The Kittiwake Trust MultiLingual Library have over 19,000 books for adults and children in over 100 languages. We're so pleased that they now have a new site in Gateshead.
View the flyer for contact details and opening hours of the Multilingual Library.
You can download the Flyer as a PDF
The Multilingual Library are holding some events in March 2024 and you'll find the details below.
Breaking Bread
21 March 2pm
All around the world different types of bread are a staple food.
In this afternoon session we will exchange stories and songs about bread from our various cultures as well as tasting breads and sharing the names of breads in many languages.
Bring your tastebuds and your stories and help create an artwork for our Library of Sanctuary. In conjunction with The Comfrey Project and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Library Celebration
23 March 2pm-6pm
We finally get to celebrate the re-opening of the Multilingual Library after more than a year of homelessness.
Our Patron, Professor David Crystal will join us via a Zoom link, and John Vincent, Networker from The Network will come up from the Deep South to speak. John runs courses and lectures, writes, produces regular newsletters and ebulletins, and lobbies for greater awareness of the role that libraries, archives, museums, and the cultural & heritage sector play in contributing to social justice. He is particularly interested in supporting the work that libraries do with people seeking sanctuary and other ‘new arrivals’ to the UK, young people in care, with LGBTQ+ people.
Visitors will have the chance to look round the library and talk to some of our volunteers. We will also have music and poetry from volunteers and friends of the library.
Needless to say, we will also plug the fact that we were the first Library of Sanctuary in the North East - six months before the Newcastle City Library were awarded the same accolade.
Learn more about the Kittiwake Trust Multilingual Library
High West Street (formerly The Gloucester)
Gateshead
NE8 1EJ
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