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Expressive Arts ...... 4 Film ...... 11 Literacy...... 13 Social Studies...... 21 Diary...... 25 Venues...... 27 Booking lines open 9am General enquiries can be directed to on 31 August [email protected]

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‘How to…’ graphics workshop - Gary Erskine

Chryston Campus Thursday 1 October 10.45am - 12 pm 1.30pm - 2.45pm P6 - 7 Free

Do you dream of creating your own superhero… or villain? Do you want to design a robot, a monster or an alien? Well, now you can! Gary Erskine brings his How To Design Your Own… workshop to the Encounters Festival. This self-contained session will provide every child with the basic ideas and tips needed to create their own designs and set them up with all the skills to continue character and World building on their own or with friends. Discover how size, shape, texture and colour can quickly help realise your character. It will also show how important it is choosing your character’s name! Every child will create a character on the day and at the end of the class… help Gary design a special one-off Encounters creature using all the knowledge learnt on the day! www.garyerskine.blogspot.co.uk/For bookable events call 01236 632828 Tel 01236 856281.

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Portfolio Preparation - Creative Composition expressive arts Summerlee Museum Sunday 4 October 10.30am - 3.30pm Age 15+ £15 [includes all materials]

This one day workshop is aimed at senior school pupils and college students keen to improve on their portfolios of work. Working with photographer John Gray you will work in and around Summerlee Museum and grounds identifying expressive arts interesting compositions on the site. The workshop will encourage participants to see the beauty in what we often take for granted as the ordinary and the mundane. Participants will be led in the use of camera technique for effect as well as the use of Photoshop as a ‘digital darkroom’. Suitable for beginners or intermediate photographers. Booking essential. Tel 01236 632828. expressive arts expressive arts The Light Lab - Kenny Bean

Summerlee Museum Wednesday 7 October 10.30 - 11.30am, 12 noon - 1pm, 1.30pm - 2.30pm P3 - P7 £1 per pupil

2015 is designated as International Year of Light. To celebrate this event CultureNL has invited artist/photographer Kenny Bean to run a series of his Light Lab workshops for North Lanarkshire schools. Fresh from the Edinburgh Learning Festival and the Techfest Science Festival, this 45 minute workshop explores the science of light creatively through a series of visual experiments. These include splitting white light using LED torches and prisms, colour mixing back to white, drawing with ultra violet, making a wearable camera obscura using convex lenses and seeing your energy transferred into colour using cross polariser filters on light boxes. Duration approximately 45 minutes. Booking essential. Tel 01236 632828. Maximum class size 25.

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The Wonder of Wonderland -

Graphic Comic Book Workshop expressive arts

Available to book by a school Thursday 8 October 10am - 3pm P6+ £3 per pupil Pips and Panda Meet the Three Bears Purves Puppet

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s expressive arts Adventures in Wonderland’ with artist / illustrator, William Cumbernauld Theatre Goldsmith. Follow Alice on her fun-fuelled adventure to create Saturday 10 October your very own illustration based on this fantastic narrative. Learn 2pm about cartooning techniques, how to ‘draw’ a story and create an Families and young children up to 7 years artwork to impress your friends! £5 Booking essential. Call 01236 632828.

Maximum Class size 25. Pips and Panda Meets the Three Bears is an exciting ultraviolet expressive arts performance for little ones; the puppets glow-in-the-dark and the puppeteers disappear like magic! Pips and Panda find themselves meeting the Three Bears - Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear and silly Baby Bear! Panda – a cuddly Panda bear, finds himself flying through the air with Goldilocks’ kite and dancing with two frogs he meets in the wood. Pips - the Monkey, is trying to catch up with him! This show filled with laughter, fun and songs is a spectacular performance keeping everyone entertained. Don’t forget to bring along your panda or monkey toy! Children, mums and dads can even meet the expressive arts puppets afterwards. Booking essential. Tel 01236 732887

