Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole 29
Creation stations – animals – stations Creation Sat
Harry Potter day Potter Harry Sat 8 Sat 10am – 12 noon noon 12 – 10am Winton
Also Canford Heath on Mon 17 2– 4pm 2– 17 Mon on Heath Canford Also
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Mon 3 – Fri 7 Fri – 3 Mon drop in in drop Highcliffe
West Howe 10.30am – 12pm – 10.30am Howe West
crafts Drop-in Kinson and Hamworthy at
Hungarian myths and tales and myths Hungarian
4 – 7pm – 4 Springbourne
Dr Dolittle colouring competition colouring Dolittle Dr Winton Winton
Boscombe 11am – 1pm – 11am Boscombe
5 – 6pm – 5 Kinson 21
Dinosaur fun fun Dinosaur Westbourne Westbourne
3 – 4.30pm – 3 Hamworthy Meet the Amphibian and Reptile Trust Reptile and Amphibian the Meet Fri
Dr Dolittle’s discoveries Dolittle’s Dr Southbourne Southbourne
7 – 8pm – 7 Christchurch
on Friday to see what they got up to! to! up got they what see to Friday on Pancake pizzazz crafts pizzazz Pancake Highcliffe Highcliffe
6.30 – 8.30pm – 6.30 Charminster
Drop off on Thursday, come back at 2pm at back come Thursday, on off Drop
What’s a Gruffalo? a What’s Creekmoor Creekmoor 5.30 – 6.30pm – 5.30 Castlepoint
Charminster 4pm Ages 3-9 Ages 4pm Charminster
Save our Earth junk modelling junk Earth our Save Castlepoint Castlepoint 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Broadstone
Cuddly toy sleepover toy Cuddly
Crafty critters Crafty Boscombe Boscombe 9.30am – 7pm – 9.30am Boscombe
With the Urban Heath Partnership Heath Urban the With Half term activities term Half
22 22 17 to Sat to Mon and wand! and
Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm Ages 4-8 Ages 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch all things Harry Potter, and don’t forget your costume costume your forget don’t and Potter, Harry things all
you fare? you and stories crafts, games, for us Join Animals of the heath the of Animals Talk: Talk:
It’s time for the Triwizard Tournament – how will will how – Tournament Triwizard the for time It’s
Broadstone 10 – 11am Ages 7-11 Ages 11am – 10 Broadstone
West Howe 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Howe West
Harry Potter Book Night Book Potter Harry 6 Thu
Simple science lab science Simple
Make a Valentine’s heart Valentine’s a Make
Springbourne 10am – 7pm – 10am Springbourne
Poole 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Poole
Ensbury Park 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Park Ensbury Poole 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Poole 20
Love songs rhymetime songs Love
Drop-in crafts Drop-in Thu 5
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West Howe 9.30am – 7pm Quiz & games & Quiz 7pm – 9.30am Howe West
toddlers for stories Mindfulness Wed
Bournemouth 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Bournemouth
Westbourne 9.30am – 5pm Information 5pm – 9.30am Westbourne
Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne Pirates! In an adventure with Librarians with adventure an In Pirates!
Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm Toddler time Toddler 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne
Create a story together story a Create
Canford Cliffs 11am – 12 noon Ages 3-7 Ages noon 12 – 11am Cliffs Canford Mon 10 – Sat 15 Sat – 10 Mon Book display Book Kinson
Creekmoor 11am – 4pm – 11am Creekmoor Make a ‘Shaun the Sheep’ the ‘Shaun a Make Hamworthy 3 – 4pm Online activities Online 4pm – 3 Hamworthy
Interactive puppet storytelling puppet Interactive
Broadstone 9am – 5pm Quiz 5pm – 9am Broadstone Poole 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Poole
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Canford Heath 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Heath Canford Safer Internet Day Internet Safer Tue Story character badge making badge character Story Wed
Interactive storytime and crafts and storytime Interactive
Southbourne 10am – 1pm – 10am Southbourne Branksome 2.30 – 4.30pm. Also on Fri 21 Fri on Also 4.30pm. – 2.30 Branksome 8
Charminster 2 – 3pm – 2 Charminster Children’s Mental Health week crafts week Health Mental Children’s Sat Drop-in crafts Drop-in 4
Hugless Douglas toddler tales toddler Douglas Hugless Tue
Parkstone 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Parkstone
Castlepoint 5 – 6pm – 5 Castlepoint 7
Canford Cliffs 3.45 – 4.15pm Ages 3-7 Ages 4.15pm – 3.45 Cliffs Canford Storytime, crafts and Asian flavours Asian and crafts Storytime, 3 Hot chocolate and storytelling and chocolate Hot Fri
How to catch a star storytime star a catch to How Mon
Canford Heath 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Heath Canford 18 West Howe 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Howe West
Crafts with Tracey with Crafts Tue Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch Teddy Bear picnic and stories and picnic Bear Teddy 1
Children’s shared reading pop-up reading shared Children’s Sat
Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 3+ Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Tuckton Winton 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Winton
Meet Reptiles Plus Plus Reptiles Meet
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Oakdale 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 4-11 Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Oakdale 17 Rossmore 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Rossmore
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January for children and families... What’s On Sat Children’s jigsaw and story morning in Libraries 4 Winton 10am – 12 noon Family board games in the library Poole 11am – 1pm Jan/Feb 2020 Tue Pop Princess rhymetime 7 Poole 10.30 – 11am Most of our events Library birthday toddler tales are free but please Charminster 2 – 3pm book in advance Thu Winter Wonderland toddler tales Booking for Poole libraries, 9 Castlepoint 10 – 10.30am phone 01202 262449 or call in to your local library. Sat Family board games morning 11 Rossmore 11am – 1pm Booking for Bournemouth and Sat Winnie the Pooh day crafts Christchurch libraries, please contact 18 Charminster 10 – 11am your local library.
Chinese New Year Crafts Children under 8 The Year of the Rat starts on Sat 25 Jan. must be accompanied Come and celebrate with stories and crafts! by an adult Boscombe Sat 25 11am – 12 noon Broadstone Sat 25 9am – 2pm bcpcouncil.gov.uk Canford Cliffs Sat 25 10.30 – 12.30pm Features Canford Heath Sat 25 10am – 1pm Chinese New Year Castlepoint Sat 25 10am – 1pm New Year, New You! Charminster Sat 25 10 – 11am Creekmoor Tue 28 11am – 4pm Harry Potter Book Night Hamworthy Mon 20 – Sat 25 drop in Home Library Service Highcliffe Sat 25 9.30am – 4pm Kinson Sat 25 10am – 4pm Oakdale Sat 25 10am – 1pm Poole Sat 25 10.30am – 12.30pm Southbourne Tue 21 2.15 – 2.45pm Westbourne Sat 25 10.30 – 11.30am West Howe Tue 28 3.30 – 4.30pm bcpcouncil.gov.uk Winton Thu 23 2.15 – 2.45pm
Poole 10.30am – 12.30pm – 10.30am Poole 29
Creation stations – animals – stations Creation Sat
Harry Potter day Potter Harry Sat 8 Sat 10am – 12 noon noon 12 – 10am Winton
Also Canford Heath on Mon 17 2– 4pm 2– 17 Mon on Heath Canford Also
Potter crafts Potter
Mon 3 – Fri 7 Fri – 3 Mon drop in in drop Highcliffe
West Howe 10.30am – 12pm – 10.30am Howe West
crafts Drop-in Kinson and Hamworthy at
Hungarian myths and tales and myths Hungarian
4 – 7pm – 4 Springbourne
Dr Dolittle colouring competition colouring Dolittle Dr Winton Winton
Boscombe 11am – 1pm – 11am Boscombe
5 – 6pm – 5 Kinson 21
Dinosaur fun fun Dinosaur Westbourne Westbourne
3 – 4.30pm – 3 Hamworthy Meet the Amphibian and Reptile Trust Reptile and Amphibian the Meet Fri
Dr Dolittle’s discoveries Dolittle’s Dr Southbourne Southbourne
7 – 8pm – 7 Christchurch
on Friday to see what they got up to! to! up got they what see to Friday on Pancake pizzazz crafts pizzazz Pancake Highcliffe Highcliffe
6.30 – 8.30pm – 6.30 Charminster
Drop off on Thursday, come back at 2pm at back come Thursday, on off Drop
