View the schedule of regular events
The events schedule shows regular events across the libraries and can be searched and filtered by location, audience and keywords.
We're now recruiting young volunteers to help us with the Summer Reading Challenge 2024, Marvellous Makers. Read more on the Summer Reading Challenge web page.
Did you know that Milton Keynes was built around six main goals?
Join Milton Keynes Discovery Centre for their 'cut, colour and build' design workshops where you can rebuild Milton Keynes according to own six goals! What will you choose to build?
Share your vision for Marvellous Milton Keynes at:
No booking is required - just drop-in to the sessions when you visit the library.
Drama Llamas Theatre Company presents 'Love and Information' a play by Caryl Churchill.
There will be two performances at Central Library on:
Tickets cost £10 (Concessions £8) and can be booked via the WeGotTickets.com links.
The play is 58 (or thereabouts) scenes woven together by the themes of love and information. It asks what it is to be human in this era of technology.
Dan Rebellato says it "combines information (knowledge, secrets, data, memories, facts, truths) with love (relationships, feelings, parents and children, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, lovers, colleagues, enemies)".
Four Drama Llama actors perform all the scenes, Debbie Leonard, Fran Leighton, Andy Powell and Danni Kushner, and are self-directing.
This amateur production of 'Love and Information' is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
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.
Discover MK
The Discover MK Showcase area is on the first floor at Central Library. It is the primary showcase for the archive, museum and heritage of Milton Keynes and the surrounding area. It has a regularly changing series of exhibitions throughout the year and more information can be found on the Discover MK website.
A nostalgic look back at some much-loved nightclubs and venues from the city centre’s past - if you lived it up at The Point, Zazoos, Austens, Ultra Vegas (and more) back in the day pop along and see if you can see yourselves in any of the photos!
This is another fantastic exhibition brought to you by Living Archive MK.
Uniquely Wired Art Exhibition
7 March to 4 April 2024
The Uniquely Wired exhibition is a showcase of talented Milton Keynes based artists. Exploring and celebrating neurodiverse creativity it brings together a broad range of artistic mediums including paint, photography and 3-D design.
Visit the exhibition on the first floor at Central Library between 7 March and 4 April to be taken on a journey from the streets of Milton Keynes to the fjords of Iceland before heading to outer space ...
A Glimpse of India - Exhibition at Central Library
11 April - 11 May 2024
Visit the Event Space on the ground floor at Central Library to see 'A Glimpse of India' exhibition by local photographer Suraj Garg.
The exhibition showcases the diversity of India by presenting a medley of colourful photographs covering landscape, architecture, portraits, culture, city life, street and more.
The collection includes photos captured by Suraj during his travels across India over the past 10 years. He says that India is a vast country and has lots to offer. There is so much to explore across its length and breadth that a life time isn’t enough!
Read more about Suraj and his work on his website.
JOIN ME: Our 2020 Events - Memorial Quilt at Stony Stratford Library
Visit Stony Stratford Library to see this lockdown memorial quilt on display. It’s a community quilt project by Thread Thread Wine to memorialise the events that we most missed in 2020, whether cancelled, lost or postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Soraya Tate, founder of Thread Thread Wine
At Christmas 2020 I decided to make a memorial quilt, dedicated to acknowledging the events and opportunities that we lost in 2020.
This is the project so far; I hope you enjoy viewing it and reading about it. We have 42 submissions and the quilt is 3m long.
We have made some of the squares into cards for sale, to raise money for the mental health charity MIND.
If you would like to contribute your artwork to this project, please email Soraya or visit the Thread Thread Wine (TTW) Facebook page.
Read more about the background to this project, the inspiration and the artists who have contributed by visiting the Memorial quilt project page.
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.
Click on the session links to see the dates when clubs are running.
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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.
Have you discovered the world of Geocaching? It's one of the fastest-growing hobbies in the UK and a fantastic way to get the whole family outdoors. After all, who doesn't love a treasure hunt?
Geocaching is a bit like a treasure hunt with a modern technological twist if you will! Read the beginner's guide to Geocaching and then download the app to start 'playing' and see what treasures you can find around Milton Keynes.
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