About this Event
Summer Reading Challenge Launch Fun Day Lillington Library - Saturday 13th July 11am-4pm
We are inviting children aged 4-11 years to come along to the Library on Saturday 13th to join this years Summer Reading Challenge - Marvellous Makers and take part in fun, free creative activities and workshops.
We have lots of exciting activities planned including:
- African Drumming with In2Cultures
- Tudor Musicians Coranto
- Hip Hop Poet Kurly McGeachie
- Free Creative Arts Packs for Children joining the challenge (whilst stocks last)
- Free Lunches (whilst stocks last)
- Arts & Crafts
The Summer Reading Challenge is an annual reading challenge for children aged 4-11, run in partnership with Reading Agency, and this year the theme 'Marvellous Makers' celebrates the arts, makers and creativity.
In2Cultures is a Midlands based award winning creative arts company working on multicultural projects in schools and the community. Liz and Devinder run weekly African drumming workshops in Stratford-upon-Avon, and also teach Bhangra dancing every week as a community initiative in Rugby.
They’ve worked in nearly 200 different care homes as far afield as Wales and have also worked for the Alzheimer’s Society delivering dementia cafes. They also support the Healing Arts programme in a Coventry hospital. They currently run weekly sessions in partnership with ILEAP, a charity based in Stratford-upon-Avon. Visit their website at www.in2cultures.com to see the full range of activities they offer.
Kurly is literacy consultant and poetry workshop facilitator, working in schools, colleges and universities delivering mass engagement values literacy workshops. In community settings Kurly delivers family-friendly poetry workshops, with rhyme challenges, beatbox games and poems. Helping children read confidently with Poetry & Hip Hop.Birmingham's Central Resident Poet & Poet Laureate Finalist. Website: Kurlyspoetry.com Co-founder of Memorhyme Ltd: Memorhyme.com
Your information rights: To see how we use your personal data and what your information rights are, please read our overall customer privacy notice at which includes the contact details if you have a complaint about your information rights. For general enquiries, please contact Warwickshire County Council’s Customer Service Centre on 01926 410410. For information about how we process your personal data for this event, please see the , the and the .
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lillington Library & Information Centre, Valley Road, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
