Children And Young People
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Past Event: Capturing the Voice
The importance of honesty and creativity in engaging with young people
Thu 23 Jun 2011
5:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
The Reading Agency and Bounce! Invite you to an author panel discussion with drinks and book signing. Authors on panel: Colin Mulhern Isla Whitcroft Stephanie Burgis Chair: Anthony McGowen To Book email tricia.kings@readingagency.org.uk …
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Past Event: How Power Corrupts: Chronicles of Protest
How Power Corrupts week
Thu 12 May 2011
1:30pmFree Word Lecture Theatre
A film by Michael Chanan, video blogger for the New Statemen and documentary film maker, about the movement against government spending cuts in the universities and beyond with students, activists and citizens of the real big society. …
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Stories to Touch
Director of if:book and Free Word Associate Chris Meade explores the digital reading possibilities of the iPad and Kindle for school children.
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“Why write about schools and not airports?” Riz MC performs at launch of Writers Bloc
Listen to Riz MC performing a new poem speed-written in response to the launch of international writing and education project Writers Bloc at the Free Word Centre.
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Video: Free Word hosts the launch of Writers Bloc
Writers including Kamila Shamsie and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discuss education around the world at the launch of pioneering writing and education project Writers Bloc.
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School Wars
Every child has a right to go to a good local school and shouldn’t be turned away on the grounds of wealth, religion or ability, says Francis Gilbert.
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Too Much Freedom for the Land of the Free
In advance of her course on Free Speech and Literature, Dr Sophie Mayer finds out why Arizona State has banned The Tempest from its school curriculum.
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The Counterpoint of Change: Writers Bloc Afterword
Hugh McLean of Open Society Foundations highlights the importance of education in challenging conflict and exclusion.This essay is the afterword to Writers Bloc, a collection of essays by writers about education around the world.
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Kamila Shamsie on Writers Bloc
Writers Bloc is a new writer-led initiative which explores education throughout the world. Ahead of its launch at the Free Word Centre, livestreamed at freewordonline.com, co-founder Kamila Shamsie talks to us about the project and her article on Pakistan's curriculum challenges.
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Down with the kids
Last week Marga Navarrete from Imperial College ran a Youtube subtitling workshop at Lawdale Junior School in Tower Hamlets. Marga has run this workshop many times before as part of the brilliant Routes Into Languages programme, but usually with older children, around year 9 or 10. This was Free Word’s only translator-in-residence event for children, and it almost didn…
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Shake the Dust youth poetry competition launches
Hosted by Apples and Snakes, Shake the Dust is a massive youth poetry competition that involves people from the spoken word world at every level. In this blog post, Apples and Snakes' Digital and Marketing Assistant Dan Simpson lays out the competition process and sheds light on its role in empowering poets and educators alike.
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Booktrust staff picks their favourite Dahl
Booktust celebrated Roald Dahl Day by polling staff about their favourite Dahl fiction. In this Booktrust blog post, Nikesh Shukla tallies the votes and shares some staff opinions about the winners.
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Mother Tongues promotes bilingualism
Mother Tongues is a new project from the Arvon Foundation, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, which encourages young people to write in both English and their mother tongue. Over 300 languages are spoken in London. In Lambeth, the most widely spoken language after English is Portuguese. This short film, taken at Totleigh Barton, one of Arvon's centres, shows 16 Portuguese-speaking young…
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Libraries unite to continue to tackle children’s literacy
The Summer Reading Challenge is a pivot for developing better joint literacy work between libraries and schools. Created and run by The Reading Agency with libraries, this year’s Summer Reading Challenge had the highest rate of involvement ever with 97% of UK library authorities participating.
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In touch with the Olympics
Booktrust associate Alexandra Strick looks at some of the projects planned to help inspire disabled children in the UK to celebrate and participate in the upcoming 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.