When we read a good book, something magical can happen. Locked down and in our own home we lose ourselves inside a fictional world, created by the imagination of the author but transformed into a virtual reality by our emotional response to the written word….
Jesmond Library is once again running its popular annual creative writing competition. This year the theme is “Do you want to know a secret?” With that as your starting point let your imagination take you anywhere it will. There are four age categories: Under 5…
On Thursday December 10th at 6.00pm Sarah-Mary Geisller will be talking about historic costume at Beamish. For an invitation to the zoom event please email events@jesmondlibrary.org.
September – summer is over and autumn has taken its place. School children return to their classes, students to university and colleges, and so the new term begins. Here at Jesmond Library we too have a new programme planned for the autumn. We hope you…
This week on the blog we’re in conversation with Chris Clarke who represents FOJL on the Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network. That’s quite a mouthful. Can you tell us more about the organisation? The Network is currently made up of over 400 libraries who…
An exciting evening of storytelling, poetry and an impromptu play reading took place on Saturday at the Award Ceremony of Jesmond Library’s 2018 Creative Writing Contest. Special thanks to Michael Chaplin for presenting the prizes. Michael and his wife Susan have long been supporters of…
