Friday 20 September
3:15pm – 3:45pmIn celebration of Good Relations Week 2024 and its theme of ‘OpportUNITY,’ Greenisland Library presents International Rhythm and Rhyme. Join us for a delightful event where children aged 0-4 years can explore and enjoy rhymes from around the world. This engaging session underscores the theme by highlighting the joy and unity found in diverse cultural expressions. Come and celebrate with us as we embrace new beginnings and collaborative learning through the universal language of rhythm and rhyme.
As part of Good Relations Week 2024, which celebrates the theme of ‘OpportUNITY,’ Rathcoole Library is hosting a special Bilingual Storytime featuring a Hindi Day experience. This event invites you to enjoy stories from Hindi culture and participate in a vibrant musical workshop. In partnership with Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, this event highlights the significance of cultural diversity and unity. Join us to explore new cultural perspectives and engage in collaborative activities that reflect the spirit of embracing diversity and building a more inclusive community.
Romanian Rhythm and Rhyme!
Join Ballymena Central Library on the 18th of September as they launch the first session of “Romanian Rhythm and Rhyme” in partnership with Sure Start and Toybox’s Roma Hub. This event offers a unique opportunity to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the Roma community through music and storytelling. Families are invited to participate in this interactive session, where Romanian songs, rhymes, and traditions will be shared in a warm and welcoming environment.
Our Living Library event is your opportunity to ‘borrow’ a person, instead of a book, for a one-to-one 20-minute conversation.
Running as part of Good Relations Week 2023, our library-with-a-difference is the place to discover unique and fascinating real-life stories.
With 15 different stories to discover on the day, here are just some of the intriguingly titled ‘books’ to whet your appetite:
• How did a social worker end up in Long Kesh?
• Poet…. peeler, Druid…. healer, Queer (LGBTQIA+)…. volunteer!
• ‘So where are you from, love?’
• This will only end in two ways………..death or prison
Read the full list of titles, along with a synopsis of each story: Living Library 2023 (belfastcity.gov.uk
To book your place, contact us with your book(s) selection and we’ll come back to you with your allotted 20-minute timeslot(s).
Email: goodrelations@belfastcity.gov.uk or call 028 9027 0663.
The event will take place at a Belfast city centre venue, which will be confirmed along with your booking.
Rathcoole is welcoming the team from Fighting Words NI for a special workshop blending storytelling and illustration together. This event is aimed at children between the ages of 9 and 11. Advanced booking essential!
Join award-winning Canadian children’s author Heather Bradley in Belfast Central Library, for this special story time event as she promotes her new book “We Both Speak English, But…”
This book is about two cousins, two countries and one language – sort of!
This is a family event and Heather will be available to chat to children after. Booking is advisable.
Come along to Tullycarnet Library and join the Yarnspinners for a talk with Colum Sands. Colum Sands is a universal storyteller who draws on a long Irish tradition of poetic musicality to weave songs for the world.
He has performed in over thirty countries around the world, confirming the universal appeal for the songs and stories with which he observes the minute and often humorous details of life. He has the unique ability to observe locally and appeal universally.
Booking Essential.
Stephen O’Hara learned to tell stories in the classroom where he taught English, and then in Ireland’s only storytelling cafe, Cafe Revive in Cushendall.
His stories bring the past of this place into the present, memorialising lost characters and making sense of superstitions, legends and truths. Expect to laugh, to wonder and to wipe a tear as he tells through the past and into the present day.
Advanced booking essential
Join us in Castlewellan Library for some tall tales. This event is aimed at adults.