Terra Incognita Presents My Friend Selma

Cumbernauld Theatre Tuesday 13 October 2.30pm Age 8+ £5

‘It has already created that unforgettable image - of the exuberant life-force of children, facing down a terrible war.’ - Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman ‘The most amazing story I’ve ever heard!’ Georgia, aged 11. When I was 8 years old, my dad set up a charity to help people in danger to escape the war in a place called Bosnia. He brought fifty of them over here on big coaches. We moved into an old boarding school with these refugees to help them settle in. We lived there for four months. It was brilliant – there was a playground in my front garden, we had lots of visitors, people were always feeding me and I learnt to ride a bike! But the best thing about living there was meeting my friend Selma. My Friend Selma is the remarkable real-life story of one girl’s journey from war in Bosnia to safety in the UK. It is the tale of an incredible journey, a world turned upside down, loss, friendship, courage and conkers. Booking essential. Tel 01236 732887. Education Pack Available.

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How the Koala Learnt to Hug

- The People’s Theatre Company expressive arts

Cumbernauld Theatre Thursday 15 October 2pm Age 3+ £5

Koalas are the cuddliest critters expressive arts but just how did they learn to hug? There’s only one way to find out so The Hidden Sights of the Lanark Valley come and hear Karen The Koala - Photo Field Trip tell her story in this fun filled family musical, written especially for parents to enjoy with their children. Based on the book ‘How The Koala Learnt To Leaves from and returns to Summerlee Museum, Heritage

Hug’ by Steven Lee, this charming expressive arts Way, Coatbridge ML5 1QD production is back on tour for its fifth Tuesday 13 October anniversary. With a host of gorgeous 10.30am - 3.30pm puppet characters, great stories, sing Age 14+ along songs, superb games and first £6 per participant class hugging, all you’ll need are your ears. (And your arms!) ‘A perfect introduction to theatre for children, full of audience participation Get some top tips on your photographic work from this and feel-good factor.’ - ***** Sheffield Star accompanied field trip to an area with some of the best kept landscape secrets in central Scotland. ‘Filled to overflowing with the feel-good factor. A pure, undiluted joy’ - expressive arts ***** The Cornishman Booking essential. Tel 01236 632828. Booking essential. Tel 01236 732887. Places are limited so book early. Education Pack Available The Wonder of Wonderland – Dry-point Etching Workshop

Available to book by a school Thursday 22 October 9am - 3pm P6+ £3 per pupil

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. Dry-point Etching Workshops with artist Bronwen Sleigh. This workshop allows for a maximum of 10 pupils to participate in an hour long workshop. The artist can accommodate 4 x 1 hour workshops over the course of the school day. (morning x 2 and afternoon x 2). Pupils are required to bring along an apron/old t-shirt. All other materials/equipment will be supplied. Booking essential. Call 01236 632828.

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Discovery Film Festival on Tour -

Shorts for Wee Ones film

Chapelhall Library, Thursday 22 October Abronhill Library, Thursday 29 October 10am - 11am [running time approx 45mins] Age 3+

Free

A delightful, specially curated programme from the Discovery Film film Festival, DCA, Dundee of short films from countries and cultures as far afield as South Korea, Brazil and the UK. Through a mixture of animation, and live action the programme of films covers a wide range of topics including outer space, the environment and how we should respect others. A truly special programme! Booking essential. Call 01236 750099 (Chapelhall) / 01236 731503 (Abronhill).

Teachers resource pack available. film film Discovery Film Festival on Tour - Shorts for Middle Ones

Bellshill Cultural Centre, Monday 26 October Airdrie Town Hall, Tuesday 27 October

10.30am - 11.30am [running time approx 50 mins] Age 8+ Free

A specially curated programme from the Discovery Film Festival, DCA, Dundee of short films for slightly older children. Topics covered include the dangers of jealousy, our impact on the world around us and having respect for others. The films represent many different countries and cultures and includes work from Spain and the USA. Booking essential. Call 01698 346770 (Bellshill) / 01698 274545 (Airdrie). Teachers resource pack available.

