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If you would like to join a #BookGroup - now's your chance! The next Book Club meeting is on Tuesday 10th November, 10.30am at The Forum and there are lots of spots available.
Please email [email protected] for full details, we'd love to see you. 🥰
The next Death Cafe at Westcliff Library will be held on Thursday 12th November, 11am - 12.30pm.
Come along to this friendly discussion group if you would like a place to share your experiences. All welcome - no need to book.
#DeathAwareness #DeathCafe #WestcliffOnSea
Our BorrowBox Books of the Month:
'The War of the Roses' by Warren Adler (eAudio)
'The Forgotten Tower' by Lulu Taylor (eBook)
Books to snuggle up with this November! Borrow today, no need to queue!
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If you're not feeling #Spooky before you visit The Forum, you will do afterwards!
Drop in for all the gripping, ghoulish reads you could possibly need on this dark and mystical night. 🎃
Our dedicated displays include adult fiction, non-fiction and children's titles. 👻
To get you into the spirit of Halloween, visit #KentElmsLibrary and enjoy a Halloween Ghost Trail! As well as lots of uncanny characters, you'll find spooky stories galore! Take a leaf out of Skeleton's book and bring your library card for a delightfully frightful time!
During Green Libraries Week we enjoyed lots of activities at #KentElms Library. Here's Zainab displaying her craft skills making a Super Green Hero!
Our Green Allotment Wall is sprouting nicely, indicating all the children who visited the library and participated! 🌱
Book-Bargain Lovers! 📚📚📚
Don't miss #Southchurch Library's #Booksale #Bonanza - available today and tomorrow during opening hours.
Just 25p per book! 👀
Are you a Southend-based poet? Have something you’d like to share with an audience?
We have ten #OpenMic slots available at our #PoetryNight at #Westcliff Library, MC’d by local poet ‘S’!
Thursday 19th November, 7pm-9pm at Westcliff Library
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/o/southend-…
Huge thanks to children's author Amanda Brandon for Tuesday's inspiring mystery morning at The Forum! It was great to see so many young attendees engaged and inspired by the power of storytelling. Excellent work kids - budding authors and illustrators all! 👏👏👏
Spooky reads are haunting #Leigh Library this Halloween. There are plenty of ghosts, monsters and vampires to feed everybody's ghoulish reading appetites, both young and old. Come and take a browse through our cobweb-covered bookshelves... if you dare! 😱 🦇🕷️🧙🧛 🧟♀️ 🎃
If you're a #CrimeFiction fan, you won't want to miss this special event!
'Secrets, Suspense & Suspicion: Meet the Crime Authors' is an author panel event with three brilliant crime writers: BP Walter, Rebecca Hannigan and Julie Haworth.
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/o/southend-…
Tomorrow, in good time for the spookiest night of the year, our next 'Create & Make' craft session at The Forum offers the opportunity to create your own Concertina Bat! 🦇🦇🦇
Friday 30th October, 11am-1pm at The Forum.
£1 per child, for ages 4+ (with parent/carer supervision.)
***Tickets released!***
'I Think We're Done Now: Breaking, Rising & Becoming', an interactive event with local author Elaine Taylor-Brown.
Features readings, practical takeaways, Q+A & book signing.
Saturday 21st November, 2pm-3.30pm at The Forum
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/o/southend-…
Just a few tickets remain online and at The Forum Reception for Friday's exciting Children's Author Event with Hollie Hughes. Be quick if you'd like to come along!
Friday 30th October, 10am–12pm at The Forum
Suitable for ages 3+.
Tickets are FREE: eventbrite.co.uk/o/southend-…
Huge thanks to Silvano Griffith-Francis and all the children who came along to #ForumSouthend for Monday's writing and illustrating workshop 'Make Your Own Kala Book'. It was great to see so much free-flowing creativity in the library! Well done! 👏👏👏
#BlackHistoryMonth
The Mental Health Support Team are at Westcliff library today hosting a Managing Emotions Workshop for families with children 7-11years.
The second workshop starts at 11am, if you'd like to come along.
Learn about emotions, breathing techniques and practical skills.
Gourd blimey! 🎃 By popular demand, the Pumpkin Selfie Patch at The Forum will be available until end of business on Saturday! Come along to The Foyer to pose among the gourds and feel free to tag us in your social media posts or send your selfie to [email protected]
Tomorrow!
Mental Health Support Team Essex bring 'Managing Emotions Workshop', suitable for children aged 7-11 to Westcliff Library.
Drop-in on the day or book your place in advance by following the Eventbrite links in the poster.
Wed 28th October, 10am-12pm at Westcliff Library
