at the library
At The Library is a programme of artist-led workshops, projects, commissions and
happenings in community libraries in Bootle and Crosby. We believe that everyone
has “gifts of the heart, the head and the hand” to offer to their community.
Through artist-led activity, At The Library creates ways for people to share
these gifts. We aim to make a new civic and cultural role for Sefton’s
libraries, offering new experiences, new meeting points, new reasons to gather
and ways to spend time together. Everyone is welcome and everything is free.
Over the past three years, artists and library-users have co-created projects –
a collaborative press archive, a Bootle tapestry, a new wallpaper,
community-wide skill shares, podcasts, feasts and library-cooked lunches, and a
green oasis in Bootle Library. To take part in the At The Library you can speak
to one of the librarians in any of our Libraries, see the current programme on
this website, or click through to find us on facebook, twitter or Instagram.
Volunteers are always welcome. We have worked with artists including Ciara
Phillips, Harun Morrison, Jenny Steele, Jayne Lawless, Sumuyya Khader, Sean Roy
Parker, Fairland Collective, Frances Disley and Bella Milroy, alongside local
historians, gardeners, community organisations and educators. You can read more
about some of these projects here. At The Library is curated and produced by
Rule of Threes Arts in partnership with Sefton Libraries with funding from Arts
Council England and the National Lottery Community Fund.
