Valentine's Mystery Date with a Book
❤️ Mystery Date with a Book is back for the Valentine’s season at Redbridge Central Library from 11-18 February!
💕 Choose a book (each one is wrapped, but has key themes on the front to help you choose)
💕Borrow it at the welcome desk with your library
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💕 Make sure you don’t unwrap it until you get home - no peeking!
💕 Read the book and enjoy something new
🖤 Not feeling the love? There are even books for the Anti-Valentine!
Why not get in touch - we would love to know what you picked and how the date went!
Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure
🎄❤️ Visit Redbridge Central Library and take a chance on a Mystery Holiday Date with a Book!
🎁 Choose a book (each one is wrapped, but has key themes on the front to help you choose)
🎁 Borrow it at the welcome desk with your library
card
🎁 Make sure you don’t unwrap it until you get home - no peeking!
🎁 Read the book and enjoy something new this Christmas!
Why not get in touch - we would love to know what you picked and how the date went!
#Holidate #Christmasactivities #Christmasevents
#Redbridge #Redbridgelibraries #lovereading #reading #Readingactivities
Festival of the Dead - Wanstead
Last Thursday (31 October) we held the first day of our annual Festival of the Dead, at Wanstead Library for the start of 2 days of festivities!
We loved seeing all your costumes and the art that you created!
Thank you to all of the artists, performers and festival attendees for making it such an incredible day.
Thank you also to Kim Tobin Photography for capturing the day so beautifully.
If you came, we’d love to see your photos and comments so please tag us on Facebook and instagram.
And finally, a very big thank you to National lottery players without whom, funding for this project would not have been possible. The National lottery has been providing much needed support to the arts for 30 years!
We were successful in bidding for funding from Arts Council England to create a much bigger festival this year for the people of Redbridge. Thank you!
We can’t wait to do it all again next year!
#NationalLottery30 #NationalLottery #arts #culture #libraries #redbridge #wanstead #E11 #books
Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure Redbridge Arts Redbridge Council
Thank you Redbridge, you came and you partied with us for 2 days! Thank you to the artist Hello the Mushroom for sharing her video of day 2 of our festival. Yesterday’s festivities at Redbridge Central Library were a blast and we had so much fun! We remembered our loved ones and celebrated their lives.Inspired by different cultures and customs our festival brought together Mexican, Celtic, Indian and Nepalese traditions.We were blown away by the art created and the festive spirit on both days. We would like to thank everyone who made this year such a success. And can’t wait for next year! Click the video to see how much fun we had! Redbridge Arts Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure Redbridge Council #ilford #redbridge #wanstead #IG1 #E11 #deathpositive #festivalofthedead
❤️💛💚This year, as part of Black History Month, Redbridge Libraries are proud to be part of the national tour of the Black British Ballet Project by Oxygen Arts, a touring exhibition and activity programme sharing the hidden stories of black dancers in British ballet.
🩰Check out the wonderful, free, themed workshops l available via the Black British Ballet Project, as well as the rest of the Black History Month programme throughout October on:
vrcl.uk/BlackHistoryMonth or find link in highlights.
(booking in advance for some workshops is recommended due to limited spaces)
With thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the National Lottery players.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
#NationalLottery #HeritageFund
Black British Ballet
@LibrariesConnected
Oxygen Arts
Redbridge Arts
Hub Central
Vision Wellbeing
Barkingside Art Club
Redbridge Council
Community Action Redbridge
On 22 April 1993, 18 year old Stephen Lawrence lost his life in a racially motivated attack. 31 years on, the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation takes this time to inspire positive change.
🤝 Stephen Lawrence Day is an opportunity for people, communities, and organisations to come together and honour Stephen’s life and legacy, stand up against discrimination in our daily lives, and work towards a more hopeful tomorrow.
💡 This year's theme is 'The Power of Learning' and the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation encourages everyone to make the Stephen Lawrence Pledge - to inspire societal change by empowering the next generation with knowledge that goes beyond traditional educational norms.
📚To commemorate Stephen's life, Redbridge Central Library has exhibited an electronic presentation, alongside a book display available in the foyer.
Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation
#PowerOfLearning24 #StephenLawrenceDayPledge #SLD24 #StephenLawrenceDay #StephenLawrence #BecauseOfStephen #ALegacyOfChange #LiveYourBestLife
🌈Join Redbridge Libraries for a fun, interactive storytelling session for ages 3-7 based on the picture book by Lou Treleaven Author!
Not Yet A Yeti is a story of courage, acceptance and finding yourself.
📆Wednesday 21 February
Wanstead Library 11am-11.30am
Gants Hill Library 2pm-2.30pm
Price: £3.00
Please note, each ticket reserves a spot for one adult and one child.
Book your ticket at www.visionrcl.org.uk/lgbt
Directed by Joseph Hancock and designed by Helen Coyston for Discover Children’s Story Centre.
By arrangement with Maverick Children's Books
Video credit Discover Children's Story Centre
Cover Image credit @ Tony Neal
This event is part of our LGBT+ History Month celebrations.
🎅Catch Santa at Redbridge Libraries!
✨Santa meet and greet
Redbridge Central Library 9 December 11am-1pm and 2pm-3pm
and
✨Storytime with Santa
Goodmayes Library 15 December 10.30am-11am
Get into the festive spirit and discover what else is on at: www.visionrcl.org.uk/events
📖Want to read about Santa's adventures in 'Santa is coming to #Redbridge' by Steve Smallman? Browse the online library catalogue: https://libraries.visionrcl.org.uk/bookshelf or ask at your local library!
✨#tbt to last Saturday. Thank you Black British Ballet for bringing your beautifully poignant Windrush ballet performance and sharing you inspirational stories at Redbridge Central Library. What an incredible experience!✨
For information about what else is on this Black History Month go to: visionrcl.org.uk/blackhistorymonth
🧘🧠To celebrate #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek (6 February - 12 February), join Cherie for a Mindfulness Storytime on Tuesday 7 February.
📍Fullwell Cross Library
🕙10:00 am - 10:30 am
📍Hainault Library
🕚11:15 am - 11:45 am
This session will give you and your child some #calm time. Stretching and exploring some fun #yoga positions as well as learning some breathing exercises to slow down and #refocus our energy followed by a story about a range of emotions.
Suitable for under 5's
No need to book, just turn up!
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Barkingside Art Club
From 2D to 3D, animating 'monsters' for the fun of it! #labcentralnewsflash Let us know if one of these is yours!
#LabCentralNewsflash We really did have lots of fun during the last half-term break creating hand-drawn digital animations like this one 😊😂 thanks to @justcuriousclub. Join us in 'meetup' to get notifications of future workshops: https://www.meetup.com/LabCentral/
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