Live Literature - Ark featured in the International Literature Showcase
Ark founder Ellen Wiles has written an article about Ark's work and the world of live literature for the International Literature...


Time Travelling in Durham
Time Travellers show was commissioned by Palace Green Library as a response to their Time Machines exhibition. Taking audiences on a...
Library As Incubator Project essay
The lovely people at Library As Incubator Project, based in the USA, feature all kinds of interesting and creative work on their site as...


A Literary Bestiary: a story of the night
One Tuesday evening in early June, dusk was deepening around the library, the readers had gone home, the building was closed to the...


A Literary Coup: a story of the night
We staged a literary coup in Primrose Hill Community Library with an astonishing variety of short stories about libraries, ranging from...


Reimagining library spaces
In the midst revving up for the first performance in our new short story series next week, and when outside the excited fray of the...
The great Neil Gaiman on the importance of libraries, fiction and daydreaming
We recently rediscovered this excellent article by Neil Gaiman, from a lecture he gave for the Reading Agency, which inspired us about...
"The future of libraries has little to do with books?"
In light of the drastic funding cuts threatening libraries all over the country, and in the aftermath of the Sieghart review, this...
The Plot thickens
Londoners: don't miss this imaginative library installation in Holborn. Plot, created by artist José Damasceno in collaboration with...
To the tune of the toothbrush
Our inventive friends Aurora Orchestra have come up with 'House', a fantastic collaborative performance featuring a mesmeric hang player...