Friends of Marsden Library

Lego Club
2017-02-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | 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.

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

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

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, 2016-11-05 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, 2016-10-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2016-09-21 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

Local Writers Reading: Simon Armitage
2016-11-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs, Peel Street, Marsden, HD76BW
Join Local Poet – and Oxford Professor of Poetry – Simon Armitage in the Mechanics on 4th November.
Simon will read from the full range of his work – from old Marsden favourites and ‘greatest hits’ to his most recent work, Still, inspired by aerial photographs of the Somme.
Simon is donating his time in support of the Big Library Appeal.
Ticekts £10 (£8)

Calendar Competition Exhibition Continues
2016-10-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Marsden Mechanics, HD7 6BW
The winning entries from the Marsden Calendar Competition are on display in Marsden Mechanics and Enjoy Art. Enjoy some beautiful images that capture the spirit of Marsden and the Colne Valley.
Then buy a calendar so that you can gift them to a friend, or have them to enjoy yourself at home.
Buy a Marsden Calendar

Local Writers Reading: Jo Stanley
2016-10-26 19:30 - 20:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
In our first non-fiction Local Writers Reading event, we welcome Dr Jo Stanley.
Jo is a consultant in Maritime History, specialising in women who went to sea, and she will be reading from her new book, ‘From Cabin ‘Boys’ to Captains: 250 years of women at sea’.
Jo’s Website
Join us to explore this fascinating topic in Marsden Library on Wednesday 26th October at 7.30pm.
Pay on the door: £5 (£3), including refreshments.
All funds raised through Friends of Marsden Library activity contribute to the Library Re-Design appeal. Attendance at events in Marsden Library helps to support the Library.

Future Worlds Drawing Competition
2016-10-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Half-term drawing with a Sci Fi twist. Imagining the world of the future and enter the Sci Fest drawing competition.
FREE and NO BOOKING needeed

Calendar Competition Exhibition Opens in Enjoy Art
2016-09-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Enjoy Art, Peel Street, Marsden, HD7 6BW
Winning images from the Calendar Competition will be displayed at Enjoy Art from 30 September, moving to Marsden Mechanics during the Jazz Festival (7 – 9 October).
The Gallery is Open Thursday – Saturday, 10 – 5, and Sunday 11 – 4.
Free Entry.
The Marsden Calendar has been produced by Friends of Marsden Library and will be sold in aid of the Library Redesign. To find out more about how the Library Service is changing, and the fundraising campaign visit

Fundraising for the Library
Library ReDesign Family Friendly Drop In

The Calendar will be on sale SOON.

Ceilidh - Dance for the Library
2016-09-24 19:00 - 23:00 | Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs, Peel Street, Marsden, HD76BW

The Big Library Appeal Launch Day - Family Friendly Drop in, With Cake
2016-09-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs, Peel Street, Marsden, HD76BW
Drop in to the Mechanics anytime between 10 and 1 on Saturday 24th September to find out more about the plans for the Library Redesign.
Members of the Marsden Community Trust Board, Friends of Marsden Library Steering Group, Library volunteers and Kirklees Library Service Staff will be there to answer your questions.
Plans and Designs for the Library Redesign available to view.
Children’s activities, including lego.
Cake for sale.

Marsden Library Lego Club is Back (note - slightly new time)
2016-09-10 13:30 - 15:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Summer holiday is over … Lego Club is Back!
Every Saturday in Term Time in the Library. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

James and the Giant Peach Walk
2016-08-25 10:30 - 12:30 | Marsden Library, Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, HD7 6BW, United Kingdom
Go on an adventure to search out characters from the famous Roald Dahl story, then enjoy a story and craft activity back at the Library.
All walks start and finish at the Library unless otherwise stated.
Free.
All ages welcome.
Booking essential – please call 01484 414868 and ask for the Marsden library.
