York Explore Library :
Tue 5 Jun :
10.00am – 10.30am :
Free
Come and celebrate National Bookstart Week at York Libraries.
Baby Sensory is an award winning baby development programme specifically designed for babies from birth to 13 months. The sessions include a wide range of activities, such as music, puppet shows, fibre optic light shows and visual stimulation, which encourage your baby’s development while having lots of fun!
Free booking essential, call any library to book your place.
York Explore Library :
Thu 18 Jan :
6.30pm – 8.00pm :
Free
Mike Di Placido has published two collections of poetry: Theatre of Dreams (Smith/Doorstop, 2009) and A Sixty Watt Las Vegas (Valley Press, 2013). His poetry has been translated into German and Romanian through the web magazine PoetryPf, and also broadcast on British and European radio.
Mike has read at numerous literary festivals, and his poems and reviews have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The North, The Rialto, Pennine Platform and Poetry Saltzburg. He was recently the sole judge of The Poetry Space Competition, 2017.
Mike is a member of The Ted Hughes Society and The Elmet Trust.
Comments on Mike’s poetry:
I can’t remember when I enjoyed a book of poems so much; possibly ‘Season Songs’.
Keith Sagar (on Di Placido’s ‘Theatre of Dreams’)
Shrewdly, comically, with Blakean innocence, Mike Di Placido writes about enthusiasm and inspiration: how in practice we read poetry and fall in love with it.
Ed Reiss
In these poems Ted comes alive again, he lives and breathes. These poems are healing gifts.
Mark Hinchliffe
To book tickets please click here.
Date: Tue 1 Aug
Time: 11.00am – 12.00pm
Venue: York Explore Library
Cost: £2
A Meet the Creatures session with a few small and friendly exotic animals. Kids will get to see and touch some amazing animals from around the world.
A keeper from Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation park will bring along some small exotic animals for kids to see and meet. Learn all about different types of creatures and find out about some amazing animals.
More information about Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation Park can be found at: www.abcwildlifepark.co.uk
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Date: Mon 7 Aug
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Venue: Bishopthorpe Library
Cost: £2
Date: Mon 7 Aug
Time: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Venue: Clifton Explore Library
Cost: £2
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.
Tuesday 12th July
19:00 – 20:30
York Explore, Museum Square, York