What’s a Gruffalo? a What’s Creekmoor Creekmoor 5.30 – 6.30pm – 5.30 Castlepoint
Charminster 4pm Ages 3-9 Ages 4pm Charminster
Save our Earth junk modelling junk Earth our Save Castlepoint Castlepoint 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Broadstone
Cuddly toy sleepover toy Cuddly
Crafty critters Crafty Boscombe Boscombe 9.30am – 7pm – 9.30am Boscombe
With the Urban Heath Partnership Heath Urban the With Half term activities term Half
22 22 17 to Sat to Mon and wand! and
Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm Ages 4-8 Ages 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch all things Harry Potter, and don’t forget your costume costume your forget don’t and Potter, Harry things all
you fare? you and stories crafts, games, for us Join Animals of the heath the of Animals Talk: Talk:
It’s time for the Triwizard Tournament – how will will how – Tournament Triwizard the for time It’s
Broadstone 10 – 11am Ages 7-11 Ages 11am – 10 Broadstone
West Howe 3.30 – 4.30pm – 3.30 Howe West
Harry Potter Book Night Book Potter Harry 6 Thu
Simple science lab science Simple
Make a Valentine’s heart Valentine’s a Make
Springbourne 10am – 7pm – 10am Springbourne
Poole 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Poole
Ensbury Park 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Park Ensbury Poole 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Poole 20
Love songs rhymetime songs Love
Drop-in crafts Drop-in Thu 5
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West Howe 9.30am – 7pm Quiz & games & Quiz 7pm – 9.30am Howe West
toddlers for stories Mindfulness Wed
Bournemouth 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Bournemouth
Westbourne 9.30am – 5pm Information 5pm – 9.30am Westbourne
Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne Pirates! In an adventure with Librarians with adventure an In Pirates!
Southbourne 2.15 – 2.45pm Toddler time Toddler 2.45pm – 2.15 Southbourne
Create a story together story a Create
Canford Cliffs 11am – 12 noon Ages 3-7 Ages noon 12 – 11am Cliffs Canford Mon 10 – Sat 15 Sat – 10 Mon Book display Book Kinson
Creekmoor 11am – 4pm – 11am Creekmoor Make a ‘Shaun the Sheep’ the ‘Shaun a Make Hamworthy 3 – 4pm Online activities Online 4pm – 3 Hamworthy
Interactive puppet storytelling puppet Interactive
Broadstone 9am – 5pm Quiz 5pm – 9am Broadstone Poole 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Poole
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Canford Heath 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Heath Canford Safer Internet Day Internet Safer Tue Story character badge making badge character Story Wed
Interactive storytime and crafts and storytime Interactive
Southbourne 10am – 1pm – 10am Southbourne Branksome 2.30 – 4.30pm. Also on Fri 21 Fri on Also 4.30pm. – 2.30 Branksome 8
Charminster 2 – 3pm – 2 Charminster Children’s Mental Health week crafts week Health Mental Children’s Sat Drop-in crafts Drop-in 4
Hugless Douglas toddler tales toddler Douglas Hugless Tue
Parkstone 11am – 12 noon 12 – 11am Parkstone
Castlepoint 5 – 6pm – 5 Castlepoint 7
Canford Cliffs 3.45 – 4.15pm Ages 3-7 Ages 4.15pm – 3.45 Cliffs Canford Storytime, crafts and Asian flavours Asian and crafts Storytime, 3 Hot chocolate and storytelling and chocolate Hot Fri
How to catch a star storytime star a catch to How Mon
Canford Heath 10.30 – 11.30am – 10.30 Heath Canford 18 West Howe 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Howe West
Crafts with Tracey with Crafts Tue Christchurch 2.15 – 3.15pm – 2.15 Christchurch Teddy Bear picnic and stories and picnic Bear Teddy 1
Children’s shared reading pop-up reading shared Children’s Sat
Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 3+ Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Tuckton Winton 2.15 – 2.45pm – 2.15 Winton
Meet Reptiles Plus Plus Reptiles Meet
What does storytime mean to you? to mean storytime does What
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Oakdale 10.30 – 11.30am Ages 4-11 Ages 11.30am – 10.30 Oakdale 17 Rossmore 10.30 – 11am – 10.30 Rossmore
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= Please book Please = Customize your own pancake own your Customize Mon Storytime and book character dress-up dress-up character book and Storytime Thu
January for children and families... What’s On Sat Children’s jigsaw and story morning in Libraries 4 Winton 10am – 12 noon Family board games in the library Poole 11am – 1pm Jan/Feb 2020 Tue Pop Princess rhymetime 7 Poole 10.30 – 11am Most of our events Library birthday toddler tales are free but please Charminster 2 – 3pm book in advance Thu Winter Wonderland toddler tales Booking for Poole libraries, 9 Castlepoint 10 – 10.30am phone 01202 262449 or call in to your local library. Sat Family board games morning 11 Rossmore 11am – 1pm Booking for Bournemouth and Sat Winnie the Pooh day crafts Christchurch libraries, please contact 18 Charminster 10 – 11am your local library.
