York Explore Library
Sat 17 Jun
2.30pm – 4.00pm
Free
Part of the Festival of Ideas programme, come along and have look at different types of books and their bindings including early books, play some fun games then make and decorate a beautiful book of your own to take home.
Free for children age 7+ with an accompanying adult.
Booking is essential and places can be reserved at any library.
For more information contact York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Sat 17 Jun :
1.00pm – 4.00pm :
Free
Part of the Festival of Ideas programme, come along and have creative fun with Lego. Be inspired by our archive treasures and see what you can make.
This is free drop in session so spend 10 minutes or all three hours constructing and making.
For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Railway Institute and York Explore Library :
Jun – Oct :
Free
We will be running a series of workshops during the summer and autumn and the completed artwork, PolliNation, will be formed from more than 300 individual hexagons.
The first workshops will be held at York Explore on 16 June and York Railway Institute on 21 and 28 June.
Details of all courses can be found on www.yortime.org.uk.
For more information please contact Claire Douglas on claire.douglas@york.gov.uk or 07990 774420.
York Explore Library :
Tue 6 Jun :
Free
10.00am – 10.30am :
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 but booking essential
For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
10.45am – 11.45am
Come and celebrate National Bookstart Week at York Libraries.
Toddler Sense brings together sensory play, movement, and a repertoire of exciting, upbeat classical and cultural music as well as jazz, pop, rock, rhythmic sounds, and dance from different world cultures. All of the senses will be stimulated by the carnival-style activities such as the Conga crocodile, colourful ribbons, pom-poms and scarves, parachutes, bubbles plus lots more!
Free but booking essential.
For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Mon 5 Jun :
10.00am – 12.00pm & 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Free
Come and celebrate National Bookstart Week at York Libraries.
In this session we will listen to the National Bookstart Week book “Everybunny Dance” by Ellie Sandall, enjoy soft play and play with toys from our toy library.
Free drop in.
For more information please call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Wed 31 May :
10.00am – 12.00pm :
£3 for 1 adult and 1 child & £4 for 1 adult and 2 children
Get creative making animals and people using pegs and a variety of crafting materials. Artist and designer Kathryn Richardson will show you how. This fun activity is for children and accompanying adults to enjoy.
Booking is essential and tickets can be booked at any library.
For more information call York Explore Library on (01904) 552828 or york@exploreyork.org.uk.
York Explore Library :
Thu 25 May :
7.00pm – 8.00pm :
£3 (or £2 with a York Card).
Finding the Words is a regular poetry evening every month at York Explore Library. Each evening brings together three poets and we aim to include both published writers and those working towards a collection. We’ll have a bar available and readings last around an hour. The evening is also a chance to share and chat, so please feel free to bring any news or information about poetry local, regional or national.
Zelda Chappell is a poet, editor and artist. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, both online and in print. Her debut collection, The Girl in the Dog-tooth Coat, was published by Bare Fiction in July 2015. She is the co-curator and editor of the multi-arts journal Elbow Room and independent micro-publisher As Yet Untitled, publishing books by artists and writers but not quite as you know them.
Katie Greenbrown I’m a York-based spoken word poet writing and sharing whimsical, beautiful, quirky and funny work at Open Mics and DiY events around the city. I was November 2016’s Say Owt Slam winner and will be performing for the Theatre Royal later this year with Kate Fox.
David Wilson lives in Harrogate and has been an active climber for many years, in the UK, Alps and further afield. His debut collection ‘Slope’ was published as a pamphlet last year by Smith/Doorstop. The poems celebrate what makes climbing a compulsion whilst exploring parallel themes of risk, loss and motivation.Paul Muldoon called David’s poem ‘Everest’ ‘a brilliantly imagistic rendering of a place’. And a review of ‘Slope by the Editor of ‘Climb’
Tickets cost £3 (or £2 with a York Card).
Booking
In person at any Explore York Library.
By phone: 01904 552828
Email: york@exploreyork.org.uk
York Explore Library :
Tue 23 May :
6.00pm – 7.30pm :
£5
Elizabeth Strout, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge, joins us to discuss her new collection of short stories, Anything is Possible.
In this new work, we are again with Lucy Barton as she imagines the lives of the people that she especially remembers and the people she has imagined that, in small ways, have remembered her too. For isn’t it true that we all hope to be remembered? Or to think in some way – even fleetingly – that we have been important to someone?
She will be discussing her wonderful catalogue of fiction and reading extracts from her new book.
Tickets are available from Waterstones on (01904) 620784 or www.waterstones.com.
York Explore Library :
Sun 21 May :
1.45pm – 3.45pm :
Free
Fighting Cock Press presents Alan Gillott’s second collection, “Except we Teach”. Edited by Pauline Kirk, these poems reflect the breadth and depth of his work, and his commitment to social justice. Alan’s poems are regularly used as source material by classical composers.
Join us for poetry from Alan, Pauline and a range of guests. FREE entry, beverages available.
“There is something for everyone in this collection, unexpected observations and imagery both deft and subtle.” – Helen Cadbury, Novelist and Poet.
