World Book Day
 World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. In Lambeth Libraries we will be celebrating World Book Day on 3 March. The mission is to promote reading for pleasure, the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them.
All Lambeth Libraries will be organising events on Thursday 3 March, contact your local library for details of what they have planned.
 Thursday 3 March, 10am.
Online Event: Available at WBD website
Featuring £1 book authors Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, Simon Farnaby, Michael Morpurgo, Joanna Nadin and Rikin Parekh, and Nadia Shireen, young readers will explore creating fantastical and improbable worlds for their stories.
 Saturday 5 March, 2pm to 3pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Free Explore Learning Creative Writing Workshop for children. Celebrate World Book Day with Brixton library and Explore Learning with a reading based workshop for our youngest learners and readers. In this workshop your child will practise and widen their letters, read one and two syllable words and even have a go at spelling trickier words, all with the support of our expert team of tutors. If your child is young and new to reading, this workshop will still be a great chance for them to give reading a go. Suitable for 4 to 6 year olds.
 Monday 7 March, 4pm
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Join the Librarian at Carnegie Library to make your favourite book characters in this fun craft activity for children (and maybe parents too!).
 Friday 11 March, 4pm to 5pm
Upper Norwood Library. SE19 1TJ
Each second Friday of the month, tutors from Explore Learners will be on hand to help your child practise their English and Maths skills. This Friday will be focusing on being Maths Wizards (timetables).
To book: email uppernorwoodlibrary@lambeth.gov.uk or Tel: 0207 926 1063
 Wednesday 30 March, 4pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
Join Sandra and Angela with our monthly online quiz, celebrating women! Each month we talk about what we've been reading and play Quizzes. For 7 to 11 year olds.
Exhibitions
 Showing 1 to 15 March
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
South London-based artist, illustrator, and printmaker Cherise Hewitt brings together sculpture, textiles, and printmaking and explores her own journey towards healing in her new solo show of vibrant and strong beauty at Brixton Library.
Cherise Hewitt: ‘ArtSvdMe’ – A Series of Pandemic Work - Launch reception
Thursday 3 March, 6pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
 Showing 16 to 30 March
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
This show brings a group of 24 artists together and combines artists from various disciplines within the arts: painting; drawing; cartoons; printmaking; sculpture; photography and textiles.
The theme of the show is framed around ‘reading’: i.e. books, from any genre - or authors - or poetry or prose - anything that has inspired and informed the artists to represent and interpret the concept visually. The artworks will show a myriad of styles and media, all coalescing around this theme - in the library, which is perfectly placed to display such a diverse exhibition!
Ballad to Reading - Launch reception
Thursday 17 March, 6pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
 Showing 1 to 30 March
West Norwood Library. SE27 9JX
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
80 years ago, in 1941, in Bern, Switzerland, Polish diplomats, in cooperation with Jewish circles, launched the so-called 'passport initiative' to save Jews from the Holocaust.
Lambeth Libraries are grateful to the Pilecki Institute for bringing this unique exhibition, on the work of the Ładoś Group, to London.
 Showing 31 March to 30 April
Clapham Library. SW4 7DB
Exhibition available during Library opening hours.
The Life of Maurice Dorfman tells the story of the Dorfman family, a Jewish family who fled the pogroms in Russia at the end of the 19th century, arriving in London’s East end in 1902 and eventually settling in Clapham in the 1950s and 60s, where they opened a dress making factory which subsequently became Jeannette Fashions, a haberdashery shop, at 19 Clapham High Street. Jeanette Fashions traded on the high street for some 60 years until the death of Maurice Dorfman in 2020 at the age of 87.
The exhibition includes slideshow and audio-recordings of Maurice and his memories. Photographer Jim Grover together with Susanna Elisabeth Brown from the V&A felt strongly that it needed to be in Clapham as the story of everyday life and community in Clapham over 6 decades. |
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Other Library Events...
 Tuesday 8 March, 7pm
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Booking via Eventbrite
Join Sue Hubburd this International Women's Day to discuss her novel Girl in White. Sue reads from her novel and talks about her writing and inspiration.
Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library. All welcome.
 Thursday 17 March, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
Join Lambeth Archives for another online history talk. This month an illustrated talk by Jean Kerrigan looking at how Brixton Windmill, built in 1816, survived the industrial revolution and two world wars. The mill, known locally as Ashby’s mill after the family who ran their corn milling business for 119 years, is once more producing wholemeal flour.
Jean will then discuss the campaign to retain and restore the Georgian mill as a much-loved community asset, and how local volunteers have made Brixton Windmill and the small park where it stands a centre of activity again in 2022.
 Thursday 17 March, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
Succession writer and producer Georgia Pritchett discusses her funny and relatable book about anxiety. Georgia will appear in conversation with her Faber editor, Louisa Joyner, where she will discuss her book and career.
 Friday 18 March, 11am to 3pm.
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Come and join wellbeing specialists Carers4Carers at their Community Wellbeing 4 U event and get a free health check, massage, fitness class or specialist advice and information.
This is a great opportunity to improve your wellbeing in a welcoming and supportive space. The fitness classes are suitable for different levels and abilities with a focus on having fun. Health checks include Blood Pressure, BMI & Hip Waist Ratio are happening all day.
Please come early to avoid disappointment. For further info contact Carers4Carers on 07884 966 276
 Monday 21 March, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
Graphic novelist 'Polyp' talks about the creation of his visual account of the 1819 Manchester massacre, Peterloo. Find out how the script was constructed from authentic period documents, and get a behind the scenes look at hidden visual references in many of the drawings. Event organised by the Friends of Durning Library.
 Tuesday 29 March, 7pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Join Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, author of one of the most anticipated books of 2022, in conversation. Rich with magic and wisdom, When We Were Birds is an exuberant masterpiece that conjures and mesmerises on every line. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo weaves an unforgettable story of loss and renewal, darkness and light; a triumphant reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope.
 Wednesday 30 March and Thursday 31 March, 6pm to 8.30pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
An interactive event showcasing how to improve your Mental Health & Wellbeing and the quality of services that exist in our communities. Expect films, live performances, poetry, photography, music, visual arts and debate.
 Friday 1 April, 7pm.
Clapham Library. SW4 7DB
£8 Ticket. Booking via Eventbrite
Postponed from February owing to storm Eunice we're really pleased to welcome the new date for this event. Join Naomi Bedford (Radio 2 Folk Award nominee) and Paul Simmonds (Men They Couldn't Hang) for an evening of potent, exciting and emotional folk music - live in the Library! Not to be missed.
"Amazing, Naomi pulls no punches" Iggy Pop
 If you have a business or are looking to start a business, we can support you on your journey. We know that the journey of entrepreneurship can be a challenging one, so we offer guidance and support to help enable you for success!
Contact: Rachel Samuels
Email: rsamuels1@lambeth.gov.uk
Tel: 07944733172
From Our Friends
 Saturday 5 March, 11am to 3pm
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Join the Friends of Carnegie Library to celebrate at their Spring Fair. Local societies’ stalls, storytelling sessions, craft activities and books for children.
There will be a raffle with fabulous prizes and, of course, delightful light refreshments. All Welcome.
 Saturday 5 March and Sunday 6 March 11am to 5pm both days
The Department Store, 248 Ferndale Road. SW9 8FR
Booking via Eventbrite
Please join us for an inspiring showcase of carefully selected black businesses. This is an indoor, face to face event that supports emerging entrepreneurs & new black businesses of African & Caribbean decent with opportunities to sell their products. If you're looking for gifts, cards, unique prints, jewellery, male grooming kits, skincare, clothes or other original accessories come down! This market truly embodies the community's spirit as well as supporting black businesses.
 Monday 7 March, 8pm
Hootananny Brixton, 95 Effra Rd. SW2 1DF
BookJam returns back at our regular venue the Hootananny in Brixton. Great readings in a great atmosphere. We'll be hearing from: Leo Moynihan, Paul Eccentric from the antipoets, West Camel, Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Paul Bassett Davies, William Ryan and Julie Anderson. Doors 7.30 - Free entry! |