Chinese New Year Crafts Children under 8 The Year of the Rat starts on Sat 25 Jan. must be accompanied Come and celebrate with stories and crafts! by an adult Boscombe Sat 25 11am – 12 noon Broadstone Sat 25 9am – 2pm bcpcouncil.gov.uk Canford Cliffs Sat 25 10.30 – 12.30pm Features Canford Heath Sat 25 10am – 1pm Chinese New Year Castlepoint Sat 25 10am – 1pm New Year, New You! Charminster Sat 25 10 – 11am Creekmoor Tue 28 11am – 4pm Harry Potter Book Night Hamworthy Mon 20 – Sat 25 drop in Home Library Service Highcliffe Sat 25 9.30am – 4pm Kinson Sat 25 10am – 4pm Oakdale Sat 25 10am – 1pm Poole Sat 25 10.30am – 12.30pm Southbourne Tue 21 2.15 – 2.45pm Westbourne Sat 25 10.30 – 11.30am West Howe Tue 28 3.30 – 4.30pm bcpcouncil.gov.uk Winton Thu 23 2.15 – 2.45pm ( = Please book for this event ) February Novels that shaped our world Sat Local history coffee morning A BBC panel of writers, curators and critics chose 1 Winton 10am – 12 noon 100 novels that have had an impact on their lives. Home Library Service Through 2020, we’ll be celebrating them with bringing the library to you Chinese New Year celebrations pop-up reading groups and Bookchat events. Bournemouth 12 noon – 3.30pm If you can’t get to the library because of age, performance 1.30pm Pop-up reading groups are open to everyone. disability or caring responsibilities, one of our Join the local Chinese community for music, Just pick up a copy of the book from the library volunteers can bring books to you at home. dance and crafts in advance and come along to talk about it. Find out more in any library, Bookchats are for anyone who wants to talk phone 01305 236666 Mon Pilates – gentle exercise for all about books (usually with coffee and biscuits). or meet us in January at: Oakdale 2 – 3pm Discuss the 100 novels and choose your own 3 Canford Heath Sat 25 10.30 – 11.30am favourites. Colour yourself calm Castlepoint Fri 17 10 – 11.30am January theme Identity Rossmore 10.30am – 12 noon Hamworthy Fri 17 10am – 12 noon February theme Love, Sex and Romance Parkstone 1 – 3pm Kinson Fri 31 2.30 – 4pm Also Wed 5 at Poole 2 – 4pm We want to know about the novel that’s Parkstone Fri 31 11am – 12 noon shaped you too. Join the conversation on our Wed Talk: Women of Bournemouth Facebook page or using #MyBookLife on Twitter. Rossmore Mon 27 10.30am – 12 noon Southbourne Thu 16 10.30 – 11.30am 5 Bournemouth 11am – 12 noon With Eileen Barker Westbourne Fri 3 10.30 – 11.30am January Fri Friends against scams with Nat West 7 Branksome 2 – 3.30pm Booktrack - New Year New Challenge! Thu Talk: The Longest Journey Mon Blind date with a book Take part in Booktrack, our challenge to children to 23 Highcliffe 2.30 – 4pm read 100 books and collect badges along the way? Friends event with Howard Nichols. £4.50/£2.50 10 Parkstone until Fri 14 Sign up in any library now! Choose a wrapped book based on the Sat Workshop: Writing stories description that captures your heart Thu New Year New You! Christchurch 1.30 – 3.30pm Hobbies and skills display 25 Tue Talk: Cancer Research UK 2 With local author Louise van Wingerden. £5 Boscombe Kinson, until 31 11 Charminster 10 – 11.30am New Year New Garden! With Southampton-based researcher Fri Talk: Understanding our brain Rossmore 10.30am – 12.30pm Safer Internet Day Canford Heath 11am – 12 noon 3 Meet Twigs Gardening Club, also on last Displays and information in all our libraries With Jana Henley Saturday of each month Tue New! Knit and Natter Talk: Internet safety with Dorset Police Mon Holocaust Memorial Day #HMD2020 Poole 2 – 4pm, and weekly Ensbury Park 2.30 – 3.30pm 7 27 We