Events

Search and filter results
Dates
  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    Under 5s Storytime and Wriggle and Rhyme Sessions

    • Vauxhall and Waterloo
    • Free

    Join our librarians for songs, stories, and rhyme sessions

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    SIM cards giveaway at West Norwood library

    • Norwood
    • Free

    Good Things Foundation are giving away SIM cards via Lambeth West Norwood library for adults (over 18) who need smartphone access or to be able to text for job seeking etc

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Characters of Waterloo

    • Vauxhall and Waterloo
    • Paid

    Come to Waterloo for this 90-minute walk and be introduced to a cast of characters who have lived, walked or worked in the area. Good, bad or ugly?  Listen to their stories and decide for yourself!

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    National Theatre Archive tour

    • Vauxhall and Waterloo
    • Free

    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.

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    Digital Drop-Ins Stockwell

    • Stockwell
    • Free

    Clear Community Web host 

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    Young Readers Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    Adult Reading Group

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    Lambeth Local History sources at Lambeth Palace Library (Talk)

    • Free

    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.

  • 9
    Sep
    2025

    South Parks: Tales from the Southern Commons

    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Kick Start with our Football Loan Scheme

    • Kennington
    • Free

    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!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    KnitWits

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Debt Advice Kiosk

    • Streatham
    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Tony B Happy Drums

    • Brixton
    • Free

    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. 

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Doing the Lambeth Walk!

    • Paid

    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!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Chatterbook Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    “Seven turkeys, five sucking pigs, and three miniatures” A History of Lambeth’s own art school, the City and Guilds of London Art School” (Talk)

    • Lambeth wide
    • Free

    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

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Free GCSE Maths and English

    • Kennington
    • Free

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

    16yrs plus!

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Gaming Sessions with ESports Youth Club

    • Norwood
    • Free

    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.

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    World Suicide Prevention Day event with Black Men’s Consortium

    • Lambeth wide
    • Streatham
    • Free

    BMC free community engagement day 10  September 6pm to 8pm at Streatham Library 

  • 10
    Sep
    2025

    Annual Windmill Talk:12 Windmills of Lambeth - Then and Now

    • Brixton
    • Free

    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.