Booking at the welcome desk opens 15 minute before craft starts. Please arrive promptly as spaces are limited.
Celebrate spring by making a paper flower bouquet
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Booking at the welcome desk opens 15 minutes before craft starts. Please arrive promptly as spaces are limited.
Do you want to create a Beautiful Butterfly or maybe even a Mighty Monster using only your handprint?
Come along, cut out and use your hand prints to create awesome artwork.
Unlock the world of coding for your child in our engaging coding sessions! Designed for ages 6 to 12, our hour-long sessions every Wednesday at 6 pm are the perfect introduction to the exciting realm of IT.
Through interactive activities and hands-on learning, kids will explore the basics in a fun and accessible way.
Our experienced volunteers will guide them through this journey, fostering problem-solving skills and igniting a passion for technology. Join us and watch your child embark on a fascinating coding adventure! Sign up now to secure a spot.
The songs and story of Singer Frank Sinatra, covering his life as band singer to ballad and swinging singer, building his own record label ‘Reprise.’ The show covers the highs and lows of his life together with the songs that he made famous. Songs include; My Way, Come Fly With Me, Strangers In The Night and thirty other hits.
Tickets
All tickets £16.50 (price includes £1.50 Theatre Maintenance Levy)
In honour of King Charles desire to protect nature, Woodford Green Library is offering an hour dedicated to building a unique bug hotel with your child to take home as part of our arts and craft activities. Using craft materials and tools provided by the library, they can design and build their own bug hotels to take back home and place in their gardens, helping to develop your child’s creativity as they explore their curiosity with nature.
No need to book, just turn up!
This activity is funded by Arts Council England.
In honour of King Charles love of plants and the environment, Woodford Green Library is offering an hour dedicated to creating beautiful flower pots and planting a seed with your child to take home as part of our arts and craft activities. Using craft materials and tools provided by the library, children can design and seed their own flowers to take back home and plant in their gardens, helping to develop your child’s sense of responsibility and patience.
No need to book, just turn up!
This activity is funded by Arts Council England.
In honour of King Charles’s passion for the environment, Woodford Green Library is offering an hour dedicated to creating a fun windmill together with your child as part of our arts and craft activities. Using craft materials and tools provided by the library, children can construct their own windmill, which can help to develop your child’s fine motor skills.
No need to book, just turn up!
This activity is funded by Arts Council England.
In partnership with the WREN Conservation Group, the Nature Conservation Team will take a walk around Wanstead Park. We will work together to try and identify a variety of plants and animals.
This walk will last approximately 2.5 hours and is suitable for 7+ years. We will be walking along non formalised paths and uneven surfaces. Paths will be unsuitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs. We highly recommend walking shoes/boots or wellingtons, especially if there has been persistent rain the weeks or days prior to the walk.
Please note, the walk may end up being longer, but you don’t have to stay for the full session or if you decide to stay longer, please bring some snacks or lunch, etc.
Only assistance dogs allowed.
Large areas are inaccessible for wheelchairs.
Appropriate for 7+ years, anyone between 7-15 years old must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Celebrate Victorian Yiddish culture in London, along with friends whose communities have also gathered here making Redbridge one of the most diverse boroughs.
The parade invokes the late Victorian Era tradition of protest parades of Yiddish workers marching in London’s East End. The Great Yiddish Parade on Tour is produced by JW3 in London, Europe’s largest Jewish arts and community centre.
PRE-PARADE WORKSHOPS – Redbridge Central Library – 12.30pm-2pm
JW3 are hosting workshops for children over 5yrs and adults prior to the start of the parade, making banners and learning about the act of gathering for protest through the ages, as well as the specific historical context of this parade.
Book on Eventbrite (click on workshop below):
Great Yiddish Parade Banner Making Workshop
Great Yiddish Parade Singing Workshop
THE PARADE – Sets off from and returns back to Redbridge Central Library – 2pm-3pm
Join the collective of performers as they recreate the historic annual march, gathering with their neighbours, both Jewish and from other immigrant communities. The result is a celebration of music along with a protest against inequality and the rising cost of living featuring Yiddish song, Klezmer music and chants. It celebrates the contribution of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to the UK and offers an inclusive approach to celebrate all migrant cultures and the music and culture they bring with them.
Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
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