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Story Garden Reading Adventure

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Bring the family together for a magical storytelling session hosted by our Children's Library. 

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Dance Umbrella: Sunday Shorts

A collection of short films programmed by international curators HSEIH I-Hsuan and Emily Shin-Jie Lee, drawing on their global perspective for Dance Umbrella Festival 2025.

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Rueda Libre: Salsa Workshops

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Bring your best moves, loosen those hips and get a taste for Cuban Salsa at this beginner friendly workshop led by Rueda Libre.

A small child plays jenga, they reach to put a block on the top.
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Play Space

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Game on! Challenge the whole family to your favourite playground classics in this free, drop-in play zone - from giant dominoes and Connect 4 to towering Jenga and timeless hopscotch.

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MET Opera Live in HD: La Sonnambula

Nadine Sierra stars in Rolando Villazón's adaptation set in the Swiss Alps, about a a lover, her fiance, and their rivals. 

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MET Opera Live in HD: La Bohème

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking, from Franco Zeffirelli.

A woman in a red skirt is thrown into the air in this stage production of Eugene Onegin
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MET Opera Live: Eugene Onegin

This ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, is a lyrical romance between Tatiana and Onegin. 

A brunette woman stars at her own reflection, repeated multiple times
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MET Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner's transcendent meditation on love and death is bought to life after year's of anticipation.

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MET Opera Live: Andrea Chénier

Giordano's passionate tragedy set against the backdrop of the violence and intrigue of the French Revolution.

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MET Opera Live in HD: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

A live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera – a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – with libretto by Nilo Cruz.