Library Words

Library Words - Migration Museum

The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has shaped who we are – as individuals, as communities, and as a nation. They are currently based in the heart of Lewisham Shopping Centre and have recently re-opened.

 

As part of Refugee Week in June, Juan Rey-Torre from Lewisham Libraries spoke to Volunteer Coordinator and Executive Assistant Mona and Creative Producers Cym and Ghaf about the work of the Migration Museum, as well as sharing their own personal stories and book recommendations with us.

 

To see the full interview go to https://www.facebook.com/LewishamLibraries/posts/10159249480871912

 

Other Links

Migration Museum https://www.migrationmuseum.org/

Refugee Week    https://refugeeweek.org.uk/

Library Words - Vanessa Potter

Outreach Officer Rachel New interviews Vanessa Potter, a South East London author whose second book, Finding My Right Mind, has just been published. 

To write the book, Vanessa embarked on a road-trip, exploring ten meditation practices, in collaboration with Cambridge neuroscientists who measured 300 hours of her brain activity alongside Vanessa’s subjective reports of her own experiences. 

As well as the science, we get the theory behind the meditation practices and a brutally honest account of her inner journey. Rachel and Vanessa talk about the use of language to describe meditation and its effects, how to get rid of your "inner traffic" and some practical tips for getting started on meditation - even if you're a complete sceptic!  The full interview is on Lewisham Libraries facebook page 

Social Media:

Facebook @VanessaPotterWrites 

Twitter @patienth69 

Instagram @vanessapotterwrites

 

Book links 

Finding My Right Mind : One Woman's Experiment to Put Meditation to the Test

Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight

Library Words - Poetry in and out of lockdown

Francesca La Nave reads Poison Breeze written during lockdown in 2020. She is a member of the monthly South London poetry and spoken word event Beyond Words.

https://www.facebook.com/BeyondWordsPoetry/

 

Chrissie Gittins reads The Dilruba player and the boy inspired by a music event at the Horniman Museum and from her collection Sharp Hills.
Her adult poetry collections Armature (2003), I'll Dress One Night As You (2009) and Sharp Hills (2019) and her children’s poetry collections Now You See Me, Now You... (2002) I Don’t Want an Avocado for an Uncle (2006), The Humpback’s Wail (2010), Stars in Jars (2014) and Adder, Bluebell, Lobster (2016) can be found in Lewisham Libraries.

https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/libraries

 

 

Library Words - SiLL

We hear from local entrepreneurs about turning their passion into a business and how support from local libraries has played its part in their start-up stories, and particularly benefited BAME and female led businesses.

Find out more about the Start-ups in London Libraries programme here http://bit.ly/SiLLinfo

See what Lewisham SiLL have been up to on our blog http://bit.ly/SiLLSpring21

See our playlist on Facebook for videos from SiLL participants http://bit.ly/SiLLvideos

Explore business opportunities, sector guides, legals and much more with COBRA Complete Business Reference Adviser, accessible with a Lewisham Libraries card https://lewisham.cobwebinfo.com/

Use our ebook services for business books, newspapers, magazines, journals and more, or reserve physical business books through click and collect https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/libraries

Library Words - Christopher Marlowe

May is Local and Community History month. A time to highlight and raise awareness of the past of our local areas and communities.

Christopher Marlowe, dramatist and poet who lived at the same time as William Shakespeare, died violently in a bar in Deptford in May 1593. He is buried in an unmarked grave in St Nicholas's Church Deptford.  Lewisham Library staff member Chris Moore explores the colourful but short life of this talented man from our local history past.

The account with images is in Lewisham Voices on Facebook.

https://www.history.org.uk/historian/resource/1567/local-and-community-history-month

Library Words - Christine Henley

May is Local and Community History month. A time to highlight and raise awareness of the past of our local areas and communities.

Local resident Christine Henley was born in 1947 and grew up in Hilly Fields, Lewisham. In this episode of Library Words taken from Lewisham Voices Summer 2020, Christine recounts life in the post war years with childhood memories of the prefab she grew up in and the games they played. Her memory for recounting details of her early life, the neighbourhood shops, local community and family life really brings this period of near history alive.

The account with images is in Lewisham Voices on Facebook.

https://www.history.org.uk/historian/resource/1567/local-and-community-history-month

Library Words - Claire Cooper

Novelist Claire Cooper (whose nom de plume is C J Cooper) recorded this for Lewisham Voices during the Spring lockdown 2021. She lives in Lewisham and writes psychological thrillers. The Book Club published in 2019 is a dark thriller revolving around a village book group with neighbours you really wouldn’t want to spend the evening with. Her latest, The Verdict is set in Lewisham, and is an edgy tale of obsession and revenge.

Claire talks about her writing and the books she enjoys, and reads the beginning of her novel The Verdict for us. 

The video of this recording is in Lewisham Voices on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/LewishamLibraries

Copies of her books are in our libraries.

https://tlc.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/lewisham

Library Words - Caleb Azumah Nelson

Caleb Azumah Nelson, a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer talked to library staff member Andrew Mohammed in January 2021 for Lewisham Voices.  The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 shortlisted his story ‘Pray’, and as it was set in Catford, it sparked our interest. We arranged the interview and a display of his photographs in the huge windows of Lewisham Library to promote ‘Open Water', his first novel published February 2021. Caleb talks to Andrew about living and writing in South East London, and about so much more - films, music, photography and even food. The full interview is on Facebook . Copies of Caleb Azumah Nelson's modern romance ‘Open Water’ are available in our libraries.