The Morrab Library

Lettering workshops
2023-05-17 14:30 - 15:30, 2023-04-28 14:30 - 15:30, 2023-03-31 14:30 - 15:30, 2023-02-24 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Morrab Library
One for people who have already had an introduction to brush lettering. Monthly workshops will focus on skill development and seasonal projects.
Emma Farley is a local feminist bookworm and stationery addict, encouraging women to explore the joys of reading and journaling to feel inspired, empowered and improve their mental wellbeing. Through her workshops, Emma provides an introduction to journaling and modern calligraphy in the context of mindfulness, building self-esteem, goal setting and more, all while having fun with pen and paper.

£10

Booking is essential. Email Emma directly to ask any questions and to book your ticket: e.farley27@gmail.com
Find out more on Emma’s website: https://acornishgeek.com/2017/03/19/welcome-to-a-cornish-geek/

Creative journaling
2023-05-17 13:15 - 14:15, 2023-04-28 13:15 - 14:15, 2023-03-31 13:15 - 14:15, 2023-02-24 01:15 - 02:30 | Morrab Library
De-clutter your mind and get organised with this monthly session. Bring your own notebook and pen and discover how using pen and paper can help improve your wellbeing. Reflect on the last month and set goals and build healthy habits for the coming weeks with a brew and biscuit.
Emma Farley is a local feminist bookworm and stationery addict, encouraging women to explore the joys of reading and journaling to feel inspired, empowered and improve their mental wellbeing. Through her workshops, Emma provides an introduction to journaling and modern calligraphy in the context of mindfulness, building self-esteem, goal setting and more, all while having fun with pen and paper.

£5

Booking is essential. Email Emma directly to ask any questions and to book your ticket: e.farley27@gmail.com
Find out more on Emma’s website: https://acornishgeek.com/2017/03/19/welcome-to-a-cornish-geek/

Morrab Library Annual General Meeting - Monday 15th May
2023-05-15 10:30 - 12:00 | The Lugger Hotel, Marine Terrace, Penzance, TR18 4DL, United Kingdom
The library’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 15th May from 11.00am at the Lugger Inn, Marine Terrace, Penzance TR18 4DL, with refreshments served from 10.30 beforehand.
A reminder that you need to be a current, paid up member of the library to be eligible to vote, and voting is limited to one vote per household membership. For clarification, Life members are of course eligible to vote.
Here are links to the relevant papers you need:
Morrab Library 2023 AGM agenda
Minutes of the 2022 AGM meeting (to be approved by vote)
Summary of the draft 2022 Financial Accounts
We really hope to see as many of you as possible at the meeting. Thank you, as always, for your support of the library.
Kind regards,
Paget MacDonald
Morrab Library Secretary

Intro to creative journaling
2023-05-12 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-04-21 13:10 - 14:10, 2023-03-17 13:10 | Morrab Library
In this introduction to creative journaling class, discover how using pen and paper can help improve your wellbeing!

Emma Farley is a local feminist bookworm and stationery addict, encouraging women to explore the joys of reading and journaling to feel inspired, empowered and improve their mental wellbeing. Through her workshops, Emma provides an introduction to journaling and modern calligraphy in the context of mindfulness, building self-esteem, goal setting and more, all while having fun with pen and paper.

£8 – includes notebook and pen

Booking is essential. Email Emma directly to ask any questions and to book your ticket: e.farley27@gmail.com
Find out more on Emma’s website: https://acornishgeek.com/2017/03/19/welcome-to-a-cornish-geek/

Intro to modern calligraphy
2023-05-12 02:15 - 03:45, 2023-04-21 02:15 - 03:45, 2023-03-17 14:15 - 15:45 | Morrab Library
Get to grips with brush lettering – learn the basic strokes, get tips and tricks, and try products before you buy. Emma will also be hosting monthly lettering workshops for those who have already attended an intro session. These will feature a range of seasonal projects.

Emma Farley is a local feminist bookworm and stationery addict, encouraging women to explore the joys of reading and journaling to feel inspired, empowered and improve their mental wellbeing. Through her workshops, Emma provides an introduction to journaling and modern calligraphy in the context of mindfulness, building self-esteem, goal setting and more, all while having fun with pen and paper.

