This year, Bromley Central Library will be hosting its first ‘World Book Night’ on April 23, offering an exciting array of fun activities around reading, writing and creating – and it’s all free!
Like its better-known cousin, World Book Day, World Book Night aims to promote the love of language, literature and using your imagination – but this time, focused on teenagers and adults rather than kids.
In fact, the Bard himself would undoubtedly have been keen to join in, having written the line, ‘Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom’.
Attractions at World Book Night include the following –
150 ‘quick reads’ to give away
Also featuring –
Start-Up Bromley marketplace showcasing local entrepreneurs
Cocktails and Nigerian food
Poetry recitals, Shakespearean monologues and music from students at the BRIT School
Comic book artist Ken Hopgood - (creator of Marvel’s ‘Hulk Buster’)
Bromley libraries are run by charitable social enterprise GLL under the ‘Better’ brand. Supporting local communities is an important part of the organisation’s ethos.
Sally Adcock, GLL’s Libraries Manager in the borough, comments, "We're very excited to be offering our first World Book Night, continuing our tradition of the 'Library Lates' after-dark events. We've got some fantastic local authors and illustrators coming along plus inspiring entrepreneurs and cracking performers - who needs sleep?!"
World Book Night starts at 6pm on 23 April. For full details, visit Bromley Central Library or call 0203 931 0900. You can also email them at central.library@gll.org.
