PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH SUE ASHBY AND TONY BENGE On Tuesday 30th October 2018 at TheHub@Stalbridge 6.30pm for 7.00pm Tickets available from the Library: £3.00 Guests £1.00 Friends/Volunteers "WRITING DRAMA FROM LOCAL HISTORY" Find out how the authors research, plot, write and with the help of actors, bring history to life. Sue and Tony have been writing plays for over thirty years, and you might have seen ‘On Them Our Lives Depend’ about the eighty women who produced Mills Bombs at Bourton Foundry during the First World War. Stalbridge Community Library OPENING HOURS Monday 2.00pm to 5.00pm Tuesday 10.00am to 12.30pm and 2.00pm to 5.00pm Wednesday 12.00noon to 2.30pm Thursday 3.00pm to 6.00pm Friday 2.00pm to 5.00pm Saturday 9.30am to 12.30pm
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Join us to Celebrate the 5th Birthday of TheHub@Stalbridge Download the file above STALBRIDGE LIBRARY WILL BE OPEN FROM 9.30am UNTIL 2.30pm 
"POETRY IS LANGUAGE IN ORBIT" Seamus Heaney 
National Poetry Day is nearly here! There are so many ways to join in the UK's biggest celebration of poetry on October 4: you can drop in on events across the country, or simply share a line of poetry you like. The theme this year is CHANGE.
Here are some recommendations - they include the latest Forward Book of Poetry, a selection of the best new poetry published over the past year: it features poems by Forward Prizes winners Danez Smith, Phoebe Power and Liz Berry. For a chance to win your own copy, simply tweet your poetry day plans on Twitter, hashtagged #PoetryForaChange: we have 20 books to give away before October 1. HOW WILL YOU SPEND NATIONAL POETRY DAY? 
Our jam-packed events map features a selection of the special poetry events taking place on National Poetry Day. Here's our pick of gigs worth traveling miles for on and around October 4: Jay Bernard and Malika Booker are among the poets lighting up the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire, with readings from Unwritten: Caribbean Poems after the First World War, courtesy of BBC Contains Strong Language, 14 -18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and the British Council; from Oct 4 to Oct 6, Apples and Snakes is unleashing Rallying Cry at Battersea Arts Centre. a stunning immersive poetry journey with Francesca Beard, Roger Robinson and Joelle Taylor; Ilkley is offering a Silent Poetry Disco: Winchester is allowing a poetry festival to take over the town: Poet in the City is staging poetical interventions at the Francis Crick Institute, the UCL campus and the British Museum, while Foyles Charing Cross Road hosts a Poetry Inquisition in which Craig Raine, Sandeep Parmar, Richard Scott and Victoria Adukwei Bulley brace themselves for your toughest questions. MORE TO DO & TO SHARE 
Now it's YOUR turn. Try your hand at this special NPD flash poetry competition. Caboodle, the National Book Tokens reward scheme, is offering the chance to win a gorgeous £100 personalised National Book Token featuring your poem. The winner will also get a box of new poetry books worth £300. Deadline is midnight on October 7 and the judges are poets Kate Clanchy and Joseph Coelho. Click on the button below for a flash course in flash poetry, plus terms and conditions. ! FLASH POETRY COMPETITION ! Share Tweet Remember to share your poetry plans by tagging them #NationalPoetryDay and #PoetryForaChange 
National Poetry Day, founded in 1994 by the charity Forward Arts Foundation, is an annual celebration that inspires people throughout the UK to enjoy, discover and share poems. Everyone is invited to join in, whether by organising events, displays, competitions or by simply posting favourite lines of poetry on social media using #nationalpoetryday The theme for this year is CHANGE. Expect an explosion of activity nationwide, thousands of events will take place across the UK - in schools, libraries, bookshops and hospitals, on buses, trains and boats. All celebrating poetry's power to bring people together Stalbridge library are asking you to bring your favourite poems to the Library where they will be displayed for all the community to share To encourage here is a favourite from Rudyard Kipling 
The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the wood Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.) You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods. A couple of personal recommendations from our Library Manager 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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STALBRIDGE LIBRARY LANDMARK – CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF COMMUNITY SUCCESS
On Sunday 1st July, 36 volunteers and Friends of Stalbridge Community Library gathered at the Hub@Stalbridge to mark five successful years of running the Library. A celebration cake, cream teas and ‘bubbly’ all helped to make the occasion one to remember.
