Join us for National Simultaneous Storytime as we share this year’s ALIA nominated book 'Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller' written by Adam Jackon and Adrian Lloyd, illustrated by Jake Minton. 🦘⚽📚
This action-packed, heartwarming underdog story will have everyone cheering for Luna Roo! To celebrate the theme, we’ll have a range of fun, sporty activities to get kids moving and building confidence through play.
📆 Wednesday 27 May, 12-12:45pm
📍 Newcastle City Library
🧒 Ages 3-8 years
🎟 FREE, drop-in event!
We can’t wait to see you there!
National Simultaneous Storytime is held across the country each year by the Australian Library and Information Association to promote the joy and importance of reading, especially for young children. Find out more at the @alianational website: .au/nss
A zine about zine club 🤝
I think zines are such a fun way to advertise for events/clubs! Kind of an alternative to flyers?
I made this one to advertise for @newcastlelibraries monthly zine club and we folded them up at the club tonight!
They’ll be put into the zine boxes around Newcastle so keep your eye out for them! 🌟
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#zineclub #zinemaking #zine #newcastlensw #zinelibrary
Over 5,500 plate glass negatives. One incredible legacy.
Tonight at Newcastle City Library, we're Celebrating Snowball.
In 1988, a staggering collection of thousands of plate glass negatives was discovered in a basement, all captured by one man - Ralph Snowball.
For decades, these images lay in the dark. Tonight, through a massive digitisation project by Newcastle Libraries and a team of dedicated volunteers, they are stepping into the light.
Join us to hear the stories behind the images and see a version of Newcastle once thought lost forever.
📍 Newcastle Library
🕒 6-7pm tonight!
🎟 FREE | Drop-in | Light refreshments
Just a little reminder that our 'Celebrating Snowball' event is on this Wednesday evening at 6pm in the Lovett Gallery at Newcastle Library. You will hear about the life of Ralph Snowball, our digitisation project and some of the stories behind these incredible images, many of which have never been seen before. This is an opportunity to peer into the past and thank the team whose work has preserved this archive for generations to come. Light refreshments will be served, and this is a free event no need to book just come along. We hope to see you there!
❗️IMPORTANT❗️Spanish Rock n Rhyme Storytime is cancelled tomorrow - we're so sorry!
The good news is that you can still join us for Story Stomp at 11am at Newcastle City Library as usual for your fix of craft, songs and stories.
We look forward to seeing all our "niños" at our next Spanish Rock n Rhyme Storytime session on Tuesday 26 May, 10am at Newcastle City Library!
On this day in 1951 the Commonwealth Jubilee Celebration Day march was held. The Newcastle Morning Herald described those who participated in the procession: “Army personnel, boy scouts and girl guides, Red Cross, Police Boys’ Club, V.A.D., St John Ambulance, baseball and surf club members, and about a hundred migrants in national costume… Among the organisations which had entered floats were the Education Department, Newcastle Technical College, Hunter District Water Board, Nesca, State Dockyard, Newcastle Gas Company, Newcastle Police Boys Club, Transport Department, Trades Hall Council, Railway Department, Newcastle surf clubs, and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital”. The article goes on the describe the other activities held later in the day at Newcastle Showground including Highland dancing and boomerang throwing, and in the evening fireworks and the first military tattoo to be held in Newcastle” (4/5/1951) #OnThisDay #CollectionHighlight #LibraryCollections #NewcastleHistory #NewyStories #HistoryInPictures
Commonwealth Jubilee Celebration Day march
09/05/1951
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It's zine of the month time! This month's choice is Local Artists You Should Check Out by Mieko from the @cooks_hill_campus zine club.
This zine takes us through a curated assortment of local bands and artists to discover here in Newcastle. Thanks for this awesome addition to our collection Mieko! 👨🎤🎸🎶🎧
You can borrow this zine and many other gems from our zine collection at Newcastle Library.
#zineofthemonth #newcastlelibraries #zinecollection #zines
Do you like to use your little grey cells? Love twisty plots, suspenseful thrillers, clever detectives, big reveals or perhaps you’re just after a “nice” murder?!
Amateur sleuths, crime buffs and engimaphiles, come forth! Genre Journeys, our book chat series, is on again this Monday, and this time we’re chatting crime fiction.
Join us for a cuppa to discuss whatever you’ve been reading and walk away with a list of reading recommendations, bookish acquaintances and library good vibes!
📅 Monday 11 May, 5:30-6:30pm
📍 Wallsend Library
🎟 FREE, drop-in event
Get curious and come along!
It's International Compost Awareness Week and we've had Shannon from @citynewcastle.au 's Waste Services visiting our Story Stomp sessions to teach us all about worms and composting.
Bring the whole family along to our Story Stomp this Thursday 7 May 11-11:45am at Wallsend Library for songs, stories, craft and to meet our wiggly guests of honour! 🪱📖🥰
Possessed? Probably. Valuable? Definitely.
Carter's Price Guide helps you put a dollar figure on the antique toys creeping you out over Sunday lunch. Free through the library.
Tag your Nan 👇
#carterspriceguide #newcastlelibraries #antiques
We're delighted to have award-winning author and crowd favourite @emmagreyauthor back in our libraries to talk about her latest novel Start at the End.
This powerful, emotional, sliding-doors novel about love, loss, grief and hope asks if our stories are already written. Are we able to change fate? And is it ever too late to start again?
Hosting this wonderful event is another fan favourite, our very own local romance author @nataliemurrayauthor .
Books will be available for purchase from @macleansbooks .
📅 Thursday 14 May, 6-7pm
📍 Wallsend Library
🎟 FREE, book now at the link in our bio
