What'son in Libraries

Westbourne 2.30 – 4pm Ages 5-11 Ages 4pm – 2.30 Westbourne 28

11am – 10.30 Poole

Coding, robots & fruit & robots Coding, Creation station: station: Creation Bournemouth all week all Bournemouth Rocketman Baby Rhymetime Baby Rocketman Tue

Ensbury Park 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Park Ensbury

Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 5-11 Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Tuckton

Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole

Treasure hunt Treasure Tue Firefit for children for Firefit

Australia Creation Stations: Stations: Creation Sat

Creekmoor 11am – 4pm drop in drop 4pm – 11am Creekmoor Southbourne 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Southbourne

Winton 2.15 – 2.45pm Ages 0-5 Ages 2.45pm – 2.15 Winton Run Bunny Run crafts Run Bunny Run Enchanted forest of Shakespeare crafts Shakespeare of forest Enchanted

St George and the Dragon stories Dragon the and George St Thu

Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm Ages 4-8 Ages 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch 14 Oakdale 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Oakdale

Easter crafts Easter

Create a Shakespeare play Shakespeare a Create Sat

Parkstone 11am – 12 noon Ages 7+ Ages noon 12 – 11am Parkstone

Parkstone 11 – 11.30am Ages 3-6 Ages 11.30am – 11 Parkstone Creative writing workshop writing Creative Fri

at most libraries. Plus: libraries. most at

Spring storytime and planting seeds planting and storytime Spring Tue

Quizzes, crafts and activities activities and crafts Quizzes,

Ensbury Park 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Park Ensbury

Boscombe until 17 April 17 until Boscombe 14 – 21 March 21 – 14

Chocolate story, craft and hunt and craft story, Chocolate Thu

Drop in for Narnia crafts Narnia for in Drop

Shakespeare Week Week Shakespeare

Broadstone 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Broadstone Oakdale 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Oakdale

Egg-straordinary Easter Fun Easter Egg-straordinary Wed Create an Easter garden Easter an Create

Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne Southbourne until Thu 9 Thu until Southbourne

28 Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole

Narnia toddler time and crafts and time toddler Narnia Join Paddington in the garden the in Paddington Join Mon

Superheroes Creation Stations: Stations: Creation Sat

Charminster 5 – 6pm – 5 Charminster

Winton until Sat 18 Sat until Winton

- ask for details for ask - libraries Most

Percy the Park Keeper stories stories Keeper Park the Percy

VE Day stories and headlines and stories Day VE

Mothers Day crafts Day Mothers until Thu 19 Thu until

West Howe 2 – 3pm 3pm – 2 Howe West

4 Charminster 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Charminster

Ensbury Park 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Park Ensbury

Easter Egg decorating Egg Easter

Easter Eggstravaganza Easter Sat

Science crafts Science

Highcliffe 2 – 3pm Ages 5-11 Ages 3pm – 2 Highcliffe

Canford Heath Sat 4 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am 4 Sat Heath Canford

Boscombe 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Boscombe

Bowling Bunnies Bowling Tue

3 Rossmore 4 – 5pm – 4 Rossmore

Fun with Ozobots! with Fun

Make an Easter card Easter an Make Fri

11 Canford Heath 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Heath Canford

Poole 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Poole

Easter Egg hunt Egg Easter Sat

Science week family fun day fun family week Science Sat

at most libraries. Ask for details. details. for Ask libraries. most at

Tuckton 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Tuckton

hunts treasure and crafts Drop-in

10 Castlepoint 4 – 5pm – 4 Castlepoint

Easter crafts Easter Creation Stations: Stations: Creation

Makey-takey Tue

Easter Holiday Easter

4 – 18 April April 18 – 4

April

9 Canford Heath 10.15 – 11.15am – 10.15 Heath Canford

9 Highcliffe 3.30 – 4.15pm Age 5-11 Age 4.15pm – 3.30 Highcliffe Find out about… Monkey World Monkey about… out Find Thu

Brits in space in Brits Talk: Mon

Bournemouth 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Bournemouth West Howe 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Howe West

Bunny Bop Bunny 7 Make Shakespearean finger puppets puppets finger Shakespearean Make Tue Christchurch until Sat 14 Sat until Christchurch

Science creation station creation Science Sat

Canford Cliffs 11am – 12 noon Ages 3-7 Ages noon 12 – 11am Cliffs Canford 21

Parkstone 10am – 1pm – 10am Parkstone

Every Bunny Dance storytime and craft and storytime Dance Bunny Every ) (

= British Science Week Science British =

Make a Shakespearean crown Shakespearean a Make Sat

Poole 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Poole

March

Castlepoint 10 – 10.30am – 10 Castlepoint Plant a pot for Easter for pot a Plant Wed

Midsummer Night’s Dream toddler time toddler Dream Night’s Midsummer

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Charminster 2 – 3pm – 2 Charminster 19 Springbourne 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Springbourne

Easter bunnies toddler tales toddler bunnies Easter Tue

Shakespeare story time story Shakespeare Thu

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March World Book Day What’s On Book and Costume Swap Sat 1 February – Thu 5 March in Libraries Swap books and dressing up costumes at your local library. Mar/Apr 2020 Special Dressing Up Rhymetimes and Toddler Times during w/b Monday 2 March in all libraries. Most of our events are free but please Mon Craft – What I’ll be when I grow up book in advance 2 Oakdale 3.30 – 4.30pm til Fri 6 Booking for Poole libraries, Tue Make a book bookmark phone 01202 262449 3 Creekmoor 11am – 4pm or call in to your local library. Spice Girls Baby Rhymetime Poole 10.30 – 11am Booking for Bournemouth and Christchurch libraries, please contact Tooth Fairy toddler tales Charminster 2 – 3pm your local library.

Thu Make book character bunting Children under 8 5 Broadstone 3.30 – 4.30pm must be accompanied David Walliams character hunt & quiz by an adult Boscombe 9.30am – 7pm World Book Day treasure hunt bcpcouncil.gov.uk/libraries Tuckton Features 200 million minutes – log your reading Christchurch until 2 April World Book Day & Night Junk modelling Blue Peter style Shakespeare Week Castlepoint 4 – 5pm Easter holiday activities Fri Southbourne Window Wanderland Novels that shaped our world 6 World Book Day Display until Sat 7

World Book Day illustrations © Rob Biddulph bcpcouncil.gov.uk/libraries

Westbourne 2.30 – 4pm Ages 5-11 Ages 4pm – 2.30 Westbourne 28

11am – 10.30 Poole

Coding, robots & fruit & robots Coding, Creation station: station: Creation Bournemouth all week all Bournemouth Rocketman Baby Rhymetime Baby Rocketman Tue

Ensbury Park 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Park Ensbury

Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 5-11 Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Tuckton

Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole

Treasure hunt Treasure Tue Firefit for children for Firefit

Australia Creation Stations: Stations: Creation Sat

Creekmoor 11am – 4pm drop in drop 4pm – 11am Creekmoor Southbourne 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Southbourne

Winton 2.15 – 2.45pm Ages 0-5 Ages 2.45pm – 2.15 Winton Run Bunny Run crafts Run Bunny Run Enchanted forest of Shakespeare crafts Shakespeare of forest Enchanted

St George and the Dragon stories Dragon the and George St Thu

Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm Ages 4-8 Ages 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch 14 Oakdale 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Oakdale

Easter crafts Easter

Create a Shakespeare play Shakespeare a Create Sat

Parkstone 11am – 12 noon Ages 7+ Ages noon 12 – 11am Parkstone

Parkstone 11 – 11.30am Ages 3-6 Ages 11.30am – 11 Parkstone Creative writing workshop writing Creative Fri

at most libraries. Plus: libraries. most at

Spring storytime and planting seeds planting and storytime Spring Tue

Quizzes, crafts and activities activities and crafts Quizzes,

Ensbury Park 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Park Ensbury

Boscombe until 17 April 17 until Boscombe 14 – 21 March 21 – 14

Chocolate story, craft and hunt and craft story, Chocolate Thu

Drop in for Narnia crafts Narnia for in Drop

Shakespeare Week Week Shakespeare

Broadstone 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Broadstone Oakdale 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Oakdale

Egg-straordinary Easter Fun Easter Egg-straordinary Wed Create an Easter garden Easter an Create

Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne Southbourne until Thu 9 Thu until Southbourne

28 Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole

Narnia toddler time and crafts and time toddler Narnia Join Paddington in the garden the in Paddington Join Mon

Superheroes Creation Stations: Stations: Creation Sat

Charminster 5 – 6pm – 5 Charminster

Winton until Sat 18 Sat until Winton

- ask for details for ask - libraries Most

Percy the Park Keeper stories stories Keeper Park the Percy

VE Day stories and headlines and stories Day VE

Mothers Day crafts Day Mothers until Thu 19 Thu until

West Howe 2 – 3pm 3pm – 2 Howe West

4 Charminster 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Charminster

Ensbury Park 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Park Ensbury

Easter Egg decorating Egg Easter

Easter Eggstravaganza Easter Sat

Science crafts Science

Highcliffe 2 – 3pm Ages 5-11 Ages 3pm – 2 Highcliffe

Canford Heath Sat 4 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am 4 Sat Heath Canford

