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01/10/2026

In celebration of Black History Month 2026 we have put together an awesome book collection over on our digital platform at BorrowBox ❤️💛💚

Pick up a great new eBook or eAudioBook by following the link here 👇
https://blackpool.borrowbox.com/product-group/45386/black-history-month

Or download the BorrowBox app using the steps on the website here 👇
https://www.borrowbox.com/

30/09/2026

Black History Month 2026- Honouring Our Communities

Join us in celebrating Black History Month 2026 with two VR sessions, and experience Empire Soldiers - an immersive storytelling experience tribute to the often overlooked contributions of Caribbean and South Asian troops during WW1.

Session 1
📌 Blackpool Central Library
📆 Friday 2nd October
⏰ 10.00am-12.00 noon
⭐ FREE. No booking required. All welcome.

Session2
📌 Moor Park Library
📆 Wednesday 21st October
⏰ 10.00am-12.00 noon
⭐ FREE. No booking required. All welcome.

*Young people under the age of 13 require parental consent to use VR*

28/09/2026

🫏 Memories of Revoe 🫏

Join our friends from LeftCoast and Revoelution for lovely sessions remembering Revoe.
Ecaterina and Sam will be running workshops where you can meet neighbours and share memories while making models of the area.
Perhaps you remember the Donkey Men who had their stables at Ibbison "Ibby" Street, maybe you went to Revoe school, or had a favourite shop?
We'd love you to share...

No experience needed, and all sessions are free.

Come and have a chat, make something, and help build a picture of Revoe through the memories of the people who know it best.

📌 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀, all held at Revoe Library (FY1 5HN)
📆 28 Sept: ⏰ 1.30pm to 4.30pm
📆 7 Oct: ⏰ 10.15am to 12.45pm
📆 19 Oct: ⏰ 1.30pm to 4.30pm
📆 28 Oct: ⏰ 10.15am to 12.45pm
📆 11 Nov: ⏰ 10.15am to 12.45pm
📆 23 Nov: ⏰ 1.30pm to 4.30pm

We hope you can make it!

25/09/2026

🐴 Yee Haw! 🐴

We are Rootin', Tootin', Reading today on Dolly Day (9/25) in honour of Dolly Parton and her love of books.
Lizzie, Lesley, Laura, Sarah and Jools have been two-stepping their way around the stacks whilst book-shelving.
Look at those happy faces!
We think Dolly would be incredibly proud of reaching around the world with her contribution to literacy via Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

What are you reading today? 🫶

24/09/2026

🚌 All aboard! 🚌

17 day to go until The Orielles are here in Blackpool!
We can also announce that supporting will be Rail Replacement Bus Service!

📌Blackpool Central Library
📆 Sunday 11 October
⏰ Doors 2.30pm
⭐ Tickets £16.50 *under 10's FREE* Book here 👇
https://www.seetickets.com/.../blackpool-central.../3618051

* Our venue is accessible with a ramp, accessible toilet, SEN-friendly, is suitable for children, and is a dry venue *

📷Photo credit Giulia Bonometti

22/09/2026

💥 MEET MOLLIE RAY, THE YOUNG COMICS LAUREATE 💥

Explore your creativity and make your own graphic novel with the Young Comics Laureate, Mollie Ray!
Join us in one of our two special workshops where you will combine art, storytelling and all things graphic novels!
Most suitable for ages 7-14

📌 Palatine Library
📆 Thursday 29 October
⏰ 10.00am-12.00 noon
⭐ Booking required at Palatine Library, on 01253 478050 or at [email protected]

📌 Library@theGrange
📆 Thursday 29 October
⏰ 1.00-3.00pm
⭐ Booking required at Library@theGrange, on 01253 478270 or at [email protected]

*Please note the edited date. These events are on Thursday 29 October NOT Monday 26 October.
Sorreeeee...... *puts on the cone of shame* *

21/09/2026

🐞 Doodlebug Show for Little Ones 🐞

Join LPM Dance this Wednesday for fun dancing and music with this beautiful and sweet show.

📌 Blackpool Central Library
📆 Wednesday 23 September
⏰ Session 1 - 10.30am
⏰ Session 2 - 2.00pm
⭐ FREE! No booking required. *Suitable for Early Years children with or without disabilities*

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
📸 Robin Zahler Design + Photography

18/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Book Group 🏳️‍🌈

This is an inclusive group for the LGBTQ+ community and allies.
Our group reads for September are The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and These Heathens by Mia McKenzie.
Both books are available as paper copies from Palatine Library and as audiobooks on BorrowBox, and The Well of Loneliness is also available as an ebook.
Just turn up and enjoy a bookish chat with likeminded people.

📌 Palatine Library
📆 Saturday 19 September
⏰ 2.00-3.00pm
⭐ FREE. No booking required. All welcome!

Borrow 'The Well of Loneliness' here 👇
https://blackpool.borrowbox.com/search?q=the%20well%20of%20loneliness

Borrow 'These Heathens' here 👇
https://blackpool.borrowbox.com/search?q=These%20heathens

17/09/2026

Blackpool Authors Meeting

This meeting is aimed at the wealth of budding authors we know we have in Blackpool and the wider Fylde Coast area.
We'll be chatting with two successful local authors, Michael Davies - Author and Mary Wood Author also writes as Maggie Mason, about their methods and how they got their work published, and we'll have Taslima from HarperCollins Publishers UK there to chat with, too.
There will be a Q&A session with each author and with Taslima , with the National Literacy Trust in attendance as well.
An event aimed at helping you to get your work out there to your future readers, and it's free!

📌 Argosy Community Centre 86 Forshaw Ave, Blackpool FY3 7PW
📆 Tuesday 29 September
⏰ 12.00 noon-3.00pm
⭐ FREE. No booking required.

14/09/2026

📣Come work with us!! 📣

You too could be having fun on the daily by working at Blackpool Libraries 🤩

All details and application here 👇
bit.ly/LA-Sep26

Don't hang about, closing date is 27 September

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