Lambeth Heritage Festival 2023
Saturday 2 September,
10am to 4.30pm.
West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
Lambeth Heritage Festival kicks off with a day long look at the borough’s history with talks, film screenings and walks and tours including West Norwood – More Than a Cemetery, River Effra, Inspirational Women of Lambeth talk and Guided tours of the Clockworks.
 Thursday 7 September, 6pm
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
Booking essential: Brixton Society
Alison Young, a Music Hall historian, Vice Chair of the British Music Hall Society, and a descendant of a lively collection of Lambeth-connected Music Hall performers, will share some new stories from her own research into past theatrical residents and take the audience back to an Edwardian night out in Brixton.
 Tuesday 12 September, 7pm.
Carnegie Library. SE24 0DG
Booking via Eventbrite
Author C.J. Schüler presents his book exploring the vast woods which were intensively managed for a thousand years and gave its name to Norwood - The Great North Wood. Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.
 Monday 18 September, 7pm.
Durning Library. SE11 4HF
Booking via Eventbrite
The Cinema Museum presents a talk by Martin Humphries. Charles Chaplin was brought up in poverty in Kennington, mainly by his mother, a music hall performer till he was 5. We look at some of his homes, including the workhouse (now home to the Museum), and see Chaplin's own home movie of himself revisiting Kennington in the 1950’s.
Entry free. Refreshments (£3 cash donation towards costs). A Friends of Durning Library event.
 Thursday 28 September, 2.30pm.
Carnegie Library, SE24 0DG
Would you recognise ration books or national identity papers? If so, please come along to the library and join in a free singalong of wartime favourites hosted by Annie Bright with piano accompaniment, and share a few memories of those days.
If you have a memory you would like to be shared, please let Annie know by 12 September, either by email to brightannie2@gmail.com
or by phoning her on 020 7733 0564.
Complimentary tea and cakes will be served. Event organised by the FRiends of Carnegie Library
Groups, Events and Activities
 Monday 4 September, 10am to 2pm
Streatham Library. SW16 1PN
Join MI Computsolutions at their Open day for Courses on ESOL and Functional Skills. Bring ID and sign up on the day - many courses are free to join for those receiving benefits. For more info: www.micomputsolutions.co.uk
 Fridays from 8 September, 10.30am to 12.30pm. Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
For people living with Dementia and their carers. Come and dance with Maria, take part standing or seated, make friends and enjoy the company and dance.
To take part contact Age Exchange on 07729 107 520 or email dementia@age-exchange.org.uk
 Tuesdays from 19 September, 3pm
Streatham Library, SW16 1PN
Join others for fun chair based exercising, no experience necessary
Join in the fun! To book: phone Age UK 0333 360 370 or email exerciseandsocialise@ageuklambeth.org
 Mondays 26 September until 5 December, 6pm to 8pm.
West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
High Trees invites anyone interested in improving their English language abilities to join us for these free ESOL classes. Please mark your calendars for the 26th of September and plan to attend the sessions at West Norwood Library. This is a wonderful opportunity for people to improve their English language skills and open up new doors of communication and opportunity. Please do recommend to anyone who may find this helpful.
To book and for more information email courses@high-trees.org or phone 07305 080 995
 Every Wednesday, 2pm to 4pm
Streatham Library, SW16 1PN
A free and friendly informal group for over 65s and their carers to enjoy. Organised by the Croydon Dementia Action Alliance. To book your place please ring 07816 352 752 or email Krisna.patel@homeinsteadcroydon.co.uk
 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 until 14 September, 2pm to 4pm. West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
For more info 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. |
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Events for Children and Young People
 Credit lila Kungfuman via Wikimedia Commons
Friday 1 September, 2pm to 4pm
Durning Library. SE11 4HF
Get the chemistry mix right and make
the perfect slime.
 Sunday 3 September,
10.30am to 12.30pm. Eventbrite booking
1.30pm to 3.30pm. Eventbrite booking
West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
The Art Prize for 11-25 year olds to draw attention to the climate crisis. These workshops can help inspire your design and competition entry.
Take inspiration from the “9 things you can do about climate change” created by the Grantham Institute. These workshops, with artists and scientists, will help you design a mural to convey what positive actions we need to make.Then enter your design to our partner, Octopus Energy, on the competition website.
 Congratulations! You’ve made it to the finish line and read 6 books this summer, well done! Now join us for an afternoon of fun and games where you’ll also be presented with your certificate and medal.
Events happening at all Lambeth Libraries between Wednesday 30 August and Saturday 9 September.
Contact your local library to check dates and times for your local library, or download the brochure for full Summer Reading Challenge details.
 Saturday 16 September, 2pm to 4pm
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
The Brixton Immortals Domino Club
brings the opportunity to learn how to
play dominoes and the skills you need
to win. A great way to get children
engaging in math’s and probability
while having fun – and a good social
game for adults too. The Brixton based
international and national champions, the
Immortals, will be playing and teaching
their Domino art, with all the tricks and
tactics for beginner and advanced
players.
 Tuesday 26 September, 10am.
Online Event. Booking via Eventbrite
Swapna Haddow will introduce her brand new book Dave Pigeon (Kittens!) in this interactive writing workshop. Hear her read from her book and learn how to create your very own story plans. There will also be a chance to ask Swapna questions and hear her top tips.
Length: 60 minutes - Suitable for children in KS2 (7-11 year olds).
Exhibitions
 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, the Library will also 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. Come along and experience life in the Vardo!
 Still from Ectoplasticity by Demelza Woodbridge
Showing Tuesday 12 to Sunday 24 September. Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
Opening reception: Tuesday 12 September, 6pm to 8pm
Architectures in Air presents audio works and an evening of live performances at the Brixton Library gallery.
A painted architectural intervention subtly demarcates the “empty” room as a site of potentiality and action; a frame for all that will take place in the space across the duration of the project – the audio and live work and other on-going activities that this flexible space supports.
The project brings together a breadth of female voices with contributions from an art historian, a specialist in Languages and Cultures of East Africa, an architect, fine artists and singers. The project Architectures in Air is organised by Helen Robertson with Bernice Donszelmann as part of the Outside Architecture collaborative artist-led group.
Performance event: Thursday 21 September, 6pm to 8pm
 Showing throughout September.
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.
 Showing until 19 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
From our Friends
 Tippa Irie joined us in August for a live launch of his new memoir at Brixton Library - Film of the event will now be available FREE from 1 September at 6.30pm for a period of two weeks courtesy of FANE productions.
Join Grammy-nominated artist Tippa Irie in conversation with actor, television and radio presenter Eddie Nestor in this exclusive screening of a live event to celebrate the launch of his memoir Stick to My Roots.
 Saturday 16 September, 2pm to 4.30pm
Upper Norwood Library, SE19 1TQ
Booking via TicketTailor
Join UNLH for its fourth interactive community lab session, this time we are exploring Chatbots and young people. How can chatbots embedded in instant messaging platforms help to improve people’s attitudes and behaviours? Can they help to improve young people’s agency towards mental health and peer support? Featuring a talk and Q&A from Dr Josimar Mendes.
This series of talks concludes on 30 September with a panel of Councillors and digital experts from Oxford University. |