£8 – includes brush pen

Booking is essential. Email Emma directly to ask any questions and to book your ticket: e.farley27@gmail.com
Find out more on Emma’s website: https://acornishgeek.com/2017/03/19/welcome-to-a-cornish-geek/

Nocturne - a reading and Q&A with poet Jodie Hollander
2023-05-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Morrab Library
Poet Jodie Hollander will follow her workshop in the library with a reading and Q&A in the afternoon.
Set in a technicolour world of dreams, ghosts, classical music, and Key West storms, Jodie Hollander’s compelling second collection – ‘Nocturne’ charts the emotional journey of the daughter of a professional classical pianist. These bold and arresting poems, rich with musicality, and fierce in their emotional honesty, chart the complicated repercussions of family dysfunction and musical obsession while traversing the landscape of the human condition and exploring the need for refuge in the natural world.
Jodie’s work has appeared in numerous poetry journals Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press & Oxford University Press. Nocturne will be published in Spring 2023. She is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa.
Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Monday 1st May.
Refreshments will be provided after the talk.

FULLY BOOKED - Poetry of Place - A workshop with Jodie Hollander
2023-05-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Morrab Library
FULLY BOOKED – this event is fully booked
Jodie Hollander’s workshop will focus on the significance of place in poetry. Place may be defined as a geographical location, an internal state, or perhaps a poetic meeting of the two. Using the library’s unique and extraordinary surroundings as an inspiration, this workshop will lead students through a series of writing prompts to ultimately create an original draft of a poem. In addition, the class will centre around how to structure and develop poems and the creative process that is involved.
Jodie’s work has appeared in numerous poetry journals. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press & Oxford University Press. Her second collection, Nocturne, will be published in Spring 2023. She is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa.
Booking is essential – please contact the library at enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or telephone: 01736 364474 to reserve a place. Cost: £20 payable on the day.

A Brief Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
2023-05-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Morrab Library
Much of the world’s philosophy has historically been ignored by the West. Yet, if philosophy is the love of wisdom, there is no doubt that the philosophy of other cultures can enrich us further still. Join Darren Harper for this half-day course will explore the two main schools of Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism, and then consider their value to modern Western society.
More information at Darren’s website: www.darrenharper.net , and book directly with Darren

Mordardh Surf Poetry workshop
2023-04-22 10:30 - 12:30 | Morrab Library
Saturday 22nd April, 10.30-12.30
This workshop is aimed at surfers and writers who want to create poetry about surfing. If you’re interested in the sea and are inspired by it, you’d be very welcome.
Encouraged by Kate Barden and Fi Read you will use the sea as your muse. Leap into an ocean of words together and ride that cresting wave of poetry.
Mordardh is Cornish for breaking wave; it’s also the name of the Arts Council funded project bringing together writers, surfers and photographers.
Surfers are welcome – come and share what draws you to the waves; talk about what surfing means to you.
This workshop is an opportunity to create or edit your own poetry, whether you are a new or more experienced writer, with a view to focusing on the performance element. Please bring paper and pen, or whatever you prefer to write with.
Cost: £5 + booking fee
Book tickets through Eventbrite by clicking on this link (not via the library) :
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mordardh-surf-poetry-tickets-595116638887

Morrab Library Spring Fair 2023
2023-04-15 10:00 - 14:00 | Morrab Library
The annual Morrab Library Spring Fair will be taking place on Saturday 15th April 2023 from 10am until 2pm. Celebrate the arrival of Spring and support Penzance’s independent library.
There will be stalls throughout the library with lots of local makers showcasing their crafts, as well as plants, books and historic photos for sale. Our raffle will feature as its first prize an original painting of the library. The much-loved refreshments room will return with delicious homemade cakes. Some of the stalls will be cash only, so please bring some along with you to help support your library.
The Fair will take place in the Morrab Library, at the heart of Morrab Gardens in Penzance, and if the weather stays bright there will be stalls outside in the sunshine too. Members and non-members alike are all welcome, so please bring friends and family along too!

SOLD OUT - Make your own Botanical Sketchbook - a workshop for all ages
2023-04-13 10:00 - 14:00 | Morrab Library
Plants are amazing – aren’t they? But, when you look through a magnifying glass a whole new world opens up before your eyes. All the beautiful details of a plant can be seen through the lens.
Come along to Morrab Library on Thursday 13th April to meet Book Artist and Authorial Illustrator, Vicki Aimers, and make a simple botanical inspired sketchbook. Then, stay a while to fill it with studies of plants and wildflowers using a magnifying glass.
Also learn more about Vicki’s project and her artist’s residency in August at the Library, exploring the fascinating life and ideas of a local Quaker preacher Catherine Payton Phillips (1727-1794), and especially her love for nature.
Booking is essential, contact the library to reserve your place. There are three sessions of 45 minutes each -11.00-11.45,11.45-12.30 or 1.15-2.00.

Fully booked! Easter Storytime in the library
2023-04-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Morrab Library
Little Lumpty is always dreaming of climbing to the top of the high wall that Humpty Dumpty fell from – and one day he does. But then he makes a big mistake…
Join our storyteller Janet Pearson for a fun morning of stories, songs, rhymes, activities and even a mini Easter Egg hunt! For 4-8 year olds.
Booking is essential (mainly so we know how much cake to make!). We ask for a suggested donation of £5. Email us at enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to reserve your place.

