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SUMMARY:Festival of Libraries Sunday Funday!
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Central Library for a special Sunday opening as we celebrate the final day of Festival of Libraries 2025. Expect special performances\, music\, exhibitions\, craft sessions\, and lots of fun for all ages! \nHighlights include:  \nOut of this World! 2pm – 3.30pm   \n \nJoin Wendy from Daresbury Laboratory and Dan Worsley\, children’s author and performance storyteller as they embarks on an extra special\, extraterrestrial storytelling journey. Dan will weave fact and fiction to prove that with a bit of imagination\, anything really is possible. A guaranteed out-of-this-world storytelling experience!  \nTickets are for Out of this World are free but limited and can be pre-booked here. \nStorytime Fun with Simon the Storyteller 12.30pm-1.15pm and 2.30pm-3.15pm \n \nCome and join Simon the Storyteller for fun interactive family story sessions. The sessions will include songs\, games\, parachute play and lots and lots of bubbles. These stories are great fun for all the family and will get everyone up on their feet singing and dancing.  \nSimon’s sessions will be at 12:30 and 2:30 and will last for 45 mins each. No booking required. \n‘The Space’ presents a Virtual Reality experience!!  \n \n\nWallace and Gromit Game\nThe Philharmonia’s Lark Ascending: A spellbinding 360 performance of Vaughan Williams’s piece\, featuring Nicola Benedetti.\nBerlin Blitz\nMonoliths – exploring England’s Northern landscape\n\nThere’ll also be crafts galore\, face painting fun\, activities for all and time to relax in the magical children’s library. \nFree. Please make a donation to support our Library Live cultural programme at one of our cash or contactless donation boxes or online \n 
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/festival-of-libraries-sunday-funday-2/
CATEGORIES:Art,Family,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Geologise Theatre: Chrissie and the Skiddle Witch
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Geologise Theatre for their unique blend of storytelling\, songs\, and science\, in this uplifting show about a family trying to adapt to a changing world. \nThirteen-year-old Chrissie is a budding climate change campaigner\, but her family just don’t get it! When a huge storm hits her seaside town of Skiddle\, Chrissie reluctantly gets roped into helping a strange old lady. To Chrissie’s surprise\, she finds an unlikely ally with a big secret. \n“A feel-good musical” **** British Theatre Guide. \n“A delightful production that we strongly recommend” **** Starburst Magazine \n“Lively all-age friendly songs” **** Broadway World \nSuitable for ages 8+ \nFree – booking advised below (a limited number of tickets may be available on the door but can’t be guaranteed) \nNote – you will receive an automated email confirmation for booked tickets – check your spam / junk folder if not in your inbox
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/geologise-theatre-chrissie-and-the-skiddle-witch/
LOCATION:Performance Space
CATEGORIES:Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Book launch:  Selected Plays by Cathy Crabb
DESCRIPTION:Selected Plays by Cathy Crabb \nMonday 22nd January  6pm at Manchester Central Library \nNo need to book tickets. FREE entry. Everyone welcome.  Doors open 5.40pm. \nCelebrating twenty years of productions\, award-winning playwright Cathy Crabb has selected eleven of her works for staging. Filled with humour and emotional resonance\, these texts explore themes of family\, trauma\, neurodivergence\, class and locality\, and their experiential effect on the ordinariness of life and repercussions. \nJoin Cathy and special guests for an evening of performance\, archival material\, author interview and audience Q&A at Manchester Central Library. \n“She brings real lives to the stage\, in all their depth\, delight\, danger and daftness.” John McGrath\, Factory International Artistic Director & Chief Executive \n“An unflinching and bittersweet look at life\, encompassing empathy\, humour and truth.” Helen Nugent\, Northern Soul Editor \n“I recommend any aspiring writers to read this book.” John Henshaw\, Actor \n“One of my favourite places to be is in Cathy Crabb’s awesome imagination.” Sally Carman\, Actor \n“Cathy is a local legend\, a truly unique playwright and poet\, who’s been a favourite of North West audiences for years. She has an incredible ability to write characters who are complex\, nuanced\, funny and remind you of real people you know.” Lindsay Williams\, Producer & Writer \n“She writes with such skill and honesty about people and situations. The world needs to be full of Cathy Crabbs.” Noreen Kershaw\, Director & Actor \nSelected Plays is published by Flapjack Press and available in paperback from 10th January 2024.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/book-launch-selected-plays-by-cathy-crabb/
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SUMMARY:I am not Friday
DESCRIPTION:Libraries Connected and BBC Novels That Shaped The World bring you…\n\nA new humorous and imaginative re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story.\n\nOften regarded as the first English novel\, we’re all familiar with the basics of the Robinson Crusoe story: A man\, a shipwreck to a desert Island\, some survival skills that would give Bear Grylls a run for his money… and his faithful servant – Man Friday. But what if Robinson Crusoe got some things a bit…well\, wrong? What if ‘Man’ Friday…wasn’t? And what if it wasn’t the first novel after all?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformed by: Janelle Thompson \nWritten by: Joyce Branagh \nDirected by: Alyx Tole \nMusic by: Zara Nunn \nSound Design: Andrew Glassford \n  \nSuitable for ages 12+
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/i-am-not-friday/
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SUMMARY:Lip Service presents Thrills and Quills!
DESCRIPTION:LipService theatre take a comic look at Jane Austen’s letters\, examine the vagaries of the Georgian postal system and wonder what witty words Jane could have conjured up with a Twitter account.We examine the world of communication from quill pen to SnapChat. \nWith extracts from Jane Austen’s novels\, letters to family members and wickedly funny observations on her neighbours\, we look at the vivid account Jane conjures of everyday life. \n“LipService\, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics” The Guardian
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