What's on in libraries
Alert me
- Sign
up to what's on in libraries email alerts
May 2012
Health and Wellbeing session
Venue: Petworth Library
Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm -5.00pm
Description: Come along and have a free 15 minute mini
health check by a wellbeing advisor from Chichester Wellbeing
hub.
Book your free mini health check in advance at Petworth Library
on 01798 342274.
Snap Shot Shoreham - Photographic
competition
Venue: Shoreham Library
Date: Competition closes Friday 25 May 2012
To celebrate Shoreham-by-Sea and all it has to offer, Shoreham
Library are running their first Snap Shot Shoreham competition -
inviting one and all to get creative with their camera!
For further details or to enter, please pick up an entry form
from Shoreham Library.
Photo entries to be submitted by Friday 25 May 2012.
Entry is free.
Phone: 01273 454438
Supporting document
Health and Wellbeing session
Venue: Midhurst Library
Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 10.00am - 2.00pm
Description: Come along and have a free 15 minute mini
health check by a wellbeing advisor from Chichester Wellbeing
hub.
Book your free mini health check in advance at
Midhurst Library on 01730 813564.
Health and Wellbeing session
Venue: Selsey Library
Date: Thursday 24 May 2012
Time: 10.00am -2.00pm
Description: Come along and have a
free 15 minute mini health check by a wellbeing
advisor from Chichester Wellbeing hub.
Book your free mini health check in advance at Selsey
Library on 01243 602096.
Southbourne Library Jubilee
Celebrations
Venue: Southbourne Library
Date: Monday 28 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm -4.00pm (Storytime at 2.30pm)
Description: Come along and join us at Southbourne
Library for a fun afternoon of tea and cake to celebrate the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
We will have refreshments and a quiz for everyone
to take part in, with some prizes to be won, and a special themed
storytime session with stories at 2.30pm, with some crown making
activities.
To find out more, please contact Southbourne Library
on 01243 375924.
Selsey Library Jubilee
Celebrations
Venue: Selsey Library
Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 10.00am -12.30pm (Storytime at 11.00am)
Description: Come along and join us at Selsey Library
for a fun morning of tea and cake to celebrate the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee.
We will have refreshments and a quiz for everyone to
take part in, with some prizes to be won, and a special themed
storytime session with stories at 2.00pm, with some crown making
activities.
To find out more, please contact Selsey Library on
01243 602096.
Willowhale Library Jubilee
Celebrations
Venue: Willowhale Library
Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 2.00pm -4.00pm (Storytime at 2.00pm)
Description: Come along and join us at Willowhale
Library for a fun afternoon of tea and cake to celebrate the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
We will have refreshments and a quiz for everyone to
take part in, with some prizes to be won, and a special themed
storytime session with stories at 2.00pm, with some crown making
activities.
To find out more, please contact Willowhale Library on
01243 265712.
Billy Brown, I'll tell your
Mother
Venue: East Grinstead Library
Date: Thursday 31 May 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Meet the author, Bill Brown. Bill's memoirs of growing
up in post war Brixton came second in a competition to find the
"Peoples Author" on the Alan Titchmarsh show in 2010. By the time
he was 10 years old Billy Brown was running a successful black
market business – if you wanted something, Billy Brown could get
it, or knew a man who could!
Tickets: £3.00, available from the library
on 01342 410050.
Back to top
June 2012
1897 The Last Royal Diamond Jubilee: How West Sussex
celebrated
Venue: Durrington Library
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
An illustrated talk by Martin Hayes, County Local Studies
Librarian.
Tickets: £3, available from Durrington library on
01903 260439.
Durrington Festival 2012 - Durrington in Old
Photographs
Venue: Durrington
Date: Friday 1 June 2012 -Saturday 9 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Visit this exhibition at Durrington Library throughout the
Festival.
Tickets: This is a free event. Call 01903 260439 for
further details.
Witterings Library Jubilee Celebrations
Venue: Witterings Library
Date: Friday 1 June 2012
Time: 9.30am -12.30pm (Storytime session at 10.30am)
Description: Come along and join us at Witterings Library for a
fun morning of tea and cake to celebrate the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee.
We will have refreshments and a quiz for everyone to
take part in, with some prizes to be won, and a special themed
storytime session with stories at 10.30am, with some crown making
activities.
To find out more, please contact Witterings Library on
01243 673484.
