Session Get creative with your clothes in this hands-on patch-making workshop from the team at Helsinki’s Central Library Oodi. Using recycled materials, you’ll learn how to mend and customize fabric items in fun, accessible ways—no special skills needed! Discover how this small act of creativity can support sustainable lifestyles and self-expression. Along the way, you’ll […]
Wind down your Next Library day with a relaxed meet-up at the SDG Lab (Verdensrummet). From 17:00–18:30, enjoy kombucha, good company, and light hands-on activities designed to help you reflect and recharge. Participation is completely optional.
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Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Expo Get inspired by bold ideas and fresh perspectives! Meet the winners of the Next Library Pilot Projects and explore how their visionary initiatives are rethinking library futures around the world. Hosts The winners will be revealed at Next Library 2025.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Expo Drop in, hang out (geek out), and explore the themes of NextLibrary through your hands. The Tinkering Dream Lab is an open environment to explore key learning areas like STEM, literacy, the arts, and beyond through making and tinkering. The space invites participants to engage with ideas through physical materials
Ignite Talk Public libraries have the unique opportunity to bring the widest range of people together. Providing drop-in programs with a range of fiber art and textile supplies removes the financial barrier to participation so that all income levels can take part equally. Working in a downtown city library we have fostered all access programming
Social Stitchers: Building Community One Stitch at a Time Read More »
Ignite Talk  In 2024, the Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Berlin opened a Gaming Lounge, offering events for schools and local groups to enable (digital) participation and development of digital skills. It is a democratic, inclusive space, implementing (digital) children’s rights. As such, the lounge is a hub for many gaming or play projects in the whole
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Ignite Talk Talk details are on the way. Host Claudia Serbanuta​ & Stelian Grigore​​ Bucharest, Romania
Library Bridges: Towards More Inclusive and Connected Communities Read More »
Ignite Talk Seed-and–Plant librarian Marianne will take you on a Plant Workshop Tour throughout the year. With a few growing friends, you will find yourself enabled to establish a weekly green activity, feeding well-being and nature-connectedness by growing seeds and plants. Host Marianne Mikkelsen Marianne is a Nature Guide and Library Mediator at Tilst Library
