Pittenweem Library news
The latest edition of the Pittenweem Post is now available to download here from our website. Issue 23 includes articles from the Pittenweem Arts Festival, an obituary for a well-loved member of our community, and updates on Pittenweem and other local happenings. We hope you enjoy it! While it is free to download here, and from the Crail Matters website,…
Our annual craft workshop for Halloween will be on Thursday 17 October between 10.00am and 12 noon. It is for children at primary school (P1-P7). Children aged 7 and over may stay unaccompanied if we have written permission from the parent or carer. Come along and make some spooky decorations - you can take your art work away with you…
The latest edition of the Pittenweem Post is now available to download here from our website. Issue 22 includes articles from the Pittenweem Arts Festival, an obituary for a well-loved member of our community, and updates on Pittenweem and other local happenings. We hope you enjoy it! While it is free to download here, and from the Crail Matters website,…
The total money raised from the library’s 7th birthday raffle was £643 – amazing! Our best ever. A huge thanks to everyone who donated prizes and bought tickets to support the library. The sunny and warm day for our birthday party may well have helped!
In an exciting new chapter, trustees signed a 20year lease in June 2024 that will give the library security for the future. It’s good news for a vibrant, community resource that opened 7 years ago this month. The library lends out a variety of books and DVDs, provides regular storytelling sessions for the local primary school, and provides a location…
Joyce Laing, well known here in Pittenweem, was an artist and a pioneer of art therapy. Over many years she worked with psychiatric patients and long-term prisoners using art to support them in their rehabilitation. Joyce collected over 1,000 pieces, with she called Art Extraordinary, from the people she worked with. Many of these are now in a permanent exhibition…
This summer there will be books hidden in plastic folders around the village. These are for children aged 0 to 10 years to read and then put back for others to find. We hope that you enjoy the search, love the books, and get involved in the fun of putting them back where you found them for others to find,…
Pittenweem Post is now available to download from this website. Click on the link to see the last edition (a new one coming soon) and read about the Pittenweem connection to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow.
We are delighted to be open again with all normal services resumed. We also have an exciting new exhibition in collaboration with Fife Contemporary we are hosting The Craft Pods. Do come along and see them - they are well behaved during the day when volunteers and visitors are around, but we think they may prowl around the library once…
At last the news we’ve all been waiting for! The library will reopen this coming Monday, 25 March, at 2pm and will be open at the usual times from then on:Monday and Wednesday 2 – 5 Friday and Saturday 10 – 1Please note that we will be closed on Easter Monday (1 April).All the usual activities that have been taking…