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Last Post from the Festival Fringe

October 14, 2011 – 11:56 am
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The Festival Fringe is drawing to a close with just a couple of events to go! The Poetry on Loan Postcard Poets are appearing in the library theatre tonight.  Their theme this year is health and wellbeing, so this event should make everyone feel better!  Birmingham Libraries’ final Fringe event takes place on Saturday on read more »

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Virtual Library of Birmingham – Book Group on 14th October 2011

October 10, 2011 – 5:11 pm
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This Friday, we will be hosting a ‘virtual book chat’ event as part of the Birmingham Book Festival 2011 fringe. What is a virtual book chat you ask? Well it’s much like a regular book club, where people can congregate and discuss a chosen work. Except this one is open to anyone, anywhere with an read more »

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FESTIVAL FEVER: a Patchwork of Possibilities!

October 6, 2011 – 12:46 pm
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Today is the first day of Birmingham Book Festival, with the launch taking place this evening at Café Yumm in the Custard Factory.  One of the really exciting things this year is that the Festival bookshop is situated in the LoB Lounge in the Central Library Foyer. Boxes of books began arriving in the Reader read more »

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Birmingham Libraries Fringe Festival coming soon!

September 23, 2011 – 10:55 am
Ian Rankin

I’m writing this in a quiet few minutes – it’s the lull before the storm, because, in a few days we will be launching Birmingham Libraries Fringe Festival 2011.  The Fringe festival is a series of free events organised by Birmingham Libraries to complement Birmingham Book Festival, which runs from 6 – 16 October.  The read more »

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