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Events at John Rylands Library Deansgate

19 May 2010

Free Story Hunt Day and poetry reading by Mimi Khalvati

Story Hunt Day
John Rylands Library
Saturday 22 May, 11am-4pm
FREE

Inspired by the popular children’s story A Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit, this is a family adventure designed to take children and parents on afantastical, creative journey, encouraging them toexplore the library in a new and imaginative way.

Using storytelling, puppetry, origami, music and drama you will discover clues and new characters in many mysterious and secret parts of the library.

Activities will include dragon hunts and crownmaking, ensuring that everyone goes home with a souvenir of the story they helped to hunt out!

The climax of the story sparks a musical finale, in celebration of this shared magical journey.

Booking is essential as places are limited – please contact:

Verses and Ghazals
An evening of poetry reading with Mimi Khalvati
John Rylands Library
Wednesday 26 May, 5.30-7.pm
FREE

Born in Tehran, Mimi Khalvati has lived most of her life in the UK. She has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press and her most recent collection, The Meanest Flower, is a collection of ghazals – an ancient Persian form of poetry. A Financial Times Book of the Year, it was short listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007.

Booking is recommended for this event - please contact: