Sign your baby up for Bradford Libraries and get discounted photo shoot

First Wednesday of February, March and April 2023

Bradford City Library has joined forces with award-winning photographer Tim Simpson who will run Photo Booth sessions once a month. Tickets, at a discounted cost of £5, can be booked online via Ticket Source and will include a 30-minute photo booth slot and an 8 x 6” colour photograph of the baby. Families will receive a personal password protected link to view more photos and the option to order more prints.

Photo sessions will take place at Bradford City Library on Wednesdays, 1 February, 1 March and 5 April.

Bradford City Library’s free weekly Rhyme Time session will take place from 10-11am on the same day, so families can spend the morning at the library. The sessions include songs and rhymes, exploring books and the opportunity to meet other parents and carers.

These sessions help introduce families to the library, can be good for new parents’ mental health and help to develop children’s speech and language skills, a pre-cursor to learning to read.

The printed photographs will be available to collect two weeks later at the Rhyme Time session. More Baby Photo Booth dates will be added later in the year.

Cllr Sarah Ferriby, Portfolio Holder for Healthy People and Places, said: “This is a lovely way to mark a baby’s first experience with libraries. Also, being able to sign up for library membership at the Register Office at the same time as registering the birth is much more convenient for new parents who already have a lot to think about in those early days with their new arrivals.” 

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