Calico Libraries
@calicolibraries.com
The new name for V22 Libraries.
Calico offers library services and community facilities to the people of South East London.
We run Forest Hill, Manor House, Sydenham and Crofton Park libraries.
Calico offers library services and community facilities to the people of South East London.
We run Forest Hill, Manor House, Sydenham and Crofton Park libraries.
🎄 Give to Calico this Christmas 🎄
This year, why not celebrate the season with a gift that lasts longer than a card?
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This year, why not celebrate the season with a gift that lasts longer than a card?
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December 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🎄 Give to Calico this Christmas 🎄
This year, why not celebrate the season with a gift that lasts longer than a card?
🔗 givealittle.co/c/calicochri...
This year, why not celebrate the season with a gift that lasts longer than a card?
🔗 givealittle.co/c/calicochri...
Join us for the January session of the Front to Black book group with NAZ Project London to discuss Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀! Expect conversation, snacks, and new perspectives at Sydenham Library 27th Jan at 5:30pm
Free tickets via Eventbrite & copies of the book available at the library
Free tickets via Eventbrite & copies of the book available at the library
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Join us for the January session of the Front to Black book group with NAZ Project London to discuss Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀! Expect conversation, snacks, and new perspectives at Sydenham Library 27th Jan at 5:30pm
Free tickets via Eventbrite & copies of the book available at the library
Free tickets via Eventbrite & copies of the book available at the library
📚 Rhyme Time
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/rhyme...
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/rhyme...
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Rhyme Time
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/rhyme...
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/rhyme...
📚 Baby Bounce & Story Time
📍Crofton Park Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/baby-...
📍Crofton Park Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/baby-...
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📚 Baby Bounce & Story Time
📍Crofton Park Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/baby-...
📍Crofton Park Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/baby-...
📚 Writing Award-Winning Short Stories with Ola Awonubi
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/writi...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/writi...
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Writing Award-Winning Short Stories with Ola Awonubi
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/writi...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/writi...
📚 Don’t be a Stranger: Free Sketching Workshops
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/dont-...
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/dont-...
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📚 Don’t be a Stranger: Free Sketching Workshops
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/dont-...
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/dont-...
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
The writers in our Manor House Teens Creative Writing Club gave our December session a resounding thumbs-up! 👍 This month we discussed multi-sensory writing, and our writers ruminated on everything from rice and potatoes to pigeons and pollution. Join us for our next session!
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The writers in our Manor House Teens Creative Writing Club gave our December session a resounding thumbs-up! 👍 This month we discussed multi-sensory writing, and our writers ruminated on everything from rice and potatoes to pigeons and pollution. Join us for our next session!
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a book-hungry child? Sydenham Library is raffling off The Complete Paddington, Folio Society edition: 12 illustrated volumes, beautifully bound.
Tickets are £1 a ticket or 5 for £4, and all proceeds go to the running of the library. Pop in and get lucky!
Tickets are £1 a ticket or 5 for £4, and all proceeds go to the running of the library. Pop in and get lucky!
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a book-hungry child? Sydenham Library is raffling off The Complete Paddington, Folio Society edition: 12 illustrated volumes, beautifully bound.
Tickets are £1 a ticket or 5 for £4, and all proceeds go to the running of the library. Pop in and get lucky!
Tickets are £1 a ticket or 5 for £4, and all proceeds go to the running of the library. Pop in and get lucky!
Christmas time means Christmas reading! Whether you're looking for cosy escapism, magical fairytales or blood in the bread sauce, Sydenham Library has something for you.
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Christmas time means Christmas reading! Whether you're looking for cosy escapism, magical fairytales or blood in the bread sauce, Sydenham Library has something for you.
It's begining to look a lot like Christmas at Manor House Library!
We'll be closed for two weeks over the holiday period, but you have three weeks to come & find some festive favourites. Our last day of the year will be Saturday 20th December, and then we'll be re-open from Monday 5th of January.
We'll be closed for two weeks over the holiday period, but you have three weeks to come & find some festive favourites. Our last day of the year will be Saturday 20th December, and then we'll be re-open from Monday 5th of January.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's begining to look a lot like Christmas at Manor House Library!
We'll be closed for two weeks over the holiday period, but you have three weeks to come & find some festive favourites. Our last day of the year will be Saturday 20th December, and then we'll be re-open from Monday 5th of January.
We'll be closed for two weeks over the holiday period, but you have three weeks to come & find some festive favourites. Our last day of the year will be Saturday 20th December, and then we'll be re-open from Monday 5th of January.
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/calen...
