Author Archives: All Change

Thursday 28 June – 2pm & 4pm and Friday 29 June – 11am & 1pm – at Finsbury Library – the Circus in libraries adventure continues! Upswing return to Word Festival with a new circus storytelling experience – A is for … Continue reading →

Wednesday 27 June 1-2pm – Write to Lunch at Free Word: Free Word and Arvon are offering a FREE lunchtime writing workshop to mark the second year of #NationalWritingDay. The workshop will be led by a critically acclaimed guest writer, and is open … Continue reading →

Wednesday 27 June: National Writing Day –  National Writing Day is a day devoted to creative writing. Join First Story and partner arts and literacy organisations to celebrate the power and pleasure of the written word. We want people to … Continue reading →

Tuesday 26 June – with only a few days left of Word2018, don’t miss Living Lyrics – an exhibition of portraits of Key Changes artists by renowned filmmaker and photographer Sam Strickland at Free Word. These striking black and white photographs … Continue reading →

Monday 25 June 6pm:  Life and Times of Joseph Grimaldi: Clerkenwell’s King of Clowns – Guided Walk –  In this one-hour walk, guide and local historian Jiff Bayliss will tell the story of the Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), the Clerkenwell King … Continue reading →

Broaden your lexical horizons during the festival and look out for these Free Words of the Week, just outside Free Word Centre. Take a picture and join the conversation online with #FreeWordOfTheWeek or go further by putting them on display … Continue reading →

Saturday 23 June: 10.30am – Home Ground at Park Theatre –  Join All Change’s When Saturday Comes company of older people, artists Francesca Beard and Leticia Valverdes for an extraordinary morning of improvised story-making. Come prepared to have fun, join in and … Continue reading →

Throughout Word2018 you may have spotted a series poetic dispatches from some extraordinary voices … in person, in print, online … via Instagram and twitter … a team of poets including Paul Lyalls and Francesca Beard …have been responding and … Continue reading →

Thursday 21 June 9.30am at Newington Green – Join The Garden Classroom for a Little Explorers sessions for under 5’s with their parents and carers.  Discover together the wonders of wildlife, trees, bees, flowers & plants in your local greenspace in … Continue reading →

Wednesday 20 June 7pm at Thornhill Primary School  – A fun night of poetry and rhymes for all the family with live performances by Word2018’s poet-in-residence Paul Lyalls and pupils from Thornhill Primary School with very special guest Adisa. £2 Donation … Continue reading →