November Newsletter

seasoning's final forage

Wednesday 12th November
2pm - 4pm
Meet at Crosby Library

Our final Seasoning workshop! To celebrate the end of artist Hannah Fincham's year-long residency in our Kitchen Library, we've got one final forage for spicy winter roots. As we arrive in winter, the plants have drawn their nutrients down and retreated underground. We'll collect different roots together as the final ingredient for our community feast, using all of the different seasonal ingredients we've foraged, preserved and stored throughout the year. 

messy grief: grief awareness week

2nd - 8th December
Crosby Library

Who said the grief is supposed to be neat? Who told us that grief is just politely crying, or that death should always make us sad, and who said you can’t grieve the living? For Grief Awareness Week 2nd - 8th December we present Messy Grief, a week of smashing things up and singing things off your chest.

Created by artists Lowri Evans, Brendan Curtis, Erin Rowlands and Jenny Gaskell join us to explore the ways in which grief can be messy, ambivalent and uncomfortable. Join us for a Smashing Ceremony, Grief Choir Karaoke and a Grief Gathering, all in Crosby Library.

call out for board co-chair

We're looking for a Co-Chair for our brilliant Advisory Board to support us in our strategic direction and governance, with the Sefton community at the heart. Board Members offer expertise, supportive challenge and fresh thinking to ensure we meet the ambitions set out in our plans: that our work is ambitious, inclusive, ethical, diverse and sustainable.

We're looking for people who share our belief that cultural access and expression is a human right and that communities deserve the best creative and cultural experiences. We especially want to hear from you if you love libraries or if you have a connection to Sefton in some way. 

You can apply here by visiting our website to find out more and download the recruitment pack.

opportunity: mental health professional in residence

We’re looking for a qualified mental health professional to work with us on an 18-month Arts Council England funded action research project, exploring how libraries can better support community wellbeing. You’ll help us to understand what’s already working, strengthen our approach, and co-design a new strand of work on men’s mental health.

Find out more about the role and how to apply on our website.

what the team have been up to

Did you know most of our ATL team are practising artists, writers and musicians? Here's some of what they have been getting up to recently when not working with communities in Sefton.

Click below for a roundup of the exciting projects our team have been up to with their own arts practices recently from screenings to publications, exhibitions to festivals and books visiting European cities.