Capture beautiful family moments, create new memories, connect and spend time together all whilst enjoying and engaging the arts.
About
Stephanie Jefferies is an artist and early years specialist. She has designed this event to celebrate her play creation for children and their carers at the Leeds Library.
Tiny Totley Studio is an immersive play space for children under 5. In the installation kids can touch, climb, slide, and read in a fun, creative environment blending play and contemporary art.
This installation features a bespoke soundscape by Buffalo Sound Design, play structures designed and built in collaboration with Three Create, and crocheted breastfeeding aids made by Leeds Libraries knitting groups, supported by Leeds Bosom Buddies.
Tiny Totley Studio at Leeds Central Library offers a vast selection of children’s books and has inspired new fabric designs and soft sculptures. The soundscape also incorporates sounds from the library.
Lins Wilson is an experimental cellist, music creator and creative producer, working across the music industry for almost 20 years. She composes using instinctive cello looping, effects, ambient synths, tongue drum, chimes and solfeggio frequencies to create soundscapes that initiate healing.
“I’ve since gone through pregnancy & the first three life-changing years of motherhood – my instinct to nurture and care extends beyond my son, to those around me and to total strangers. I believe music can play a big part in healing in so many ways.”
Beth Duggleby curated Lullabies In Lockdown, first shown at Sunny Bank Mills in 2022. It is a group illustration exhibition showcasing the both the highs and lows, quieter or untold stories during the pandemic as well as celebrating the tender moments, precious times and lives of the babies who stayed at home. The exhibition is now a touring show which will be shown as part of this event.
The exhibition welcomes everyone, including small children and babies who can have some down time in the Lullabies-themed soft cushion space made especially for the show by Stephanie Jefferies who designed Tiny Totley.
Olivia Corbin-Phillip is a storyteller, early years literacy consultant and practitioner in West Yorkshire who specialises in drama pedagogy and storytelling.
Access
Pushchair access, please use the Victoria Gardens basement entrance or come through Leeds Art Gallery.
Lift available to all floors.
For more information on access and facilities at Leeds Central Library, please visit their website here.
Getting here
Leeds Library is 6 minute walk from Leeds Station and 9 minute walk from the bus station with many local bus routes available around the centre of the city. There is a taxi drop off point on Albion Street.
There is nearby parking through out Leeds city centre.
Useful information
Ideal for babies, toddlers and their families
Please note the exhibition includes a range of poignant and heartfelt stories from the covid 19 pandemic around parenting, childbirth and baby loss during the time.