Events of the Chemnitz City Library in December 2017

Friday, 1 December, 2 to 6 p.m.,
Christmas afternoon

We make Christmas decorations together and read aloud.

Location: Wittgensdorf district library, Rathausplatz 1,
Admission: free, please register on: 037200 819783

Saturday, 2 December, 9 am to 12 noon
Christmas morning for the whole family

Children with their parents and grandparents are cordially invited to the library to do handicrafts accompanied by Christmas music, Advent stories and biscuits.

Venue: neighbourhood library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11,
Admission: free

Monday, 4 December, 7 pm
The Böll family in Ireland and the Irish Diary:
Lecture with René Böllon the occasionof Heinrich Böll's 100th birthday.

In 1958, Heinrich Böll bought a cottage in Dugort on Achill Island, where he lived and worked until the mid-1970s. The painter and artist René Böll, the son of the writer and Nobel Prize winner, will take you on a mental walk to the places that also appear in the "Irish Diary" and supplement this with personal memories of the Böll family's life on Achill Island.
This event is a cooperation between the educational organisation "weiterdenken" at the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre (course number: W1710111).

Venue: Central Library in the TIETZ, event hall,
Admission: free

Tuesday,5 December, 1 p.m.
WITH LIGHT SHOT Exhibition/vernissage, information & entertainment

Corresponding to the period of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Schlossbergmuseum/Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is showing a photo exhibition until November 2018 as part of the project 14-18 WAR WAS. Shared Memories project, the Schlossberg Museum/Kunstammlungen Chemnitz will be showing one photograph each month from its collection of historical images of the war.
The image exchange will be professionally accompanied by the ENT_RÜSTET.www.14-18warwas.de team.

Location: TIETZ, Foyer
Admission: free

Tuesday, 5 December, 11 am to 6 pm
Exhibition 25 years of the Chemnitz City Library Supporters' Association

We read aloud, help people learn and promote the preservation of historically valuable written material. For this we need your support. Come and talk to us!
Presentation of our support organisation on the Day of Volunteering.

Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, entrance area

Thursday, 14 December, 5 to 6.30 pm
E-book consultation hour

If you have problems with your e-book reader, reading on a tablet PC or don't know why you can't borrow e-media, we will be happy to help you with an individual consultation. Please make an appointment (Tel. 488 4222)

Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Science & Technology advice desk,
Admission: free

Tuesday, 19 December, 3 p.m.
Reading time -together you read less alone

No more lonely reading at home. Our reading mentor Petra Lory has once again selected interesting books for adults and will read from them.

Venue: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11,
Admission: free

11th Chemnitz Reading Advent

Chemnitz personalities read their Christmas story and are in dialogue with Pastor Dorothee Lücke
Thursdays at 5 pm in the Central Library, Culture & Countries section.

Admission: free

• 30 November
  Prof Clauss Dietel, designer, winner of the Federal Design Award for his life's work
• 7 December
  Birgit Eckert, Managing Director of Schönherrfabrik
• 14 December
  Sabrina Sadowska, Ballet Director / Ballett Chemnitz - Chemnitz Municipal Theatre
• 21 December
  Thilo Götz, Director of Clubkino Siegmar
  

Thursday, 28 December, 2 to 5 p.m.
Gaming in the Bibo "KIDS Edition"

We play various child-friendly console games on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Interested parents receive information on computer games and USK (Entertainment Software Self-Regulation). For children aged 6 and over, registration not required

Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Children's World
Admission: free

Research paper consultation hour for pupils, every Tuesday from 3 to 6 pm

We help with research in library catalogues and online databases and offer free self-help for effective research.
Registration is required, stating the subject of the research paper, by calling 0371 488-4222, by e-mail: facharbeit(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de or in person at the library.

Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Science & Technology advice desk

Refugees welcome in the library! - every Tuesday from 1 to 3 pm

Learning mentors help with learning German and with homework for the DaZ and DaF courses (German as a second/German as a foreign language).

Location: Central Library in the TIETZ, Culture & Countries section

Reading aloud: On quiet soles... Stories to listen to
read aloud for everyone with keen ears

When you are invited to the event "Auf leisen Sohlen..." in the city library, you have to be very quiet and prick up your ears, because the reading mentors come to visit and read out exciting stories. They take both young and older listeners into colourful fantasy worlds with great pleasure. The literature-loving readers read the latest children's books, classics, "bestsellers" from their own childhood or even texts they have written themselves in the atmospheric reading tent in the children's world.

Admission to the reading sessions is free.

The dates:

Tuesdays, 5/12/19 December, 4.30 pm each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World

Saturdays, 2/9/16/23 December, 11 a.m. each day
Location: Central Library, Children's World

Saturdays, 2/9/16/23 December, 10.30 a.m. each day
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20

Tuesday, 19 December, 4.30 pm
Location: District library in the Yorck area, Scharnhorststraße 11

Thursday, 28 December, 4.30 pm
Location: Vita Centre District Library, W.-Sagorski-Straße 20

Subject to change due to current events.