- Tomorrow (Friday 5 April 2024, 11am – 3pm. Registration: 10:30am) at St Ann’s Library (Cissbury Road, Tottenham, N15 5PU), there’s an Easter Holiday Camp with Arts and Crafts, Battleships, Loggers, Self Defence Fitness and Volleyball – as well as delicious Caribbean food - for children aged 8 – 12 who are in receipt of Free School Meals (FSMs) as part of our Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme
- There’s also a ‘Masterclass in Music Production for Young Maestros’ event at Wood Green Library tomorrow (Friday 5 April 2024, 11am – 3pm. Registration: 10:30am) for teenagers between 12 and 16 who are in receipt of FSMs – again, as part of our HAF programme.
Please book your child’s place for the above activities in advance via our HAF Programme pages.
- Meanwhile, as part of our celebrations to mark International Children’s Book Day (ICBD), there’s craft and story time activities for 4 to 12-year-olds at St Ann’s Library tomorrow (Friday 5 April, 10:30am – 12noon) and on Saturday (6 April, 10:30am – 12noon). Children under 9 should be accompanied by a carer/parent.
- There’s a storytelling competition at Coombes Croft Library tomorrow (Friday 5 April, 2:30pm-3:30pm), where Haringey children can join their friends to narrate imaginary tales. Prizes will be awarded for creativity and presentation. There will also be a story time session with a reading of Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson.
Here’s some notes for your diary next week as well.
- Next Wednesday (10 April, 2:30pm – 3:30pm), Stroud Green and Harringay Library will play host to a Easter Comic Crafts activity, with participants drawing some cartoon animals or people using simple shapes. Circles, ovals and curves will be the shapes used during Wednesday’s session and there shall be some easy-to-follow examples demonstrated by library staff to get the creative, illustrative juices flowing!
- Next Saturday morning (13 April, 10:30am – 11:30am), there’s a ‘Rhymes and Raagas: Indian Music for Babies and Tots’ event at St Ann’s Library, where delightful melodies and rhythms from India will be interwoven into playful nursery rhymes. Children and carers/parents can sing, play percussion, count and dance along while the youngsters enhance their cognitive development, social skills, sense of rhythm, pitch, counting, colours and more. You and your little ones can unwind too with the soothing sounds of the sitar and raagas* (*Indian musical patterns). For further information, please email: rhymesandraagas@gmail.com.
- For the budding film buffs out there, Peter Rabbit 2 (2021, U, 90 minutes) will be shown at Marcus Garvey Library at 2:30pm this Saturday (6 April), with the same venue showing Encanto (2022, PG, 98 minutes) at the same time (2:30pm) next Saturday (13 April).
- Elsewhere, as part of our ongoing ‘Around the World Film Festival’, South Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003, 15, 114 minutes) will be shown at Wood Green Library next Thursday (11 April) at 5pm.
