Stockport Library News – Adult Summer Reading Challenge
By Editor Girl on Jun 16, 2020
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This year Stockport Libraries are hosting a summer reading challenge for adults. Why should kids get all the fun, right?We hope this will be a bit of fun to celebrate reading, coming together and–maybe–winning a prize! It’s easy to join in, with no commitments or registration necessary. The challenge is simple: read four books and complete (optional) challenge tasks to earn entries to the prize draw.
Once you have read a book or completed a challenge, simply visit our Read 4 Summer Entry Form and let us know what you’ve done. The competition closes at midnight on 31st August. Winners will be selected 1st September and contacted as soon as possible after that. Be sure to check in with us on Facebook to get all the challenge details and prize updates as we go along. Happy reading and good luck!Announcing Challenge Task Number 1Would you like to get a jump-start on the Read 4 Summer Challenge? You’re in luck! Here’s an exclusive look at the first Challenge Task of the summer: The Library Digital Escape Room. Escape rooms have become popular destinations over the past couple of years, where players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks to progress through a locked room before the time runs out. But with coronavirus and lockdown, physical escape rooms are not an option. So, we are bringing you a virtual version. This online escape room starts with Jessie accidentally locked in the library. Can you solve the puzzles and find the clues to help them escape? If you do solve the Digital Escape Room, be sure to submit a Read 4 Summer Entry Form to claim your chance to win a prize. Refugee Week 15 – 21 June 2020Refugee Week is the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees and promoting understanding of why people seek sanctuary. The theme for this year is ‘Imagine’. Because when things feel stuck; when the old ways of doing things are no longer working, that’s what we need to do. In the era of Covid-19, the call to imagine feels more important than ever. ‘To imagine’ means to picture something you can’t currently see. To step beyond the current moment, and perceive something different. Maybe you’ll imagine a future where we’ve found new ways to care for our planet, transcend borders or protect human life. Or perhaps you’ll imagine what it’s like to have to leave your family behind, or what your hometown might look like to someone walking its streets for the first time. You can get involved in Refugee Week by taking part in an online event or activity, or doing one of the Refugee Week 2020 Simple Acts. Visit the Refugee Website at https://refugeeweek.org.uk/ to discover how you can take part. However you respond, we hope you’ll join us in an act of collective imagining and help make Refugee Week 2020 the biggest, loudest and most creative Refugee Week yet. BorrowBox has a range of titles celebrating cultural diversity, empathy and the experiences of refugees. Why not try The Beekeeper of Aleppo or The Unforgotten Coat
Just to share a project set up recently by Ellie Levenson called Poetry Generation which may be interesting to you: a coronavirus project that posts video a day of an older person isolating due to the virus reading a poem. The idea is to ensure older people remain visible and are shown in a positive light, and to create a free to access library of poems for everyone to enjoy. She posts one a day across the PoetryGeneration Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram channels and collate them on a website. www.poetrygeneration.co.uk Twitter: @poetryg2020 Facebook/Instagram/Youtube: @Poetry Generation Ellie is looking for contributions from as many older people in isolation as possible. They will need to record themselves on their phones, tablets or computers, using selfie mode or filmed by someone else in their household. The email address and phone number as well as instructions on how to do this and more details are all on the website at: https://poetrygeneration.wordpress.com/about/] She’s had quite a few famous names involved including Sir Tony Robinson, David Blunkett and Jon Snow as well as the poets Bernard O’Donoghue and Ruth Padel.
Even though our Libraries are still closed we want to make sure you are aware of how you can contact the Library Service and find out more about the FREE online resources you can access. Whilst we stay closed any Library books you have on loan will not be due for return and you will not owe any fines. Staying in Touch If you need to contact us there are a variety of ways you can do this. Email – libraries@stockport.gov.uk Twitter – @SMBC_Libraries Facebook – Stockport Libraries Telephone –0161 217 6009 Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter to hear the latest information from us, including book reviews, promotions of activities you can do during the current lockdown and quiz questions local to Stockport. Let us know what you think about books you’ve read so we can share this with our other customers! Even though our Libraries are still closed we want to make sure you are aware of how you can contact the Library Service and find out more about the FREE online resources you can access. Whilst we stay closed any Library books you have on loan will not be due for return and you will not owe any fines. Staying in Touch If you need to contact us there are a variety of ways you can do this. Email – libraries@stockport.gov.uk Twitter – @SMBC_Libraries Facebook – Stockport Libraries Telephone –0161 217 6009 Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter to hear the latest information from us, including book reviews, promotions of activities you can do during the current lockdown and quiz questions local to Stockport. Let us know what you think about books you’ve read so we can share this with our other customers! |
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