Celebrate World Book Day with us at Shenfield!Join us all week for bookmark‑designing or have a go at our book‑themed quiz.And on World Book Day itself, fancy‑dress welcome!
Monday 2 March to Saturday 7 March, all day!
Join us for an exciting World Book Day celebration!
We have rhymetime, 10am to 10.30am, followed by Storytime with Gruffalo and Friends and a second rhymetime, 1.45pm to 2.15pm.
A quiz for adults will be taking place at 2pm.
Afterschool at 3.30pm Dog Man activites, based on the bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, will be available such as a trail, crafts, and colouring.
Join us this World Book Day, Thursday 5 March for some fantastic craft making right after our BookTrust Storytime session.
This is a free drop-in event, no booking required.
Join us for our World Book Day Quiz!
Test your literary knowledge, bond with fellow bookworms, and embrace the magic of reading! Get ready for a fun evening filled with laughter.
Refreshments will be provided.
Join us in our Imagination Centre for a magical, interactive storytelling session inspired by the beloved books of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Whether it's exploring the world of the Gruffalo or going on an adventure with Stick Man, there's something new to discover every time! To celebrate World Book Day why not come along in your favourite costume!
No booking required but we have a maximum capacity of 40.
The Men's Gaming Cove - created by Essex Libraries is back!The focus behind the Gaming Cove is to create a safe space for men to create new social groups, start open conversations while playing the best video games on the market. Multi-player to split screen. What Street Fighter character will you be? Or are you more of a Lewis Hamilton racing driver? Or get your fellow player with a GoldenEye 007 shot! The group is also a space to seek help for mental health, health and family issues with information from charities and other partners with their literature and leaflets displayed on a specially created table.
Want to save money on buying an expesnive card?
Come along to Chipping Ongar Library and make a free card with real meaning for the person who deserves it the most!
Celebrate Mother's Day with us and make Mum's day truly special!
Come along to Loughton Library and make a Mother's Day Card.
Free event, no booking required.
Our Youth Creative Writing Programme is for young people aged 12 to 18 who are interested in creating, improving or just sharing their work.This could be anything, from short stories to poetry. With a relaxed approach we aim to give ideas, share each other's work if they want to, and be a supportive place for those who want to create. Come along, have fun and let's get writing!
This programme is part of the Essex Young Writers initiative.
Performance Artist, Playwright and Poet, Alice d’Lumiere is running a workshop on Creating Poetry for Performance. Alice will be looking at the basic building blocks of verse: Syllables, Stress, Rhyme and Meter, but all from the practical point of view of creating verse to entertain and connect with live audiences. She’ll be exploring techniques for writing for different venues and crowds; using examples of much loved poems, alongside her own stage work to illustrate potential approaches to voice, cadence, genre and identity. The session will have time afterwards to look at participant’s own work; so if you have written some verse that's personal to you, or you have a short piece of prose in progress, please bring it along; either on paper, or in your head should you be able. If you're not working on anything currently, but want to play with words, or just lean the difference between iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter, bring yourself, your imagination and a willingness to express yourself aloud; as Alice would love to hear from you."
