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Day 21: #Living Lyrics

Tuesday 21 June 6-8pm: Join Key Changes at St. Luke’s Centre for a special International Music Day Open Mic Key Changes is an Islington based charity that provides music services in hospitals and the community for people experiencing mental health … Continue reading

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Day 20: Summer Ball and Words of Wisdom

Monday 20 June: 2-5pm Cubitt presents the Summer Ball – at the Assembly Hall on this year’s theme The Graphic Novel – tea dance, live band, performances, art exhibitions, making and more! Free admission – but places are limited. Call … Continue reading

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Day 20-26: Refugee Week

Monday 20-Sunday 26 June is Refugee Week Refugee Week is celebrated in the UK each year to coincide with World Refugee Day on 20 June.  It is a unique opportunity to celebrate the positive contributions that refugees and asylum seekers … Continue reading

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Day 19: Story Street & Living Lyrix @Cally Festival

Sunday 19 June: 12-6pm Story Street is part of the Cally Festival, a huge one-day street party on the Caledonian Road. Presented by Word Festival’s very own poet-in-residence Paul Lyalls Story Street will see storytelling, poetry, rap, spoken word and … Continue reading

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Day 18: Fun for all the family

Saturday 18 June: All Change and Arsenal in the Community invite Granddads, dads and lads (age 4-11) to join poet Paul Lyalls for a celebration of all things Arsenal FC. Including a behind the scenes tour of the fantastic Emirates … Continue reading

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Day 17: Free Word of the Week

Friday 17 June: This coming week’s Free Word 2o-26 June is Crystocopophilia – The urge to look through people’s windows as you pass their houses.  Linking with the Five Ways to Wellbeing – Take notice

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Day 16: Principia Space Diary

Thursday 16 June: British ESA astronaut Tim Peake is in space and he wants you to come too! Tim and his space crew have been working super hard to make his mission, called Principia, a huge success. But Tim needs … Continue reading

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Day 15: Book Worlds and the future of freedom

Wednesday 15 June: Book Worlds – a six-week project exploring the inner world of books culminates today led by House of Illustration. A story or a book is a place to escape into, to get lost or absorbed in. This … Continue reading

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Day 14: The Story So Far… Word2012-2016

Tuesday 14 June: Running until 25 August 9am-9pm daily (Monday-Friday) Free Word Centre curated and produced by All Change visit The Story So Far… Word2012-2016 Since its launch in 2012, the Word Festival has seen thousands of local people of … Continue reading

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Day 13: Wanderlust: Great Literature from Around the World

Monday 13 June 2016: 6.45pm at Free Word Centre An Ode to Storytelling: Translating ‘The Book of Pearl’ – Join Walker Books, publishers of Alex Rider, Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, as they present the imaginative adventure story The Book … Continue reading

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