The Kittiwake Trust
Multilingual Library
Contents
Contents
We currently have around 15,000 books for adults and children, in 101 languages. These are listed in the next column.
Subjects range from fiction to biography, sport, crafts, art, travel, poetry, history.... you name it and it's quite probably on a shelf somewhere.
Many of the children's picture books are not for loan as they are very expensive to replace if lost. We encourage families to read together in the library and see it as a second home.
In addition we have a wide range of dictionaries (not for loan) and language resources as well as some DVDs
We also have a few journals - Race and Class being the one with the longest complete run. Others include Banipal, Index on Censorship and some music journals such as Sangeet Natak.
Membership
Library membership costs £5 per year
Free for those awaiting decisions
on their asylum applications
Afrikaans - Albanian - Amharic - Arabic - Armenian - Bahasa (Indonesia) - Basque - Bengali - Bosnian - Braille - Breton - Bulgarian - Cadino - Catalan - Chinese - Choctaw - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dari - Dutch - Dzongkha - English - Esperanto - Estonian - Faroese - Farsi - Finnish - French - Frisian - Fula/Fulani - Galician - Georgian - German - Greek - Gujurati - Hebrew - Herero - Hindi - Hungarian - Icelandic - Italian - Irish - Japanese - Khmer - Klingon - Korean - Kurdish - Lao - Latin - Latvian - Lingala - Lithuanian - Macedonian - Malagasy - Malay - Maltese - Maori - Marathi - Mongolian - Montenegrin - Nepalese - Nyanja - Norwegian - Oromiffa - Oshindonga - Papua New Guinea Pidgin - Pashto - Polish - Portuguese - Punjabi - Romanian - Russian - Sanskrit - Scots Gaelic - Serbian - Sinhalese - Shetlandic - Shona - Slovak - Slovene - Somali - Spanish - Sranatongo - Swahili - Swedish - Sylheti - Tagalog - Tamil - Thai - Tibetan - Tigrinya - Turkish - Ukrainian - Urdu - Vietnamese - Welsh - Xhosa - Yiddish - Yoruba - Zulu
activities at the library
activities at the library
From time to time we hold activities such as poetry events, talks on local history or world festivals, language tasters and related subjects. We welcome enquiries from people wishing to hold languages classes at the library.
The Society of Authors North East group also holds occasional meetings at the library.
It goes without saying that we will have to limit numbers possible at any public meetings to allow for safe distancing.
Classes & Meetings
Classes & Meetings
Classes and meetings are held in Verb, the library annexe, two doors down.
Currently all classes are on hold and in all probablility the sizes of classes and meetings will need to be limited to allow for safe distancing.
French classes
Tuesdays 10:30-12:30 Wednesdays 10:30-12:45 and 18:00-19:30
English conversation Tuesdays 16:00-18:00
Japanese conversation fortnightly Friday 18:00
Arabic activities for children Sundays
Migration and Justice Forum meetings monthly Saturdays at 15:00
New Acquisitions:
Dabiri, Emma: Don't touch my Hair
Akala: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Kwakye, Chelsea & and Ogunbiyi, Ore: Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change
Stormzy, Agyemfra, Akua, et al. : Rise up: The #Merky Story So Far
Pitts, Johny: Afropean - Notes from Black Europe
newsletter
newsletter
From time to time we publish a newsletter for members and friends of the library. We welcome contributions on the subject of languages, recommended reading, resources available online and anything else you think would be of interest to those using the multilingual library.
The current issue is Here
Volunteering
The library is run by a team of around 25 volunteers from 15 countries, speaking 20 languages.
If you would like to join the team please drop us a message on the contact page and we'll send you the application form.
If you already volunteer with us now or in the past and don't see yourself represented on the map, please get in contact and we'll add you right away!
Volunteering
The library is run by a team of around 25 volunteers from 15 countries, speaking 20 languages.
If you would like to join the team please drop us a message on the contact page and we'll send you the application form.
If you already volunteer with us now or in the past and don't see yourself represented on the map, please get in contact and we'll add you right away!