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The Reader to host giant World Book Day event
More than 1,000 youngsters are expected to attend a huge World Book Day celebration at The Reader this week. The Liverpool organisation is teaming up with the official World Book Day charity to present the event at Calderstones on Thursday, March 5 as part of the National Year of Reading. It is the first time in the history of World Book Day that an event of this scale has been held in one location anywhere. A wide range of authors – including Jamie Smart, Hannah Gold, Matt O
The Reader reveals spring season of events at Calderstones
The Reader is celebrating National Year of Reading 2026 with a series of events at its Calderstones Mansion base this spring. The spring programme takes place between March 1 and May 31 and includes literary events, wellbeing workshops, an Easter book hunt, Holi festival and Mothering Sunday celebrations, a four-week Deep Read and Mini-Movies alongside regular Reader events and classes. Holi at the Storybarn on Saturday, March 7, is a collaboration with MILAP (Indian Arts and
Outdoor cinema brings film favourites to Calderstones this summer
Open-air cinema comes to Calderstones Mansion this summer with a handpicked selection of films set to be shown on a big screen. The eight...
Open-air theatre in Liverpool City Region for summer 2025
Pop the corks, dig out those picnic chairs and grab on the sunscreen because the open-air theatre season is upon us. Performances are...
Calderstones Mansion announces 2025 open-air season shows
Five open-air touring productions will be staged in the Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion this summer. Travelling theatre troupes...
Jacqueline Roy In Conversation at Calderstones
Novelist and writer Jacqueline Roy will take part in a special ‘in conversation’ at Liverpool’s Calderstones Mansion this weekend. The...
Open Air Theatre at Calderstones this summer
Shakespeare and Sherlock come to the open-air theatre at Calderstones Mansion House this summer. The Reader, which runs the South...
Christmas story trail returns to Calderstones Park
The Christmas Story Trail returns to Liverpool’s Calderstones Park to entertain families for the festive season. The self-led trail,...
The Reader's Gravity Festival returns for 2022
The Responder writer Tony Schumacher, novelists Lissa Evans and Kit de Waal and author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce will all...
The Reader launches new literature festival 'for the Covid era'
Maxine Peake and Jimmy McGovern are among the names taking part in a new Liverpool literature festival next month. Gravity, which runs in...
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