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4 to 28 November 2025
Visit the first floor at Central Library to see this Community Art Exhibition inspired by mindfulness. You’ll find mindful and upcycled creative art projects from the community, including art by parents, unpaid carers, women and ethnic minorities.
You can find Mindful Inspired Art on their:
20 November to 11 December 2025
Between Spaces is a video art project from artists Sabre Majid and Beatrice Ni Bhroin. The project interrogates the modalities of collaboration, the act of entering into a relationship with something, someone, or some time. Through a lens of psychogeography, we examine the architecture of Milton Keynes, using its structures, pathways, and voids as metaphors for human interaction, conversation, and the delicate formation of new connections.
A town designed on grids and systems, Milton Keynes exists in a state of deliberate structure, yet beneath its planned symmetry, there are hidden tensions, contradictions, and moments of spontaneity. Like the act of collaboration itself, its architecture is a dialogue: between control and emergence, order and organic experience.
Both artists are filmmakers and local residents of Milton Keynes. In addition, Sabre is an architectural photographer and designer, while Beatrice is an experienced television director.
Location: Ground floor foyer, Milton Keynes Central Library
Learn more about the artists online at:
Play your favourite boardgames and learn some new ones while you make friends and strengthen your numeracy, language and communication skills.
Community Learning MK brings you boardgames and puzzle fun with the 'Games 4 U' sessions on the first floor at Central Library. You can join these free tutor-led sessions any week on Tuesdays between 4 November and 9 December 2025 from 1pm to 2.30pm.
You can read more and enrol online if you'd like to book your place by visiting the Community Learning MK course database.
Regular events and services for each library are also listed on the individual library information pages. New and one-off events are shown in the section above.
Please note that some activities are term time only.
English conversation club is for anyone who would like to practise and improve their English as a second language, gain better skills for study or employment, or just get on in everyday life.
The library offers many resources to help those who speak other languages and are looking to learn English as a second language (ESOL). The library also provides a range of material to help you improve your basic language and reading skills.
We offer Family History support from our volunteers:
FIRST STEPS
Get started with your family tree or research and have a beginner's guide to ancestry.com at Olney Library.
Book your free session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk.
FIRST STEPS OR PROGRESSING
If you'd like help to start your family tree or to progress your research, our volunteers are here to help.
Book your free session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk or visiting the host Library.
EXPERT ADVICE
If you’re having difficulties with your research and need some advice, John will use his years of experience to help you at Central Library.
Book your free 30-minute session by emailing library.enquiries@milton-keynes.gov.uk or calling 01908 254050.
Friends Groups work in partnership with us and closely with local library teams to help support and enhance libraries in our local communities.
They provide an important contribution to support and maintain awareness of a library in a local community.
Folio - Olney Library
Folio (The Friends of the Library in Olney) run a programme of talks which are held 7.30-8.30pm at The Olney Centre, Room 4 and they request that you arrive at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Refreshments are served after each talk.
Tickets are £6 in advance and can be booked online at Ticketsource or by phoning Ticketsource on 0333 666 3366.
If you are no longer able to attend or have any questions, please email olneyfoliofriends@gmail.com.
You can download a printable schedule of Folio talks here.
FoSSL - Stony Stratford Library
FoSSL (The Friends of Stony Stratford Library) run regular talks at the library and details for booking tickets for these events will be released closer to the time. If you'd like to join the mailing list to receive news and updates from FoSSL, email fosslmk@gmail.com.
Visit the FOSSL website at: https://fossl.org.uk/ for the latest news and information.
Click on the session links to see the dates when clubs are running.
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Look Again is a guide to Central Milton Keynes’ unique modern heritage, art, architecture and design. Get off the beaten track and discover stories of how creativity is all around you.
Look Again was created by Milton Keynes City Council with the research and collections of the Archive partners. The trail is added to every month, helping to test stories and designs, and enabling everyone to explore our unique design heritage. Throughout the City Centre information panels and artwork plaques have been created with QR Codes that take people to the online information, with a handy Map to explore by area, theme or interest.
Help us expand the trail by giving feedback online - head to the LOOK AGAIN website.
Do you enjoy reading? Would you like to talk about what you have read? Would you like to share your views with an informal group? Then why not join a reading group.
We're excited to bring you the Summer Reading Challenge each year during the summer holidays.
We hope you'll consider joining our team here at the Milton Keynes Libraries. You'll find details of any current vacancies across our libraries on the library vacancies webpage.
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