Throughout this year’s festival a selection of outstanding artists and organisations are delivering projects with Islington schools. Amongst the projects taking place…

English PEN bring First Class Post which sees young people in Islington secondary schools exchanging letters with young people in other countries joining together in ‘global classrooms’. House of Illustration present Picturing Poetry bringing poet Francesca Beard and illustrator Merlin Evans to Ashmount Primary School to create a book of poetry. Free Word’s Translator in Residence – Canan Marasligil is exploring and creating comics as part of We Have a Voice! in 3 Islington secondary schools … and much more!

Today’s Free Word of the Day – is concerned with buried memories and can be found in a centre, which keeps, cares for and shares Islington’s memory and heritage treasures!