Discover Digital
Come enjoy a FREE introduction to various digital events over March at various libraries.
Discover Cloud Storage at Haxby Explore Library
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Discover Twitter at Poppleton Library
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Discover Facebook at Clifton Explore Library
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Discover Google Services at New Earswick Library
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Discover Microsoft Word at Fulford Library
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Discover NHS Online at Strensall Library
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Discover which browser is best for you at New Earswick Library
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York Explore Library :
Tue 5 Jul :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£12 (£10 with a York Card)
The need to craft doesn’t just end when you turn 16! We are inviting you to an evening of grown-up crafting.
There will be four crafts for you to try and take home, as well as our Explore Café Bar and a relaxed, child free environment for you and friends to unwind with a little adhesive spray, pencil crayons and paper folding.
Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.
10 tickets max.
Please note: This event will take place at York Explore
York Libraries – now run by a a mutual benefit society with charitable status – have updated their performance stats page. They deserve some credit for doing so on a regular basis – in contrast to some other local taxpayer subsidised QUANGOs who are very reluctant to release similar information.
Generally visitor numbers have been stable over the last year or so.
The central Explore Library is – not surprisingly – the most used with 530,020 visitors over the last 15 months. It is followed by Acomb (128,277) and Rowntree Park (100,808)
York libraries user numbers
The number of books borrowed is also fairly stable.
York libraries book issues
Once again the central library dominates (296,595) against 123,397 at Acomb and 79,938 at Tang Hall.
Rowntree Park had a relatively modest 11,572 issues suggesting that the library there is popular for other reasons (possibly the cafe).
The Library recently had a £100,000 application to the Arts Council granted. It also recently opened a pop-up Reading Cafe in the historic Homestead Park.
We’ll be going under the sea for this year’s National Bookstart week, join us for a whale of a time! Lots of fun for babies, toddlers and their carers.
National Bookstart Week is BookTrust’s annual event celebrating the joys and benefits of sharing books & stories every day. We’ll be giving away the special Bookstart story booklets, at every story and rhymetime. This year the chosen book is The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea.
Daily from Monday 6 June to Sunday 12 June
Under the Sea Trail, Storytimes, Rhymetimes, Colouring & Crafts
FREE, drop in
Baby Massage 10.00am
Baby Reflexology 10.45am
Baby Yoga 2.00pm
FREE but booking is required due to limited places.
Kindermusik 10.00am and 11.00am
Toddler Sense 1.00pm
Baby Sensory 2.00pm
FREE but booking is required due to limited places.
FREE but booking is required due to limited places.
FREE drop-in
FREE but booking is required due to limited places.
Contact York Explore for more details: (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk
Do you have a little spare time and are you looking for something new to get involved in?
Come along to find out about local opportunities.
We are running Volunteer Fairs throughout the week in a library near you.
Come and find out about our fantastic Volunteer opportunities we have at Explore Acomb Library. We have new Volunteer roles to launch for all ages and an exciting new Reading Hack Volunteer Programme for 13 to 24 year olds! We will also have representatives from Dementia Forward to chat about their volunteer opportunities. Our Explore cafe will be open for refreshments.
For more information contact Explore Acomb Library on 01904 552651 or acomb@exploreyork.org.uk.
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Whether it is to unwind, to focus, to practice mindfulness or just as a method to de-stress, Art Therapy has become a craze across the world. We are inviting you to an evening to explore your creative side whilst taking a step back from the hustle and bustle.
All the materials will be provided for you to enjoy an hour of zen.
There are a maximum of 20 tickets and can be bought online at http://www.feelinginspired.co.uk/detail/aneveningofcalm-19-05-2016 or at any York library.
They cover the activities of the York Explore Library team and the Theatre Royal.
The Libraries now operate as an independent “community benefit society”. They receive funding of over £2 million a year from York taxpayers so it is disappointing that the report says little about the organisations financial position. Nor are KPIs tabulated. However, local libraries have maintained, and enhanced, their reputations over the last year. They are more outward looking with several – including Acomb – seeking to establish “Friends” support groups. They are also meeting the challenge of a, still expanding, technology sector.
Theatre Royal has re-opened following refurbishment
The Theatre Royal – which is an independent trust – has had a turbulent year with performances moved to the Railway Museum while the St Leonard’s Place building was completely modernised. The work ran 6 months behind schedule which was a major challenge for the theatre’s management. Early reactions to the recently reopened theatre have been generally positive. With the Council having paid their annual grant up front to help pay for the costs of the refurbishment the theatre faces a testing few years on the financial front. The Theatre Royal is an important part of York’s cultural heritage and most residents will wish it well as it seeks to re-establish itself.
Popular historian Alison Weir will visit York on the publication of the her new novel, the first in a series of six about the wives of Henry VIII. Alison Weir tells the poignant story of Katherine of Aragon, the King’s first wife, drawing on new research and keeping closely to the historical record.
She approaches her tale from Katherine’s point of view, which affords an intimate psychological perspective on this indomitable, courageous and principled woman. Was Katherine’s union with Prince Arthur consummated? What happens when a happy royal marriage is overshadowed by dynastic pressures, doubts and the allure of an ambitious woman?
Alison Weir evokes a court peopled by the luminaries of the early Tudor age – Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell and the magnificent figure of Henry VIII himself – a young and athletic Henry, not yet marred by frustration and disappointment.
They live in a lost world of splendour and brutality, dominated by faith and by momentous religious change – a world in which there were few saints. This was Katherine’s world, and we can only understand her properly within its context.
Tickets are available from Waterstones York on 01904 620784 or book online here.
There are a maximum of 200 tickets.
York Explore Library : Tue 17 May : 6.30pm – 7.30pm :
Tickets cost £4 (£3 with a York Card)
Come meet and hear debut author Lara Williams talk about her writing and what it is was like to create and publisher her first short story collection.
“Dance like nobody gives a crap. Drink like you don’t have a family to go home to. Love because what else is the point.”
So says one of the characters in Lara Williams’ extraordinary debut story collection. Treats is a break-up album of tales covering relationships, the tyranny of choice, and self navigation. This fresh, beguiling new voice paints a portrait of contemporary adulthood, balancing wry humour with a pervading sense of alienation in the digital era.
Williams’ characters struggle with how to negotiate intimacy within relationships and isolation when single, the pitfalls and indignities of dating, dragged down by dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the dilemmas of life play out, including abortion, depression, extra-marital affairs, infatuation, new baby anxiety, bereavement, hair loss, sexual ethics, cats, and taxidermy.
For more information about the author please visit https://larawilliams.wordpress.com/ or http://www.freightbooks.co.uk/treats-by-lara-williams.html
There are a maximum of 50 tickets and can be bought online at http://www.feelinginspired.co.uk/detail/larawilliamstreats-17-05-2016 at any York library.
