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Milton Hide: Your Stories in Song - Battle Library

During 2024 Milton Hide will be organising events across the Wealden area for people to share their stories, be they personal recollections, tales of local people, family history or legends associated with places.

In true folk tradition, Milton Hide will be writing and performing songs inspired by the stories gathered and will be inviting audiences to participate.

The aim is to encourage social engagement across the generations, especially for those feeling isolated and to help ensure your stories don’t disappear into the momentary ether of ‘social media’.

Session date: 11 Oct 2024 - 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: Battle Library

Milton Hide: Your Stories in Song - Hampden Park Library

In true folk tradition, Milton Hide will be writing and performing songs inspired by the stories gathered and will be inviting audiences to participate.

Session date: 07 Oct 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Hampden Park Library

Milton Hide: Your Stories in Song - Hailsham Library

In true folk tradition, Milton Hide will be writing and performing songs inspired by the stories gathered and will be inviting audiences to participate.

Session date: 18 Jul 2024 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Location: Hailsham Library

Sensory Storytime - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt… but like never before!

In partnership with specialist SEND Health Visitors and the Early Help service, we have developed a very special storytime specifically for young children with Autism and/or sensory needs. We’ll actively explore this classic tale, using resources designed to engage our senses as we adventure through swishy grass, sticky mud and crunchy forest floors.

This session is open to any child who experiences these needs, regardless of a formal diagnosis.

All children who attend will receive a special teddy bear gift and a free Additional Needs Bookstart pack.

The session will be held at Uckfield Family Hub. Please visit their website for accessibility information.

Session date: 07 Aug 2024 - 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
Location: Uckfield Family Hub, 1 Manor Close, Uckfield, TN22 1DL, Tel: 01273 336930

National Theatre Collection

Online in every library

You can now watch a range of recorded National Theatre productions from the comfort of your local library in East Sussex.

In partnership with Drama Online, library members can now watch a selection of productions including 2015’s Everyman featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Dermot Crowley, 2018’s Antony and Cleopatra starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okenedo and 2022’s The Crucible directed by Lyndsey Turner.

Access to the productions are only available in our libraries using one of our computers and cannot be accessed from home. You can book a computer at your local library by visiting our website. Please be aware that headphones will not be provided so make sure to bring your own.

Session date: 07 Jun 2024 - 10:00 AM to 31 Oct 2024 - 5:00 PM
Location: Online event

Battle Festival at Battle Library - Thomas Taylor: Eerie on Sea mysteries

Battle Library, Saturday 27 July

Battle Library has partnered with the Battle Festival of Music and Art.
Meet Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Philip Ardagh and Eyrie-on-Sea author Thomas Taylor.
Session details:

Battle Library
Saturday 27 July 2024

2 to 3pm

Meet the Author: Thomas Taylor: Eerie on Sea mysteries

Come and meet local author and illustrator, Thomas Taylor and explore the world of Eerie-on-Sea.

When Thomas first moved to the seaside, he quickly discovered that coastal towns have a strange character of their own in the winter months. When the ice cream kiosks are closed and the bucket-and-spade tourists are gone, darkness and the weather claim the town. Only people with a good reason (or a very bad one) go down onto the beach then, while on windy days you can barely walk upright. At other times sea mist creeps into the streets, full of hidden things that seem to peer in at you through your windows as you stoke up the fire.

Exploring these ideas in his imagination, it didn’t take long for the fictional town of Eerieon-Sea to begin to grow. If you haven’t visited Eerie-on-Sea before, this is your chance to discover a little bit about Herbert Lemon, lost-and-founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, and his brilliant friend Violet Parma, along with the legend of the Malamander and more. Thomas might also tell you about his very special link to Harry Potter

Suitable for children aged 9 12 years old.

£3 per child, adults free. All children must be supervised at all times. #kidsevent beancat
Session date: 27 Jul 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Battle Library

Battle Festival at Battle Library - Philip Ardagh: Furry Purry BeanCat

Battle Library, Saturday 27 July

Battle Library has partnered with the Battle Festival of Music and Art.
Meet Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Philip Ardagh and Eyrie-on-Sea author Thomas Taylor.
Session details:

Battle Library
Saturday 27 July 2024

10.30 to 11.30am

Meet the Author: PHILIP ARDAGH: Furry Purry BeanCat

If you love books and stories and live in Battle you may have already met the irrepressible, Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning, author Philip Ardagh, but have you met Furry Purry Beancat – one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives? Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole set of adventures whether it’s as a pirate cat, railway cat, library cat, or even a witch’s cat! Prepare to fall in love with these terrific books and their best-selling author.

Suitable for children aged 6-9 years old.

£3 per child, adults free. All children must be supervised at all times. #kidsevent
Session date: 27 Jul 2024 - 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Location: Battle Library

Henry Normal Poetry Hour - Hastings Library Henry Normal Poetry Hour

Various Libraries in July

Henry is a writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival.
In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to Television.
He co-wrote and script edited the multi-award winning Mrs Merton show and the spin off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family.
With Steve Coogan he co-wrote the BAFTA winning Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, Tony Ferrino, Doctor Terrible and all three of Steve's live tours and the film The Parole Officer.
Setting up Baby Cow Productions Ltd in 1990, Henry Executive Produced all and script edited many of the shows of it's 17 and a half year output during his tenure as MD.
Highlights of the Baby Cow output during his time include the Oscar nominated film Philomena, I believe in Miracles, Gavin and Stacey, Moone Boy, Uncle, Marion and Geoff, Nighty Night, The Mighty Boosh, Red Dwarf, Hunderby, Camping and Alan Partridge.
Since retiring in April 2016, Henry has written and performed 10 x BBC Radio 4 shows combining comedy, poetry and stories about family.
He was recently given an honourary doctorate of letters by Nottingham Trent University, another by Nottingham University and has a beer and a bus named after him in Nottingham!

'The poetry itself is stuff of proper substance, marrying the suburban beauty of Beatles ballads with the blunt candour of the kitchen sink' The Guardian