What’s on: Parliament Week
What’s on: Lets go Lego, discover DUPLO
Tue 10 Nov : 1.00pm and 2.00pm
Lego play sessions, specially designed bringing storytelling and imagination together with Lego.
Each child will receive a bag of Duplo bricks to take home.
Booking is essential, ages 18 months to 5yrs old
Contact 01904 552660 or email mailto:haxby@exploreyork.org.uk for details.
What’s on: Personalise your laptop
Fri 6 Nov for 5 weeks
Time: 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Acomb Explore Library
Cost: Full fee £55 but concessions available
Learn how to get to grips with your laptop and adjust settings that will help you to use it to the full!
How to make sure it is secure using the Internet, understand how to use folders and where to put files and change the way your mouse works.
The course covers Windows 7, 8 and 10
Great for those who are wanting to know more about their laptop.
You must bring your own laptop, fully charged and a notepad and pen for taking notes.
What’s on: Coffeehouse, debate, discussion, controversy and coffee.
Wed 4 Nov : 6.30pm – 7.30pm York Explore Library
Coffeehouse : Debate, Discussion, Controversy, Coffee: Read All About It: Political journals, scandal sheets and the beginnings of journalism
This autumn’s talks take their inspiration from the 18th century origins of the Coffeehouse and look at the history of everyday things and the way this can inform our ideas and attitudes.
The autumn series is facilitated by Dr Kaley Kramer of York St John University.
Suggested donation £3.50 or £2.50 with a York Card (includes a hot drink from York Explore’s Cafe)
Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore Library Adults 16+
Crimes, coffee and conversation
Tue 3 Nov : 7.00pm – 8.30pm Dringhouses Library |
Date: Tue 3 Nov
Time: 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Dringhouses Library
Cost: £6 / £5 with a YorkCard
In this interactive talk you the audience are the jury, while Rosemary presents the evidence concerning who killed this WW1 heroine in a ‘locked room’ mystery which still has not been conclusively solved.
Join us to celebrate the launch of the new edition of this true story, by local author Rosemary Cook.
Who killed Florence Nightingale’s Goddaughter, and why?
You decide.
Tickets available from any Explore York Library, refreshments included.
Signed copies of ‘The Nightingale Shore Murder’ at a discounted price.
Disabled access and toilet.
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Coffeehouse, debate, discussion, controversy and coffee.
Wed 4 Nov : 6.30pm – 7.30pm York Explore Library
Coffeehouse : Debate, Discussion, Controversy, Coffee: Read All About It: Political journals, scandal sheets and the beginnings of journalism
This autumn’s talks take their inspiration from the 18th century origins of the Coffeehouse and look at the history of everyday things and the way this can inform our ideas and attitudes.
The autumn series is facilitated by Dr Kaley Kramer of York St John University.
Suggested donation £3.50 or £2.50 with a York Card (includes a hot drink from York Explore’s Cafe)
Please book via www.feelinginspired.co.uk or in person at any Explore Library Adults 16+
Conversation with Helen Cadbury and Tom Harper
Date: Wed 4 Nov
Wed 4 Nov : Tickets £4.50 , £3.50 with a York card
York Explore Library 7.00pm – 8.30pm
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Gervase Phinn
Sat 21 Nov: 2.00pm – 4.00pm : York Explore Library
Gervase 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
Partners in crime: an evening with Mari Hannah and Kate Ellis
Tue 24 Nov: 6.30pm – 7.30pm : York Explore Library
If 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: Poetry Society Surgeries with Carole Bromley
Sat 31 Oct: 10.00am – 3.15pm
This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Carole Bromley, a relaxed but in-depth analysis of your poems.
Identify strategies for further developing your writing, discuss problems you may be experiencing and look at strategies for taking your work forward.
There will be plenty of time to talk about all those things you need to know about writing, revising and submitting your work.
Surgeries take place at York Explore, Library Square, Museum Street, York, YO1, which is 5 minutes walk from the station and 1 minute from The Minster. Library Square is well served by buses and there are several car-parks nearby. York Explore also has a very nice cafe.
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What’s on: Spooky halloween stories and crafts
Fri 30 Oct : 2.30 – 3.30pm at Clifton Library
Dare you come along to our Spooky storytime? Listen to ghostly stories
make creepy crafts, carve a pumpkin, do the ghoul hunt and much more.
Stories and Crafts for 5-12 year olds.
Please bring along a pumpkin to carve.
There will be a ghostly ghoul hunt around the library and various spooky crafts to make.
Please feel free to come dressed up in your Halloween costume
Tickets booked via Clifton Library 01904 552662 clifton@exploreyork.org.uk
Fri 30 Oct: 4.00 – 5.30pm at Haxby Library
Creepy stories across the city today, crafts to make and give, colour ins, fancy dress essential to this one.
Watch out for the famous Haxby spiders … they breed them large and furry (but very friendly and they love books)!
Tickets and more details from Haxby library, 01904 552660,haxby@exploreyork.org.uk
What’s on: Frances Brody new book launch
Thur 29 Oct: 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Frances Brody, author of the highly-praised Yorkshire-based Kate Shackleton Mystery series set in the 1920s, introduces book number seven: A Death in the Dales.Published in paperback original by Piatkus, on October 1st 2015, price £8.99
Author of short stories, historical novels, plays for theatre and scripts for radio and television Frances will talk about filling her life with crime, and will happily answer questions.
This is a free event but booking is essential, to do so please go to http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-brody-author-a-death-in-the-dales-tickets-18375453476?aff=es2 or contact York Explore Library on 01904 55282 or speak to a member of staff.
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What’s on: Winnie’s Amazing Pumpkin
29 Oct: 2.00pm – 3.00pm
 Join Explore York Libraries and Mud Pie Arts Theatre Company as we introduce that popular book character Winnie the Witch for some spellbinding mayhem!Help her out of trouble when the vegetable patch gets out of hand. Expect storytelling, music and you must all be prepared to join in with the magic making!Fancy dress optional!
Suitable for 3 – 8 year olds. A parent or carer must stay at this session. To book a place for this session contact any Explore York Library, pop into speak to a member of staff, email york@exploreyork.org.uk, or ring 01904 552828
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