Category: News
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A warm up on Wednesday mornings
With the high cost of energy forcing people to cut back on heating, our library – like a number of libraries and other public buildings in Lambeth – offers a warm space. And that is added to on Wednesday mornings, from 10am to 1pm,, when you can drop in for a tea or coffee, cakes…
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Illness hits our play – but we had a party
Because of illness among the actors we were not able to put on Present, the musical play written and performed by local young people, on December 16th. But because so many had been looking forward to that evening Friends transformed the event into a Pop-up Christmas party – with carol singing, mince pies and drinks,…
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A Christmas treat from young people – for all ages
Backed by Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library and Art for Space, Present is a new play by Salem Bonar, a young up-and-coming writer and actor .It is produced by Skyers Production who have produced several plays and had a successful run at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2012. Here’s the story – Mary is…
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Our Christmas craft market is back
After two years’ interruption – a victim of the covid restrictions – Friends’ Christmas craft market is back. On Saturday November 26, from 10am to 4pm, the library will be buzzing with stalls offering jewellery. knitting, sewing, artworks, seasonal decorations, garden produce, cards, and homemade jam. And you can win prizes at competitions if you have…
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A film from Portugal – in our Little Portugal neighbourhood
On Monday November 14th at 6.30pm the library will screen Memόrias da Ilha da Madeira, a Portuguese film with English subtitles. This is a compilation of home movies from local families and communities, set to music, giving a picture of life in Madeira. The film has English subtitles and will be followed by a bilingual…
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A book on the “ferocity of motherhood”
This month the library’s reading group will be discussing Chouette by Claire Oshetsky – a dark fable about mothering an unusual child that does not look or act like others. Pick up a copy at Tate South Lambeth Library and join our meeting, on Thursday November 10th at 6.30pm to 8pm,
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Authors’ talk – It’s a Continent
Two podcasters and authors Chinny Ukala and Astrid Madimba take you on a whistlestop tour through Africa, one country at a time – correcting the perception of the continent as a monolith. They highlight the consequences of colonialism and how this legacy reverberates today, as well as how African countries re-build in its wake.…
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“One of the best science fiction novels ever published”
On October 13th the Reading Group will be discussing Philip Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. This depicts an alternative world, where the Allies having lost the Second World War, the Nazis have taken over New York and the eastern USA and the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone between the rival…
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Join the clothes swap at the library
A new venture by Lambeth Libraries aims to help people as they struggle with inflation – by running clothes swaps and giveaways at three of its libraries in September. The session at Tate South Lambeth Library is on Thursday September 15th at 3pm – 8pm. Come along, bring and/or pick up some clothes, save money,…
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“Tender and terrifying”- a novel set in the imminent climate crisis
Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday July 14th at 6.30 to 8pm, in the garden – if the weather is fine. This month the book we’ll be discussing is The High House by Jessie Greenspan, which was shortlisted for the Costa book awards in 2021.. Four people ( a woman and…
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English classes are back – free and unstuffy
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Two authors in conversation at the library
As part of Lambeth Libraries Readers and Writers Festival two authors – West Camel and David J Ross – will be discussing their writing and latest novels at Tate South Lambeth on Friday June 17th, at 7pm.. In West’s novel Fall estranged brothers are re-united over plans to develop the tower block where they…