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Monday 8am - 6pm Tuesday 8am - 6pm Wednesday 8am - 6pm Thursday 8am - 6pm Friday 8am - 6pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 11am - 3pm

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The new Walyalup Civic Centre and Fremantle Library opened on Monday 22 November 2021. Membership is free! Visit fremantle.wa.gov.au/library to sign up.
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The new library includes an expanded collection, with 2,500 more items, a dedicated history centre, children's area and gaming zone.

07/09/2026

28/08/2026

Looking for your next cozy hyper fixation? 🪡

Our free 3-week course runs Wednesdays from September 9 to 23 at Fremantle Library!

🧵 Ages 10–17
🗓️ Wednesdays, 4–5.45pm

Spots are limited, snag a spot here! https://events.humanitix.com/teen-sewing-group

22/08/2026

📖 Children's Book Week starts today! Emma's recommendation 🧗 'Rockhopping by Trace Balla' is an exciting and adventurous picture book, (that you can find on our shelves now 👀)

📍Join the Book Week fun this Friday 28 August at Freo Library with our dress up and costume parade at 10am.

18/08/2026

We are delighted to host Patrick Marlborough, author or Nock Loose 🏹and founder and editor of The Yeah Nah Review and Wharf Rat Press, for a conversation with journalist, producer and broadcaster Danielle Raffaele.

Light refreshments will be provided and copies of Nock Loose available for purchase ☕🍪 📙

📅 WEDNESDAY, 2 September, doors at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start.
📍Fremantle Library
🎟️FREE, booking essential

Get your FREE ticket by visiting events.humanitix.com/host/freolibrary

10/08/2026

🔬 Science week is coming up next week and we will have special guests Little Green Steps join us at the Freo Toy Library to provide two workshops. 🪹 Nesting Native Birds on Monday the 17th after school, and 🌱 Compost in a Bottle on Thursday the 20th.

Space is limited so please visit 🔗events.humanitix.com/host/freotoylibrary now to secure your spot!

07/08/2026

On Fridays in August we will be re-sharing a poetry prompt 🖊️from Red Room Poetry’s national Writing Competition, which you can enter via on Instagram and Facebook to win book prizes from Dymocks. 📖

You can also submit your poetry 🗒️to our local entry competition, which will be judged in-house by Fremantle Library staff. For local entry, you can physically submit a poem at the Library front desk 📮and go in the running to win a subscription to Westerly Magazine.

Watch our stories for a prompt on Fridays, or got to for a new prompt every day of the month! 📱

For more information about the Writing Competition, visit https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/writing-competition/

24/07/2026

Come down to Fremantle Library on Thursday August 6 🎤 for an evening of powerful rhythms, rhymes, shared resistance, joy, celebration, learning and connection. ✨

Presented for Poetry Month in partnership with Red Room Poetry, and curated by Luisa Mitchell, Blak Ink is a dedicated space for First Nations poets to come together, speak, and be heard on our own terms.

A selection of First Nations books 📚 will be available for sale at the event, and light refreshments will be provided. 🍵 Don’t miss it!

📅 Thurs, 6 Aug | 7-9pm
📍 Fremantle Library
🎟️ FREE | Booking essential

Visit events.humanitix.com/blak-ink-first-nations-poetry-showcase to register 🔗

17/07/2026

📖 Freo Library staff 📚 Christy recommends 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf.

Place it on hold using our online catalogue 🔗

06/07/2026

🌏Join us at Fremantle Library for an author panel discussion with editor Casey Mulder, and contributors Lois May and Valerie Swift about Worlds Within a World 📖 during NAIDOC Week this month.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase from Planet Books, and light refreshments will be provided. ☕

📅 Thursday, 9 Jul, 6.30-8.30pm
📍 Fremantle Library

🔗 Book your ticket here now (tinyurl.com/WWAWpanel)

26/05/2026

Join us at the Fremantle Library and the Walyalup Aboriginal Cultural Centre this National Reconciliation Week 2026 as we go "All In".

Reconciliation isn’t a spectator sport — it calls on each of us to step up, listen, learn and take action. Together, we can help advance the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and share the responsibility for meaningful change.

Read more: https://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/reconciliation-2026

Address

151 High Street
Fremantle, WA
6160

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 6pm
Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
Thursday	8am - 6pm
Friday	8am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 3pm

Telephone

+61894329766

Website

http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/library, https://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CoF-Library-Social-St

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