Newmarket Library Activities and Events

Weekly events

Day Time Activity
Tuesdays 10.00am - 10.30am Bookstart activity: Baby Bounce - soothing songs and gentle nursery rhymes for babies and their grown-ups followed by a short story.
Thursdays 10.00am - 10.30am Bookstart activity: Tot Rock - pre-school music session followed by a short story.
Thursdays 10.30am - 11.30am Top Time - social group for older people
Sundays 11.00am-12.00pm Come and enjoy our children's craft activities
Sundays 1.00pm - 2.00pm (meets every 4 weeks) Book Club

2010 Summer Reading Challenge

Go to Suffolk Space Hop blog Take part in this years Reading Challenge - Suffolk Space Hop - in all Suffolk libraries and mobiles. 

Go to Suffolk Space Hop Blog and find out what's happening in your library


Thursday 12 August, 9.30am - 12.30pm, Feeling Well Event

Information and talk about promoting mental wellbeing. Part of the Feeling Well events in libraries. Improve your wellbeing and feel better today.

Bookstart

Bookstart logoWe run two Bookstart activities for pre-school children every week.
Tuesdays   Baby Bounce    10.00am - 10.30am
Thursdays  Tot Rock          10.00am - 10.30am

Both sessions include a short storytime session for the last 10 minutes.  We leave the toys out for a while after the sessions so parents can stay for a chat while their children play.

Top Time

This weekly group, meeting on Thursdays, has a varied programme of activities for older people and carers.  

Find more details of the forthcoming programme here or please contact the library for further information or special requirements.

Sunday activities

Come and enjoy our children's craft activities every Sunday at Newmarket Library.  Sunday activities are suitable for children of all ages unless otherwise specified.  They run from 11.00am to 3.00pm and there is also colouring available to do throughout the day. 
 
Sunday Activity
August Go to Suffolk Space Hop to find out what's happening on Sundays

Sunday Adult Book Club

The group meets on a Sunday between 1.00pm and 2.00pm every four weeks (although this can vary with agreement from members). The meetings are a friendly and social occasion, please contact Nina on 01638 661216 or by email: ninabookclub@hotmail.co.uk for more information.

Sunday Book
5 September ' A Thousand years of Good Prayers' by Yiyun Li 
3 October ' Middlemarch' by George Eliot

Suffolk Children's University logo

Are you aged between 5 and 14 years old? Suffolk Children's University gives you the opportunity to take part in a wide range of activities outside of school hours. Don't forget to check for events and activities at your local library.

Sign up here: Suffolk Children's University

Exhibitions

During April we will be hosting a photography exhibition. Throughout May, June, July and August will be an art exhibition featuring work from local artists and in October there will be a local history exhibition.

Past events

PB120019300200 On Friday 19 March Peter Smith, a local author, visited the library with his puppet Benny. Peter has written a book called 'Benny, The adventures of a Cheeky Chimp' and along with Benny's help he read it to local school children in our library.


Activities and events across Suffolk

Location and opening times for Newmarket library