Tree Walk and Family Quiz
Fun for all the family. Sunday 23 June, Mechanics, 2 – 4. Collect your self-led walk route and tree quiz (50p) and take yourself on a voyage of discovery to learn about our local trees. Walk created by local...
Spinning a Yarn Writing Workshop with Kate Fox
Take part in a writing workshop with stand up poet and Radio 4 favourite, Kate Fox. Using similes of thread & weaving to look at the impact of women in our lives. Open to writers at all levels including...
The Yorkshire Vet Comes to Marsden
This year’s collaboration between the Friends of Marsden Library and the Huddersfield Literature Festival brings you Julian Norton: The Yorkshire Vet. Known across the UK from the popular Channel 5 series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton talks about the drama and...
Author D R Dixon Reading from Wired Thoughts in Marsden Library
Our April Northern Writer Reading is D R Dixon, will be reading from his book ‘Wired Thoughts’ in Marsden Library on Wednesday 3rd. Doors open at 7.00 for a 7.30 start. Copies available for purchasing and signing afterwards. Suggested...
2018 Calendar Competition Open – Just in Time for Cuckoo Festival!
We hope you are all enjoying your 2018 Marsden Calendar . Next year it could by your photo adorning kitchens across the Colne Valley – here’s how: All you need to do is grab your camera and take it...
NEW DATE: Templar Nights Poetry in Marsden Library, 20th April
The Templar Nights Poetry event, postponed due to the first ‘Beast from the East’ has been rescheduled for 20th April. Existing tickets are valid, and we’re very excited that the event can now take place in our newly refurbished...
Meet Author Jo Stanley, reading from ‘Women and the Royal Navy’
Get your 2018 off to a great start by coming along to the latest free ‘Northern Writers Reading’ author talk in Marsden Library, January 15th, doors open at 7.00 and the talk will start at 7.30. Marsden-based historian, Jo...
Meet kings, queens, revolutionaries … and even a couple of saucy soldiers!
Who’s in the mood for a bit of fun? Come along to our next Northern Writers Reading evening, you’ll find you’re in the right place! Local author Catherine Curzon (who visited us earlier in the year with Pride and...
Northern Writers Reading New Season
Meet Author Martyn Bedford in Marsden Library – FREE Are you looking for your next great read? A book to curl up with as the nights draw in? You’re in the right place. Our Autumn-Winter season of Northern Writers...
Winners of the Calendar Competition Announced
The news you’ve all been waiting for. We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Marsden Calendar Competition. And you’ll be able to get your sticky mitts on one of these very special calendars very soon –...