⭐️ Join award-winning local author, Melissa Manning at Carlton Library to discuss her eerily nostalgic new novel, Frogsong 🐸🎶
This tender, lyrical novel explores love, addiction, and the struggle to break free from the ghosts of the past. Set against Tasmania’s evocative landscapes, it’s a haunting tale of loyalty, loss, and letting go. Melissa will be joined in conversation by acclaimed writer Michael Winkler (Grimmish, Griefdogg). Their conversation promises a rich exploration of storytelling and craft.
🗓️ Wednesday 20 May
🕡 6.30pm
📌 Carlton Library
🎟️ Grab your FREE tickets from the link in our bio.
"It's a really beautiful way of highlighting the community that we get at our libraries and making those connections with language and learning." 💖
We spoke to staff and attendees about @yarralibraries Storytime Around The World and how this intercultural literacy program reflects and celebrates the diversity of Yarra's communities.
This term Storytime Around The World will be held at 11am on Wednesdays at Fitzroy Library, commencing Wednesday 22 April.
Find out more about our early literacy programs at the link in our Instagram bio or head to https://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/libraries/programs/storytimes-and-kids-programs
It's been two weeks with BorrowBox ePress 📰
We've read in many different places on many different devices, have you? 🗞️
#yarralibraries #librariesofinstagram #librarieschangelives #newspaper
We recently held a Yarra Environmental Film Festival across screening spaces at Richmond Library Theatrette, @collingwood_yards and cinema_eclipse 📽️
For this event series @cityofyarra@yarralibraries and @environmentalfilmsaus hosted four inspiring short films about the environmental challenges we face, followed by panel discussions with the filmmakers, campaigners, and community leaders.
Thanks to the nearly 400 attendees who came out and all the event staff and panel discussion members that made it a success 👏
Don't let Miz catch you slacking! 👠🔱
Read before you watch... The Yarra Libraries catalogue has all the book-to-screen adaptations you're looking for. Place a hold on The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger today!
#Readbeforeyouwatch #DevilWearsPrada #DWP #LCL #YarraLibraries
If the Met Gala had a library card 📚✨… who wore it better: the runway or the bookshelf? 👀
📖 A Court of Mist and Fury — Sarah J. Maas
🔍 The Resident — David Jackson
🎭 Fence Vol. 3 — C.S. Pacat
⚙️ Master Artificer — Justin Call
🍋 5 Ingredients Mediterranean — Jamie Oliver
🩰 Black Swan (DVD)
#MetGala #LibraryLife #BookishFun #BookVsFashion BookReels LibraryVibes FashionMeetsBooks 📚✨ #yarralibraries
📰‼️ #BreakingNews from Yarra Libraries 👀
We have a brand‑new subscription to BorrowBox ePress, giving you access to some of the most in‑demand news titles, with no waitlist and no user caps!
ePress titles available on Borrowbox are:
📅 The Monthly
🗞️ The Saturday Paper
☀️ Herald Sun
🐨 The Australian
👴 The Age / Sunday Age
🔗 Keep up to date with daily news titles via the link in our bio.
🗞️🗣️ Extra, extra! Read all about it! Yarra Libraries has a brand‑new subscription to BorrowBox ePress, giving you access to some of the most in‑demand news titles, with unlimited simultaneous users! 📰
This brings all our most sought‑after news titles together in one place, creating a seamless and enhanced reading experience for all our news lovers.
Starting today, the ePress titles available on Borrowbox will be:
📅 The Monthly
🗞️ The Saturday Paper
☀️ Herald Sun
🐨 The Australian
👴 The Age / Sunday Age
👋 Join us for an Auslan Storytime at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library!
These Storytimes are delivered in Australian Sign Language (Auslan) by Deaf storytellers, with a qualified Auslan interpreter supporting access for hearing participants. Sessions are visual, interactive and designed to support early language exposure, inclusion, and enjoyment for Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing children and families.
Expression Australia delivers this program in partnership with Yarra Libraries as part of a statewide Multicultural Storytime initiative funded by the Victorian Department of Health.
📅 Friday 1 May
🕚 11am
📌 Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library
See you there!
We’re in Waring! The Kulin Nation Indigenous seasonal cycle recognises seven distinct weather periods that occur across the year. Known as wombat seasons in the calendar, cool and rainy days follow misty mornings from April until July. Days are short and nights are long. Wombats emerge from their burrows and the temperatures are becoming chilly.!
Gathered Fragments
My first exhibition, presented as part of the City of Yarra Libraries exhibition program.
Hand-built ceramic forms carrying imprints of Fitzroy’s urban surfaces - cracked pavements, worn edges, textures of use.
Formed through pressing, breaking, layering and repair, each piece holds traces of touch and time. Edges remain exposed, seams visible, surfaces shifting between smooth and porous.
Installed across a curved wall, the work operates as a continuous field, where meaning emerges through relationships between fragments, surfaces and gaps.
An attention to what is usually overlooked.
📍 Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library
30 April - 26 July 2026