Boscombe 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Boscombe

Bowling Bunnies Bowling Tue

3 Rossmore 4 – 5pm – 4 Rossmore

Fun with Ozobots! with Fun

Make an Easter card Easter an Make Fri

11 Canford Heath 10.30am – 12 noon 12 – 10.30am Heath Canford

Poole 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Poole

Easter Egg hunt Egg Easter Sat

Science week family fun day fun family week Science Sat

at most libraries. Ask for details. details. for Ask libraries. most at

Tuckton 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Tuckton

hunts treasure and crafts Drop-in

10 Castlepoint 4 – 5pm – 4 Castlepoint

Easter crafts Easter Creation Stations: Stations: Creation

Makey-takey Tue

Easter Holiday Easter

4 – 18 April April 18 – 4

April

9 Canford Heath 10.15 – 11.15am – 10.15 Heath Canford

9 Highcliffe 3.30 – 4.15pm Age 5-11 Age 4.15pm – 3.30 Highcliffe Find out about… Monkey World Monkey about… out Find Thu

Brits in space in Brits Talk: Mon

Bournemouth 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Bournemouth West Howe 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Howe West

Bunny Bop Bunny 7 Make Shakespearean finger puppets puppets finger Shakespearean Make Tue Christchurch until Sat 14 Sat until Christchurch

Science creation station creation Science Sat

Canford Cliffs 11am – 12 noon Ages 3-7 Ages noon 12 – 11am Cliffs Canford 21

Parkstone 10am – 1pm – 10am Parkstone

Every Bunny Dance storytime and craft and storytime Dance Bunny Every ) (

= British Science Week Science British =

Make a Shakespearean crown Shakespearean a Make Sat

Poole 10am – 12 noon 12 – 10am Poole

March

Castlepoint 10 – 10.30am – 10 Castlepoint Plant a pot for Easter for pot a Plant Wed

Midsummer Night’s Dream toddler time toddler Dream Night’s Midsummer

children and families and children cont .. cont ... For

Charminster 2 – 3pm – 2 Charminster 19 Springbourne 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Springbourne

