Join this heartwarming Caribbean film screening celebrating dementia-friendly stories and community vibes!

The screening of documentary film How to Get On with Everybody followed by a Q&A with Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Winstan Whitter and Elin Moe.

Join us for a fun and inclusive South Asian Heritage-inspired film screening for all ages.

Life Lift Dance for over 55s.

Free, welcoming and fun, low-intensity dance/movement workshops for everyone over 55 years. Suitable for beginners and adapted for all levels with chair-based options. Supported by the Marathon Foundation fund.

Join us for a fun and inclusive workshop in honour of South Asian Heritage Month.

A poetry workshop centring trans and queer South Asian poets with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan.

DJ YODA comes to The Rio this Summer to celebrate 50 years of cinema for the people, by the people!

Yoda is a world-class turntablist, music producer, and trailblazing video artist and has dazzled audiences around the globe and sharing epic stages with giants from Snoop Dogg to Damon Albarn, Diplo to Dame Evelyn Glennie. In collaboration with Doc’n’Roll Film Festival this night promises to be a kaleidoscope of visual treats woven into pumping DJ break beats.

Join us for a fun and inclusive workshop where you can create, colour and design your own henna sleeves for South Asian Heritage Month!

Join us for a fun and inclusive South Asian Heritage-inspired film screening for all ages.

Join us for a fun family session celebrating South Asian heritage and culture!

Life Lift Dance for over 55s.

Free, welcoming and fun, low-intensity dance/movement workshops for everyone over 55 years. Suitable for beginners and adapted for all levels with chair-based options. Supported by the Marathon Foundation fund.

Join us for a fun and inclusive workshop in honour of South Asian Heritage Month.

Unleash the magic at the library and create your very own sparkly magic wand!

Join Catherine Harrington to learn about and create the ships that brought plants to Hackney from all over the world 300 years ago.

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy!

Ready to make some magic? Join us to make 3D lucky star origami that glow in the dark!

Join us for a fun and inclusive Bollywood film screening for all ages.

Ready to make some magic? Join us to make 3D lucky star origami that glow in the dark!

Ever read a book and thought, ‘I could write a better ending than that’? Now’s your chance!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Drop in and use our colourful stencils, markers, and your own imagination to design a personalised name card.

Have you got a funny story to tell or an epic mini-adventure in your head? Join us and learn how to turn your ideas into a classic comic!

Stop, look… and craft!

Create your own beautiful kite and test whether it can defy the laws of gravity!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Drop in and use our colourful stencils, markers, and your own imagination to design a comic-themed bookmark.

Join us for a fun family session celebrating South Asian heritage and culture!

Design and decorate a personalised treasure chest inspired by magic books and legendary tales.

Life Lift Dance for over 55s.

Free, welcoming and fun, low-intensity dance/movement workshops for everyone over 55 years. Suitable for beginners and adapted for all levels with chair-based options. Supported by the Marathon Foundation fund.

Unleash the magic at the library and create your very own sparkly magic wand!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy!

Join us for a fun family session celebrating South Asian heritage and culture!

Join in with magic manga-themed games – word searches, colour in fan art and make a quiz!

Get creative at your local library this summer with a comic-themed craft!

Make a 3D plant-inspired book with artist Catherine Harrington.

Get crafty at your local library this summer

Join us for a literary adventure around the library.

Magic meets STEM in this rocket-fuelled craft session

Get crafty at your local library this summer

Unlock the magic of reading with Michela this summer!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Explore the world of Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger through lively interactive reading and drawing

Get crafty at your local library this summer

Join us to learn how to create content on Wikipedia.

Bring your friends and family to the library for a fun, relaxed film screening.

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Create your very own cosmic mobile

Join us to read and talk about comics and graphic novels, get ideas and make friends!

Dive into the library and create your own wiggly paper chain octopus!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy!

Bring your friends and family to the library for a fun, relaxed film screening.

Join us for a colourful crafting session where you’ll learn how to make a paper flower bouquet for someone special in your life

Join us for a hands-on crafting session where you’ll design and build a classic, optical-illusion paper spinner.

Astound your friends with mind-blowing professional card tricks

Write, draw and fold a whole world that fits right in your pocket.

Invent a cartoon character that could step straight out of a comic book

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Join us for a literary adventure around the library.

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Get creative at your local library this summer with a comic-themed craft!

Bring your friends and family to the library for a fun, relaxed film screening.

Join this fun jewellery making session for all children!

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Create your own masterpiece inspired by David McKee

Join us for a fun, hands-on crafting session where you’ll design and make your very own paper fruit magnets.

Get crafty at your local library this summer

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Now that your magical cartoon character has been created, it’s time for their adventure to begin!

Join us to make your very own 3D book review for one of the books that you’ve read as part of the Great Hackney Reading Quest!

Astound your friends with a mind-blowing professional card trick

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Get creative and fill your summer holiday evenings with fun!

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Join our resident comic artists to draw and create comics, get inspired, develop skills and make friends!

Get crafty at your local library this summer

Calling all football fans and craft lovers! Celebrate your favourite teams, players, or your own local club in a completely unique way.

Join a local dance company for free creative dance and storytelling sessions as part of the Great Hackney Libraries Quest.

Have you got a funny story to tell or an epic mini-adventure in your head? Join us and learn how to turn your ideas into a classic comic strip!

Join in with a session where we will share our favourite picture books and draw our own pictures based on them, with lots of colour and magic!

Join us for a fun afternoon of creating yarn-wrapped heart bookmarks.

Step into the library for a magical crafting session to design your very own stickers featuring your favourite mythical creatures and characters.

Join us at the library to talk about books, meet new people and discover your next favourite read!

It isn’t magic, but it is quite clever…

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Take over our Children’s library and build a massive cardboard toy car racetrack – and then race your toy car!

Unleash the magic at the library and create your very own sparkly magic wand!

Join this fun jewellery making session for all children!

Join this fun jewellery making session for all children

Make a magical hat fit for a witch, wizard or fairy!

Are you ready to bring a little extra magic to your reading time?

Write, draw and fold a whole world that fits right in your pocket.

Step into the beautiful fantasy world of one of the most popular manga series around!

Join in with friendly competition at your local library this summer

Join us for a fun afternoon of creating 3D yarn-wrapped letter decorations.

Unlock your child’s creativity this summer with Melodies for Literacy

Step into the beautiful fantasy world of one of the most popular manga series around!

Get crafty at your local library this summer!

Hackney Libraries are proud to host the official book launch of Big Man, the highly anticipated adult literary debut by award-winning author and poet Dean Atta.