10 Years of the Weston Library: A birthday celebration weekend

Event date
Event time
11:00 - 15:00
Venue
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BG
Event type
Family-friendly
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Not required

Join us for a series of talks, activities and workshops for all the family to celebrate ten years since the opening of the Weston Library.

  • Take part in a live communal artwork.
  • Print a keepsake on our printing press.
  • Check out the royal seals on the Magna Carta, then seal the deal by designing your own with embossing foil.
  • Go on an oracles fortune teller trail.
  • Test yourself against riddles from the Middle Ages to Middle Earth, then write your own.
  • Join a hunt around the library for long-lost letters of the English alphabet.
  • Take a mystery book home from our book exchange.
  • The Toddleian, our space for the littlest visitors, will be open as usual with a selection of books, toys, and a soft mat for babies.

Free and all welcome, booking required for some tours and talks.