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The Nowhere Emporium - Ross MacKenzie

Friday 2 October Stepps Cultural Centre, 10.30am - 11.30am Coatbridge Library, 1.30pm - 2.30pm P5 - 7 Free

When the mysterious ‘Nowhere Emporium’ arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the ‘shop from nowhere’ - and its owner, Mr Silver - draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment… Ross MacKenzie is the author of fantasy adventure, ‘Zac and the Dream Pirates’, winner of a Scottish Children’s Book Award in 2012. He lives in Renfrew, where he grew up, with his wife and two daughters, but spends much of his time in another world. This title will be available for pre-order at a discounted rate. Please ask for information when booking. www.discoverkelpies.co.uk/books/nowhere-emporium/ Bookable by a school - 01236 638555 (Stepps) 01236 856444 (Coatbridge)

Baby Aliens got Toilet Ghost! - Pamela Butchart my Teacher! - Cumbernauld Pamela Butchart Library Monday 5 October 1.30pm - 2.30pm Kilsyth Library P1 - 3 Monday 5 October Free 11am - 12 noon

P4 - 7 Free Meet the pupils of Wigglesbottom Primary school and join in with their Baby aliens, vampire rats and primary school mayhem from spies – primary school is an the Red House Children’s interesting place! Especially Book Award shortlisted author, if you’re Blue Peter Book Pamela Butchart. As a child, Award-winning author Pamela Pamela was lucky enough to Butchart. Come and join grow up in a house full of pets, Pamela as she talks about have a mum and dad who were her laugh-out-loud books and bonkers, and go to The Best where she gets her hilarious Most Awesome Primary School ideas from! in the World™. As a student, Books will be available for sale Pamela’s student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in at this event at a discounted America, phlebotomist, and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba price. tribute band. As a grown up Pamela teaches philosophy to teenagers and spends all day pondering questions such as, ‘Is time travel www.nosycrow.com/books/pamela-butchart possible?’ and ‘How do I know I’m not really a robot?’ The stories Bookable by a school – Call 01236 823147 write themselves really… Books will be available for sale at this event at a discounted price. www.nosycrow.com/books/pamela-butchart Bookable by a school – Call 01236 618190

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Bellshill Cultural Centre Wednesday 7 October 10.30am - 11.30am

New Stevenston Library Wednesday 7 October 1.30pm - 2.30pm

P5 - 7 Free

Join Scottish Children’s Book award winner Alex McCall as he goes through the basics of writing, teaching kids how easy and fun it is to make stories. With the help of Clucky the Descriptive Chicken he will show the audience a bit about how to write structure, describe objects and create character in stories. Hear about how he became the youngest ever winner of the Kelpies prize with ‘Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens’ and about his sequel ‘Revenge of the Giant Robot Chickens’. Aimed at late primary school aged children it is a perfect introduction on how to write and create stories in an exciting and engaging way. www.discoverkelpies.co.uk/books/attack-of-the-giant-robot-chickens/ Bookable by a school – 01698 346770/346771 (Bellshill) / 01698 403787 (New Stevenston)

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Tales from Five Kingdoms - Vivian French Vivian French

Motherwell Library Wishaw Library Tuesday 20 October Tuesday 20 October 10.30am - 11.30am 1.30pm - 2.30pm P4 - 7 P1 - 3 Free Free

Encounters Festival is delighted Culture NL are proud to host to welcome Vivian French to North one of our favourite authors and Lanarkshire. Vivian is the hugely popular storytellers in North Lanarkshire. author of over 200 children’s books Vivian has written over 250 books including the ‘Tiara Club’ and ‘Tales for children of all ages. Come from the Five Kingdoms’ series and her along to the library to hear Vivian stories are favourites with children of all bring these funny and fantastical ages. Come and meet one of the most tales alive. borrowed authors in the UK libraries. Books will be available for sale Books will be available for sale at this at this event at a discounted event at a discounted price. price. www.vivianfrench.com/ www.vivianfrench.com/

