Library Events
 Tuesday, 10 January, 7pm
Carnegie Library, SE24 0DG
Booking via Eventbrite
Maria Chamberlain discusses her book Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish - a story of two assimilated Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Poland in the eye of the Holocaust. Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library
 Monday, 16 January, 7pm
Durning Library, SE11 4HF
Booking via Eventbrite
Christopher Bowden presents his latest novel - a literary mystery about hidden lives and second chances. Event organised by the Friends of Durning Library
 Tuesday, 17 January, 7pm
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Join writer and editor Leone Ross to launch Glimpse - the first speculative fiction anthology of Black British writers. These ground-breaking short stories include themes which are Afrofuturistic, magic realism and transformational. All welcome.
 Wednesday, 18 January, 7pm
Tate South Lambeth Library, SW8 1QP
Booking via Eventbrite
Simon Keable-Elliott talks about his grandfather, writer Robert Keable. Slated by critics, dubbed ‘utterly immoral’ by F Scott Fitzgerald and mocked in The Great Gatsby, Robert's novel Simon Called Peter became a worldwide bestseller in the 1920s. Event organised by Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library.
Art Exhibition
 Thursday, 5 to Tuesday 31 January
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
On show during Library opening hours
After last year’s great success, Brixton library will again be hosting an exhibition showcasing photographic work by those who have been affected by homelessness.
Twelve participants from the RPS/Cafe Art mentoring group, who meet up several times a month to improve their photographic skills with the help of mentors from the Royal Photographic society, were asked to submit a panel of 4 photographs representing their style of photography. This has resulted in bodies of work which helps showcase the personalities of the photographers as well as providing a wonderful variety of 48 images in total.
The objective of the RPS/Cafe Art group is to help the well being and confidence of those who have been affected by homelessness through photography and this exhibition plays an important part in enabling this.
Further information: @cafeartuk Café Art UK |
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Events for Children and Young People
 Join in the Winter Mini Challenge at Lambeth libraries! Visit your local library now to choose books to read over the winter months. The Winter Mini Challenge encourages children to keep up their reading habits over the winter holidays, with a free-to-access website featuring rewards for reading and reviewing books. To take part in the Winter Mini Challenge, children simply read three or more books before 20 February and add them to their online profile at wintermini.org.uk. These can be any books of their choice. Every time they finish a book, they add it to their Challenge website profile and leave a short book review. Join in on the Winter Mini Challenge website now!
 Starting Monday, 16 January, 10am to 11.30am
Tate South Lambeth Library, SW8 1QP
Unity Matters CIC will be delivering another exciting round of Munch Brunch Story & Rhyme Time at South Lambeth Library for parents with children under 5.
Sessions will run for a 5 week period from 16th January to 13th February. Each week parents will receive a free story & rhyme session, free brunch, free crafts, books and a recipe kit to take home to make a healthy evening meal (in partnership with Healthy Living Platform) To get an idea of our previous sessions please check out our Instagram page.
If you live in the South Lambeth Area and are being affected by the Cost of Living Crisis, please book your place on 07508074921 or email Angela at unitymatterscic@gmail.com.
Other Library Activities
 This weekly group meets at West Norwood Library. A chance for people affected with dementia to meet others similarly placed to share challenges and achievements and have the opportunity to try different activities in a friendly, creative space.
Our one-to-one support provides advice, guidance and signposting in a safe, welcoming space. Pop in for a chat!
Advice and Support West Norwood Library, Thursdays 10am to 12pm and
1pm to 3pm
Wellbeings West Norwood Library, Mondays 11.30am to 1.30pm
Café Create West Norwood Library Tuesdays 11.30am to 1.30pm
The drop in support service is free, there is a suggested £2 contribution for the groups
For further information please phone Rita Seregelyi on 020 8318 9105 or email rita.seregelyi@age-exchange.org.uk
  If you missed the 2-day StoryTrails immersive storytelling event at Brixton Library you can now head back to the library where 'StoryTrails Stations' are set up for you to explore the immersive experiences.
If you can't get to Brixton then check out the spatial map videos which are now available to watch for free through BFI player and download the app from Android or iOS, search story-trails and explore the remote version of the augmented reality walking trails.
 For those that need help with a device or data to help them with job searching, we are now running an iPad loan project aimed at people who do not currently have a device for job searching. If you would like to borrow an iPad, please contact the library to register. |