remember the six million Jews murdered Mon New Year New You! Making a will during the Holocaust, and the millions of people Stay safe online killed in subsequent genocides. Canford Cliffs 1 – 3pm Canford Cliffs 10am – 12 noon 13 Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 marks 75 years Advice about wills and power of attorney. Advice from PC Buddy Peter Dow since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also on Mon 27 Discover our book displays and tributes in Talk: Internet safety Tue Dementia Friends coffee morning all libraries. Castlepoint 2 – 3pm With Neighbourhood Policing Team 14 Winton 10am – 12 noon Tue Pop-up reading group: The God of Small Train as a Dementia Friend with Pramacare 28 Things by Arundhati Roy Internet safety Talk: Volunteering in Parks and Oakdale 10.30 – 11.30am Christchurch 2 – 3pm Open Spaces Drop-in and talk to our computer buddy Charminster 10 – 11.30am Wed Pop-up reading group: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank #HMD2020 Pop-up reading group: With Richard Hesketh from BCP Council 29 Parkstone 11am – 12 noon Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding British Library Screening: Tuckton 2 – 3pm Jane Eyre: Gothic Rebel Thu Talk: Introduction to yoga Thu Talk: Cold War and a Hot Place Poole 7– 8.30pm 30 Tuckton 10.30 – 11.30am 13 Christchurch 2.30 – 4pm Wed Bookchat: Bookmark Reading Group Pop-up reading group: Small Island Friends event with Stephen Robson, RAF pilot 15 Creekmoor, 10.30am – 12 noon by Andrea Levy and engineer. £2.50/£4.50 Christchurch 10.30am – 12 noon Sat Talk: Get decluttered Romantic poems to share 18 Westbourne 11am – 12 noon Fri Friends against scams with Nat West Castlepoint 5 – 6pm With professional organiser Tracey Beesley 31 Poole 9.30am – 12 noon Bring your favourite poems Mon Harbour trail display Talk: Playing with the BSO in the 60s Fri Bookchat: Books we love (and coffee) 20 Parkstone until Feb 8 Bournemouth 10.15 – 11.15am 14 Bournemouth 10.30 – 11.30am Pick up details of Poole Flying Boat Club’s trail With Brian Johnson Thu Talk: The golden age of piracy Pop-up reading group: 20 Southbourne 10.30am – 12 noon With professional speaker Kathy McNally Beloved by Toni Morrison LGBT History Month Westbourne 6 – 7pm throughout February Fri Meet the author: Richard Isaac Tue Talk: Volunteering for Forest Holme Discover books by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and 21 Canford Cliffs 11am – 12 noon 21 Hospice Trans authors and information to promote equality Talk on Behind Enemy Lines: Burma 1944 Canford Cliffs 10.30 – 11.30am and diversity in all libraries. Coffee and cake with Caroline Fowler Tue Bookchat with West Howe Writers West Howe 10.30am – 12 noon Wed Talk: Chiropractic for health 25 22 Branksome 11.30am – 12.30pm Children’s Mental Health Week Pop-up reading group: Giovanni’s Room With Teresa Wong from Parkstone Chiropractic Mon 3 to 9 February by James Baldwin A new national booklist, Reading Well for children, Branksome 11am – 12 noon Try something new - Ven hablamos juntos will be launched on 4 February. It provides children Fri Sara Kemp: Mezzo Soprano Parkstone 10.30 – 11.30am aged 7 to 11 and their families and carers with Spanish conversation with Cathy information, advice and support for coping with 28 Bournemouth 10.15 – 11.15am feeling and worries, daily life and getting through Friends of Bournemouth Music Library Bookchat with cream tea a tough time. Bookchat with 3Cs club Charminster 10 – 11.30am Find the books in all BCP Council libraries. Vote for your favourites from the list Parkstone 11am – 12 noon