Events

Explore the National Theatre’s Archive, which holds a treasure trove of materials. On this tour you will get hands-on with the NT’s history and learn about what the Archive does and what it collects.

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A club designed to support children learning to read, struggling readers, and those learning English. The sessions are led by a retired school teacher and provide personalised guidance to help children build confidence in reading.

Adult book group reading mostly adult fiction, both contemporary and classic, prize-winning authors, fiction in translation and occasionally non-fiction books. All books are selected from the Library’s Reading Group Collection.

Beyond the churches in our streets, the archives held at Lambeth Palace Library shed light on the development of parts of Lambeth’s built environment and on its social history.

Chris Roberts presents the history, development and folklore surrounding south London parks. Celebrate places to sit, play and spend the day.  Discuss threats to free open spaces.

Do you enjoy football and want a chance to borrow a good quality football? Lambeth Libraries are excited to have teamed up with the Alive and Kicking Organisation and become an official @weareakuk Football Library!

A sociable adult knitting and crochet group. Bring your own knitting/crocheting or use needles, hooks, wool and knitting patterns provided by the group. Help is on hand for any knitting/crocheting queries.

The debt advice kiosk offers free expert advice via video for individuals with financial difficulties or money worries.

Each kiosk is designed as a soundproof booth, ensuring conversations remain private and confidential.

Noisy and joyful from the first beat, these playful drumming sessions let little ones tap, shake, and stomp their way through rhythm, sound, and movement - Free refreshments provided. 

Join us for Chat, Share n’ Play! Parents, let's chat, share experiences, and watch our little ones play before the Wriggle and Rhyme fun begins!

A 100-minute walking tour based around Lambeth Walk - the street itself, and the local people’s reputation for resilience, resourcefulness and pride, as established in that song and dance!

This talk by Nick Rampley, the Art School’s Director of Resource, tells the story of City and Guilds of London Art School, from its foundation as the Lambeth School of Art providing instruction to working artisans, to today’s highly regarded, dist

Are you between the ages of 7 and 11 and love to read? Then join our book club to talk about books, write reviews, make new friends, and have a blast with fun activities! Light refreshments provided.

Catch up on all your learning with qualified trainer at the library. All welcome.

16yrs plus!

Calling all gamers! Dive into the exciting world of esports at our Esport Youth Club.  Enjoy thrilling gaming sessions, meet fellow enthusiasts, and challenge your friends in a friendly, competitive environment.

Brixton is the sole survivor but there were others, not just for milling flour, but sawing to supply timber yards and the manufacture of medicines.

After the creation of the London Borough of Lambeth in 1965, Lambeth’s new Department of Architecture and Planning, led by Ted Hollamby, went on to design some unusually diverse and distinctive council housing across the borough.

The debt advice kiosk offers free expert advice via video for individuals with financial difficulties or money worries.

Each kiosk is designed as a soundproof booth, ensuring conversations remain private and confidential.

Join our librarians in the children’s library for our interactive wriggle and rhyme each Tuesday and Thursday morning.