Lambeth Libraries Children and Young People's Festival
 Welcome to Lambeth Libraries annual Young People’s Readers and Writers Festival 2023.
Join us - we have a bumper programme of events and activities for all the kids throughout the summer.
 Ready, Set, Read, Summer Reading Challenge events are taking place in all our libraries throughout the summer.
Contact your local library to check times and download the brochure for full details.
 This year's Summer Reading Challenge theme is sports and in all of your Lambeth Libraries we will be featuring fun sports themed activities for children.
Events include quizzes and games, designing your own winning medals or building a kite, making pom-poms or lollipop animation sport stars, Lego theatre, crazy golf and competitive Origami!.... there are special activities with football and boxing academies, Skatepark shenanigans and of course there's SLIME!
Every week there will be a new activity with a summer sports theme for 4 to 12 year olds - Join the fun this summer!
Download the brochure for full details.
 Saturday 12 August, 2pm to 4pm
Streatham Library, SW16 1PN.
The Brixton Immortals Domino Club will be giving you an opportunity to learn how to play dominoes and the skills you need to win. This is a great way to get children engaging in maths and probability while having fun – and a good social game for adults too. Come along for a fun afternoon.
 Do you enjoy football and want a chance to borrow a good quality football? Lambeth Libraries is excited to team up with the Alive and Kicking Organisation and become an official @weareakuk Football Library! You can borrow a football for one week at a participating library! You will need to be a library member to borrow a ball. Don’t worry, it’s easy to join the library.
Groups and Activities
 Thursdays, 2pm
South Lambeth Library. SW8 1QP
Shared Reading groups bring people together through great literature to talk, laugh and share. Just drop in, grab a cuppa and enjoy listening to a story or poem – no pressure to talk or read.
Get in touch with info@thereader.org.uk or call 0151 729 2200 for more info
 Every Thursday throughout August, 2pm to 4pm. West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX mkwofie@lambeth.gov.uk
Are you a young entrepreneur wanting to set up a business or require business advice? Lambeth Libraries has teamed up with social enterprise organisation Community Spark Change (CSC) to run a business start-up programme under their Block Change programme for young people. Ages 14 to 25.
 If you are over 18 and on a low income you can now apply for a free SIM card to help you connect digitally. SIM cards are offered by Vodaphone, Three and O2 and eligible people can collect one on a Tuesday 11am to 1pm at Clapham Library. SW4 7DB.
 Open until 31 October
The Teachers' Reading Challenge is an opportunity for school staff to expand your knowledge of contemporary children's books and develop your understanding of 'reading for pleasure' pedagogy, develop your repertoire of children’s books and discover ways to inspire reading for pleasure in your school or library. Read six books over summer and join a supportive reading community in schools.
From our Friends
 Exhibition showing until 10 September
Black Cultural Archive, 1 Windrush Sq. Brixton, SW2 1EF
General admission: £5 (Concs £3)
Discover the incredible journeys of children who travelled from the Caribbean to the UK during the Windrush era in our exhibition, Over A Barrel: Windrush Children, Tragedy and Triumph.
This interactive experience explores the profound impact of separation and reunion, isolation and belonging, as well as the cultural and social adjustments these children had to make in order to thrive in a hostile environment.
 Looking for book recommendations for children over the holidays? Try The Island of Brilliant! with Nadia Shireen and Frank Cottrell Boyce. They have been shipwrecked on the Island of Brilliant with nothing but a pair of hammocks, a pile of children’s books and the world’s greatest ukulele band, they will be chatting about what’s new and brilliant in children’s writing. |
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Library Events
 Tuesday 8 August, 7pm.
Carnegie Library. SE24 0DG
Booking via Eventbrite
Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fourteen novels. Our House, a #1 bestseller, won the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. Join her to discuss her latest - The Only Suspect. Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.
 Wednesday 16 August, 3pm.
Online Event. Booking via Eventbrite
Join this Spontaneous Storytelling Masterclass with master storyteller and expert trainer, Danyah Miller, to start your journey of finding your own unique storytelling voice. You’ll leave feeling confident, capable and curious to try out your first spontaneous stories.
No previous experience is required. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.
Most suitable for: teachers; librarians; parents & grandparents; those working with children and everyone who is curious about how to share oral stories with their friends and families.
 Wednesday 23 August, 7pm.
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Tippa Irie is the Grammy-nominated artist most known in the UK and all over the world for his Reggae music. In a live filmed event to celebrate the launch of his memoir, Stick to My Roots, Tippa Irie will be in conversation with British novelist Alex Wheatle. Book early for what looks like being a fantastic night!
Exhibitions
 Showing From 1 to 12 August
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
So sings my soul is artist Claire Brennan’s second solo exhibition. It comprises of mixed media (digital prints with glitter and oil pastel) and recycled art pieces. It's about feelings of joy and positivity and the endurance of the human spirit.
Claire says: “Each morning I swim in Brockwell lido and find it a wonderful experience to see birds flying above. To me they represent freedom and joy. In my work I also like to include various silhouettes. For instance ballet dancers which represent strength and dignity and an ability to stay strong despite difficult times.”
 Tuesday 1 to Monday 28 August.
Streatham Library. SW16 1PN
Tuesday 29 August to Saturday 2 September.
Carnegie Library. SE24 0DG
Exhibitions available during Library opening hours
This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the contributions Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers, and travelling showpeople have made to London's social, economic, and cultural life. The exhibition includes stories, articles, interactive online maps and QR codes with audio shared by people with lived experience. Please do come along and enjoy.
 Working in partnership with Friends, Families and Travellers, Carnegie Library will have the Travelling Tales Project joining the exhibition with a Vardo, offering a first-hand look at how life on the road used to be from Wednesday 30 August. Come along and experience life in the Vardo!
 Showing From 15 August to 1 September. Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
La Lucha (Spanish for ‘The Struggle’) brings together paintings and drawings from London based artist Nicholas Baldion. Some are painted directly from observation, from Bogotá, Colombia to Barking, East London. Others are intimate portraits of Friends and Family, and some are narrative works which were composed to tell a story.
The works deal with personal struggles, the artistic struggle, the struggle for life and the wider collective class struggle. Taken together they make a body of work with a strong social commentary. Baldion’s emotive subjects clearly move and drive him to find the means to do justice. In doing so Baldion follows a long tradition in art from Picasso to Goya and earlier.
 Showing until 2 September
Clapham Library. SW4 7DB
Exhibition available during Library opening hours.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of SS Windrush, we have a major new photographic exhibition at Clapham Library. It has been created by award-winning local social documentary photographer, Jim Grover, who created and exhibited the critically acclaimed, ‘Windrush: Portrait of a Generation’. www.jimgroverphotography.com
 Showing throughout August.
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
A new free photography exhibition honouring the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush. Working with the photographer Jim Grover, Stockwell Good Neighbours, an over-sixties Caribbean community group, were invited to use a mobile phone to photograph an object or artefact, that was, in one way or another, precious to them and to say a few words about why they had chosen it. The photos give a beautiful insight into the personal stories and the experiences of this remarkable and inspiring group of elders. |
