Events and activities in libraries
The following are events and activities that are taking place in Lambeth libraries.
We have organised them into three categories, current events, major council events, and other annual events.
If you need any further information, please contact your local library, call 020 7926 1000 or email: libraries@lambeth.gov.uk.
Current events
May 2008, in Lambeth Libraries
The fifth Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival is a month-long programme of events during which Lambeth Libraries become the hub of a celebration of creativity in reading and writing.
The festival is a series of extraordinary events for all ages and tastes, from best-selling authors like Kate Mosse or Panos Karnezis to new authors such as Jacqueline Walker and Sean Longley. Whether you enjoy reading, writing, discussion or simply listening, they'll be something for you taking place in a library near you!
BBC Breathing Places library project
Breathing places is a three-year campaign from BBC Learning, which aims to get 1 million people involved in nature and their local environment. Lambeth Libraries are pleased to be able to join the BBC in this campaign.
Carnegie Library Reading Garden Project 2007/8
Lambeth Libraries, in partnership with the Friends of Carnegie Library and Lambeth Parks, have been awarded a grant from the Breathing Places Big Lottery Fund to create a 'Reading Garden' at Carnegie Library.
Now that spring is on its way volunteers will be needed to help planting and preparing the garden for opening to Library members. On Saturday 5 April The Friends of Carnegie Library are calling on all volunteers to lend a hand to set the beds to create the new garden. If you can help, please contact Jeffrey Doorn at the email address below or drop into Carnegie Library.
If all goes to plan it is hoped that on Saturday 3 May 2008, one year from the beginning of the project, everything will be ready for a fun packed garden party to celebrate the new 'Carnegie Library Reading Garden'.
Do you remember Olive Morris?
Did you know Olive Morris? Lambeth Council has one of its main buildings named after her and yet Google finds little or no information on her. Can you help? Do you know more than Google?
Although the Internet delivers very little information, Olive was a key figure in Lambeth's local history. She worked with the Black Panther movement; set up Brixton Black Women's Centre, was a founder member of The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and was central to the squatter campaigns of the 1970s. She died tragically young in 1979 at age 26.
Award winning researcher and artist, Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, has linked up with Lambeth Archives to correct the Internet knowledge gap by creating a living archive of recollections on Olive Morris. Check out what has already been contributed and donate your own knowledge at the Remembering Olive Morris Weblog
Major council events
October
Black history Month – Events arranged throughout our libraries, aimed at both young and old.
Celebrating Age – Again a variety of activities throughout the borough's libraries and usually an event in the assembly hall of the town Hall – we work closely preparing this event with Age Concern Lambeth.
Age Concern Lambeth
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
Telephone: 020 7733 0528
Email: admin@aclambeth.org.uk
Other annual events