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Everyone has a story

Pop Up inspires communities through stories. Our far-reaching literature and story-making programme for schools and families impacts on thousands of children and parents. This is followed by a major public celebration bringing communities and families, authors and artists together: the Pop Up Festival of Stories.

 

Our 2012 Pop Up King's Cross programme includes:
  • Pop Up Schools Programme - 11th-29th June - where 3000 children in local schools read books and take part in over 100 author workshops at local museums, libraries, galleries and public spaces
  • Pop Up Family Programme - May-July - where 300 children and parents collaborate with artists to make and share stories
  • Pop Up Festival of Stories at King's Cross Central - 30th June & 1st July - with 84 hours of sensational events and imaginative experiences for children of all ages - all provided absolutely free!


And that's not all: we've also developed a brand new schools literature programme, in partnership with seven schools in Hackney, supported by Linklaters and Inspire. Take a look at all the great books and authors involved in Booklinks, 27th Feburary-2nd March.

 

Tuesday
Sep062011

The Pop Up Festival Story

DateTuesday, September 6, 2011

The first ever Pop Up Festival of Stories took place over the weekend of July 9th & 10th 2011 in Coram’s Fields and The Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, attended by almost 6000 children and parents. There was magic, poetry, art and jazz with Michael Rosen and friends, mystery and illusion inside Philip Ardagh’s ‘House of Illusions’, myth-making with Geraldine McCaughrean, movies at the Renoir Cinema, and Moomins holding tea-parties. James Mayhew made a giant pop-up book, Axel Scheffler came with Pip and Posy, Rastamouse creators Michael De Souza and Genevieve Webster whipped up a carnival, Catherine Johnson made up tall tales in her ‘Nest of Vipers’ tavern, while illustrators, storytellers, dancers and musicians entertained inside the enchanting ‘Immi’s Igloo’. And everything was free! The sun shone all weekend long, the marquees were bursting to capacity, and they never stopped selling books at The Guardian Bookshop. What a wonderful, story-filled weekend it was!