Two Autumns | Film screening and Q&A with film maker Peter Chapman
2023-04-05 13:30 - 15:00 | Morrab Library
For most of his career in television, Peter Chapman made arts documentaries including ‘Two Autumns’ about the work of the land artist, Andy Goldsworthy. The film followed Andy as he made work in the Scottish Borders and a small village in Japan called Ouchiama. The contrast between the two Autumns is stark with the vivid reds of the Maple and the Cheery Blossom contrasting with the darker tones of the leafy Scottish Borders.
Peter’s talk will comprise a viewing of the film, followed by a break for teas and coffees. There will then be a Q&A about the making of the film.
Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Wednesday 29th March.
Entry is £5 by donation to help raise funds for Morrab Library. Refreshments will be provided after the talk.

No Place to Hide - an author's talk with JS Monroe
2023-04-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Morrab Library
Join author J.S.Monroe as he talks about his new contemporary thriller, No Place To Hide, a loose retelling of Dr Faustus. Set in Cambridge in the 1990s and in London in the present day, the story charts a successful Cornish doctor’s dramatic fall from grace 24 years after he made a pact to cover up a horrific crime at university. The book concludes with a thrilling climax at the Minack theatre, live-streamed across the Dark Web…
Jon will speak about how he researched the book and came up with the idea, why he used Cornwall as a location, the process of writing, and then talk about writing in general, his own career, how publishing works, and the need for a thick skin!
J. S. Monroe read English at Cambridge, worked as a foreign correspondent in Delhi, and was Weekend editor of the Daily Telegraph in London before becoming a full- time writer. His psychological thriller Find Me became a bestseller in 2017, and, under his real name Jon Stock, he is also the author of five spy thrillers. Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the Dead Spy Running trilogy.
Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Thursday 23rd March. We request a suggested donation of £5 to help raise funds for Morrab Library. Refreshments will be provided after the talk.

Morvoren: the poetry of sea swimming
2023-03-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Morrab Library
Quay jump photograph by Alice Bray. Swimming photographs by Rita Hencke.
Morvoren is a book of thirty-two fresh new poems created by a group of women poets from Cornwall. Ella Walsworth-Bell, Hannah Temme, Abigail Ottley, Kerry Vincent, Kate Barden, Ruth Eggins (from Scilly), Polly Roberts came together as a shoal of mer-poets & talked to sea swimmers across our coastline, aiming to find out why women swim.
Their poetry combines with stunning marine photography and explores spirituality, womaning and blue health. At this talk at Morrab Library, four of the Morvoren poets will be joined by guest poet Morag Smith to share poetry and photography – come on in, the water’s lovely…
Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Tuesday 7th March. Entry is £5 by donation to help raise funds for Morrab Library. Refreshments will be provided after the talk.

Astrology for the Everyday | Tracking Transits | 10-week new course (week 10)
2023-03-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Morrab Library
Sara Samuelsson is hosting a 10-week, intermediate Astrology course at Morrab Library. The course starts on Tuesday 17th January 2023.
“We will be diving into the energies of the present time and how these are interacting with your Natal chart. Transiting planets can come along as teachers or tricksters, both challenging us and offering us a helping hand. In this course we explore how to work with the current astrological weather, becoming aware of using these limited time periods to the best of their ability. If you are a returning student of astrology or are familiar with your Natal chart this course is for you.”
For more information visit Sara’s website: sarasamuelsson.co.uk and book your place email sara@thenaturalhome.co.uk

Astrology for the Everyday | Tracking Transits | 10-week new course (week 9)
2023-03-07 10:00 - 12:00

Astrology for the Everyday | Tracking Transits | 10-week new course (week 8)
2023-02-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Morrab Library

Touching the sublime - English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts talk
2023-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Morrab Library
On Wednesday 22nd February at 2pm in the Reading Room, the brilliant Mark Cottle will be back to give a talk entitled ‘Touching the sublime – English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts‘.
Following a brief look at Anglo-Saxon illumination (e.g. Lindisfarne Gospels) Mark Cottle’s lecture will move on to Romanesque art with reference to the York Psalter and great Bibles like the Winchester Bible. It will then focus on the Golden Age of gothic illumination with reference to the Sherborne Missal, Luttrell Psalter and Bedford Hours, among others. The aim of this lecture is to place this art form in context and give an indication of the nature and scale of a remarkable artistic achievement.
Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Tuesday 14th February. We ask for a suggested donation of £5. Refreshments will be provided after the talk.

Astrology for the Everyday | Tracking Transits | 10-week new course (week 7)
2023-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Morrab Library
