1. The document summarizes Cityread 2014, a program that included over 700 events across London to promote reading and discuss selected books. Events included immersive performances, an exhibition at City Hall, and distributing copies of the featured book at St Pancras station. 2. Cityread 2014 also featured the children's book Private Peaceful and a family day at the Museum of London Docklands. It engaged over 1000 students in local archive workshops. 3. Future Cityread programs were outlined, including events for Rivers of London in 2015, with a launch at Covent Garden, a 33 library author tour, and immersive performances at the Westminster Reference Library.

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Look Left Look Right cast with Louisa Young, Cityread 2014 launch, St Pancras International © Rolf Marriott

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Image Bourgeois & Maurice, Cityread 2014 Club Forty Four performance © Richard Davenport
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3. • A programme of over 700 events across all 33 London boroughs
• Commissioning immersive pop-up performances from theatre company, Look Left
Look Right
• Securing £124k digital advertising space on escalator panels at 18 central London
Underground stations from Exterion Media.
• Opening reception and month-long exhibition at City Hall.
• Launch at St Pancras International including giveaway of 1,914 copies of My Dear I
Wanted to Tell You at St Pancras International
• Our first Cityread title for children, Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
• Free family day at Museum of London Docklands – complete with wartime sweet
shop and Music Hall performances
• Engaging over 1000 Year Six pupils in twelve London boroughs in local archive
workshops and letter exchange programme
• The creation of a Quick Reads sampler for use by emergent readers in libraries and
prisons
Image Catford Cityreaders 2014 © Cathy Myers
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‘Alternative London’ theme –
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Covent Garden launch
33-library author tour
Immersive performances at Westminster
Reference Library
Money-can’t-buy event on the Mail Rail
Comics panel discussion, The Society Club
Media coverage
Extensive local events programme
Image: Mama Thames in Rivers of London – A Hidden Chapter interactive Cityread/Look Left Look
Right performance © Richard Davenport

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7. How We Add Value
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Our partnerships – publishers, cultural,
archives, education, heritage,
commercial, local & regional government,
public bodies
The income we generate and the
economies of scale we realise - £1.5m in
four years. Library services contribute
£550 pa.
The noise we make – our shared, louder
voice; our media partnerships
Strengthening libraries – staff training,
peer learning, networking
Image Cityread 2015 Covent Garden launch © Richard Davenport

8. Increasingly diminishing public sector
funding
Libraries under more pressure
But…
Forming Cityread charity
Young Cityread London
Coming to a city near you…?
Image Cityread 2012 launch at St Panccras International © Julian Creff
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Author Ben Aaronovitch and actor Ben Bailey Smith (aka Doc Brown) at Cityread 2015 launch event, Covent Garden

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Info Andy Ryan Director Stellar Libraries  07787 431219  andy.ryan@stellarlibraries.co.uk
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