A pop-up theatre production, ‘The Memory Project’ will be touring East Riding libraries in November.
Smashing Mirrors Theatre will bring a touching and emotional new show to Beverley and also six other venues. Based on interviews with real East Yorkshire families. It is looking at the difficult, trying, yet often hilarious journey through dementia.
Taking place from this week, The East Riding Festival of Words has plenty to offer residents in Beverley.
There are plenty of highlights starting this Thursday 18 October in Beverley at the Treasure House, with Ready, Steady FEST!.
East Riding Libraries now offer Games Groups – a chance to enjoy a wide range of games and meet new people.
Eleven libraries across the area have been provided with a Scrabble set and a games compendium with equipment and instructions for 30 games, including chess, draughts, ludo, snakes and ladders, Yahtzee, a pack of cards, dice and dice cup, dominoes, and Halma.
Local authors will be featured heavily in the East Riding Festival of Words – the new look literature festival coming to the area in October.
The festival will be officially launched by Val Wood at Beverley Art Gallery on Thursday, 18 October, at 7.30pm. Val will be giving an exclusive reading of her latest novel, ‘A Place to Call Home’, which will be published in November.
The East Riding Festival of Words 2018 – the new look literature festival running from 18-21 October – has unveiled its exciting programme of children’s events.
Featuring a variety of authors, energetic storytelling, and a healthy dose of toilet humour, weekend events will take place in Bridlington, Goole, and Beverley.
Some residents in the Beverley will be able to have a free Health Check by qualified staff from East Riding Leisure are to visit Beverley Library to deliver NHS Health Checks.
On Tuesday, 4 September the team will be on hand to give people a check up in Beverley from 9.30AM to 1PM.
There are plenty of pranks and a ton of fun at East Riding Libraries this summer – it’s Mischief Makers, the Summer Reading Challenge 2018, in association with the Reading Agency!
The Summer Reading Challenge will be a chance to read library books over the summer holidays, join in with fun themed weekly activity sessions, collect special stickers and explore the map of Beanotown to find clues, but– Dennis the Menace is usually up to all kinds of mischief. He’ll make sure some of those stickers are extra stinky!
East Riding Libraries and Customer Services are inviting people to join them this half term for a fun-filled, dinosaur themed, free storytime session in Beverley and across the the East Riding.
The storytime sessions will focus on the book ‘I Love My Dinosaur’ by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Emma Dodd.
East Riding Libraries now offer ‘Reminiscence in the Community’, based on their hugely successful Reminiscence Sessions, tailored to specifically benefit residents in care homes and community settings who may be living with varying stages of dementia.
Anyone interested in learning more can come along to the launch event on Thursday, 24 May, from 2pm -4pm in the Treasure House, Beverley.
Fans of the Harry Potter series can dust off their wands or take a trip down Diagon Alley to get a new one!
East Riding Libraries, in conjunction with Bloomsbury Children’s Books, are delighted to announce that the most magical night of the year, Harry Potter Book Night is returning to Beverley on Thursday 1 February from 6PM till 7PM.
Lit Up Festival is thrilled to present a newly commissioned work by one of the UK’s most performed playwrights, John Godber, which will tour East Riding Libraries at the end of this month, as part of the Out of this Word programme.
John has worked alongside a trio of emerging playwrights from The Writing Squad: Georgia Affonso; Ruby Lawrence and Lydia Marchant, to re-imagine East Riding histories. The piece is entitled HERE and NOW and it will see three trainee librarians battling with books, boilers and bad parking as they uncover amazing stories!
East Riding Libraries have teamed up with the national Sporting Memories Foundation to offer a new kind of reminiscence group aimed at older people who may feel lonely and people living with dementia.
Reminiscence sessions, which are endorsed by the Alzheimer’s Society, have become an established part of the work that is being done at libraries across the East Riding with the aim of helping those with dementia and their carers meet others in a similar situation and share memories together.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is delighted to announce a large-scale programme of events called Out of this Word as its fourth and final event as a Principal Partner of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.
‘Out of this Word’ brings top writers, poets, playwrights, artists and musicians from across the UK to the East Riding to celebrate the power of language.
The East Riding Libraries team have their magnifying glasses at the ready for ‘Animal Agents’, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017!
Booking is now open and primary school-aged children are encouraged to sign up at their local library to secure their place.
Seven authors from across with literary spectrum will be in Beverley next month as they look to deliver inspirational talks about their work.
Val Pate, Cassandra Parking, Martin Gore, John Ashbrook along with Colin and Fluer Speakman will be at Beverley Library on 10 June.
East Riding Libraries have organised two events at Beverley Library in the next few weeks, as part of their ‘Meet the Author’ series for 2017.
‘Meet the Author’ talks feature a wide range of both emerging and established writers and poets. They are a chance to hear readings, learn about the creative process and interact with the authors.
This Easter holiday, school-aged children are invited to come along to East Riding Libraries for a hilarious egg themed storytime, ‘Cracking Easter Tales,’ which is FREE to attend.
Reading ‘Rabbits don’t lay eggs’ by Paula Metcalf and Cally Johnson-Isaacs, it’s a chance to follow Rupert the rabbit as he tries to fit in on the farm.
There will be a chance to join East Riding Libraries this February Half-Term (20-24 February) for an animal -themed storytime, inspired by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery, which runs from 11 February to 22 April.
The libraries team have selected some fun stories including ‘One to Ten, Animal Mayhem’ by Thomas Flintham, ideally suited to pre-schoolers; and David Walliams’s ‘First Hippo on the Moon’ which is fun for all the family.