Events in libraries

In January 2025, Brighton & Hove Libraries commissioned Manal Ahmed to lead a series of creative workshops exploring what sanctuary means to individuals and communities. 

Local photographer Manal Gharez Eddin was commissioned to document the powerful moments at these workshops - from shared stories to creative expression - capturing the warmth, resilience, and connection that unfolded. 

This Exhibition celebrates the friendships, shared experiences, and sense of belonging created through the workshops.

This exhibition features historical and current portraits of individuals from Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities in the UK and worldwide, with their own words describing and celebrating the person(s) who became a source of inspiration, admiration, and a role model in their lives.

You can visit this exhibition during Jubilee Library's opening hours.

Created by Dr. Gil Mualem-Doron of The Socially Engaged Art Salon & facilitated together with Isabel Mullery of Creativity Calling. 

This exhibition explores the powerful role of clothing in shaping migrant and refugee experiences.

 Created in collaboration with Jollof Café and inspired by the New Union Flag project, participants used traditional textile patterns and personal silhouettes to express identity, heritage, and freedom of choice.

Storytimes aimed at pre-school children and their parents/carers.

They run every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Sessions are during term time only.

Songs and rhymes aimed at pre-school children and their parents/carers. Sessions are during term time only.

Storytimes aimed at pre-school children and their parents/carers. Sessions are during term time only.

Hatchery Writers is a friendly and supportive group. We welcome writers of all levels as well as non-writers who are interested in literary matters.

Get creative and improve your health by writing.

This event will:

• help you to express your thoughts and feelings
• improve your verbal fluency
• enhance your imagination and creativity

If you're looking for ways to connect with other business people, freelancers and those thinking of starting up, this is the place! 

The BIPC networking events are relaxed in-person networking sessions for informal conversation and meeting of like-minded people and possible new business connections. 

Our guest speaker this month is Ameesha Bhugwandeen, Innovation and Growth Specialist at Innovate UK.

This exhibition features stories about the local as well as the UK-wide and global communities as “a hub of superpowers” in supporting each other and in creating the waves of change in the society, featuring photos, stories, poems, and statements by current and former refugees in the UK and around the world. 

Before, during and after the Refugee Week, EuroMernet Film Club will screen over a dozen films from around the world. EuroMernet Poetry Club and Radio EuroMernet will also host two online sessions.