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  • Visit Your Local Library Day

    Saturday 12 April

    Stalls, storytelling, arts/crafts activities, postcard design competition, author visits, giveaways and more.

    Hackney Central Library
    1 Reading Lane
    E8 1GQ

    T 020 8356 2542

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and Games – design a postcard and knitting with the Cast Off group
    2.00 Poets John Hegley and Baden Prince are going to get you reading

    Clapton Library
    Northwold Road
    E5 8RA

    T 020 8356 1620

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard
    2.00 Hilda Kean – historian and author of London Stories (Rivers Oram Press)

    CLR James Library
    24-30 Dalston Lane
    E8 3AZ

    T 020 8356 1665

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard
    2.00 Kolton Lee (tbc) novelist – author of The Last Card (Maia Press)

    Homerton Library
    Homerton High Street
    E9 6AS

    T 020 8356 1690

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard
    2.00 Alex Wheatle (tbc) novelist – author of Island Songs, Seven Sisters, East of Acre Lane and more.

    Shoreditch Library
    80 Hoxton Street
    N1 6LP

    T 020 8356 4350

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard
    2.00 Notes From the Underground newspaper presents their writers

    Stamford Hill Library
    Portland Avenue
    N16 6SD

    T 020 8356 1700

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard
    2.00 Reading of Poets from I am 20 people (Enitharmon) tbc.

    Stoke Newington Library
    Stoke Newington Church Street
    N16 0JS

    11.00 Storytelling
    12 noon Crafts and games – design a postcard

    2.00 Catherine Johnson launches her new novel A Nest of Vipers (Random House)

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