Check out the big windows in Jesmond Library! Over the next few days different Jesmond organisations will be decorating them with special festival-themed displays, to celebrate this year’s Jesmond Community Festival. Here is the display prepared by Jesmond Community Orchard, with the help of children at West Jesmond School!
Craig from Jesmond Pool and Gym announces details of “Craig’s Fitness Challenge”.
Every day during this year’s Jesmond Community Festival you will find on Jesmond Pool’s Facebook page a new routine posted by Craig. Can you complete them all?
Says Craig: “For Jesmond festival this year I’ll be setting a challenge for all of May. All it consists of is “One minute a day, every day in May”, and will be posted on the pool’s Facebook page, getting harder every week.”
See https://www.facebook.com/JesmondCommunityLeisure for more information.
The Friends of Jesmond Old Cemetery have confirmed the arrangements for their popular Heritage Tours, which will this year take place on 15 and 16 May. On each day there will be five mini tours, each with its own guide, making a total of only 50 attendees over the two days. So reserve your place, by emailing friendsofjesmondoldcemetery@gmail.com as soon as possible. The two hour tours will start at mid day on each day.
All places on John North’s walk on 7 May are now booked, but John has kindly agreed to repeat the walks on Wednesday 12 May and Friday 28 May. If you like the sound of that event, you may also be interested in the Heritage Tours of Jesmond Old Cemetery on 15 and 16 May, or the guided tours of St Andrew’s Cemetery and Jesmond Community Orchard on 22 and 23 May. And of course, you don’t need an “in person” guide to walk the Teddy Bear Trail!
Join your fellow detectives for this online event and help Jesmond Library volunteers to solve a chilling crime based on the Ann Cleeves book “The Darkest Evening”. Jesmond Festival’s first recorded murder. To receive a Zoom invitation email events@jesmondlibrary.org . There is no charge, but if you wish you can make a donation to the library through http://www.justgiving.com/jesmond-library .
The Teddy Bear Trail is organised by the Friends of Jesmond Library. The 2021 trail will run from 22 May to 6 June, so as to include half term, and all the teddies will have a theme related to a children’s story, film or TV programme.
This year there will be two trail routes, both starting from Jesmond Library. Route One includes the North side of Jesmond Dene Road (Beatty Avenue etc), where there were lots of keen hosts for teddy bears. There are around 25 teddies on this Trail – as it finishes at the bottom of Keyes Gardens many trailers may well wish to wander into the Dene for an ice cream or picnic!
Route Two is a bit longer, covering a number of central Jesmond streets, bringing the total number of bears to around 70, and making the event our biggest yet! To minimise the chances of COVID problems there will be no paper forms, but the instructions, maps etc will be available on Facebook, and displayed in the library windows.
Watch out for further information! In the meantime, if you have any queries, email joanaarvold@icloud.com or telephone 07747 359607.