Friends of Marsden Library

Marsden Radio
2017-04-19 17:00 - 18:00, 2017-03-15 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

Pageturners Festival: Drama Workshop with Chol Theatre
2017-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Join Joe and Carly from Huddersfield’s own Chol Theatre for a hands-on drama session where you will work in a group to create and perform your own scene with an animal theme!
Take an adventure into an imaginary world and surprise yourself with what you find there!
Suitable for ages 4 – 12
Marsden Library Wednesday 19th April from 10 till 12am.
Tickets are free but must be booked be booked on the Pageturners web site or in any Library

Marsden Write Out Loud
2017-04-18 19:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Poetry Open Mic
3rd Tuesday of the Month, £2

Local Writers Reading
2017-04-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
The return of Dave Rigby, in a double bill with Andrew Shephard.
Find Out More
Entrance is only £3, pay on the door. Refreshments included.
Join us and support Marsden Library.

Lego Club
2017-04-01 13:00, 2017-03-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-03-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-03-11 13:00, 2017-02-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Fun for children young and old. Loads of lego available, new theme each week. Tea, coffee and a sit down available. Children must bring a grown up.

March is Wellbeing Month in Kirklees Libraries
2017-03-09 - 2017-03-31 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
March is wellbeing month in Kirklees Libraries and to celebrate this they are promoting the Reading Agency’s fabulous collection of Shelf Help books within our libraries and as ebooks on Overdrive. The collection of 35 fiction and non-fiction books is aimed at young people who may be experiencing a variety of wellbeing or mental health issues from low mood to eating disorders. So if you are a teacher, a parent or are just interested in helping a young person in your life overcome a difficult time then please enquire at the library for more information.

A Celebration of Jane Austen
2017-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
with ‘Mr Wickham’ and Regency Regjigged
Join ‘Mr Wickham’ and the Regency Rejigged dancers for a celebration of all things Austen, marking 200 years since the author’s death in 1817.
Dashing actor Adrian Lukis, who played the villainous army officer Mr Wickham in the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth as Darcy and ‘that’ scene with the wet shirt) will chat about his experiences and career with Huddersfield’s Jane Austen expert, Catherine Curzon. Followed by a display of dances from Jane Austen’s era by Regency Rejigged. Audience members are welcome to come in period dress.
Refreshments and cake will be on sale to raise funds for the Friends of Marsden Library.

Marsden Radio
2017-02-15 17:00 - 18:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
If you love the idea of gathering around the wireless to listen to plays and readings, then this is for you!
Starting 15th February at 5pm, then every 3rd Wednesday thereafter.

David Coldwell Poetry Launch Event
2017-02-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Celebrating Kirklees Libraries, Huddersfield Literature Festival and FoML Local Writers Reading Presents:
Launch Event
David Coldwell will read from his debut collection, Flowers By the Road.
Tickets £2 available from the Library or online: www.kirklees.gov.uk/townhalls
Doors open at 7pm. Event starts at 7.30pm.

Library Re-Opens
2017-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 | West Yorkshire

Imbolc Story Walk
2017-01-29 12:30 - 13:30 | Marsden Station, Station Road, Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6AX, United Kingdom
A special Imbolc Themed walk in association with Marsden’s Imbolc Fire Festival.
Meet at Marsden Station at 12.30. Morris Dancing by Thieving Magpies, then a short walk along the canal path to Stanedge, with stories as we go.
Dancing and folk music at the Visitor Centre – Dance with the Green Lady!
Suitable for all ages, but please note the woods aren’t suitable for buggies.
Free event, donations welcome. Donations will be for the next Imbolc Fireworks event in February 2018.

Chinese New Year Family Fun Day
2017-01-28 12:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
28th January is the Chinese New Year.
2017 is the Year of the Rooster.
Join us for a Family Fun Day in Marsden Mechanics Main Hall.
The lovely family from ‘Fu Lin’ will be cooking Chinese food and a very special Chinese New Year cake . Also Chinese calligraphy, fortune cookie lucky dip, dancers from Miss Bernie’s school of dancing, mask making and decorating the dragon for the dragon dance. Children from both schools in Marsden will soon be hearing about an art competition to celebrate 2017-The Year of the Rooster.
Donations of cakes to raise funds for the Library would be very welcome.
Are you a Rooster? As well as 2017, Roosters were born in 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993 and 2005.
Roosters should be more careful in years of the Rooster as the year of your birth-sign is said to be the least lucky in the 12 year cycle.
Roosters are observant, hard-working, resourceful, courageous and talented, with plenty of self-confidence.
Read more about the Chinese Year of the Rooster

