Guildford Library Makerspace at Always the Sun Festival

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be running a workshop at this local music & arts festival, creating a Guildford inspired piece of interactive fiction – a digital choose your own adventure with many story paths. If you’re attending the festival you’ll be able to contribute and see it grow as others add their own words, pictures & ideas to the story. We hope to see you there.

Website: http://www.alwaysthesunfestival.co.uk

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Code Club session Friday 28 August

Are you between 8 and 12, and want to know more about computer coding? We are hoping to start a Code Club as part of our Digital Friday initiative. It would be at Guildford Library, and we will start with a one-off FREE session on Friday 28 August between 4pm and 6pm . If you’re interested, please send us an email at virtuallibrary@surreycc.gov.uk and we’ll let you know very soon if it goes ahead. You can find out more about coding at https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ You can find out more about Digital Friday at http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday Checkout our coding booklist tinyurl.com/np6w6gl

Guildford Library Women's Digital Club

It’s the perfect time for women of Surrey to make their mark in science and technology. Leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8th, the local area is playing host to some exciting events that will encourage women and girls to get involved in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) field. From 10:30am tomorrow, the Guildford Library will host its first Women’s Digital Club: An all ages gathering for ladies interested in computers, coding, blogging, robotics, 3D printing and much more. This open event will give women access to the cutting edge technology on available to use at the library, and the chance to network and learn from others in the community. To book a place email l ibraries@surreycc@gov.uk To share ideas and get involved in the Women’s Club chat on social media, use the hashtag #womensdigitalclub

Read, Watch, Play #diverseread Tuesday 28 February

This month's Read, Watch, Play theme is #diverseread and includes reading books about different people and cultures. George by Alex Gino and Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for instance or watching films about diverse subjects and ideas or playing diverse music: Philip Glass perhaps, it all encompasses Read, Watch, Play. Join us @SurreyLibraries on Twitter for #rwpchat on Tuesday 28 February from 9am-11am. Use the tags #diverseread and #rwpchat as you tweet so that others can join in the conversation too. You can follow the discussion on Twitter @ReadWatchPlay check out Surrey Libraries Read, Watch, Play Pinterest board for ideas and our blog . Or just read a book about this month's theme to join in. Hope to see you soon at Read, Watch, Play. #rwpchat

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