The Mitchell Library

🎵📚 Storytime with a musical twist! 🎨

Join us in July for **Musical Storytime and Crafts** – a free family activity as part of the Summer Reading Challenge: Read to the Beat.

Enjoy a music-themed story followed by a fun craft activity inspired by the tale. It's the perfect way to spark imaginations, get creative and enjoy some holiday fun at your local library.

📍 Mitchell Library – Thursday 2 July, 2pm–3pm
📍 Gorbals Library – Tuesday 7 July, 11am–12pm
📍 Maryhill Library – Thursday 9 July, 2pm–3pm
📍 Springburn Library – Tuesday 28 July, 2.30pm–3.30pm

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Suitable for families and children aged 4–12

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/2/musical-storytime-and-crafts

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🎉📚🎵 The Summer Reading Challenge 2026 is HERE! 🎵📚🎉

Get ready to Read to the Beat! Sign up at your local library for a summer packed with amazing stories, music, activities and fun... all you have to do is read 6 books or take part other fun activities in your library to claim your rewards!

Suitable for readers up to 11 years old. Don't miss a beat – sign up today and start your reading adventure!
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/children-and-families/2026-summer-reading-challenge

🎵Read To The Beat! Song Writing Workshop - LAST FEW PLACES AVAILBLE 🎵

Join us for a fun, family-friendly song writing workshop to celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge 2026! With help from Soundlab Glasgow, you'll learn song writing basics and create your own song together. 🎤✨

📅 Saturday 20 June at 11:00am at The Mitchell Library
🎟️ FREE but booking is required - get your tickets at https://ow.ly/r25E50Z85kE

And don't forget to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge and enjoy a summer full of reading and music! 🎶

📚As part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2026 () the Mitchell Library’s Glasgow Room is open for you to visit an exhibition by Glasgow based artist Irineu Destourelles (.destourelles).

📙This historic setting houses ‘Faint Light of the World with Contradictions’, an ambitious multi-channel sound and video composition with evolving monochromatic projections across four walls. The work translates tension into an immersive sculptural installation. Film stock sound effects intertwine with fragments of colonialist and anti-colonialist films from African and Western traditions, exploring how ideology is carried not only through narrative but shared cinematic language.

📘This is a new commission from .scotland, co-curated by Tiffany Boyle (Head of Programme at Outer Spaces) and Natalia Palombo ().

📖Open now until 20 June
Monday - Saturday: 10:00am – 4:30pm
Tuesday & Thursday (Late Opening): 10:00am – Until 7:30pm
Please note the Mitchell Library is closed on Sundays.

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🎵📚 There's just 1 week to go until the Summer Reading Challenge 2026 begins!

Get ready to Read to the Beat this summer with stories, music and fun. From page-turning adventures to exciting activities, there's plenty to enjoy as we celebrate reading and rhythm together!

The countdown is on – are you ready to turn up the volume on your reading?
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/children-and-families/2026-summer-reading-challenge

Got an unused instrument at home? Let us give it a second wind… or strum… or pluck…

In May, with the support of Music Education Partnership Group (MEPG) and the We Make Music Instrument Libraries network, Glasgow Life Libraries relaunched our musical instrument lending service at The Mitchell and Ibrox Library. The response has been incredible... Glasgow Life Library members have borrowed every single instrument stored at The Mitchell Library!

Instruments can still be reserved and borrowed, but to keep the music growing we need your help. If you have an instrument that deserves a second life, please consider donating it. We welcome all instruments except acoustic pianos and drum kits (they’re too big for our shelves).

How to donate: Simply drop your instruments off at The Mitchell or Ibrox Library.

📅 A quick reminder that our venues will be open as normal on Monday 15th.

We look forward to welcoming you!

✍️ Calling Gaelic writers and aspiring writers!

Join acclaimed author Niall O'Gallagher at The Mitchell Library for a creative writing workshop exploring storytelling, language and the craft of writing in Gaelic.

Suitable for Gaelic speakers with an interest in developing their creative writing skills.

📅 Friday 19th June 2026
⏰ 11:00am
🎟️ Free event

Find out more: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/4/gaelic-creative-writing-workshop-with-niall-ogallagher

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🎵Read To The Beat! Song Writing Workshop 🎵

Join us for a fun, family-friendly song writing workshop to celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge 2026! With help from Soundlab Glasgow, you'll learn song writing basics and create your own song together. 🎤✨

📅 Saturday 20 June at 11:00am at The Mitchell Library
🎟️ FREE but booking is required - get your tickets at https://ow.ly/r25E50Z85kE

And don't forget to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge and enjoy a summer full of reading and music! 🎶

As part of the Commonwealth Games culture programme, Glasgow's Makar, Jim Carruth, is bringing the award winning poet Imtiaz Dharker to the Mitchell to talk about her life as a writer and hear some of her poems. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet one of the UK's leading poets with close ties to Glasgow.

The event will take place in the Stirling Room in the Mitchell Library on Friday 12th June from 3pm to 4 pm to North St, Glasgow G3 7DN.

Places are free to members of Open Book groups across the city but limited so to book just email Jim Carruth on [email protected] by Wednesday.