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Stitch Club Join us for a social stitching group making & mending together. Bring your old clothes to mend, new projects, ideas and stories to the Large Lecture Hall on the 2nd Floor of Crosby Library, and learn to mend with a friendly group. All levels of stitching skills and experience are welcome. Stitch Club is a project by Emma Summerscales with At the Library. Dates: 4th March We are always looking for volunteers to help develop our workshops...
Queue Up and Dance We’re delighted to announce we have received Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grant for our project celebrating Quadrant Park, the country’s first all night rave and nightclub, which existed for one brief year in Bootle. Netherton Air Quality Research Would you like to join us to explore air quality through data research and creative sessions? In a City of Flowers At the Library is delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition...
Our Dreams of Jasmine on Valentine’s Day Our Dreams of Jasmine is a book and digital sound work that brings together a selection of found and written Arabic and Persian poems, chosen, performed and adapted by Jessica El Mal working with women with experience of migration living in Bootle. Creative Session support We’re on the look out for a few creative individuals who can lend an occasional supportive hand with our sessions, events and happenings...
Our Dreams of Jasmine on Valentine’s Day Our Dreams of Jasmine is a book and digital sound work that brings together a selection of found and written Arabic and Persian poems, chosen, performed and adapted by Jessica El Mal working with women with experience of migration living in Bootle. Love is an act of resistance in the face of oppression and injustice, which transcends borders and languages. In a time when the world seems full of conflict,...
the colour of pomegranates We are working with Venus and the Red Cross to offer women learning English a space to practice their English speaking and listening skills with native speakers, through creative activity and conversation. If you are learning English for the first time, or a fluent speaker who would like to learn about different cultures and languages and offer friendship and support to women who may be newly-arrived in the UK, you are invited...
Remedies for Resistance a project by raju rage Remedies for Resistance shares remedies from residents of Bootle and beyond, gathered through conversations and community workshops led by Raju Rage, which took place between 2020-21: a difficult time of isolation and social distancing where accessing wellbeing was crucial. Acknowledging this, we considered the ways in which we take care of ourselves and each other. Some of the questions we asked ourselves...
Netherton Air Quality Research Would you like to join us to explore air quality through data research and creative sessions? We are inviting local residents in Netherton to join us on a series of walks and creative sessions that will test and explore Netherton’s air quality; how it impacts our senses, health and non-human life forms. Over a series of walks back in November 2023, we gathered data about air quality in the local area and discussed...
Zero Waste Winter As the lead up to the festive holiday season approaches, we want to invite you all to join us for our Zero Waste Winter. Whether it’s new and cheaper ways for little ones to make their own gifts for grandparents, preserving food, jam making, or making our own communal table runners, there’s something for everybody to get involved in! We would love for you to join us as we prepare for the years’ close and festivities in a way...
Chopping Club Chopping Club is a monthly gathering, inviting people from Sefton to meet in the library to prepare collective meals together, visit local sites of food production, and share knowledge and memories around food. We cook and eat together whilst building connections between each other and with the networks of growers, producers and wider food systems which bring food to our tables. Everyone chops, so everyone has cooked lunch for everyone...
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Chamomile Circle Over the next year Frances Disley will be working with At the Library exploring solidarity and mutual support structures shared between parents and carers of young families through growing together, and exploring herbs and plants. Chamomile is one of the oldest medicinal herbs known to humans — this gentle but mighty plant has properties to soothe everything from hay fever to insomnia and anxiety. Together, we’ve been exploring...
chopping club 26th Apr 2024, 11:00am Bootle Library In 2023 we decided that it was time to design a much-needed new kitchen for Bootle library, where we’d be able to prepare and store big batches of preserves, ferments, herbs, spices and seasonings for use in meals throughout the year. A kitchen in a library has got us thinking about the idea of a kitchen as a library: what could that mean, and how could it work? Join us for April’s Chopping Club,...
stitch club 22nd Apr 2024, 11:00am Crosby Library For this month’s Stitch Club we’re slowing down a bit for our next adventure in stitching with some sashiko techniques. Join artist Emma Summerscales for a session marking up some sashiko designs and stitching to create beautiful patterns. Sashiko is a Japanese stitching technique used for both decorative purposes and to reinforce points of wear in garments and as a repairing technique. Bring along...
rest reading group 25th Apr 2024, 12:00pm Crosby Library For April’s Rest Reading Group with artist Niki Colclough we’ll be reading sections of The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels together. The Rest Reading Group is a regular collective reading session, convened by artist Niki Colclough centred on texts that engage with rest: as resistance, as care, as gentle protest, and a way of nurturing interspecies relations....
colour of pomegranates 27th Apr 2024, 11:00am Bootle Library For this month’s Colour of Pomegranates session we will be joined by Hafifa Ahmed, who specialises in Arabic calligraphy, for a trip to Bootle International Music Festival. For our sessions throughout April, and leading up to Refugee Week in June, we will be working towards creating artworks as a group that explore notions of home. These sessions will be led by our Producer Karema and...
Queue Up and Dance We’re delighted to announce we have received Historic England’s Everyday Heritage Grant for our project celebrating Quadrant Park, the country’s first all night rave and nightclub, which existed for one brief year in Bootle. Exploring the former site and surroundings of the legendary Quadrant Park nightclub, we aim to uncover its histories of working class life, labour, and leisure in Bootle during the 1980s and 1990s. With...
Crosby Library Crosby Road North Waterloo L22 0LQ View in Maps / Get Directions 20th Apr 2024, 11:00am Crosby Library queue up and dance community archive Join us on 20th April for our first official community QUAD meeting, inviting local residents to bring their stories and archival materials. Free Event, book on Eventbrite 22nd Apr 2024, 11:00am Crosby Library stitch club For this month’s Stitch Club we’re slowing down a bit for our next adventure...