Events for Adults
 Monday 7 April, 6.30pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities, Williams College, author of New Bones Abolition and editor of Beyond Cop Cities and the forthcoming Confronting Counterinsurgency.
Join us for an evening of reading and liberation. Explore the power of words and storytelling in creating a world beyond cop cities.
 Tuesday 8 April, 7pm
Carnegie Library, SE24 0DG
Bookings via Eventbrite
Join Georgia Holleran to discuss how to be a pretty capable and confident person!
Georgia has spent her life researching how we can make the best of our time on this planet, without letting our selves get in the way. Event organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.
 Saturday 19 April, 2pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
Make your own cut-and-paste zine, collaborate with others, write up your thoughts or just come along to get crafty! For more information email Colette: ctownend2@lambeth.gov.uk
 Monday 28 April, 11am to 12.30pm
West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
Booking via Eventbrite
Singing Mamas is all about taking care of the women who spend so much time being busy taking care of others. It's all about making YOU feel good. There are no auditions, no solos, and no reading music or lyrics. Just simple songs taught by listening and repeating, with the aim to reduce stress, connect with others, build community, and improve wellbeing. Oh, and there's always tea and cake, too.
Exhibitions
 Showing from Thursday 3 April
Brixton Library, SW2 1JQ
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
As well as being about the challenge of engaging constructively with mere paint on a surface reacting to light, all the paintings in this exhibition are about ideas or feelings.
Between them, the painters address a multitude of subjects, including stillness, emotional states from joy to distress and reflections on uncertainty and interacting mindfully with chaos or the accidental, addressing though painting, communication that cannot be reached fully with words.
Exhibition Launch and Private View
Tuesday 3 April, 6pm
Booking via Eventbrite
Further information: andrewzmatheson@gmail.com
Linktr.ee/coldharbourldn
 Showing until Friday 18 April.
Durning Library, SE11 4HF.
Exhibition available during Library opening hours.
Meyrick’s work explores the fleeting and fragmented nature of memory—how places, feelings, and moments shift over time. Inspired by nature’s changing landscapes, she uses layers of acrylic, watercolour, and mixed media to capture both clarity and uncertainty, light and shadow.
Blues run throughout her work—deep indigos, soft ceruleans, and vibrant ultra marine tones—reflecting the vastness of sky and water, but also the weight of emotion. Ultimately, Meyrick is drawn to the space between remembering and forgetting, where fragments of the past take on new meaning in the present. She says: “My work is an invitation to linger in the in-between spaces.”
Further information:
www.lisemeyrick.com
 Images: Celia Martin Perez, Edwina Hannam, Kate Newington and Patricia O'Malley
Showing from Tuesday 8 April
Clapham Library, SW4 7DB
Exhibition available during Library opening hours
MAG (Monday Art Group) is a group of five South London based, professional and recreational artists, working in a variety of media, who started an online group beginning of Lockdown 2020.
The group still meet online monthly, producing a piece of art each time, based around a chosen theme. They claim to have found the experience of sharing work with each other a positive and encouraging one that greatly benefited their mental health and sense of community, as well as encouraging their individual practices.
Exhibition Launch and Private View
Wednesday 9 April, 6pm
Booking via Eventbrite
Further information:
edwinahannam@btinternet.com
celiamartinperez@googlemail.com
 Showing from Tuesday 15 April to Friday 17 May.
Lambeth Archives, SW2 1ET
Exhibition available during Archive opening hours
A free exhibition at Lambeth Archives curated by Adesuwa Africa Charitable Foundation, including artists Melody Osagie and Sonia Ogbebor.
From our Friends
 Submissions closing date 30 April
Info on submission
The New Voices Award supports writers to develop an idea they've yet to commit to paper, or those in the very early stages of their work in progress. The Award provides mentorship and editorial guidance for aspiring authors and encourages entries from all writers, including those from underrepresented backgrounds with a new story to tell. |
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Events for Children and Young People and Families
 Thursday 3 April, 2pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Booking via Eventbrite
New parent? Come along to make a zine and do crafts and collaging with your baby. Older children are welcome too! For more information email Colette: ctownend2@lambeth.gov.uk
 Saturday 5 and 19 April, 11am to 1pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Brixton Immortals Domino Club are running free workshops at Brixton Library in preparation for a Windrush Junior Dominoes tournament. The contest will take place in Brixton library in the run-up to Windrush Day on 22 June. It will celebrate cultural heritage, community engagement, and showcase strategic thinking, as well as being an exciting opportunity for young players to demonstrate their skills and compete in a structured setting.
