Part of #JesmondFestival , 7:30pm at Jesmond Library this evening: folk band - Axum; supported by Bluegrass duo - What Humans Do

Anyone who wants a copy of our latest book Angels of the North: Volume 2, your local friendly bookshop can help...Newcastle Libraries, Waterstones Newcastle, Northern Heritage Services Ltd, Forum Books + the bound + The Accidental Bookshop, Blackwell Newcastle, Gateshead Libraries

This week in our Thursday Talks series: Tom Warburton,
Covid in Newcastle - a photographic record.
09 May at 6pm

Aidan is having a lovely time at his work placement at Jesmond Community orchard, an amazing community space at the back of St Andrews Cemetery. His jobs include mowing the grass, planting seeds and watering the flowers 🌻💜

#workplacements #jesmondcommunitygarden #garden

This week in our Thursday Talks series: Tom Warburton,
Covid in Newcastle - a photographic record.
09 May at 6pm

Don’t miss this one this evening - it’s always a delight to welcome John Sadler to the Library.

‘Laughing shall I die” - Thurs, 2nd May, 6pm
We have some wonderful guest speakers covering a wide variety of subjects at our Thursday Talk series.
This week we welcome back John Sadler (author of The Hot Trod) who will be speaking about the last of the Vikings - Eirek Bloodaxe

As our regular followers know, Jesmond Library hosts a series of Thursday Talks on a wide range of subjects and a variety of guest speakers.
This week we welcome Ryan Sirmons from Jesmond URC
Thursday 25th April from 6-7pm. Cost £3 to help keep the Library open.

Come on, Jesmond be creative , well done Jesmond Library

Jesmond Library Creative Writing Competition, closing date 04 June 2024. Details here:

jesmondlibrary.org/2024/04/23/cre…

Thank you very much for sharing this Jesmond Library, I look forward to reading it. Great work by Amanda Quinn and all involved. Read more about the work to create this anthology here: jesmondlibrary.org/2024/03/28/lau… #ACEsupported #LoveLibraries

Morning parkrunners, well my legs haven't quite transitioned back to running yet so no new photos of the Dene this morning. Still a little short of marshals, another 3 would make me ecstatic! #parkrun #volunteers #jesmonddene

Join us on Thursday 11 April for a dramatised reading and discussion of Byron’s Cain: A Mystery with Jon Quayle and Meiko O’Halloran from English at Newcastle and our Play Reading Group.

Join us on Thursday 11 April for a dramatised reading and discussion of Byron’s Cain: A Mystery with Jon Quayle and Meiko O’Halloran from English at Newcastle and our Play Reading Group.

Pictures from the launch this Thursday of the anthology of Library themed writing, with thanks to Michael Chaplin and to our amazing Writer in Residence Amanda Quinn

Monday 1st April 2024 - helenshaddock.blogspot.com/2024/04/monday… #art #diary #drawing #journal #helenshaddock #eatingdistress #eatingdisorder #ocd #mentalhealth #recovery #autism The NewBridge Project Jesmond Library Bea Charles Farrow & Ball skye gyngell Selected Shorts Carla Gutierrez

We launch our library themed anthology Thurs 04 April. This marks the end of the residency of our Writer in Residence Amanda Quinn - but hopefully not the end of Amanda’s time connection us.
In today’s blog she tells us about her time with us.

jesmondlibrary.org/2024/03/28/lau…

Loved my visit to St Mary's Catholic School - sharing notebooks and writing a poem for the forthcoming Welcome to the Library anthology for Jesmond Library