Bookable by a school – call 01698 332626

Pyrate’s Boy - E B Colin

Newmains Library Wednesday 21 October 10.30am - 11.30am

Viewpark Library Wednesday 21 October 1.30pm - 2.30pm

P4 - 7 Free

Come and join us for a journey on the high seas to meet Silas, Black Johnnie and a host of other characters in a wonderful tale that takes us back in time and across the ocean! The successful swashbuckling adventure. ‘Pyrate’s Boy’ (2013), set in Scotland and the West Indies, was shortlisted for a Scottish Book Trust Children’s Book Award, a Bolton Book Award and an Oxfordshire Book Award. E B Colin is a novelist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Beatrice began her career as a journalist for The Sunday Herald and The Guardian, writing on the arts and culture. ‘My Invisible Sister’ (2010), co-written with Sara Pinto, is being made into a movie for television by Disney (to be broadcast October 2015). She is now a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde. This title will be available for pre-order at a discounted rate. Please ask for information when booking. www.beatricecolin.co.uk/ Bookable by a school – 01698 385325 (Newmains) / 01698 812801 (Viewpark)

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Scottish Stories - Eric Brennan Creative writing workshop - Alan Bissett

Craigneuk Library Friday 9 October Wednesday 28 October morning session 10.30am - 11.30am S4 - S6 Free Shotts Library Wednesday 28 October Author and playwright Alan Bissett 1.30pm - 2.30pm will host a creative writing workshop for your class. Nursery - P2 Free Alan is a former English teacher and lecturer in Creative Writing at Leeds and Glasgow universities. Edinburgh based storyteller His novels include Boyracers, The Eric Brennan tells folk and fairy Incredible Adam Spark and Pack tales and legends from around Men. The plays which he has the world, giving each story a particularly Scottish flavour. Often written, performed and self-produced with director Sacha Kyle are fantastical, always humorous, Eric’s tales enthral young and old alike. The Moira Monologues (2009), The Red Hourglass (2012) and Ban Eric has worked for many years in early literacy projects, developing This Filth! (2013), shortlisted for an Amnesty International Freedom of his skills in storytelling to pre-school and primary age children. His Expression Award. He is currently working on a play about football, previous experience in community work and drama has given him the entitled Souness. For the last ten years he has also worked extensively opportunity to work with groups of all ages. Eric has told stories in on reading workshops and creative writing sessions in schools. Alan many settings across Scotland, including nurseries, schools, libraries Bissett’s writing deals in unlikely combinations: racy young blokes in and theatres. Come to your local library to hear Eric’s tales! touch with their feminine sides, Scottish culture wedded to Americana, socialism married to commercialised popular culture, genre fiction www.ebstoryteller.co.uk/ matched with formal experimentation. He is very much in demand as a Bookable by a school – call 01698 376689 / 01501 821556 live act, and as well as appearing in countless schools across Scotland has performed at international festivals including New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Beijing. www.alanbissett.com To book this fantastic one off opportunity, email Gillian Hunt - [email protected]. Musical Jungle

Condorrat Library, Thursday 8 October, 10.30am - 11.30am Old Monkland Library, Thursday 8 October, 1.30pm - 2.30pm Newarthill Library, Thursday 22 October, 1.30pm - 2.30pm Petersburn Library, Thursday 29 October, 1.30pm - 2.30pm

Nursery - P2 Free

Have you heard about the jungle party down at the library? Join us for an interactive version of the swinging ‘Hippobottymus’ and create your own jungle finger puppets! Music, games and lots of fun guaranteed! Bookable by a nursery or a school - 01236 736615 (Condorrat) / 01236 428018 (Old Monkland) / 01698 732033 (Newarthill) / 01236 755008 (Petersburn)

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Back to the Future: 1980s workshop Back to the Future: Summerlee Museum 23 October - Friday Monday 19 October 2015 12.30pm - 2pm 10am - 12.30pm and P4 - P7 £38 of great change in Scotland. The 1980s were a period bringing social change, and Heavy industry declined small enough for use in new technology became children there was the Rubik’s cube, and homes. For seen the end of ‘the belt’, and Modern Scotland was through ‘Gregory’s Girl’ and the Glasgow Garden This new workshop will look at some of the key moments in Festival. to explore what life the 1980s using objects, fashion, music and film was like 30 years ago. 01236 638352. Booking essential. Tel s North Lanarkshire’s War Home and Away - First World War workshop

Summerlee Museum and North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre Throughout October 10am - 12.30pm and 12.30pm - 2pm P5 - 7 £38

Pupils will learn about the causes of the war, what life was like in the trenches by visiting our replica trench, on the front line and how the great war affected people both home and away. The children will have the opportunity to handle real and replica WWI objects, look at archival material and debate topical issues such as equal pay for women and conscientious objectors. Booking essential. Tel 01236 638352.