The new Chairman of the Library Management Group, Margaret Jackson welcomed all those present, introduced the members of the Management Group and then asked the outgoing Chairman, Barry Russell, to say a few words on how the Library in its present form came about. In February 2013, following the withdrawal of funding by Dorset County Council, Stalbridge Town Council entered into an agreement with DCC, to provide a Community Managed Library Service ‘managed independently of but supported by DCC.’ Since then, a remarkable team of volunteers have risen to the challenge, and with the support of a Dorset Library Service officer, have battled with the technology provided by the DLS, and kept up with all of the legislation that is required – no mean feat! Barry thanked all the volunteers, without whom there would be no Library.
Barry, who is continuing in his role as volunteer, was presented with a case of wine as a token of appreciation of all his hard work during his time as Chairman and his wife Ann was given a bouquet of flowers for her understanding and support
A quite stunning cake as shown above was then cut by Barry and Tim Lee, (Chairman of the Friends group) and bubbly was served
The Community Library provides access to books and reading, participation in the Summer Reading Challenge, south west reading activities and hosts social events such as Author Talks. There is also a space for people to work or study, with free use of computers
A warm welcome awaits everyone at Stalbridge Community Library, open 20 hours each week, over a range of times to suit everyone, so why not pop in and meet the volunteers, who will be more than happy to introduce you to the wide variety of books, DVDs and magazines, both in stock or available to order
On Sunday 1st July, 36 volunteers and Friends of Stalbridge Community Library gathered at the Hub@Stalbridge to mark five successful years of running the Library. A celebration cake, cream teas and ‘bubbly’ all helped to make the occasion one to remember.
The new Chairman of the Library Management Group, Margaret Jackson welcomed all those present, introduced the members of the Management Group and then asked the outgoing Chairman, Barry Russell, to say a few words on how the Library in its present form came about. In February 2013, following the withdrawal of funding by Dorset County Council, Stalbridge Town Council entered into an agreement with DCC, to provide a Community Managed Library Service ‘managed independently of but supported by DCC.’ Since then, a remarkable team of volunteers have risen to the challenge, and with the support of a Dorset Library Service officer, have battled with the technology provided by the DLS, and kept up with all of the legislation that is required – no mean feat! Barry thanked all the volunteers, without whom there would be no Library.
Barry, who is continuing in his role as volunteer, was presented with a case of wine as a token of appreciation of all his hard work during his time as Chairman and his wife Ann was given a bouquet of flowers for her understanding and support
A quite stunning cake as shown above was then cut by Barry and Tim Lee, (Chairman of the Friends group) and bubbly was served
The Community Library provides access to books and reading, participation in the Summer Reading Challenge, south west reading activities and hosts social events such as Author Talks. There is also a space for people to work or study, with free use of computers
A warm welcome awaits everyone at Stalbridge Community Library, open 20 hours each week, over a range of times to suit everyone, so why not pop in and meet the volunteers, who will be more than happy to introduce you to the wide variety of books, DVDs and magazines, both in stock or available to order
Did you know that we have within the Library a copy of the " WEEK MAGAZINE " available for you to read
"The Week" has a selection of all the important and interesting news items from over the past week
It is a fascinating and information packed magazine available to you completely free of charge
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"The Week" has a selection of all the important and interesting news items from over the past week
It is a fascinating and information packed magazine available to you completely free of charge
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Come and visit your local library here in Stalbridge where as well as having access to over 3 million book titles, CD's, DVD's Talking books and access to computer systems you will now be able to purchase these very elegant Book Bags, available in blue or red at just £2.50 each
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