Category: Old Posts

Graves Park

Friday 19 January
The Story of Graves Park and the rose Garden Café

Caroline Dewar, chairman of The Friends of Graves Park, talks about the origins of the park and J.G. Graves, including the history of the café, its inception and recent troubles.

Doors open/refreshments 7.00pm, talk starts 7.30.

Tickets £5 online at greenhill.bookwhen.com

Winter Poetry

Tuesday 30 Jan at 7.30pm
Winter Poems with Louise Dore

An evening for readers of poetry, writers of poetry, and those who are just curious.. Share and discuss poems within a welcoming and informal group.

Contact Louise at poetry@greenhill-library.org

Henderson’s Relish

Friday 23 February
The History of Henderson’s Relish

Mark Dawson tells the true and unlikely history of Sheffield’s favourite sauce and best kept secret. From humble beginnings in a Victorian grocery shop in 1885 to celebrity endorsements and modern production in a state-of-the-art factory.

Doors open / refreshments 7.00pm. Talk starts 7.30

Tickets £5 online at greenhill.bookwhen.com 

Frozen

Saturday 2 December
Frozen

Sing along to your favourites in this classic wintry Disney animation. Anna sets out on a journey with an iceman, Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and everyone’s favourite snowman Olaf, in order to find her sister, Elsa, who has the power to convert any object or person into ice.

Doors open / refreshments 2.00pm, film starts 2.30.

Watch the trailer here

How to Train your Dragon

Saturday 6 January
How to Train your Dragon

Hiccup is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit, despite the fact that his father is chief of the clan. Tossed into dragon-fighting school, he endeavors to prove himself as a true Viking, but when he befriends an injured dragon, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people’s future.

Watch the trailer here.

Superpets

Saturday 3 February
Superpets

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, when the Man of Steel and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a ragtag group of animals to master their own newfound powers for a rescue mission.

Watch the trailer here.

Babe

Saturday 2 March
Babe

Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet named Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other farm animals accept a pig who doesn’t conform to the farm’s social hierarchy?

Watch the trailer here.

The African Queen

Friday 1 December
The African Queen

Shot on location in the Congo, the African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. At the start of World War I, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take his sister, Rose, back to civilization, taking on the Germans at the same time.

Doors open / refreshments 7.00pm, film starts 7.30

Watch the trailer here.

The King’s Speech

Friday 5 January
The King’s Speech

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer. Starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush and Derek Jacobi

Watch the trailer here.

Avatar

Friday 2 February
Avatar

Cancelled

With ground-breaking effects, this science fiction movie from 2009, directed by James Cameron, tells an epic tale set on the lush alien world of Pandora, populated by the Na’vi. For ten years Avatar was the highest-grossing movie of all time. A visual feast of a film – not to be missed!

Watch the trailer here.