Join professional storyteller Liz Fost for an interactive storytelling session followed by puppet making!
FREE, no need to book, just turn up
Event Type: Libraries
Join us for a reading circle with the amazing poet and writer Nikita Aashi Chadha (she/they) for South Asian Heritage Month. We’ll be exploring the concepts of space, place and belonging in three essays within Nikesh Shukla’s The Good Immigrant.
Content warning: the essays cover a breadth of topics, including but not limited to racism, casteism and discrimination.
There is no need for any preparation beforehand, as participants will be reading through the extracts together: Namaste by Nikesh Shukla, Airports and Auditions by Riz Ahmed and Perpetuating Casteism by Sarah Sahim. Nikita will then lead a facilitated discussion around each essay and its prominent themes.
The last 15 minutes of this session will be centred on freewriting. A light touch space for participants to work through any residual feelings from the session – folks can share after if they want to, but there is no pressure to.
Nikita is trained in mental health first aid and has direct lived experience of multiple mental health conditions, and being a South Asian person from the diaspora, born and raised in the UK.
Please can participants let us know of any access needs for the session when registering so that we can accommodate them.
Unleash your creativity at our ‘Hear we Share’ creative workshop at the Fabula Festival. Join us for an alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter themed session as part of the ‘Colours of Redbridge’ programme, we’ll be collecting your stories and hopes for what you would like to experience in the future. Free tea and cakes for your contributions!
Booking on the day may be enforced at busy times.
Get creative with our Fabula summer crafts at South Woodford Library. The following activities will be available from 11 to 4pm.
- Create a Labyrinth
- Make a Board Game
- Treasure Hunt
- Giant Snakes and Ladders
- Colouring Sheets
Involves building a Vision RCL themed snakes and ladders board game.
No booking required, just turn up
Inspired by the arts and crafts of South Asia, join us to make and decorate your own elephant puppet in ceremonial costume.
FREE
Drop-in session – no booking required
Have you ever wondered how all the amazing books in a library were written? Or what makes a good story, ‘good’? Well it all starts with a sentence. In this short workshop with author Simon Maeder you will learn the secrets of writing a great sentence which will lead to a great story!
From useful tips and tricks to real in-depth understanding of the rules of the English language, this workshop is sure to make you more confident in your writing. We look forward to welcoming you and to reading your perfect sentences!
Join Arthur McBain as he reads his two books; ‘In The Dead of the Night’ and ‘Night of the Living Pasta’, followed by a workshop on horror stories, before trying your hand at writing and drawing short horror stories of your own!
Arthur is an actor and children’s author. His debut children’s picture book In The Dead of the Night has been translated into multiple languages. His second book Night of the Living Pasta has recently been released in the UK. When he’s not wrestling with spaghetti monsters in the middle of the night, Arthur disguises himself as an actor in shows such as The Trouble With Maggie Cole and the upcoming After The Flood, bothfor ITV, Ridley Scott’s new film Napoleon, and in the future adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go for Disney+ and FX. He also created the podcast At Your Peril to scare adults.
As part of this year’s Fabula Festival with Cabinet of Living Cinema and with the kind support of the BFI Film Exhibition Fund, catch the Enchanted Cinema’s new interactive project in Redbridge Libraries on Wednesday 26th July.
While Kieron creates beautiful cinematic scores to animated films on harp, viola, guitar and piano, YOU – a pop-up Orchestra of Enchanted Sounds – create live sound FX – seabirds, frogs, baby turtles, ”a cat-bus”, a snoring Totoro and a forest growing and live narration to and animated version of Where the Wild Things Are which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. All instruments / FX are provided.
Duration: 1hr 15mins
Suitable for children aged 4+ and their families. Spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
We appreciate donations as this helps us continue to bring you high quality events and activities in the future. This event is ‘Pay What You Can’ and you can donate to Redbridge Libraries via Eventbrite or you can simply drop-in on the day.
Immerse yourself into reading
Pop-in at Lab Central during Fabula for a captivating reading experience using Augmented Reality books. Borrow one of our tablets to interact with the virtual characters of each books and let your imagination run wild! An experience for all ages.
Free, drop-in at any time. First-come, first served.