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Alex Wheatle – Cane Warriors
Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors
Wednesday 30 September 6.30pm
Online event.
Nobody free till everybody free!
Join Lambeth Libraries for the launch of the brand-new novel from Guardian Award-winning author Alex Wheatle.
Cane Warriors is a deeply compelling story of courage, brotherhood and hope, it follows the true-life slave rebellion known as Tacky’s War in 18th century Jamaica through the eyes of one boy.
Alex is the author of several acclaimed novels, many of them inspired by experiences from his childhood. He has been longlisted for the Carnegie
Medal, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and was awarded an MBE for services to literature. Alex’s life will be featured in part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series for the BBC (to be aired Autumn 2020) and his Crongton books are being adapted into a TV series. Catch Alex while you can!
Book here
Lambeth Libraries Wriggle & Rhyme for under 5s
Book Trust
We’re holding special Wriggle and Rhyme sessions this September as we need your help in choosing the best book for sharing!
Join our librarians for songs, stories and rhymes for the under 5s.
Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) 10.30am to 11am
Facebook live everyday @ Facebook/Lambeth Libraries: Wriggle and Rhyme Online.
Homework Help
Homework Help - photo: Pixnio
Monday to Friday 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Lambeth Library staff are here to support children and young people with their homework. If you have an enquiry with your homework, please contact us online at Ask a Librarian.
Code Clubs for Kids
Tuesdays 4pm – Contact Will at CarnegieLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk
Sundays 3pm - contact Ana at ARodriguezPanadero@lambeth.gov.uk
Code Clubs for children aged 9-13 provide step-by-step activity sheets to create games, animations, and websites, learning the key concepts of coding at the same time. Join Will on Wednesdays or Ana on Sundays, email the contact for the group you’d like for meeting ID and details.
Book at Breakfast - book chat
Book break
A shared reading group experience from the comfort of your own home. Our librarians will read from a novel, a short story or poem and then we'll stop and talk about what we have read. There is no need to read aloud or speak - it's fine to just listen or to chat about books.
Wednesdays 9.30am. Durning Library with Edwin. Contact Edwin at EEMacrae@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
Thursdays 10.30am. Brixton Library with Andrew. Contact Andrew at AOBrien@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID.
Reading Groups online
Online reading group
You can find more information about each of the groups and what they are discussing on your local library Facebook page or email me at todell@lambeth.gov.uk. All welcome.
English Conversation Café
Café open Mondays 1.30pm to 2.15pm
Want to practice speaking English or need help with English pronunciation?
Visit our virtual café and join our friendly group, who will encourage you to be confident in a range of situations that will assist you to improve your spoken English in every day conversations.
Bring our own your cappuccino, espresso or iced tea! Contact Liz at durninglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk for meeting ID and log in details.
Business Start-ups in London Libraries
Our Start-ups in London Libraries workshops are now available as webinars which are accessible remotely, wherever you are. Check out our August schedule and register your place on one of the online workshops. This project is designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs turn their business idea into a reality.
Black History Month 2020
Lambeth Libraries are proud to be hosting Black History Month 2020. It has been a year like no other, and a year which has had a major impact on Black communities, be it through the disproportionate impact suffered from Covid or the welling up of emotion and anger over the killing of George Floyd in America and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement here.
Highlighted authors include Alex Wheatle, Rosanna Amaka, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Tessa McWatt and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, with more to be added.
The full programme will be available from 14 September at www.Lambeth.gov.uk/bhm
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Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
September 2020
Lambeth Heritage Festival will run online for the whole of September. With over 40 events - virtual walks, film screenings, online talks, podcasts, virtual reality events, film, banner making and drawing workshops, discussion groups, virtual building tours and author interviews - there is something happening every day of the month and hopefully something for everyone's tastes.
For further information and a week by week programme, or contact archives@lambeth.gov.uk
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: A History
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Tuesday 8 September at 7pm
Author David Coke gives a brief introduction on how the book came about and his involvement with Vauxhall Gardens, the celebrated venue that from 1661 to 1859 offered entertainment and pleasure ranging from the noble and uplifting to the tawdry and downright vulgar. David’s online talk is followed by an interview and discussion with the author and a Q&A session with audience.
This Friends of Carnegie Library event is hosted by Lambeth Libraries. For more information and log in details, contact CarnegieLibrary@lambeth.gov.uk
Community Banner making
Community Banner making
Thursday 17 September at 7pm
The Friends of Brixton Tate Library have designed a banner based on their 'Local Heroes' Initiative. As it is not yet possible to get together to create the banner, this talk will explore the tradition and history of banner making by diverse communities, with local, national and international examples. Speakers include Annick Alet and Rita Keegan, a local artist and archivist of the ‘Women of Colour Archive’.
This Friends of Tate Library event is hosted by the Brixton Society. For more information and log in details contact chair@brixtonsociety.org
In conversation with Nels Abbey
Sunday 20 September, 6.30pm
Nels Abbey discuss his book Think Like a White Man inspired by his experience of trying to build a career in white-dominated industries.
Join the Black Cultural Archives for this fantastic event. There are a limited number of FREE tickets for Lambeth Library members by using the Promo Code 'Lambeth'
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Lambeth Palace Library
Lambeth Palace Library:
Monday 21 September at 7pm
Lambeth Palace Library is one of the oldest libraries open to the public in England. The Church of England’s collection of books, manuscripts and historic records held there dates from the 9th century to the present day. Clare Wright, architect of the new library building scheduled to open in the grounds of Lambeth Palace early in 2021, tells us about the thinking behind the building’s design.
This Friends of Durning Library event is hosted by Lambeth Libraries. For log in details contact durninglibrary@lambeth.gov.uk
Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott
Monday 21 September, 6.30pm
Join Diane Abbott to launch her new biography.
Diane came to fame in the 1980s as part of a new generation of Labour activists, quickly dubbed the ‘loony left’ by right-wing tabloids. She is a trailblazer, a barrier breaker and someone who has remained true to her principles and her community after thirty years in ‘the belly of the beast’. Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography traces Abbott’s path from London, via Cambridge University, into Parliament, and then to the top of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow Cabinet.
Join the Black Cultural Archives and Lambeth Libraries for this fantastic event. There are a limited number of FREE tickets for Lambeth Library members by using the Promo Code 'Lambeth'
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From our Friends
African Odysseys Presents: Injustice
Mangrove Nine: Image courtesy BFI
1 September – 6 October, BFI Southbank and online for UK-wide audiences via BFI YouTube
The BFI and African Odysseys host a new season of documentaries which spotlight the injustices experienced by Black British communities at the hands of the police, and the international Black struggle for human and civil rights over decades. The season will feature 8 titles including Mangrove Nine (Franco Rosso, John La Rose, 1973), The People’s Account (Ceddo Film and Video Workshop/Milton Bryan, 1985), The Hard Stop (George Amponsah, 2015), Injustice (Ken Fero, Tariq Mehmood, 2001), Who Polices The Police? (Ken Fero, 2012) and Britain’s Black Legacy (Mogniss Abdallah, Ken Fero, 1991).
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