Service Alert - Event Cancellations
Cancellation of events
In line with the Prime Minister's speech on Monday 23rd March and to keep our staff, volunteers and customers safe and healthy, events in our libraries are cancelled. We are running some activities online, so please check with your local library to see what's on.
Devon Events
*POSTPONED* Bounce and Rhyme
Date: 10 September 2020
Time: 10:00 - 10:30
Description: Come along and join in the fun at this free session of nursery rhymes and songs for under 5s. Tea and Coffee are available for a small charge. Helen (a NCT Breastfeeding Counsellor) offers support from 10am-12pm. *Helen is away from Wednesday 4th March to Wednesday 25th March inclusive and will be attending Bounce and Rhyme again from Wednesday 1st April onwards*. While she is away you can email helenshoebrook@icloud.com 1-2-1 antenatal breastfeeding support or postnatal support.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: Free
Theme:
*POSTPONED* Bounce and Rhyme
Date: 10 September 2020
Time: 11:15 - 11:45
Description: Come along and join in the fun at this free session of nursery rhymes and songs for under 5s. Tea and Coffee are available for a small charge. Helen (a NCT Breastfeeding Counsellor) offers support from 10am-12pm. *Helen is away from Wednesday 4th March to Wednesday 25th March inclusive and will be attending Bounce and Rhyme again from Wednesday 1st April onwards*. While she is away you can email helenshoebrook@icloud.com 1-2-1 antenatal breastfeeding support or postnatal support.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: Free
Theme:
*POSTPONED* Bounce and Rhyme
Date: 17 September 2020
Time: 10:00 - 10:30
Description: Come along and join in the fun at this free session of nursery rhymes and songs for under 5s. Helen (a NCT Breastfeeding Counsellor) offers support from 10am-12pm. *Helen is away from Wednesday 4th March to Wednesday 25th March inclusive and will be attending Bounce and Rhyme again from Wednesday 1st April onwards*. While she is away you can email helenshoebrook@icloud.com 1-2-1 antenatal breastfeeding support or postnatal support.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: Free
Theme:
*POSTPONED* Tiny Tales
Date: 10 September 2020
Time: 10:30 - 11:00
Description: Join us for lots of fun at our lively storytelling session and make a simple craft to take home. *This story-time is free but there will be a charge of 50p per child to make the craft.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: 50p
Theme:
*POSTPONED* Tiny Tales
Date: 17 September 2020
Time: 10:30 - 11:00
Description: Join us for lots of fun at our lively storytelling session and make a simple craft to take home. *This story-time is free but there will be a charge of 50p per child to make the craft.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: 50p
Theme:
*POSTPONED* Tiny Tales
Date: 20 September 2020
Time: 10:30 - 11:00
Description: Join us for lots of fun at our lively storytelling session and make a simple craft to take home. *This story-time is free but there will be a charge of 50p per child to make the craft.
Audience: Under 5
Cost: 50p
Theme:
Arts & Crafts Club (online)
Date: 31 December 2020
Time: 8:00 - 8:00
Description: Welcome! Northam Library Arts & Crafts Club Facebook Group is a friendly, inspirational online space for local people to share creations and inspirations or to just come along and enjoy what others are making.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free
Theme: arts, crafts
Book Track (online)
Date: 31 December 2020
Time: 8:00 - 8:00
Description: Calling all children. Have you heard of Booktrack? Book Track is a reading scheme for children aged 6 and over to support you in developing a love of reading and your confidence in reading. What about reading 100 books? Are you up for this challenge? Then, start reading any books of your choice, collect your personal folder from Northam Library (email or telephone for appointment to collect) if you don't have one. You will be able to collect badges and stickers as you go along and we cannot wait to hear all about your progress. Reading is fun! Enjoy! Booktrack is available to do online through our website: https://www.devonlibraries.org.uk/.../children-booktrack or email your book reviews to northam.library@librariesunlimited.org.uk
Audience: Child
Cost: Free
Theme: reading, book track
Bounce and Rhyme - FACEBOOK
Date: 20 May 2021
Time: 10:30 - 11:00
Description: Pre-recorded or live Bounce and Rhyme children's sing-along sessions with James each Thursday at 10:30 on our Facebook page
Audience: All
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Theme: Facebook LIVE
Bounce and Rhyme Online
Date: 18 May 2021
Time: 11:00 - 11:30
Description: We've pooled the expertise of our teams from Devon and Torbay Libraries to bring you a varied programme of Bounce & Rhyme sessions from across the county. Join in the action with songs and rhymes and enjoy meeting staff from different libraries. https://bit.ly/3bnBrZm
Audience: All
Cost: Free
Theme:
Cancelled Until Further Notice Lego Club
Date: 11 January 2021
Time: 15:45 - 16:45
Description: Do you love Lego? Then come and join our themed builds: take part in a teamwork project or let your imagination fly on your own creation! Join us every other Tuesday.
