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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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Video: Rachida Lamrabet & Neel Mukherjee in conversation
Free Word Writer in Residence Rachida Lamrabet and Neel Mukherjee in conversation at Passa Porta literature house, Brussels.
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Margaret Drabble presented with Golden PEN Award
On 6th December 2011, English PEN presented the prestigious Golden PEN award to novelist Margaret Drabble. The award was introduced by English PEN President Gillian Slovo, and presented by former PEN President Lisa Appignanesi. Past recipients include Salman Rushdie, John Berger, Doris Lessing and JG Ballard.
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What does Free Word mean to you?
What does Free Word mean to you? An international beacon... A literature house that is much more than a literature house... Where writers and literature meet the hard edge of campaigning... Somewhere I can tell the jokes I want to tell... Featuring Kate Griffin (Arts Council England), comedian Shazia Mirza, Dame Liz Forgan (Arts Council England), Eric Rudeng (Fritt Ord),…
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A New Market for Translation
Last Sunday, something strange happened at Brick Lane market. As well as the usual hawkers, hipsters and heavily-accented tourists, there was something else going on: the first ever run-through of the Wordkeys translation game was taking place, and by golly was it fun! The idea first surfaced when I came across the brilliant work Coney had done with their real-world…
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“If you try to find me, you’ll find me defiant…”
Spoken word artist Kate Tempest performs Line in the Sand – film produced by Apples & Snakes. More videos from Apples & Snakes …
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Events at the Free Word Centre
Free Word Centre hosts a wide range of exciting events, from poetry readings to debates, and from lectures to launches. This short film features an interview with Free Word’s first Director Shreela Ghosh, a multi-lingual reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a graphic novel workshop for young people, an outdoor poetry performance by John Hegley, discussion…
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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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Laura Dockrill performs at Whose Muse Is It Anyway?
Poet, author and performer Laura Dockrill performs a love poem at Booktrust’s improv poetry night at Free Word Centre, Whose Muse Is It Anyway? …
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Eynulla Fatullayev is Free
After an international free campaign led by English PEN, Azerbaijani editor Eynulla Fatullayev was pardoned by the government on 26 My 2011. Following his release, Pen said, "We no longer need to campaign for Fatullayev, but hundreds of other writers remain in prison or under threat."
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Tom Stoppard on the Belarus Free Theatre
British playwright Tom Stoppard introduces the Belarus Free Theatre at Free Word Centre. Established in 2005 by human rights activists Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Koliada, Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre group from Europe’s last dictatorship. In this video, Stoppard praises their “absolute determination to express something important through the artform of theatre.” …
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BBC announces short story winners
Free Word Centre hosted the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award. The winners were announced to a packed audience, and live on Radio 4, by broadcaster and chair of the judges Tom Sutcliffe. Poet and writer Kate Clanchy was the winner for her story The Not-Dead and the Saved. The runner-up was Sara Maitland for Moss Witch. …