East Riding is celebrating being breastfeeding friendly this World Breastfeeding Week with a Big Breastfeed.
World Breastfeeding Week, 1-7 August, provides an opportunity to highlight and celebrate East Riding’s Breastfeeding Friendly Scheme and the support available to breastfeeding parents. As part of this a variety of events are taking place that families can get involved in.
East Riding Libraries are celebrating Make Music Day on Friday, 21 June 2024. Featuring a series of events and live music, residents will be able to get musical across the East Riding! With drop in events at libraries and singers popping up in towns across the county, it’s sure to be a day to remember.
Some of our events will include a singer in Little Weighton in partnership with the mobile library, and a Dolly Parton tribute singing her way around Driffield! On Saturday, 22 June, Beverley Folk Festival have partnered with Beverley Library to bring a selection of singers to the venue in the afternoon.
East Riding Libraries is delighted to announce the launch of its brand new festival for children and young people, Live ‘n Loud in Libraries.
With a varied and exciting programme – featuring live music, forensics, activities, author visits and much more – the festival runs from Monday 22 July until Saturday 31 August.
Christmas is on its way, and East Riding Libraries have got just the thing to get young residents into the festive spirit.
The popular Storytime and Bounce and Rhyme sessions have had a yuletide makeover, making them suitable for the holiday season. Residents can share a festive story and take part in a picture treasure hunt, as well as have fun with some Christmas activities as well.
This autumn half term, a whole host of fun Storytimes and Bounce & Rhymes organised by East Riding Libraries will be taking place for children.
The events, running from Wednesday, 25 October until Friday, 3 November, will be held at various East Riding libraries and multi-service centres.
STREAM events at East Riding Libraries focus on developing skills and interest in Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics for children and families. Learning through fun is the goal.
In the East Riding, several libraries will host events over the Christmas holidays:
It’s Christmas time, and Libraries in East Yorkshire, including Beverley, have just the thing to get young residents in the festive spirit.
Storytimes and Bounce & Rhymes are coming up at East Riding Libraries with the wonderful ‘What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas’ and ‘Peppa and the Christmas Elf’.
Arts Council England has awarded East Riding Libraries and the council’s Arts Development Team a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) status from 2023 to 26. East Riding Libraries will benefit from significant investments in arts and culture.
There was no shortage of authors, writers, broadcasters, and musicians at this year’s East Riding Festival of Words.
It featured 14 events organised by East Riding Libraries, with authors including John Bevis, Matson Taylor, Freya Sampson, and Jeffrey Boakye, as well as music from Luke Carver Goss and Gary Hammond.
Festive family musical The Pirates of Christmas Island is heading East Yorkshire libraries including Beverley this December.
“The Pirates of Christmas Island” is the brand-new festive musical from She Productions that’ll save Christmas from being ‘rubbish’.
Libraries in East Yorkshire, including Beverley, will be hosting a series of free events later this month.
Aimed at young children, the events will take place across the region during the half-term holidays.
A new service is set to be launched in East Yorkshire at Beverley Library. East Riding Libraries will launch the new service on Wednesday, 5 October, with an event from 2pm to 4pm.
Scientists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians make up STREAM, the new service.
Libraries in East Yorkshire, including Beverley Library, will be hosting a series of events next month with ArtERY Live.
Every year, ArtERY Live brings the best in live performance to East Yorkshire, including dance, drama, music, and poetry. These performers will be performing at East Riding Libraries for the first time.
Five more mindful art guides have been created by the council’s museum team following the success of the online guided tours during recent lockdown periods.
During a social media campaign last year, the public chose which artworks would be featured in the new guides.
East Riding Libraries have joined forces with the Alzheimers Society to host drop-in sessions to promote good brain health.
Events will be held across the region including in Beverley at the local library on the first Monday in the month from August.
East Riding Libraries are excited to present ‘Gadgeteers: Summer Reading Challenge 2022’, and this year are showing that “science is all around”.
Produced by The Reading Agency and delivered in partnership with libraries, The Summer Reading Challenge aims to encourage children to read throughout the holidays to prevent a dip in their reading ability during the long break.
The East Riding Festival of Words is back for 2022, and this year it will start earlier than usual with the Children’s Festival, which will feature 21 events at various East Riding Libraries between 30 July and 9 August.
The Children’s Festival will present terrific tales, creative crafts, and fantastic facts in a varied programme which will celebrate children’s love of reading and stimulate their imagination.
From Wednesday, 18 May through Saturday, 4 June, East Riding Libraries will celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with various fun activities and events.
The event will be held in Beverley at the local library on Friday 27 May. Places for the event in Beverley can be booked online.