Libraries Week
2020 - Sneak Peak
Bradford
Libraries celebrates Libraries Week 2020 (5-10 October)
We’re delighted to give you
a sneak preview of some of the exciting authors and events on offer
during Libraries Week this year. Our Libraries service are
bringing together some of the best authors from a variety of different
genres. We will have something for everyone, from romance ravers,
storytime supporters, poetry proponents to crime connoisseurs!
As well as authors and
events watch out for the little extras with your order and collect
packages during the week. We have quizzes, competitions, mystery
books and winning Golden Tickets.
An online brochure will be
available on 21 September and you can find out more on our
webpages at www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries
Please direct any queries
around Libraries Week to susan.brewster-craig@bradford.gov.uk
Online author event with Milly Johnson award-winning
author of romantic fiction.
Monday 5 October
7pm - Bradford
Libraries Facebook page and You Tube
FREE
No booking necessary
but if you have questions for Milly please email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk.
Milly will be talking to us
about her life and writing and her new book ‘I Wish It Could Be
Christmas Every Day’. Milly Johnson was born, raised and
still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A Sunday Times bestselling
writer of eighteen novels, she is one of the Top 10 Female Fiction
authors in the UK with millions of copies of her books sold across the
world.
Interactive Online Event: Zoo Lab
Tuesday 6 October /
Thursday 8 October
4.30pm – 5pm
Zoom Online Event
FREE
Children 4 – 14
years and their families
Limited Tickets
available on Eventbrite. Booking Essential.
https://tinyurl.com/y3k9t344 (6
October)
https://tinyurl.com/y32hx2np (8
October)
Enjoy a 30 minute online
session with the popular ZooLab. You will see up to four animals such
as snakes, reptiles and arachnids, find out about their habitats and
behaviours and have a chance to ask the expert Ranger questions.
Online Event: Storytime with Author Louise Aaron
Wednesday 7 October
10am - www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries
FREE
Children 0-6 years
and family
No booking necessary
Come and join Louise Aaron
for this special reading of her fun picture book Jamasaurus. The
hungry dinosaur would like something tasty to eat. Will he eat leaves?
Will he eat meat? Perhaps he will discover something a little
tastier...
Online Drama Workshop: The Story of Persephone and the
Changing Seasons
Wednesday 7 October
4.15pm – 4.55pm
FREE
Families and
children from 4 to 14 years.
Booking
Essential. Limited tickets available via Eventbrite.
https://tinyurl.com/y66hsko3
When the Princess of the
Gods is abducted without a trace, the world is sent into turmoil. The
frantic search for Persephone changed the world in which we live
forever. Join Gemma from Hoglets Theatre to explore a new version of
this classic Greek myth. Through storytelling, drama and fun we will solve
the mystery of what happened to Princess Persephone and why her
disappearance resulted in the changing seasons.
Online author event with Kate Fox
Wednesday 7 October
7pm - Bradford
Libraries Facebook page and YouTube
FREE
No booking necessary
but if you have questions for Kate please email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk
Kate Fox works as a
stand-up poet, broadcaster and speaker. She has created two
comedy series called ‘The Price of Happiness’ for Radio 4 about things
she’s supposed to want but doesn’t and her current touring show “Where
There’s Muck There’s Bras” about notable Northern women. She is a
familiar radio voice, having presented Pick of the Week on Radio 4 and
been a regular contributor to Radio 3’s The Verb, among many other
broadcasts.
She has been Poet in
Residence for the Great North Run, Glastonbury Festival and Radio 4’s
Saturday Live. She has also performed her poetry on BBC1 and BBC2. She
has supported acts including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hollie McNish, John
Cooper Clarke and John Hegley and is a headline act in her own right.
Interactive Live Event: John Kirk – We’re Going On
A Story Hunt
Saturday 10 October
11.45am Zoom Online
Event
FREE
Chidren 3+ and
family
Tickets available on
Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y3y5sja6
Storyteller extraordinaire
John Kirk takes us on a Scavenger Hunt Storytelling session where a
naughty monster has hidden the keys to the library! Help John
tell the story by finding household items around your own home!
Children will need means of drawing a picture and an adult or carer who
is happy to help them turn the living room upside down in the name of a
good story.
Online author event with A.A. Dhand
Saturday 10
October
2pm Bradford
Libraries Facebook page and You Tube
FREE
No booking necessary
but if you have questions please email dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk
A.A.Dhand was raised in
Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter
of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he
worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford
to start his own business and begin writing.
Online Drama Workshop: The Story of Pandora's Box
Saturday 10
October
2pm – 2.40pm
FREE
Families and
children from 4 to 14 years.
Booking
Essential. Limited tickets available via Eventbrite.
https://tinyurl.com/yy5y2sq9
If you were given a box and
told never, ever to open it, what would you do? Could you resist the
temptation? or would you take a peek?
This is what happened to
Pandora on her wedding day, little did she know that she held the fate
of the world in her hands.
Join Gemma from Hoglets
Theatre to explore a new version of this classic Greek myth. Through
storytelling, drama and fun we will follow Pandora's journey and find
out what she unleashed upon the world.
Other exciting
initiatives for Libraries Week
Order & Collect Mystery Read
Our Order & Collect
service designed during the pandemic will receive a mysterious boost
during Libraries Week. The service allows customers to order by
reserving from the Bradford Libraries online catalogue as well as by
email or phone. Customers are then able to collect their book orders
from libraries that are open at an agreed time slot. During
Libraries Week there will be an added element of mystery as you may
receive an additional mystery book to read along with your order.
If you collect any books during Libraries Week on our special Order
& Collect service we will add a mystery title to your order.
Who knows it might be the best book you’ve ever read!
Bradford Libraries BorrowBox Golden Winning Ticket
Win a Waterstones voucher
for £30 with our Golden Ticket E-Book/E-Audio Book
initiative. To be in with a chance to win the voucher all
you need to do is borrow an e-book or e-audio book from Bradford
Libraries between Monday 5th October and Saturday 10th
October. If you are randomly selected as the Golden Ticket
customer you will win the Waterstones voucher. NB. Please ensure
your email details are uptodate on Bradford Library records for a
chance to win.
Support Libraries Week Online
Support Libraries Week
online and download our editable social graphic from our webpage www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries
You can then share a photo of you reading by inserting yourself
in the frame! Share on social media with the hashtags #LibrariesWeek #MyBookLife #teambradford
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