Easter bunnies toddler tales toddler bunnies Easter Tue

Shakespeare story time story Shakespeare Thu

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( = Please book for this event ) Mon Shakespeare family quiz Tue Exhibition: World Health Day 16 Canford Cliffs, until Sat 21 7 Oakdale 10am – 5pm Novels that shaped our world Shakespeare poetry pop-in Friendly French Group A BBC panel of writers, curators and critics chose Westbourne 3 – 4pm Canford Cliffs 10.30 – 11.30am 100 novels that have had an impact on their lives. Look out for our pop-up reading groups, Bookchat Tue Shared reading Shakespeare Tue Pop-up reading group: The Chronicles of events and Twitter #BCPBookChat. 17 Southbourne 10 – 11.30am 14 Narnia by CS Lewis Southbourne 5.30 – 6.30pm March theme Adventure Also Thu 19 Christchurch 2.30 – 4pm April theme Life, Death and Other Worlds Thu Coffee and ukulele Thu Talk: Local literary connections 19 Southbourne 10.30 – 11.30am 16 Christchurch 2.30 – 4pm £2.50/£4.50 With ukulelist Jon Morgan With Nicholas Saunders. Friends event March Bookchat coffee morning Caring Canines Women’s History Month Canford Heath 10.30 – 11.30am Southbourne 10.30 – 11.30am Be inspired by women who made a difference. Fri Talk: Parkstone Camera Club Sat Talk: Gob, Snot and ‘What-ho Squiffy’ Book displays and information in all our libraries. 20 Parkstone 4.30 – 5.30pm 18 Westbourne 2 – 3.30pm Age 13+ With Nigel Hargreaves A short survey of slang, the vulgar tongue, Mon National Careers Week Until Sat 7 ‘flash’ and other lingo with Dr Susan England 2 Visit our Jobs Clubs for advice about applying Bookchat: Adventure stories for jobs, interview techniques, and much more Ensbury Park 2.30 – 3.30pm Tue Talk: Writing and publishing your memoir Boscombe Tuesdays 12noon - 3pm British Library Screening: Simon Armitage: 21 Canford Cliffs 10.30 – 11.30am Bournemouth Thursdays 1.30 – 4.30pm The Laureate’s Library Tour Kinson Fridays 10am - 1pm With Georgie Codd, author of We Swim to Poole 7.30 – 9pm Springbourne Mondays 2 – 4.30pm the Shark The Poet Laureate launches his 10-year A-Z West Howe Thursdays 1 - 3pm Libraries Tour of the UK with a reading at the Bookchat: A matter of life and death Winton Wednesdays 10am - 1pm British Library Poole 1.30 – 2.30pm Poole Tuesdays 10am – 1pm Rossmore Wednesdays 10am – 1pm Tue Talk: The Lindisfarne Gospels Fri Flute recital: Hannah Scott No appointment needed, just drop in 24 Westbourne 2.30 – 4pm 24 Bournemouth 10.15 – 11.15am With Paul Collins Friends of Bournemouth Music Library Cool careers in our community Canford Cliffs until Sat 07 Thu Talk: Espionage, sabotage and illusion Tue Pop-up reading group: Frankenstein Our customers’ careers and working lives 26 Highcliffe 2.30 – 4pm £2.50/£4.50 28 by Mary Shelley With Kathy McNally. Friends event First Line quiz Canford Cliffs 10.30 – 11.30am Castlepoint drop-in, until 28 March Talk: Royal Bournemouth Hospital Charity #BCPBookchat: Life, Death and Exhibition: Parkstone Camera Club Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am Other Worlds Poole until 20 March Fri Fairtrade afternoon tea Twitter 1 – 2pm Tue Flowers in watercolour 27 Kinson 2.30 – 4pm 3 Canford Heath 10.30am – 12.30pm Mon World Autism Awareness Week Have a go, with Vic Martin 30 Information displays in all libraries until 4 April World Book Night Friendly French Group Pop-up reading group: Thursday 23 April Canford Cliffs 10.30 – 11.30am The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Help us spread the joy of reading by giving Informal French chat with coffee Broadstone 2 – 3pm a book to someone who doesn’t regularly read for pleasure. Then join us at one of Pop-up reading group: The Hunger Games Tue Adult craft group our celebrations for quizzes, readings and by Suzanne Collins Southbourne 10 – 11.30am book-related discussions! Springbourne 3 – 4pm 31 With guest artist Katy Vaughan Wed Talk: Bournemouth’s Victoria Cross #BCPBookchat: Adventure Novels recipients 4 Twitter 1 – 2pm Bournemouth 10 – 11am Aspects of History talk with Rod Arnold Autism information afternoon Tue Murder Mystery Party Fri Careers advice and help with your CV Ensbury Park 2.30 – 4.30pm 21 Christchurch 7.30 – 9pm With refreshments by The Crumbs Charity 6 Ensbury Park 2.30 – 4.30pm Thu The Annual World Book Night Party Talk: Volunteering with Schoolreaders 23 Hamworthy 7 – 9pm Parkstone 11am – 12 noon April With authors Frances Maynard With Rosie Cunningham (Maggsie McNaughton’s Second Chance) and Georgie Codd (We Swim to the Shark), Wed Talk: Russell-Cotes: The Miss and the Man Display: Southbourne Winter Wanderland quiz, book swap and refreshments Bournemouth 10 – 11am Southbourne 5.30 – 7pm 1 Aspects of History talk with Paul Whittaker Bookchat: The Books That Made Me Sat Family board games (every first Saturday) Talk: Poole Park Access and Play Boscombe 5 – 7pm 7 Poole 11am – 1pm Parkstone 11am – 12 noon Book giveaway Tue Talk: Bournemouth and the battlefields Improvement plan details from Engagement Castlepoint 7 – 8pm Find us near M&S 10 Charminster 10 – 11am Officer Toni Powell With author Jenny Young Sat Needle felting Books and tea! Pop-up reading group: The Hunger Games 4 with Sarah Jane Creations Broadstone 9am – 5pm by Suzanne Collins Boscombe 10.30am – 12 noon £4.50 Springbourne 10am – 7pm Tuckton 10am – 7pm Winton 3.30 - 5pm Local history coffee morning Westbourne 2.30 – 3.30pm Wed Fairtrade coffee morning Winton 10am – 12 noon Southbourne 4pm, with readings by local author Fiona Wilson 11 Castlepoint 10.30 – 11.30am Mon Free maths tuition for GCSE and A level Winton 5 – 6pm, bring a book to give away Thu Meet the author: Eve Bonham 6 revision (all boards) 12 Christchurch 2.30 – 4pm £2.50/£4.50 Bournemouth 2 – 5pm Fri More books and tea! Author of Dear Magpies. Friends event Mon 6 – Thu 9 and Tue 14 – Sat 18 April 24 West Howe 11am – 12.30pm Kinson 2.30 – 4pm Sat Poetry reading group (every second Saturday) Bookchat afternoon tea Bring your favourite books to share 14 Poole 10.30am – 12 noon Highcliffe 2.30 – 3.30pm Wed World Book Night reading group Poole Writers Guild (every second Saturday) Photo exhibition: Way Out West Ensbury Park 7.30 – 8.30pm Poole 2 – 4pm Poole opening hours, until 24 April 29