The Market Bosworth Festival 2005

Over the weekend of the 25 and 26 June Market Bosworth enjoyed its annual festival fun. The Library joined in the activities on Saturday 25 June with a children's event in the morning and a talk for adults in the afternoon

The library staff, Jane and Holly got into the swing of things by dressing up as Clowns for the children's activites in the morning

Clowning Around
10am - 12noon
Children's Activites

The children worked hard on their ,masks as there was a prize to be won

In the morning the Library took on a party atmosphere with the staff dressing up as clowns and the 30 children who attended making clown masks. Lots of the clown masks are featured on the link below. There was also party games including pass the parcel, musical statues and musical bumps. Stories took on a party theme which included 'Horrible Hair', a story about a lion who dislikes his hair and can't make up his mind how to wear it to a party he had been invited to.

The library had a Chinese Dragon mask on display at the library throughout the festival

Travellers and Travel-Liars

A talk on Travel Writing by Kerry Featherstone

2pm

Kerry Featherstone. Literature Development Officer for Leicestershire Libraries entertained a group of library users with his talk on great British travel writing,- novelists, as well as " a few little known curiosities".(?!)
Stretching from Robinson Crusoe via Graham Greene and via the M25, we discovered how writers have seen the world, and shown it to their readers.

The afternoon was enjoyable and enlightening and hopefully didn't spoil to many people's love of travel writing.