Places in Pieces: 'Theatre Royal' 🧩

📸: Theatre Royal, undated. Newcastle Libraries Archives.

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Under the seaaa 🐠🐳🎶Under the seaaa 🐠🐳🎶 another fantastic and creative Lego build from the Lego Club!!

Find your nearest Lego Club, here: tiny.cc/toonlegoclubs

WE ARE GREEN! ♻🌿

This month's children's themes is WE ARE GREEN! Check out one of the amazing displays across the branches with all the wonderful GREEN themed books - or borrow any book from the library to start your #ReduceReuseRecycle journey!

Join us at NOVUM Festival 2024 in Newcastle, where art, music, and performances reveal the city's hidden wonders. From living art to dance-circus showcases, there's something enchanting for everyone.

See the latest exciting announcement 👇

Last chance to get a ticket for today's author talks at City Library at 5.30pm!

Helen Aitchison and Jeff Stephenson will discuss writing about health and well-being, writing as a mental well-being tool and the value of local storytelling!

Tickets: HelenJeffToon.eventbrite.co.uk

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

Join us for the launch of 'Angels of the North: Volume Two' featuring a talk with authors Joyce Quin and Moira Kilkenny.

Saturday 1st June at 2pm, City Library. To book your free tickets click this link: tiny.cc/angels2booklau…

It's Hedgehog Awareness Week from the 5th to the 11th of May and we celebrated by making colourful hedgehogs at our branches on Saturday! As always, we are so impressed with your creativity - just look at all the unique hedgehog designs 🤩🦔

Tynesiders (others welcome, too) come and join us Tyneside Cinema tomorrow evening for a remarkable film, a chat with its director, and general #DeadGoodFilmClub good times.
Tickets from cinema - book now!

🔎 Did you know that May is Local History Month?

To celebrate, Newcastle Libraries have a range of free local history events throughout the month.

👀 Check out what's on offer, link in comments 👇

(Pic: Northumberland Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, c1968)

All Newcastle Libraries will be closed today for the May Day Bank Holiday. We look forward to seeing you as usual from Tuesday!

Just a reminder that all Newcastle Libraries will be closed tomorrow, for the My Day Bank Holiday!

Don't forget, you get 24hr access to @borrowbox with your Newcastle Libraries card, giving you access to free eBooks, audiobooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers!

Just a reminder that all Newcastle Libraries will be closed on Monday for the May Day Bank Holiday.

Join Wordsmith Adam Sharp as takes the audience on a narrative journey of his most popular lists (with asides and anecdotes delivered in-between). Expect some adult language!

City Library, Thursday 6 June at 5.30pm

Tickets are free but must be booked: AdamSharp.eventbrite.co.uk

Places in Pieces: 'What's in a name?' 🧩

📸: Grey Street, 1982. Newcastle Libraries Archives.

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Just a reminder that all Newcastle Libraries will be closed on Monday 6 May for the May Day Holiday. 🦋☀️

Join author, Chris Wood at City Library on Tuesday 14 May at 2.30PM for a look through some of the tragedies to have occurred within local theatres - this really was a time where breaking a leg was the least of a performers’ worries!

Tickets: LHM2024.eventbrite.co.uk

So excited about my events with Newcastle Libraries and Cheshire Education Library Service on 3/5! If you're at a school in Newcastle or Cheshire you had better watch out, because by the end of each event, I'll have done several impossible things. The question is, can you work out how?Walker Books

So pleased to see our own North Shields suffragette Norah Balls included in Volume 2 #LocalHistoryMonth

It's national walking week , why not have a stroll to Newcastle Libraries and chat to our cancer awareness nurses Roadshow Team NE , free advice and information on risk reduction, today Thursday 2nd May Healthwatch Newcastle