The Kittiwake Trust

Multilingual Library

Calendar 2026

Find out more about our events and other holidays for the year 2026.

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Religious Festivals & Holidays

National Days, Independence Days 

Saturday 10 January - 11:15

Crafts - making Kindness Cards

Multilingual Library, High West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1EJ

A relaxing creative session for all ages.

 

Monday 12 January - 11:15-12:30

English conversation group resumes

Multilingual Library, High West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1EJ

Specially designed for beginners. No booking needed - just drop in.

 

Monday 26 January 16:30 - 17:30

Russian conversation - Pilot session

 

Monday 26 January Invasion Day (aka Survival Day)

Known to white Australians as Australia Day  

 

Tuesday 3 February 13:00 - 15:00

Digital Skills drop-in with Sense Ability Matters

Thereafter fortnightly - 17 February, 3 March, 

Multilingual Library

 

Tuesday 10 Febrary 13:00 - 15:00

Book Club with Sense Ability Matters

For people with sight or hearing loss and long-term health conditions. 

Fortnightly 24 February, 10 March

Multilingual Library

 

Saturday 14 February - 16:00 - 18:00

Love-In - Liberating Love in all its forms

Join us for an afternoon of music, poetry, crafts, and community, celebrating language, culture, and music.

A £3 fee applies only to the Apple-Clove (Sêva Mêxîkrêj) making, run by Kurdish Society.

Multilingual Library

 

Tuesday 17 February 

Lunar New Year

 

Wednesday 18 February - (Tentative) Start of Ramadan

Islam 

 

Saturday 21 February 

International Mother Language Day

 

 

Sunday 22 February   12:00 - 16:00

Games a la Carte

Play board games in French - expand your vocabulary and have a lot of fun

Multilingual Library 

 

Tuesday 24 February  12:30 - 14:30 

Citizens Advice Engagement event: giveaway of essential items, food and free confidential advice

Multilingual Library

Wednesday 4 March 

Holi

Hinduism

 

Friday 20 March

Eid al-Fitr (Tenative)

Islam

 

Saturday 21 March

Nowruz

Persian Spring Holiday

 

Saturday 21 March

World Poetry Day

 

Sunday 29 March 

Palm Sunday

Christianity

Wednesday 1 April

Passover Eve

Judaism

 

Thursday 2 - Wednesday 8 April

Passover

Judiaism

 

Friday 3 April - Good Friday

Christianity

Sunday 5 April - Easter Day

Christianity

Monday 6 April - Easter Monday  LIBRARY CLOSED

Christianity

 

Thursday 16 April - XX: XX

BREAKING BREAD (with the Comfrey Project)

Multilingual Library, High West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1EJ

Our annual event held in collaboration with The Comfrey Project where people bring the bread from their home culture, together with home made jams and pickles and talk about the foods from home. 

 

Saturday 9 May -  18:00 - 22:00

The Late Shows 

Multilingual Library, High West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1EJ

For the third year we will be taking part in the Late Shows in Gateshead.

 

22 June

Windrush Day

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New Acquisitions

We have a constant stream of new books coming in - many lovely new books for children straight from the publishers (think Nosy Crow, Hachette, Macmillan).  Fiction and non-fiction for adults in many languages. We can't keep up with posting pictures of them all. You'll just have to come in and see for yourself.

If you know of books we really should have on the shelves, please let us know and if we have the money we'll do our best to get them in. Also if you have books in African languages that are so hard to get hold of, we'd be very happy if you pass them on to us when you no longer need them.

 

SCHOOLS: Please be aware that we have a large number of extra copies of children's books that we would be happy to pass on for your libraries. Please get in touch if you want to come to Borderline Books in Pelaw to select what you need.