Library Closed for Alterations
2017-01-23 08:00 - 2017-01-30 17:00 | West Yorkshire

Marsden Write Out Loud Poetry Night with special guest Matt Abbott, Firm of Poets
2017-01-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Held every third Wednesday of the month, 19.30 – 21.30, Marsden Write Out Loud Poetry night has been running for 6 years. All are welcome to bring along their own or a favourite poem to read, or just listen and enjoy.
£2 donation to Write Out Loud funds requested.
Write Out Loud is an international poetry organisation run from Marsden: www.writeoutloud.net
Special Guest Matt Abbott: January Write out Loud
I’m delighted to announce that, for our first session of 2017, we will be joined by guest poet Matt Abbott. A keen political activist, Matt is co-founder of spoken-word organisation A Firm of Poets. If you’re not familiar with his poetry you may recognise him from the recent series of Nationwide TV adverts, one of which features his poem ‘This Place is Ours’. Put it in your diary!

Marsden Library Lego Club - Back for 2017!
2017-01-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Every Saturday in Term Time in the Library. Children must be accompanied by an adult. FREE. Tea, coffee, biscuits and squash available for a small donation.

Marsden Library Lego Club
2016-12-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Every Saturday in Term Time in the Library. Children must be accompanied by an adult. FREE. Tea, coffee, biscuits and squash available for a small donation.
Today is the last lego club before Christmas. We’ll be back on January 7th.
Have a wonderful, lego-filled Christmas.

Marsden Write Out Loud Poetry Night
2016-12-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
December – 14th – a week early to accomodate seasonal festivities, 19.30 – 21.30.
All are welcome to bring along their own or a favourite poem to read, or just listen and enjoy.
£2 donation to Write Out Loud funds requested.
Write Out Loud is an international poetry organisation run from Marsden: www.writeoutloud.net
“Oh, that I were a hat upon that head” Shakespeare’s Romeo famously sighed (…or something like that), which brings us to this month’s theme. MWOL regular Sue Salmon has kindly suggested two options: ‘Hats and Gloves’ and ‘Season’s Greetings’. Does your cat wear a hat? Is it as wide as the Quangle Wangle’s? Can your millinery help you to see in the dark (Goya’s could!)?

Perhaps you’d prefer to bring something in a festive vein, like this cheery couplet from Hilaire Belloc:

May all my enemies go to hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
(Lines For A Christmas Card, Hilaire Belloc)

…or something lovelier, to bring this bewildering year to a close:

Not only for the way the whisky
flames in the glass and thaws the blood;
not only for the rattle of hailstones
down the chimney and doused by fire;
not just for the way the brand-new ring,
slipped cool on a finger, flushes with life;
or the warmth of the bed, and the warmth of another,
when streetlamps are spinning snow outside.

But also for the good, true cold,
shocking us back to all our senses:
the broken-off star of ice in the hand,
the sting of the wind and the quickening heart.
For the splintering light, and the frost in our voices,
striking, and making the strung air ring;
December cold with its wilder gifts –
for when are we more alive than now?
(‘Grace at Christmas’, Jean Sprackland)

As ever, the theme is entirely optional and we welcome every ‘Bah, humbug!’.

From our Correspondent: Julian Jordan reviews an evening of poetry in Washington:
A week after the shock of America’s supposed liberal values being trumped by bigly bigotry, the country’s apparently ingrained red neck having been thus exposed, I had the privilege of attending an extraordinarily apposite evening at Washington’s The Phillips Collection, with poets Robin Coste Lewis and Tyehimba Jess responding to the gallery’s exhibition: People on The Move: Beauty And Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Read the full article…

Marsden Library Lego Club
2016-12-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-12-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom

Christmas Crafts at the Library
2016-12-03 11:00 - 16:00 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Get in the mood for the big Christmas Lights switch on with the Library’s Christmas Crafts event!

Marsden Write Out Loud Poetry Night
2016-11-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Held every third Wednesday of the month, 19.30 – 21.30, Marsden Write Out Loud Poetry night has been running for 6 years. All are welcome to bring along their own or a favourite poem to read, or just listen and enjoy.
£2 donation to Write Out Loud funds requested.
Write Out Loud is an international poetry organisation run from Marsden: www.writeoutloud.net

Marsden Library Lego Club
2016-11-12 13:00 - 15:00 | West Yorkshire