📚 Clickmas Trees
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/click...
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/click...
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📚 Clickmas Trees
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/click...
📍Multiple Locations
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/click...
📚 Sydenham Library’s Xmas Fayre
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/syden...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/syden...
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Sydenham Library’s Xmas Fayre
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/syden...
📍Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/syden...
Curl up with a cosy crime this winter
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Curl up with a cosy crime this winter
Good morning! Unfortunately today's Dandelions session at Sydenham Library is cancelled due to illness. The library is open as usual, as is the cafe, and the Dandelions crew look forward to seeing you next week.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Good morning! Unfortunately today's Dandelions session at Sydenham Library is cancelled due to illness. The library is open as usual, as is the cafe, and the Dandelions crew look forward to seeing you next week.
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍 Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link
📍 Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link
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November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Calendar Design Workshop
📍 Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link
📍 Sydenham Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link
We had a blast at our recent Imagined Worlds collaborative mural workshop with Sydenham Library's artist in residence, Anna Arianova! The finished piece will be displayed in the library soon, so keep an eye out!
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We had a blast at our recent Imagined Worlds collaborative mural workshop with Sydenham Library's artist in residence, Anna Arianova! The finished piece will be displayed in the library soon, so keep an eye out!
The young writers of Lewisham brought the creativity once again! Led by Anna Dempsey, the Imagined Worlds children's creative writing workshop at Crofton Park Library encouraged kids to get creative and dream up worlds where anything is possible 🪐
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The young writers of Lewisham brought the creativity once again! Led by Anna Dempsey, the Imagined Worlds children's creative writing workshop at Crofton Park Library encouraged kids to get creative and dream up worlds where anything is possible 🪐
We had so much fun playing D&D at Sydenham Library at our recent Imagined Worlds event! Led by our fearless DM Tigs, our band of adventures explored the Midnight Carnival in all its magic, danger, and secrets.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We had so much fun playing D&D at Sydenham Library at our recent Imagined Worlds event! Led by our fearless DM Tigs, our band of adventures explored the Midnight Carnival in all its magic, danger, and secrets.
📚 Clickmas Trees
Clickmas Trees will be opening at Crofton Park Library, Forest Hill Library and Sydenham Library from Friday 28 November.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Clickmas Trees will be opening at Crofton Park Library, Forest Hill Library and Sydenham Library from Friday 28 November.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📚 Clickmas Trees
Clickmas Trees will be opening at Crofton Park Library, Forest Hill Library and Sydenham Library from Friday 28 November.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Clickmas Trees will be opening at Crofton Park Library, Forest Hill Library and Sydenham Library from Friday 28 November.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
📚 Poetry Shared Reading
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/1541
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/1541
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📚 Poetry Shared Reading
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/1541
📍Forest Hill Library
🔗 For information and booking (if applicable) follow this link calicolibraries.com/events/1541
Imagined Worlds kicked off on Saturday at Forest Hill Library, as Graham Whitlock helped us time-travel to the world of Crystal Palace past to celebrate the launch of his exciting new book, Bertie and the Invisible Menace!
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Imagined Worlds kicked off on Saturday at Forest Hill Library, as Graham Whitlock helped us time-travel to the world of Crystal Palace past to celebrate the launch of his exciting new book, Bertie and the Invisible Menace!
Imagined Worlds kicked off on Saturday at Forest Hill Library, as Graham Whitlock helped us time-travel to the world of Crystal Palace past to celebrate the launch of his exciting new book, Bertie and the Invisible Menace!
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Imagined Worlds kicked off on Saturday at Forest Hill Library, as Graham Whitlock helped us time-travel to the world of Crystal Palace past to celebrate the launch of his exciting new book, Bertie and the Invisible Menace!
What a fun and spooky week with the young writers from The Grove's Half Term Writing Camp at Forest Hill Library!
There were fantastically creepy stories written, great costumes worn, plenty of Halloween sweets eaten, and even mysterious notes exchanged with the ghosts of Forest Hill Library 👻
There were fantastically creepy stories written, great costumes worn, plenty of Halloween sweets eaten, and even mysterious notes exchanged with the ghosts of Forest Hill Library 👻
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What a fun and spooky week with the young writers from The Grove's Half Term Writing Camp at Forest Hill Library!
There were fantastically creepy stories written, great costumes worn, plenty of Halloween sweets eaten, and even mysterious notes exchanged with the ghosts of Forest Hill Library 👻
There were fantastically creepy stories written, great costumes worn, plenty of Halloween sweets eaten, and even mysterious notes exchanged with the ghosts of Forest Hill Library 👻