Fantastic Fun is on its way!
Warwickshire Libraries' Fantastic Fun With Words festival is nearly here!
It will be launched on Sat 16 October by storyteller-with-a-drum Clive Cole, who will be driven to each of the 19 libraries across North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth and Rugby districts, starting at Coleshill at 9am and finishing at Rugby at 3.30pm!
Come and hear him do a very quick story at your local library before he rushes on to the next one!
From Monday 18 to Friday 22 October, schools will be coming in to sessions with local authors in the libraries - over 30 have signed up to this which is a fantastic response.
In half-term there will be sessions for the whole family with professional authors and storytellers. What’s more, these are FREE of charge!
We also have a readers’ evening for the adults to enjoy at Rugby Library with two local writers - Judith Allnatt and Sam Hayes. And poet Dave Reeves will be ‘on the buses’ again, well, on the mobile library out of Bedworth, meeting users on Wed 27 October!
Stella Thebridge, Senior Librarian for children young people and families for Warwickshire Libraries said: "This is the third year we have received funding from the Arts Council to bring families and writers together to engage with reading and writing in a fun way and learn without realising it!
“The mix of school group sessions and general events for adults and whole families in half-term enables as many as possible to benefit from the experience and expertise of a large number of authors from the West Midlands region. We hope families will enjoy these high quality sessions on their doorstep."
Scheduled library arrival times for the Story Dash with Clive Cole:
Coleshill 9.00am
Water Orton 9.20am
Kingsbury 9.50am
Polesworth 10.05 am
Dordon 10.20 am
Baddesley 10.40 am
Atherstone 11.00am
Hartshill 11.20 am
Nuneaton 11.40 am
Camp Hill 12.00 noon
Stockingford 12.15pm
Bulkington 12.45 pm
Bedworth 13.05pm
Bedworth Heath 13.25
Keresley 13.45pm
Binley Woords 14.25pm
Wolston 14.45 pm
Dunchurch 15.05pm
Rugby 15.25pm