A Dickens of a thing!
An opportunity to explore, learn about and handle a range of curious Victorian objects from the Brent Museum collection. Drop-in family activity at Brent Museum.
Willesden Green Library Centre
« Back to Events- Name:
- Phone:
-
Address:
Upcoming Events At This Venue
Make and decorate a Victorian top hat
Make and decorate a Victorian top hat
Victorian tales and toys: dragonflies and peg people
Victorian tales and toys: dragonflies and peg people
Story and craft activity for children and their carers.
Charles Dickens: live and direct! Family fun drama performance
Charles Dickens: live and direct! Family fun drama performance
An interactive dramatisation of the life and work of the great writer; where episodes and themes from his life are interwoven with scenes from his manuscripts. Presented by The District Six Theatre Company.
For children and adults.
April 4, 2012
Hip Hop Dickens workshop
Hip Hop Dickens
An opportunity to work with The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company, founded by MOBO-award winning artist Akala, to produce music and spoken word performance pieces inspired by the work of Dickens. Workshops are designed for young people aged 13-18. Contact museum@brent.gov.uk for details.
Dickens’ London
Dickens’ London
Author Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens’ greatest works, his life, journalism and his fiction. Peter’s deft interweaving of the modern capital with Dickens’s writings allows us to stand in central London and travel to Victorian times, experiencing the streets, sights and sounds through his senses.
Copies of the book will be on sale.
April 5, 2012
Family Learning: make the fanciest (Faberge) eggs
Family Learning: make the fanciest (Faberge) eggs
Easter craft activity.
It is essential to book one week in advance for this event.
April 7, 2012
Digital Dickens weekend
Digital Dickens weekend
Oliver Twist online
Get virtual with Dickens. Take the challenge and read Oliver Twist in 173 days of bite-sized sections online. Or be speedy and read more bites in a day
www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/oliver-twist-day
Reading Group: Oliver Twist in Gujarati
Reading Group: Oliver Twist in translation
Translated summaries of Oliver Twist for reading groups will be available in Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi, Tamil and Urdu. Reading group discussion dates are:
Saturday 7 April, 2.30 – 4pm Gujarati Reading Group
If you are interested in taking part in a Brent Libraries’ reading group discussion on Oliver Twist, or joining one of the reading groups, email: libraries@brent.gov.uk. The online Virtual Book Club will be discussing Oliver Twist throughout April.
April 10, 2012
Pickpockets, fog and fried fish? Comic strip workshop
Pickpockets, fog and fried fish? Comic strip workshop
Draw a comic strip of 12 years old Charles Dickens’ London journey, as he walks from Warren’s Blacking Factory where he was sent to work to the Marshalsea Prison where his father served a sentence for not paying his bills.
For children aged 5 – 11
April 12, 2012
Food in the Time of Dickens
Food in the Time of Dickens
Discover the techniques and ingredients of a Victorian kitchen, with food historian Monica Askay, and try some very Dickensian gruel! Family drop-in event.
April 13, 2012
A Dickens of a thing!
A Dickens of a thing!
An opportunity to explore, learn about and handle a range of curious Victorian objects from the Brent Museum collection.
Fagin and friends: scary story plus shadow puppets craft workshop
Fagin and friends: scary story plus shadow puppets craft workshop
Oliver Twist Day!
Oliver Twist Day!
The world of Oliver Twist: story performance
The world of Oliver Twist: story performance
Oliver Twist fancy dress competition
Oliver Twist fancy dress competition
Dress up as one of the well known characters from Oliver Twist and win a prize for the best costume. The five character categories are Nancy, Fagin, Bill Sykes, the Artful Dodger and Oliver.
Prize gift vouchers provided courtesy of the following Queen’s Park, Salusbury Road businesses:
Costa Coffee
Starbucks Coffee Company
Gail’s Artisan Bakery
April 17, 2012
Oliver Twist: in discussion
Oliver Twist: in discussion
District Six Theatre Company holds an interactive discussion on the Charles Dickens classic covering not only the plot, character and hard hitting storyline but also casting a critical eye over the film productions and the depictions of Victorian life.
April 18, 2012
David Lean’s Oliver Twist
David Lean’s Oliver Twist
David Lean’s 1948 film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is considered one of the great classics of British cinema, admired for its cinematography and particularly for Alec Guiness’ memorable performance as Fagin. This free screening will be introduced by Birkbeck lecturer and author Dr Carolyn Burdett, who teaches on the BA English and MA Victorian Studies courses.
April 19, 2012
What the Dickens?!
What the Dickens?!
Test your wits against our panel to uncover the true story about our mystery Victorian objects. A fun, interactive event, refreshments provided.
April 21, 2012
Make your own St George’s Day dragon
Make your own St George’s Day dragon
For children aged 5 – 11.
April 23, 2012
World Book Night with Angie Le Mar!
World Book Night with Angie Le Mar!
First Lady of comedy, actress, writer, producer and director
Angie Le Mar; plus the best in stand up comedy live and direct from Kilburn’s The Good Ship Comedy Club join Brent Libraries to celebrate books and the joy of reading. If you are a World Book Night-giver for 2012, join fellow book-givers to donate your book of choice from the top voted 25 favourite books to local residents, community groups and charities. Borrow a book and enter the prize raffle draw. Look out for pop-up Shakespeare theatre as it’s also Shakespeare’s birthday. Plus food and craft stalls.
FREE EVENT but advance booking is essential to avoid over crowding. Book early to avoid disappointment: www.brent.gov.uk/worldbooknight
Raffle prizes provided courtesy of Queen’s Park Flowers plus chocolates and wine.
April 26, 2012
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women
Meet Jenny Hartley as she discusses her book Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women. This fascinating book is based on the true story of Dickens setting up in Shepherd’s Bush, a house in which girls from the streets, the prisons and the workhouses might be changed through kindness and discipline,and so prepared for new lives in the colonies.
Find out how the girls Dickens helped influenced his characters and speculate on what philanthropic acts Dickens would do if he were alive today.
Copies of the book will be on sale.
April 27, 2012
Dickens and Kensal Green Cemetery
Dickens and Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery is rich in associations with the life and work of Charles Dickens; through his beloved sister-in-law Mary Hogarth, fellow writers including Thackeray, Trollope, Collins, Forster and Ainsworth, illustrators, publishers, patrons, actors in his plays, even models for his characters. The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery present a talk on these fascinating local links.
April 28, 2012
Reading Group: Oliver Twist in translation
Reading Group: Oliver Twist in Tamil
Translated summaries of Oliver Twist for reading groups will be available in Gujarati, Panjabi, Tamil and Urdu. Reading group discussion dates are:
Saturday 28 April, 2.30 – 4pm Tamil Reading Group
If you are interested in taking part in a Brent Libraries’ reading group discussion on Oliver Twist, or joining one of the reading groups, email: libraries@brent.gov.uk. The online Virtual Book Club will be discussing Oliver Twist throughout April.