A creative family workshop for children and young people to imagine a more sustainable future through storytelling and drawing.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and music. Through fun writing exercises and games suitable for all ages and abilities, we will learn about the connection between poetry and music, some basic poetry techniques, and write music-inspired poems.

Unleash creativity and explore the joy of poetry together in this engaging 2-hour workshop suitable for all ages and backgrounds.

This is an opportunity to listen to new writing, commissioned and published work (poems, stories etc) and loved extracts focused around the theme of 'Freedom'.

Central Library will be welcoming former Plymouth Laureate, Thom Boulton to deliver an interactive session based on his exciting new book, Wild Children.

Suitable for children 7 years and over and their families. No booking required. 

2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in Hampshire. This lecture by Hazel Jones, a Jane Austen specialist, will feature contemporary maps and other early-nineteenth century travellers' impressions to illustrate the places she visited and to reveal the locations she might have drawn on for the names of fictional houses and villages.