Crazy crafts family drop-in
session
Venue: Steyning Library
Date: Saturday 2 June 2012
Time: 10.00am - 1.00pm
Steyning Festival event with free entry. Call 01903
812751 for further details.
Teddy Bears' Picnic and Bear Hunt
Venue: East Grinstead Library - To be held in the grounds of
East Court, College Lane, East Grinstead
Date: Wednesday 6 June 2012
Time: 11.00am -1.00pm
Bring your picnic and join us for storytelling, rhymes and
a bear hunt in the woods. Meet the big blue Bookstart Bear!
For families and children up to 5 years. All children must be
accompanied by parents or carers.
Tickets: This is a free event.
Phone: 01342 410050 for further details.
Afternoon Tea with Gabrielle Kimm
Venue: Southwick Library
Date: Thursday 7 June 2012
Time: 3.30pm
Local author Gabrielle Kimm discusses her new book,
'The Courtesan's Lover', and the glamorous world of the Renaissance
courtesan.
"A glorious tale of dangerous love in 16th century
Italy." Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller
Glittering in the Garden
Venue: East Grinstead Library (in the garden if fine)
Date: Thursday 7 June 2012
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Come along and make your own special Diamond Jubilee garden
mobile. For children aged 5 - 11. All children to be accompanied by
parents or carer.
Tickets: Free tickets available from the library.
Phone: 01342 410050.
1897: The last Royal Diamond Jubilee
Venue: East Grinstead Library
Date: Thursday 7 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Using original sources such as photos, newspaper articles
and posters, explore how various West Sussex towns and
villages celebrated the last great public event of Queen Victoria's
reign.
Tickets: £3.00, available from the library
Phone: 01342 410050.
An evening with Simon Brett
Venue: Steyning Library
Date: Friday 8 June 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Advance tickets have sold out however there may
be returns available, please contact the library nearer the
time.
Big Royal Jubilee Quiz
Venue: East Grinstead Library
Date: Friday 8 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Come along and enjoy Red Herring's Diamond Jubilee quiz night
with a difference. Teams of 6 (or we can find you a team to join on
the night).
Tickets: £10.00, to include a fish and chip
supper!
Phone: 01342 410050 to book your ticket.
Health and Wellbeing session
Venue: Southbourne Library
Date: Tuesday 12 June 2012
Time: 1.00pm -5.00pm
Description: Come along and have a free 15
minute mini health check by a wellbeing advisor from Chichester
Wellbeing hub.
Book your free mini health check in advance at Southbourne
library.
Phone: 01243 375924.
Adur Festival 2012
1 - 17 June 2012 - 1897: How Shoreham and West Sussex celebrated
the last Royal Diamond Jubilee
Venue: Shoreham Library
Date: Thursday 14 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
An illustrated talk by Martin Hayes, County Local Studies
Librarian. Come along and find out more about these amazing
Victorian celebrations.
Tickets: £3.00
Phone: 01273 467966.
Demonstration of spinning
Venue: Henfield Library
Date: Saturday 16 June 2012
Time: 10.30am -1.00pm
Description: A demonstration of spinning by 2 members of the
Wealden Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. There will also be a
drop-in family craft activity. These activities are free and part
of the Henfield Arts and Gardens weekend.
Celebrate Storrington Library's 40th
Birthday
Venue: Storrington Library
Date: Wednesday 20 June 2012
Time: 10.30am - 4.00pm
Come and celebrate Storrington Library's 40th birthday with a
cuppa and a cake. There will be a craft activity for children
and a photographic display.
Tickets: Entry is free.
Bayou Arcana Volume One: Songs of Loss and Redemption
Enter the Arcana if you dare...
Venue: Worthing Library
Date: Wednesday 20 June 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Jimmy Pearson presents this exciting new anthology, and talks
about comics, graphic novels and gender issues in this art
form. Soft drinks will be available, or why not
bring a bottle?
Tickets: £3.00
Phone: 01903 704809.
July 2012
1897 How Worthing and West Sussex celebrated the
last Royal Diamond Jubilee
Venue: Worthing Library
Date: Wednesday 18 July 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Find out more about these amazing Victorian celebrations: an
illustrated talk by Martin Hayes, County Local Studies
Librarian.
Tickets: £3.00
Phone: 01903 704809.
Share this
page (third party services may set cookies)