Need a hand with your phone, tablet or laptop? 📱💻
We have free, bookable 30-minute one-to-one sessions Tech Buddy at Exeter Library on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 10am and 12pm. Whether you're struggling with emails, apps, online forms or anything other basic tech enquiries we'll sit down with you and work through it together.
Sessions are free and friendly, no question is too basic.
And we need YOU... 🙋
Tech Buddy runs on the brilliant people who give their time to help others. If you're comfortable with everyday technology and fancy volunteering for a session or two a week, we'd love to hear from you. No formal qualifications needed, just patience and a willingness to help.
Get in touch if you'd like to be part of it! 👇
[email protected]
Day 1 at Exeter Library has been incredible! Our stunning butterfly 🦋 dome has been surrounded by memories made of collage with @sarahvigarsart@movingpartsarts
The local community has shown such warmth and spirit with beautiful conversations, plenty of people painting their souls in VR and a emotional miniature theatre Black Cat 🥹
Meanwhile our Pick an Afterlife claw grab has been so popular that we cannot refill it fast enough 😂🙌😵💫🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️
We also had the amazing Naomi Westerman kicking us off on Friday evening with her interactive play - Batman!!!
We're looking forward to meeting more people today and running @lunaarts_org A Seat At the Table and more butterfly making along with all our drop-in events 🥰
Many thanks to @aceagrams for making it happen 🙌
#DeathPositive #LoveLibraries #ArtsCouncilEngland
An afterlives themed claw machine and an intimate one-on-one puppetry show are just 2 of the fantastic free things on offer today as part of Afterlives Festival!
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Starlings is an inclusive drama project where young people are in the driving seat. They shape the sessions, share ideas, and take part in their own way.
The sessions help children build confidence, improve communication skills, and feel genuinely included. And families who've been before say the difference it makes is real 🙌
We're hosting three free sessions at Exeter Library this summer: 30 May, 13 June and 27 June. Open to young people with additional needs, their siblings, and other children from the community.
More info here and booking link here 👉/events/1296498605880132 #LoveLibraries
Ahead of Afterlives Festival this weekend we've put together a display of very special books.
These books are about opening up conversations and helping you and your little ones to understand and cope with death and dying
This weekend is all about opening up that conversation, in a lightly held and positive way through engaging activities and events
Pop in any time from 9 - 5 on Saturday, or 12 - 4 on Sunday
Link in bio for more info
Afterlives Festival is just a couple of days away and we are getting very excited 🖤✨
Here's a little taste of what's waiting for you at Exeter Library this Saturday and Sunday. A one-person puppet show that explores the moment between life and death. A VR experience narrated by Rosario Dawson that asks where you feel your emotions. An exhibition of memorial reefs made from human and pet ashes. And yes, an afterlife claw machine.
All of the drop-in activities are completely free and you don't need to book. Just turn up and see what catches you. Saturday 16 May runs 10am–5pm and Sunday 17 May runs 12pm–4pm.
#LoveLibraries
We're sorry to say that tonight's event with Johnny Mains has been cancelled, and postponed to a new date. The book supplier we were using dropped out at short notice, so we have unfortunately been left with no choice but to postpone.
The date of the event has changed to Thursday 9th July 2026 at 6:30PM
Apologies again! Johnny will be back in July with a fascinating talk, and a chance for you to purchase signed copies of this amazing collection, The Dead of Summer
Do you have kids who love creative adventures? 🌊
Our Message in a Bottle workshop on Saturday 23 May has a morning session designed for families with children aged 5–13.
Working with writer Pippa Marriott and printmaker Simon Ripley, your family will explore the extraordinary stories behind real messages in bottles, and then create your own. What would you want to say to a total stranger who finds your bottle on a beach years from now?🍾✉️
Two sessions on the day:
11:00–13:30 families and ages 5–13
14:00–16:30 adults and young people 14+
Tickets are £3 for library members and £5 for non-members.
Book your place here 👇/events/1233021088652568 #LoveLibraries
⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An emotional rollercoaster through life, death, rats, and sharks, delivered in choose-your-own-adventure format." – Everything Theatre
This show has been turning heads at festivals across the country. Batman (aka Naomi's Death Show) is funny, moving, interactive, and asks the audience to think seriously about grief, trauma, and our own appetite for true crime content. All of that, in our Children's Library this Friday.
Friday 15 May, 19:30. Doors at 7pm, bar on the night. 14+ due to adult themes 🖤
Part of Afterlives Festival at Exeter Library.
Tickets here 👉/events/982169664403050
#LoveLibraries
Spaces are filling up for Afterlives Festival: A Seat at the Table, and we don't want you to miss out on 🌿
This reflective shared lunch on Sunday 17th May brings people together around a communal table to talk about death, memory, and belonging over food. It's facilitated by the wonderful Luna Arts, and the afternoon ends with a talk from textile shroud designer Dagmara Rudkin on the re-emergence of shrouding and the rituals around death we're beginning to reclaim.
Your £3 ticket includes a warm, nourishing light lunch with vegetarian options, plus tea or coffee.
It all takes place upstairs in Meeting Room 4 at Exeter Library, and numbers are strictly limited, so please book before it's full👉
/events/1459347128832943
#LoveLibraries
Applications are closed, the hopefuls are ready, and now it's over to you! 🎤💙
The Bardic Competition is coming to Exeter Library on Thursday 29 May. Local poets and performers each make their case for why they should be the next official Bard of Exeter, and the audience votes for who takes the title.
Exeter is one of the few cities in the country with the ancient right to appoint a Bard, and this tradition stretches back centuries. Past Bards have gone on to win national slams, become Poet Laureate for Exeter City FC, and perform at COP26.
On the night you'll also hear from outgoing Bard Kev Payne, with more guests still to be announced. There's a pop-up bar serving alcoholic and soft drinks, and the whole evening is free to attend.
Places are limited though, so please do book ahead if you're planning to come. Book your free place here 👉/events/1356273613186955 #LoveLibraries
The Best of Books, the Blurst if Books! ... just a fistful of tickets left for this brilliant bookish comedy show
Here's who's arguing about books at Exeter Library on 6 June 😁📚
Robin Ince is a bibliomaniac, author of Bibliomaniac, and co-creator of BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, and he has never been short of opinions about what's worth reading. Josie Long, three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and author of Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't, almost certainly has a different list. Kev Mud, one of the most talked-about new acts on the circuit, brings his own perspective, and Joanna Neary, writer, actor, comedian, and recent cast member of How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)completes this brilliant line up 🙌🙌🙌
Edward Tripp and Chris White host. The audience decides.
Tickets are £11 + booking fee, age 14+ (some strong language and adult chat).
Book via the ticket link in our bio
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