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Portarlington Library :Join storyteller Simone Schuemmelfeder in this magical craft session and listen to her stories of thorny woods and mysterious creatures. She grew up in Germany near the old Fairy Tale Road where the Brothers Grimm collected tales like Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty. It is fair to say that she knows her deep, dark woods!

Wednesday 28th March

10:30-12:30pm

Ages 8-12

Free Workshop but places are limited so booking essential

Call 057 8643751 or ask at the library desk about booking a place

LIBRARY NOTICE:  Due to the inclement weather  the  nutrition talk “Eating Well on a Budget” scheduled to take place this week in Ballylinan Library  has been postponed until Wednesday 7th March at 7pm.

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LEGO FILM PROJECT IN LAOIS LIBRARIES

Could your son or daughter be the next Steven Spielberg? Laois Libraries will be running LEGO Animation Workshops in some of their Libraries this year.

This is an award winning joint venture between Abbeyleix & Durrow Libraries. During the course of the year both libraries will be running LEGO Animation classes for ages 10 and up. This is aimed at anyone between the ages of 10-18.

Following on from the success of the LEGO Club in Abbeyleix and Durrow, the Animation Project is looking to take it even further and encouraging older children and teenagers to get involved.

The ethos of the project is to get pre-teens and teenagers to become creators and not just consumers of media content. To develop their social skills and their social networks.To use their smartphone, tablet & laptop constructively.

LEGO is not just about having blocks; it’s about building meanings together. It’s a social process.

It doesn’t really matter what you are making; what’s important is that you are making something that is meaningful to yourself or others around you. This sharing is the act of building personal connections.

The project will allow participants to draw on both the technical and creative sides of themselves. During the course of the project, the participants will plan, script, shoot, do voice work and produce their own LEGO movies.

These dramatic activities are crucial to their development because through stories and drama, they develop better understanding of themselves and the world around them. Creative writing encourages them to exercise their creative minds and gives them the opportunity to assert themselves. These developments can really strengthen their self-confidence. and help them find their voice.

LEGO can be combined in an almost infinite amount of combinations and there would often be more than one solution to a problem or an issue. This divergent problem solving play may prepare one to think creatively and become more effective problem solvers.

To tell their story, whatever it may be.

So like any film project, we need writers, voice actors, artists, designers and LEGO builders.

So if you think you have someone who might be interested in this project and would like  to take on one of these roles, please contact us at lllanimationstudios@gmail.com or call Abbeyleix or Durrow library.

To celebrate the return of the much loved LEGO Club, we are having a LEGO Building competition. The idea is to build your own original creation and bring it into the Abbeyleix Library, where it will be displayed for the duration of the competition.

Entries must be brought into the library between Saturday November 25th and Saturday 2nd December.

The LEGO will start back up after this event and we would encourage all to come along that day to register for the new LEGO club.

Download your entry forms here:

LEGO Rules & Entry Form

Alternatively you can collect an entry form in branch from any Laois library.

Get Building!!!

Portarlington library has spaces available in the following book clubs : Classics Book Club which  meets on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 11am , General Fiction Book Club which meets on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm and our Junior Book Club (ages 9-12) which meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 4:30-5:00 pm. For more information call 057 8643751 .

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the publication of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ with us at Mountmellick Library! We really enjoyed having all the wizards (of all ages!) and owls at the library over the past week.

You can see more photos of the birthday events on the Mountmellick Library Facebook page

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the release of J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter title, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ with a series of events at Mountmellick Library from Tuesday 27th – Friday 30th June.

Tuesday 27th June – Presentation of the life of J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Quiz, Raven Haven Aviary Show

Wednesday 28th June – “The Word & the Wand: The Magic of Harry Potter”, a Free Public Lecture for ages 12 – 99 years by Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll, Assistant Professor of Children’s Literature at Trinity College Dublin

Thursday 29th June – Wand Workshops

Watch out on Mountmellick Library Facebook page for booking details – coming soon.

‘Invent a Spell’ competition closes on Tuesday 27th June. Application forms available at the library