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Remembrance: What does it mean now? social studies - First World War Talk

Cardinal Newman High School October Secondary Free

Remembrance: What does it mean now? Professor Tony Pollard, a Battlefield social studies Archaeologist from the University of Glasgow will host the discussion about Remembrance and its place in the 21st Century. Joining him on the panel is Professor David Aldridge from Oxford Brookes University and others. social studies Libraries NL First World War Class Visits and First World War Loan Box Resource Pack October Libraries NL have developed a series of class visits with an Primary and Secondary accompanying resource pack to commemorate the First World War. The £20 for four weeks visits are aimed at pupils in P4 to P7 but can be adapted to suit younger children. Themes looked at in the pack include Games from the Past, Each loan box contains PowerPoints, information, photographs, Code Breaking, The Home Front and an Adventure Game. There is also costumes, postcards and replica items. Suitable for classroom information on novels that can be used to support the topic. displays, lessons, and assemblies. For more information please contact either Alison Walsh, Library For more details and to book please contact Lu McNair 01236 Educational Services Manager at [email protected] or Judy 638352 or [email protected]. McGuire, Community Librarian (Airdrie) at [email protected]

Lanarkshire and the Great War First World War - A Woman’s War - North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre resource pack Monday – Saturday throughout October Primary and Secondary October Free Free P5 - 7 and Secondary The war had a profound impact on Lanarkshire and its people. Come and see how the war affected the working and domestic life of Dedicated resource looking at the role of women during the First those left at home. Learn what it was actually like to live and fight in World War, on the homefront, political stage and the frontlines. The the trenches as a soldier. The exhibition will explore the experiences pack comprises targeted information and study resources looking at and stories of local men, women and children who had lived and key women’s First World War figures - Land Girls, nurses, suffragettes fought during the war. Through a mixture of military and social etc, and their role and impact during the conflict. With the addition of history objects including photographs, ephemera, film and oral interpretive elements and roleplay, the pack can be delivered as a series history testimony, the war will be brought to the modern day visitor. of ‘discussions’ between participants and actual ‘women at war’. Suitable for delivery in a classroom or library environment. Why not call 01236 638352 and book a workshop to enhance your visit? For more details, please contact: Judy McGuire (Community Librarian – Airdrie) 01236 758070 / 758072 or [email protected].

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1 October ‘How to…’ graphics workshop - Gary Erskine Chryston Campus 10.45am - 12 noon and 1.30pm - 2.45pm 2 October The Nowhere Emporium - Ross MacKenzie Stepps Cultural Centre 10.30am - 11.30am 2 October The Nowhere Emporium - Ross MacKenzie Coatbridge Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 4 October Portfolio Preparation - Creative Composition Summerlee Museum 10.30am - 3.30pm 5 October Baby Aliens got my Teacher! - Pamela Butchart Kilsyth Library 11am - 12noon 5 October Toilet Ghost! - Pamela Butchart Cumbernauld Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 6 October Thor is locked in my garage! - Robert J Harris Moodiesburn Library 10.30am - 11.30am 6 October Thor is locked in my garage! - Robert J Harris Airdrie Library 1.30pm – 2.30pm 7 October The Light Lab - Kenny Bean Summerlee Museum 10.30am - 11.30am, 12 noon - 1pm and 1.30pm - 2.30pm 7 October Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens - Alexander McCall Bellshill Cultural Centre 10.30am – 11.30am 7 October Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens - Alexander McCall New Stevenston Library 1.30pm – 2.30pm 8 October ‘The Wonder of Wonderland’. Available to book by a school 10am - 3pm 8 October Musical Jungle Condorrat Library 10.30am – 11.30am 8 October Musical Jungle Old Monkland Library 1.30pm – 2.30pm 9 October Alan Bisset - Getting Started TBC 9.30am - 12 noon 10 October Pips and Panda meet the Three Bears Cumbernauld Theatre 2pm 13 October Photo Field Trip Summerlee Museum 10.30am - 3.30pm 15 October How the Koala Leant to Hug Cumbernauld Theatre 2pm 19 October - 23 Back to the Future: 1980s workshop Summerlee Museum 10am - 12.30pm and October 12.30pm - 2pm expressive arts literacy social studies film expressive arts literacy social studies film expressive arts literacy social studies film diary

20 October Tales from Five Kingdoms - Vivian French Motherwell Library 10.30am - 11.30am 20 October Vivian French Wishaw Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 21 October Pyrate’s Boy - E B Colin Newmains Library 10.30am - 11.30am 21 October Pyrate’s Boy - E B Colin Viewpark Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 22 October The Wonder of Wonderland Available to book by a school 9am - 3pm 22 October Discovery Film Festival on Tour Chapelhall Library 10am - 11am 22 October Musical Jungle Newarthill Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 26 October Discovery Film Festival on Tour Bellshill Cultural Centre 10.30am - 11.30am 27 October Discovery Film Festival on Tour Airdrie Town Hall 10.30am - 11.30am 28 October Scottish Stories - Eric Brennan Craigneuk Library 10.30am - 11.30am 28 October Scottish Stories - Eric Brennan Shotts Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 29 October Discovery Film Festival on Tour Abronhill Library 10am - 11am 29 October Musical Jungle Petersburn Library 1.30pm - 2.30pm 29 October The Box Cumbernauld Theatre 7.45pm October Remembrance: What does it mean now? - First World War Cardinal Newman High School Talk October Home and Away - First World War workshop North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre 10am - 12.30pm and and Summerlee Museum 12.30pm-2pm

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venues

Abronhill Library, 17 Pine Road, Abronhill, G67 3BE ...... 01236 731503

Airdrie Library, Wellwynd, Airdrie, ML6 0AG ...... 01236 758072

Airdrie Town Hall, Stirling Street, Airdrie, ML6 0AG ...... 01698 403120

Bellshill Cultural Centre, John Street, Bellshill, ML4 1RJ ...... 01698 346770

Cardinal Newman High School, Main St, Bellshill, Lanarkshire ML4 3DW ...... 01236 638571

Chapelhall Library, 2 Honeywell Crescent, Airdrie, ML6 8XW ...... 01236 750099

Chryston Library, Chryston Cultural Centre, Lindsaybeg Road, Chryston, G69 9DL ...... 01236 856281

Coatbridge Library, The Buchanan Centre, Main Street, Coatbridge, ML5 3BJ ...... 01236 856444

Condorrat Library, North Road, Condorrat, G68 9AE ...... 01236 736615

Craigneuk Library, 35 Shieldmuir St, Wishaw ML2 7TJ ...... 01698 376689

Cumbernauld Library, 8 Allander Walk, Cumbernauld, G67 1EE ...... 01236 618190

Kilsyth Library, Burngreen, Kilsyth, G65 0HT ...... 01236 823147

Moodiesburn Library, Glenmanor Avenue, Moodiesburn, G69 0DL ...... 01236 856295

Motherwell Library, 35 Hamilton Road, Motherwell, ML1 3BZ ...... 01698 332626

Newarthill Library, Kirkhall Road, Newarthill, ML1 5BB ...... 01698 732033

Newmains Library, Manse Road, Newmains, Wishaw, ML2 9AX ...... 01698 520680

New Stevenston Library, Coronation Road East, New Stevenston, ML1 4HX ...... 01698 403787

North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, High Road, Motherwell, ML1 3HU ...... 01698 274590 venues

Old Monkland Library, Cuparhead Avenue, Coatbridge, ML5 5LT ...... 01236 428018

Petersburn Library, Varnsdorf Way, Petersburn, Airdrie, ML6 8EQ ...... 01236 755008

Shotts Library, Benhar Road, Shotts, ML7 5EN ...... 01501 821556

Stepps Cultural Centre, 10 Blenheim Avenue, Stepps, G33 6FH ...... 01236 638555

Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Heritage Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD ...... 01236 638352

Viewpark Library, Burnhead Street, Viewpark, G71 5RN ...... 01698 812801

Wishaw Library, Kenilworth Avenue, Wishaw, ML2 7LP ...... 01698 524960

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