Easter Fun for Children
 Tuesday 5 April, 3pm to 5pm.
Thursday 7 April, 2pm to 4pm.
West Norwood Library. SE27 9JX
Booking via Eventbrite
Explore and have fun with big maths ideas. Hands-on tools & problem-solving maths enrichment activities for all the family! Whether you or your child loves, hates or is ambivalent towards maths, we’re sure to have something they’ll really enjoy, making for a great afternoon out whilst learning something new along the way. Ages 5 to14 years.
 Wednesday 6 April, 2pm to 3pm.
Minet Library. SE5 9QY
Booking via Eventbrite
Friday 8 April, 2pm to 3pm.
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Booking via Eventbrite
Saturday 9 April, 2.30pm to 3.30pm.
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
A workshop from Explore Learning Brixton, to help 7 to 9 year olds with their grammar. In this Easter special workshop, we are going to be reading about two giants from Scotland and Ireland. They were friends and then they had a big battle! Using this story, we will look at parts of grammar that children often find hard to understand – verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs. We’ll keep it fun and enjoyable so that your child can learn these topics in a positive way.
 Friday 8 April, 4pm to 5pm.
Upper Norwood Library. SE19 1TQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Monthly workshops with tutors from Explore Learning to help children from 5 to 12 years old with their Maths and English skills. This Friday we'll have Fun with Phonics: The children will investigate rhyming words and why they rhyme. They will use their phonics to help them sounds the words accurately. What do the words bat, hat and rat all have in common?
 Create your name using wooden sticks from trees! Collect sticks from the park, your garden, on walks and bring them along to the library and get crafty!
Tuesday 12 April, 2pm to 3.30pm
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Wednesday 13 April, 2pm to 3.30pm
Upper Norwood Library. SE19 1TQ
Thursday 14 April, 2pm to 2.30pm
Minet Library. SE5 9QY
Booking not required
 Wednesday 27 April, 4pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
Join Sandra and Angela with our monthly online quiz, celebrating all things Shakespeare! Each month we talk about what we've been reading and enjoy Quizzes. For 8 to 12 year olds.
Exhibitions
 Showing 5 April to 30 April
Clapham Library. SW4 7DB
Exhibition available during Library opening hours.
Official Opening and drinks reception: Tuesday, 5th April, 6pm to 8pm
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.
 Showing 20 April to 2 May
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
Launch party and Private View, Thursday 21 April, 6pm to 8pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
The original concept for this show is that all things can be seen in the Crystal Ball. All possible futures, all possible pasts. Everything is revealed including yourself. The pieces in the exhibition explore the possibilities of a new mythology and a new magic through the very act of creation through collage.
For further information:
www.samdodsonart.com
www.instagram.com/samcollaged/ |
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Other Library Events...
 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
 Friday 1 April, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
The Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+ Book Club discusses The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta. A fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed poet and performer Dean Atta.
 Tuesday 12 April, 7pm
Carnegie Library. SE24 0AG
Booking via Eventbrite
Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825 when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare’s Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain’s first Black-led theatre company. Event organised by The Friends of Carnegie Library. All welcome.
 Thursday 21 April, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
To commemorate the centenary of Stockwell War Memorial, Naomi Clifford, chair of the Friends group, looks at the history, significance and meaning of the clock tower, which was a community-led project and was unveiled in front of a vast crowd on 3 May 1922.
An exhibition organised by the Friends of Stockwell War Memorial and Gardens opens at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell on 30 April.
 Saturday 23 April, 6pm
In-Person Ticket £10 (+ concs)
Knowledge Centre, The British Library. 96 Euston Road. NW1 2DB
Online Ticket Free. Booking via British Library website
This event will be live in the British Library Theatre and simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical £10) or to watch on our platform (online free).
Join us in person at the British Library Theatre, or online, to celebrate World Book Night, as leading writers share their love of reading and add to spark our own.
 Friday 29 April, 7pm
Online Event: Booking via Eventbrite
The Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+ Book Club Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide - A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Cartoonist Kate Charlesworth
Peopled by a cast of gay icons such as Dusty Springfield, Billie Jean King, Dirk Bogarde and Alan Turing, and featuring key moments such as Stonewall, Gay Pride and Section 28, Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide, is the first graphic history documenting lesbian life from 1950 to the present. It is a stunning, personal, graphic memoir and a milestone itself in LGBTQI+ history.
 Sunday 1 May, 11am to 4pm
West Norwood Library. SE27 9JX
Lambeth libraries, in collaboration with West Norwood FEAST, is hosting the Spring local businesses fair! Come and support your local business in the library. This will be a great day for all the family with loads to see and do.
Our community space will be open to families for under 5s activities and story rhyme time from 12pm. There will also be make-over sessions, tutorials and yoga! Bring your friends and family to the library for what is set to be a great day out for all.
Stall spaces still available contact: Rachel Samuels
Email: rsamuels1@lambeth.gov.uk
From Our Friends
 Tuesday 19 April, 11am to 12.30pm
Vauxhall City Farm. 165 Tyers Street. SE11 5HS
Booking via Eventbrite
Come along to Vauxhall City Farm for a reading of 'Leroy & the Chickens' by the author & illustrator, Michelle Stewart. The event is free, but tickets must be booked in advance to ensure numbers do not exceed capacity. The book is suitable for children under 6 years old. |
