Shared Reading with The Reader

Shared Reading with The Reader is on at Chester Library at Storyhouse this Friday 6 November, from 2pm to 3.30pm. It's a weekly session, so if this one doesn't fit your schedule, there's another the following week.

The whole thing is built around stories and poems. A group of people get together and listen to them read aloud, and the idea is to let the stories come to life as they're shared. It's not a book club in the usual sense — you're not there to debate a text or prove you've done the reading. The focus is on the listening and the conversation that grows around what's been read.

One of the best things about it is how low-pressure it's kept. There's no requirement to talk, and you're never asked to read aloud if you don't want to. You can just turn up and listen, which makes it a good one to drop into if you're not in the mood for a social performance. If you do feel like chiming in, you can, but the choice is entirely yours.

It's free to attend, and the session runs from 2pm to 3.30pm at Chester Library at Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester, CH1 2AR. Since it's a weekly thing, you can just pop in when it suits you.