 Wednesday 9 April, 11am and 1.30pm
Streatham Library, SW16 1PN
11am Performance: Booking Via Eventbrite
1.30pm Performance: Booking Via Eventbrite
The Old Vic present Hundred Feet Tall a new 30-minute musical play designed for 4–7-year-olds. When Seedar-the-Seed falls on Bekko Bunny’s head, the two form an unlikely friendship, and together navigate the downs and ups of growing up.
Book by Melis Aker and music and lyrics by Benjamin Scheuer. Adapted from the children’s book Hundred Feet Tall (Simon & Schuster) written by Benjamin Scheuer and illustrated by Jemima Williams.
Approximately 30 minutes, without an interval. For more details, please visit The Old Vic Theatre
 Join us at the Library for a fun and engaging workshop where children aged 6 to 12 learn how to repurpose broken objects and recycled materials by transforming them into something new! We'll get creative with this hands-on upcycling activity, encouraging children to explore sustainability and innovation. It's a unique opportunity to learn something new and have a blast doing it. See you there!
Wednesday 9 April, 10.30am to 12pm. Minet Library
Booking via Eventbrite
Wednesday 9 April, 2.30pm to 4pm. Brixton Library
Booking via Eventbrite
Wednesday 16 April, 2.30pm to 4pm. Streatham Library
Booking via Eventbrite
Broken Umbrella Challenge Workshop (Ages 6-10)
 Dive into the exciting world of LEGO robotics with the First LEGO League Explore. This fun-filled nine-week programme, starting in April, for children aged 7, and above, provides an opportunity to explore, learn, solve challenges and experiment with LEGO bricks and technology. The programme ends with a celebratory party and medal for participants. Spaces are limited, so be sure to contact the library to book your place. Please note that full participation across all nine weeks is required.
Streatham Library, Thursday 10 April, 4.15pm
West Norwood Library, Monday 14 April, 4.15pm
Brixton Library, Tuesday 15 April, 4pm
Minet Library, date tbc
Suitable for children aged 7 and above.
 Fridays through to April
West Norwood Library, SE27 9JX
Booking via Website
Join us for these new exiting opportunities for 11 to 15 year-olds. The Dream BiG Performing Arts bring two programmes where young people can express themselves through either music or drama whilst coming together to have fun and develop key personal and social skills. Both projects will integrate to produce a short film around the important subject of Joint Enterprise/Guilty by Association to educate our youth about the law. Through this exciting project, all participants will develop important transferable life skills and a change mindset to positive outlooks with inspirational role models to help open doors!
Dream BiG Music Creation Workshop, Fridays, 5.15pm to 6.30pm
Dream BiG Urban Films Club, Fridays, 6.45pm to 8pm
Please register for one of these exciting projects by completing this registration form. If you have any enquiries, please contact us either by telephone on 0208 676 3480 or email info@bigcic.org
 Streatham Library. Tuesdays, 4pm.
Brixton Library. Wednesdays, 4pm.
West Norwood Library. Wednesdays, 4pm.
Minet Library. Third Monday of each month, 4pm.
Carnegie Library. Last Monday of each month, 4pm.
Calling all book-loving youngsters aged 7 to 11 - come and chatter, get involved in fun and creative activities and choose new books to read.
Other Library Activities
 Every Sunday, 12.30pm to 2.30pm
Brixton Library. SW2 1JQ
Cre8tive Arts CIC presents Brixton Library Arts and Crafts group starting on Sunday 13 April, running weekly drop-in sessions including drawing, painting and more. Free and all materials supplied. Contact Cre8tive Arts to book a place.
 Community TechAid is seeking donations to support local Lambeth residents online! Help lift communities out of digital poverty by donating your device at the library. All data will be securely removed, and then the device will be refurbished by their team of volunteers and passed onto someone in need. If you'd like to know more about their work, or are interested in volunteering, do get in touch. |
