The Book Stop Cafe

BookStop Cafe
47b Steep Hill
Lincoln
LN2 1LU

Creative Cafe Project Activities

• Book events
• Retails local and independent author books
• Festival events
• Promotes artists   

Aardvark Books, Bucknall,

Aardvark Books
The Bookery
Manor Farm
Brampton Bryan
Bucknell
Shropshire
SY7 0DH

Tel: + 44 (0) 1547 530744

 

Aardvark Books 

Creative Cafe Project activities: 

• Crafts
• Play space for children 
• Author readings 
• Live music
• Exhibitions

Café reviewers and scouts needed

Would you like to review for the Creative Café Project? Is there a creative café near you that should be on the list? If so send us the details and we’ll include it. Would you like to write a short article about it? It should be about 350 words and can be as personal or as objective as you like – as long as it tells us something more about the café than what’s on the blurb.

Definition reminder

How do you recognise a creative café? Have a look at a few on the site and you’ll probably get a sense of it. There are two main criteria:

1.      It must be first and foremost a great café

2.      It must have some sort of creative activity going on such as:

a.       Provide gallery space

b.      Have literature available for customers to read – newspapers, magazines, books

c.       Host a writing group

d.      Host live music

e.       Host a reading group

f.       Provide informal meeting space

Sample reviews

Take a look at these. 

Blue Sky

The Ginger Pig

Time for Tea

Contact

Send your café suggestion or review here. Pictures also welcome.

The Reader Cafe L18 3 JB

Calderstones
Mansion House
Calderstones Park,
Liverpool, L18 3JB

0151 724 5000

The Reader Cafe 

The Reader Cafe offers the following Creative Cafe Project activites

• book groups
• story reading
• books to read whilst eating and drinking
• short courses for serious readers 
• craft afternoons
• shared reading groups 
• live theatre (with own  Globe-type theatre in the grounds

Writers in Cafes: Sara Sheridan

A few years ago when my daughter was about to leave school, I moved into town. I had a plan. Molly was going to go to college and I was going to travel more and write as I went. I was in my late 30s, divorced and had just moved into a small two-bedroom flat in the city centre – the kind of flat upon which you can safely slam the door and head off into the sunset. New York, Paris, Istanbul. It was all ahead of me - a well laid plan.

Within a couple of months however I inadvertently met my second husband, my daughter, who had rented a place in Glasgow, where she went to study came home again and that footloose, fancy free novelist who was going to go wherever her heart dictated was back in the box. The box was too small – we later built an extension.

More news about the Creative Café Project

More cafés needed

We’re always on the look-out for new cafés, so if you know of one, please do tell us about it.

How do you recognise a creative café? Have a look at a few on the site and you’ll probably get a sense of it. There are two main criteria:

1.      It must be first and foremost a great café

2.      It must have some sort of creative activity going on such as:

a.       Provide gallery space

b.      Have literature available for customers to read – newspapers, magazines, books

c.       Host a writing group

d.      Host  live music

e.       Host a reading group

f.       Provide informal meeting space

Each café is completely different in the way it operates and each one has a unique atmosphere. Do you know of a café that should join the scheme? If so, contact me here.

The Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

2 Dale St,
Manchester M1 1JW
Tel. 0161 236 0100
Email. info@nexusartcafe.com

The Nexus Art cafe does the following creative cafe projects: 

• provides a space where creative practitioners may interact with their audiences and network with each other.
• hosts book launches
• hosts musical evenings
• hosts plays
• hosts craft groups 
• holds art exhibitions

The Nexus Art Cafe