What’s on in York: Meet the toys

Date: Wed 10 Feb
Time: 10.00am – 12.00 noon
Venue: York Explore Library
Cost: Free

Come along to meet the new toys we have in out toy library.  Find out how you can borrow toys and browse our collection.

Meet The Toys AliCome along to meet the new toys we have in our Toy Library.

This is a free drop in session where you can learn what we have in our collection and how to borrow and browse from it.

It costs 50p to borrow a toy from the Toy Library.

For more information please ring 01904 552828 or email york@exploreyork.org.uk

 

What’s on in York: We are friends!

Date: Sat 6 Feb
Time: 2.00pm – 2.30pm
Venue: York Explore Library
Cost: Free

Come and join us on National Libraries Day for a special story time all about celebrating difference.

Books AliThis special storytime is suitable for Under 5s and their carers.

York Explore Library from 200pm to 2.30pm

It is a FREE drop-in session, no booking required.

Carers must stay with children.

01904 552828
york@exploreyork.org.uk

What’s on in York: Haxwort’s School of Magic

Date: Thu 4 Feb
Time: 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Haxby Explore Library
Cost: £2 per child or £5 per family

2016’s term of Magic begins with sorting and spells, magic and mystery for students of all ages.

HaxbyMagical activities based around the stories of Harry Potter.

Explore Haxby Library from 4.00pm to 5.30pm

All ages are welcome including adults.

£2 per child or family ticket £5

Booking is essential, contact Explore Haxby Library for details phone 01904 552660 or email Haxby@exploreyork.org.uk.

2016 “Big City Read” announced by York libraries

Big City Read PatBarker_RegenerationYork libraries have announced that the Big City Read for 2016 will be “Regeneration” by Pat Barker. The book was first published in 1991 and is set in the First World War.

It was subsequently turned into a film.

Pat Barker was born not far from York in Thornaby-on-Tees.

The Big City Read highlights one exceptional book and encourages hundreds of people across York to read it.

“Regeneration” plot summary

Regeneration begins with Siegfried Sassoon’s open letter, dated July 1917, protesting the conduct and insincerities of the First World War. The letter has been published in the London Times and has received much attention in England, as many people are upset over the length and toll of the war thus far. The army is not sure what to do with Sassoon, as his letter clearly threatens to undermine the strength of the war effort at home.

 With the string-pulling and guidance of Robert Graves, a fellow poet and friend of Sassoon, the Board agrees to send Sassoon to Craiglockhart War Hospital—a mental facility in Scotland—rather than court-marshaling him. Sassoon is at first hesitant to agree to this, since he (rightly) fears that being committed to a mental hospital will undermine his cause; however, convinced by Graves that there is no other option, Sassoon agrees.

At Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets with Dr. W.H.R. Rivers, a former anthropologist turned psychiatrist who encourages his patients to express their war memories so that they can heal their “nerves.” Though Rivers can sympathize with the strong dislike of the horrors of war, he believes it is his duty to encourage Sassoon to return to France to fight.
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What’s on: Cinderella Film night at Acomb Library

Date: Sat 5 Dec
Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Venue: Explore Acomb Library
Cost: £3.50 per ticket, or £12 for 2 adults and 2 children

Bring the kids to our pop up cinema at Explore Acomb Library to see the new CCindarella Jpeginderella!

Introducing community cinema in association with Cinem@, Acomb Explore Library will be showcasing the 2015 version of Cinderella!

Cinema popcorn is included in the price (£3.50 a ticket or £12 for 2 adults and 2 children). 4-6pm!

Refreshments available.

Booking essential on 01904 552651.

All ages welcome. Dress-up optional.

Saturday 5 December

What’s on: Partners in crime: an evening with Mari Hannah and Kate Ellis

Tue 24 Nov: 6.30pm – 7.30pm : York Explore Library

Partners In Crime Poster PicIf you love police procedural don’t miss crime writers Mari Hannah (creator of the Kate Daniels novels) and Kate Ellis (author of the Wesley Peterson series) interviewed about their lives in crime writing by Chris Titley from The York Mix this November.

Mari will also be introducing her new standalone thriller The Silent Room, while Kate has a new novel out in her series featuring DI Joe Plantagenet, set in the northern city of Eborby….now does that remind you of anywhere?

Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore York Library.

Tickets are £4.50 or £3.50 with a YorkCard

Bar available on the night.

Adults 16+

 

What’s on: Gervase Phinn at York Explore library

Sat 21 Nov: 2.00pm – 4.00pm : York Explore Library

GervaseGervase Phinn, one of Britain’s best loved comic writers, introduces his latest book A Lesson in Love, his new tale of life in the Dales. Laughter, tears and entertainment are guaranteed!

Gervase Phinn will sign books after the talk – an ideal Christmas present for anyone who loves Yorkshire.

All the beloved characters from Gervase Phinn’s other Little Village School novel make welcome returns in this new tale of life in the Dales.

Elizabeth Stirling (formerly Devine but now newly wed to Dr Stirling), the head teacher of the newly amalgamated school must prove its worth to the parents, governors, school inspectors and the children themselves.

She must tread the narrow line between kindness and discipline with diplomacy if she is to get what she knows the school needs – and avoid an unholy row about teachers and health and safety.

There are lessons learned and characters shaped in this most entertaining of novels. Humour and raw emotion, laced with humour and wicked observations pepper Gervase Phinn’s writing and this book is a wonderful example.

Tickets priced £6 or £5 with a Yorkcard are available from  www.feelinginspired.co.uk , or from any Explore York Library

What’s on: The city as archive – Francis Drake’s Eboracum

Wed 18 Nov : 7.00pm – 8.00pm

CityPublished in 1736, Francis Drake’s Eboracum offers an unprecedented record of the history of an English city outside of London.

This lecture will explore the effects of such a publication in the 18th century, how it represented the living city as an already-archived object, and how it shaped the perceptions of York in the mid-eighteenth century.

Open to all. Tickets can be purchased from any Explore Library, by phoning 01904 552800 or from www.feelinginspired.co.uk