 Café open Mondays 1.30pm to 2.15pm
Want to practice speaking English or need help with English pronunciation?
Visit our virtual café and join our friendly group, who will encourage you to be confident in a range of situations that will assist you to improve your spoken English in every day conversations.
Bring our own your cappuccino, espresso or iced tea! Contact Liz at durninglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID and log in details.
 Homework Help - photo: Pixnio
Monday to Friday 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Lambeth Library staff are here to support children and young people with their homework. If you have an enquiry with your homework, please contact us online at Ask a Librarian.
 Lambeth Libraries Literary Lockdown
Wednesdays 5pm to 6pm
Lambeth Libraries book quiz to entertain and test your literary brain. Email brixtonlendinglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for your invitation and password.
 Book break
A shared reading group experience from the comfort of your own home. Our librarians will read from a novel, a short story or poem and then we'll stop and talk about what we have read. There is no need to read aloud or speak - it's fine to just listen or to chat about books.
Wednesdays 9.30am. Durning Library with Edwin. Contact Edwin at EEMacrae@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
Thursdays 10.30am. Brixton Library with Andrew. Contact Andrew at AOBrien@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
 Saturdays 4pm
Sundays 3pm
Code Club for children aged 9-13. It provides step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Abby and Ana on Sunday, email for meeting ID and details ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk
Get free access to thousands of movies with your library card. Simply register at Lambeth Kanopy and please use all the letters and numbers on your library card with no spaces.
 Film Club
Saturdays 6pm
Watch the movie at your leisure via Lambeth Kanopy and feel free to join us online to discuss the film on Saturday at 6pm.
For more information and your invite link, contact Marie at mayoola@lambeth.gov.uk. All films chosen for the film club are available to stream for free on Kanopy with your Lambeth library card.
 Online reading group
Our Reading Groups have gone online
bringing people together to discuss a particular book. Don't miss our weekly get-together's.
You can find more information about each of the groups and what they are discussing on your local library Facebook page or email me at todell@lambeth.gov.uk. All welcome.
 
 Wriggle and Rhyme
Lambeth Libraries brings your Wriggle and Rhyme live in your home!
Join our librarians for songs, stories and rhymes for the under 5s.
Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) 10.30am to 11am
Facebook live everyday @ Facebook/Lambeth Libraries: Wriggle and Rhyme Online.
 Fridays 11am
An online get together for parents, grandparents, child minders or nannies to develop support networks within a safe space. A weekly chat to touch base and support each other, with a simple smile from a familiar face, a chat or shared tear and hopefully some giggles.
Email Tina at tfellows@lambeth.gov.uk for the meeting ID and invite
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 Louise Candlish
Tuesday 14 July, 7pm
Author Louise Candlish discusses her latest novel The Other Passenger, followed by general Q&A from attendees. Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library, for more information, meeting ID and log in details contact Carnegie Library at CarnegieLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk
 Lambeth Archives
A series of online Lambeth history talks by the staff of Lambeth Archives
The July and August Local History in Lock-down programme includes a virtual history walk from Vauxhall to Camberwell, an account of the bitterly contested campaign of the 1880s to create those free libraries in Lambeth that we now all take for granted, and a look at the growth of the borough's southern suburbs.
Thursday 16 July, 6.45pm. Camberwell and Vauxhall and Saunter
Thursday 30 July, 6.45pm. Knowledge is Power: The battle for Lambeth's Free Libraries
Thursday 13 August, 6.45pm. Suburban Spread, Clapham, Brixton, Norwood and Streatham
To book a place and receive log-in details, email archives@lambeth.gov.uk
 This year the famous Lambeth Country show is going virtual and Libraries will be there!
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July.
Country Show Wriggle & Rhyme special for under 5s. Saturday 18 July, 11am to 12pm
Lambeth Libraries brings you Wriggle and Rhyme live in your home! Join our librarians for songs, stories and rhymes for the under 5s, reflecting the journey to the show, the stalls, food, people, animals, plants, fair, music and the park. Facebook live @ Facebook/Lambeth Libraries: Wriggle and Rhyme Online.
Summer Reading Challenge kids quiz. Saturday 18 July, 11am
Join Librarian Zoey for a fun book quiz for children, lots of fun and book prizes to be had! Join her on Lambeth Libraries Instagram
Code Club Tasters. Saturday 18 July, 4pm and Sunday 19 July, 3pm
Code Club for children aged 9-13. It provides step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Ana on Saturday or Sunday, email for meeting ID and details ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk
Lambeth Libraries Literary Lockdown Quiz. Saturday 18 July, 6 to 7pm
Lambeth Libraries book quiz to entertain and test your literary brain. Join Library quizzer Rossella. Email brixtonlendinglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for your invitation and password.
Garden Storytime with Miranda. Sunday 19 July, 10am
Our Book of the week is specially chosen by your local librarian with the Country Show in mind. Join Miranda in the garden on Sunday at Lambeth Libraries Instagram.
Lambeth Archives at the Country Show. Saturday and Sunday 18/19 July
Lambeth Archives are spending the weekend reflecting on Country shows from Lambeth’s past – check out some wonderful memories on Twitter @LambethArchives. On Sunday catch the wonderful talk by Lambeth Archivist Jon Newman on Why Parks Matter! Available on Lambeth Libraries Instagram at 2pm.
 Stop the Traffik
Monday 20 July, 7pm
'People shouldn’t be bought and sold', and with the Stop App anyone can help prevent that. The international charity Stop the Traffik, founded and based at Lambeth North, disrupts human trafficking through intelligence-led prevention. Hear about their important work. Event organised by the Friends of Durning Library.
Contact Liz at durninglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID and log in details.
 Our Start-ups in London Libraries workshops are now available as webinars which are accessible remotely, wherever you are. Check out our July schedule and register your place on one of online workshops. This project is designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs turn their business idea into a reality.
From our Friends
 We're featuring some of the great writing opportunities available online to celebrate National Writing Day.
The Stephen Spender Prize for poetry, in association with The Guardian, is now open for entries. This annual competition is the ideal activity for remote learning, and this year there are lots of virtual resources to make it fully accessible from home. Deadline 17 July.
The 100 Great Black Britons home school competition is open to all age groups and is a fantastic way for children, young people and adults to learn more about the legacy and achievements of Black people in Britain. Find out about the competition. Entries open until 30 September.
 Carers’ Hub Lambeth and My Social have developed a new Lambeth Carers Card scheme offering carers free access to a Lambeth version of Carers UK Digital Resource for Carers.
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