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Featured exhibitions
Fairy Tales
A family adventure through magical worlds and enchanted stories.
Story Explorers in Leeds
Our Story Explorers exhibition is launching off to Leeds! Play your way around this family exhibition co-produced with Leeds Libraries.
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List of Events
The Legacy of Edna Lewis
How the mother of soul food shaped modern cookery.
From Masala to Miso: the Many Worlds of Curry
From India to Japan, Southeast Asia to Trinidad, how curry carries meaning and identity.
Firepower: the Women Redefining BBQ
Turning smoke, fire, and flavour into a vibrant, inclusive culinary culture.
From Fork to Fiction: Food and Drink Writers Turned Novelists
Crossing genres and rewriting expectations with Catherine Kurtz, Felicity Cloake and Olly Smith.
Refugee Week: No Place Like Home
The Sanctuary Foundation’s No Place Like Home competition prize-giving ceremony returns to the Library.
Speech-to-text and BSL Tour: Fairy Tales
Join us as we take you on a speech-to-text and BSL interpreted tour of our latest exhibition Fairy Tales.
Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Against the Odds
Join us to celebrate National Women's Enterprise Week as we spotlight remarkable women who have built businesses against the odds.
Fairy Tales: Schools Festival of Storytelling
Celebrate the spellbinding power of stories at our Fairy Tales Festival of Storytelling for primary schools.
Bourdain and the Myth of the Kitchen Hero
Jay Rayner, Sally Abé, Andrew Clarke and Zoe Williams on influence, masculinity and the pressures of chef culture.