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Thursday 19 June 2025
Books and Bubbles: Body in the Library
This event has been postponed due to illness. Meet the sisters in crime who penned the winning entries from the Body in the Library category of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto...read more
Friday 20 June 2025
Sally Ford and the Idiomatics
The Idiomatics return to the Atheneum Library, this time joined by two very special guests. Poet, novelist and non-fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke will be reading excerpts of her work...read more
Friday 27 June 2025
Music: Tanya-Lee Davies
Tanya-Lee Davies specialises in dreamy, country pop and psychedelic folk, and is big on melody, lush vocals and lyrics that cast spells. As she prepares to deliver her next LP,...read more
Friday 4 July 2025
Music: Gryphon Baryton Trio
This concert is a rare chance to hear live some of the fascinating chamber works by Joseph Haydn for baryton. The magnificent baryton, an instrument similar to a bass viol, was...read more
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