Audience: Child
Cost: Free
Theme:
Crediton Literary Festival 2021
Date: 05 June 2021
Time: 10:00 - 20:00
Description: On Saturday June 5th, we will be presenting Crediton Literary Festival 2021, online via Zoom. We have popular crime novelist Kate Ellis headlining, plus another 16 fantastic authors from the Sunday Times and Observer Bestseller lists, Crime Writers' Association and Royal Literature Society prizewinners and more. Plus a children's workshop courtesy of the lovely people at Usborne Books. The whole event is FREE to attend. You just need to book a space and you will have access to the whole day as you choose. To book, please visit bit.ly/CredLit21 10am Crime Panel, 11.00 Usborne Books Children's Workshop, 12pm Historical Panel, 1.30pm Victoria Dowd on Modern Detective Fiction, 2.30pm Jenny Kane Romantic Fiction, 3.30pm Kate Ellis Crime Author, 4.45 Suspense Panel, 7pm Japanese Fiction with Stephanie Scott
Audience: All
Cost: Free
Theme:
Dartmouth Evening Reading Group By Zoom Invitation
Date: 02 December 2020
Time: 17:00 - 17:45
Description: Normally meeting on the 1st Thursday of the month. Due to Covid-19 restrictions meeting on Zoom by invitation. The Dartmouth Evening Reading Group read one selected title a month (usually my choice!) then meet in the library to discuss it. Most of our choices are contemporary fiction, often from prize shortlists, but with occasional forays into translated work, non-fiction, poetry or biography. For keen readers. If you need any further information please contact the library.
Audience: All
Cost: Free
Theme:
Dartmouth Library Book Club Postponed Until Further Notice
Date: 13 January 2021
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Description: Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each month. If you feel “Stuck in a rut” with your book choices we hope to introduce you to new authors and broaden your reading experience. For enthusiastic readers.
Audience: All
Cost: Free
Theme:
Evening Book Club
Date: 02 July 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Description: An informal, friendly meeting where we talk about our chosen book and share recommendations for a good read. Bimonthly on Friday evening, presently being held online. Please ring Crediton Library 01363 77258 or email crediton.library@librariesunlimited.org.uk for details.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free
Theme:
Free bingo session lead by Ageing Well Dementia Action Week
Date: 19 May 2021
Time: 14:30 - 15:30
Description: Free online Bingo session lead by the local charity Ageing Well and it will last up to an hour. This will be an online Zoom Event and attendees will be emailed the link a few days before as well as a free Bingo sheet to download. The email will contain all the details of how it will work and a unique Bingo sheet for each customer, which can either be downloaded or printed at your local library. To book your place register via: https://bit.ly/33heenk This is part of a Dementia Action Week; for other events organised by Libraries Unlimited for Dementia Action Week please see our Facebook page.
Audience: All
Cost: Free
Theme:
In Conversation - Virtual Night In
Date: 26 October 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Description: Exeter Library and Books In The City present an In Conversation Virtual Night In. Join Laura Bambrey, Simon Booker, Jackie Fraser & Florence Keeling, in conversation with Karen from Exeter Library. For more information about the event and to join us live on Facebook, click here.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Theme: Online Author Event
In Conversation with Ed O’Loughlin
Date: 29 June 2021
Time: 19:00 - 19:45
Description: Join us for an online In Conversation with writer Ed O'Loughlin talking about his new novel 'This Eden'. Fast-moving, exhilarating and tense, 'This Eden' is both a classic spy novel and speculative fiction for the here and the now. Ed grew up in Kildare town, Ireland, where he moved from his native Toronto, Canada, aged six. His first novel, 'Not Untrue & Not Unkind' was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Ed lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. For more information about the event or to join us live on Facebook, click here.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Theme: Exeter Library In Conversation
In Conversation with Elodie Harper & Jennifer Saint
Date: 06 July 2021
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Description: Join us for a double bill In Conversation event online, with Elodie Harper and Jennifer Saint as they chat about their new books 'The Wolf Den' and 'Ariadne'. Elodie Harper is a journalist and prize-winning short story writer. Her story 'Wild Swimming' won the 2016 Bazaar of Bad Dreams short story competition, which was judged by Stephen King. She is currently a reporter and presenter at ITV News Anglia. Due to a lifelong fascination with Ancient Greek mythology, Jennifer Saint read Classical Studies at King’s College, London. She spent the next thirteen years as an English teacher, sharing a love of literature and creative writing with her students. Ariadne is her first novel and she is working on another retelling of ancient myth for her second. For more information about the event and to join us live on Facebook, click here.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Theme: Exeter Library In Conversation
In Conversation with Jane Corry
Date: 22 June 2021
Time: 19:00 - 19:45
Description: Join Exeter Library's Karen for an online In Conversation event with Sunday Times best selling author Jane Corry, chatting about her new book 'The Lies We Tell', which will be published on the 24 June 2021. Jane is a former magazine journalist who spent three years working as the writer-in-residence of a high security prison for men. This often-hair-raising experience helped inspire her Sunday Times-bestselling psychological thrillers, My Husband's Wife, Blood Sisters, The Dead Ex and I Looked Away, which have been published in more than 35 countries. For more information about the event or to join us live on Facebook, click here.
Audience: Adult
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Theme: Exeter Library In Conversation
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