of creative writing with crime theme. Ever fancied becoming a writer? Join Jo to learn about how to put a crime story together, dream up characters and write a plot. Free workshop for children interested in a bit of creative writing.
This event is aimed at ages 7-12.
Haxby Explore Library : 6.00pm – 7.30pm : £5
“Murder in the library”-Mystery event
Turn your hand to sleuthing with our murder mystery evening in the library. The evening is based on a murder kit specially written by Ann Cleeves, see if you can solve the murder of Tony Ferdinand, the star maker. With the aid of suspect statements and a forensic report, you’ll have everything you need to turn detective and solve this puzzling who-dunnit.
Refreshments are included.
Oaken Grove Community Centre : 7.00pm – 9.00pm : Free
World Book Night Book Giving
World book night volunteers will be sharing their love of reading by giving out books to people in their communities. Join us to chat about the books you love. If you have a book you love and would like to share it bring it along.
North Yorkshire Police will be in attendance with various activities at Oaken Grove during the afternoon. We’ve got a Police dog and handler and there will be fingerprinting activities and property marking.
Sun 24 Apr
Oaken Grove Community Centre : 12.30pm – 3.30pm : Free
Enid Blyton Famous Five Picnic
There will be games and lashings of ginger beer. Bring lunch along on Sunday afternoon to a giant picnic. There will be lost of fun things to do with traditional games and stalls. Refreshments will be available on Oaken Grove Community field (indoors in the event of bad weather)
All event must be booked through Explore Haxby Library on 01904 552660 or haxby@exploreyork.org.uk
IWM London’s Truth and Memory is a major retrospective that comprises over 60 works and features some of the most iconic images to emerge from the First World War, including paintings by Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, CRW Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and William Orpen.
Poetry by Heart is a national competition designed to encourage pupils aged 14-18 and at school and college in England to learn and to recite poems by heart. Not in an arm-waving, props-supported thespian extravaganza, but as the outward and audible manifestation of an inwardly-understood and enjoyed poem.
The competition is a pyramid of participation from individual classrooms to whole school/college contests, then county contests, regional semi-finals and the grand final, to be held at Homerton College, Cambridge on March 17th – 19th 2016. In the process, pupils foster deep personal connections with the poems chosen and bring poetry alive for their friends, families and communities.
Our story & play session has a special teddy theme today.
Come along and join us at York Explore Library for some fangtastic dragon-themed stories and craft activities!
Come along to our pop-up book group for a coffee and informal chat about A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, the winner of last year’s Booker Prize and the Green Carnation Prize for LGBT writers. Why not give the book a try and come along?
Drop in and find out about our new children’s chess club. This is a free drop in session with no booking required at Explore York Library.
Do you want to find out if you are you a cheeky monkey or a charming rat?