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SUMMARY:The Shapeshifter's Daughter
DESCRIPTION:Sally Magnusson in conversation with Chris Penhall\nThe Shapeshifter’s Daughter\nThursday 08 October 2026\, 7.00pm\nRayleigh Library\, 132/4 High Street\, Rayleigh\, SS6 7BX\n\nCelebrate the joy of reclaiming our stories with best-selling author\, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson. The Shapeshifter’s Daughter is a spellbinding feminist retelling of the Norse myth of Hel\, the Goddess of the Underworld\, set in the magical landscape of Orkney. \n\n\nTickets: £10 / £8 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\n\n\n\nEvent Information\n💬 The event will include an audience Q&A session.\n📚 Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night.\n🖊️ After the event there will be an opportunity to get the book signed by the author.\n🪑 Seats are unallocated. \n\n  \n** Note: This event was originally booked for Thursday 18 June. Now rescheduled to Thursday 08 October.** \n  \n\n\n\n\nSally Magnusson\n\n\nPhoto of Sally Magnusson © Derek Prescott \n\n  \n\nBestselling author\, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson has written several books for adults and children\, most recently her Sunday Times bestseller Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother’s dementia\, The Sealwoman’s Gift (2018)\, her acclaimed debut novel\, The Ninth Child (2020) and Music in the Dark (2022). Sally lives outside Glasgow. \n\n\n\nThe Shapeshifter’s Daughter\n \n\n  \nSelected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Autumn Season 2025. \nThe spellbinding feminist retelling of the Norse myth of Hel\, the Goddess of the Underworld\, set in the magical landscape of Orkney\, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson. \nNothing\, on earth or below it\, freezes faster than the worthless heart. \nBefore she was a hideous monster\, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard\, realm of the gods\, by Odin the Allfather\, Hel’s fate as the terrible goddess of death is sealed. Half beauty\, half crone\, she has reigned for aeons in the starless darkness of Niflheim\, grimly welcoming the most pitiful of death’s travellers to her ice-locked prison. Until one day a memory shifts\, and she is forced to seek out the sun in Midgard\, where humans have made their home. \nFaced with a terminal cancer diagnosis\, Helen Firth makes the impulsive decision to return to Orkney after forty years to make peace with her past. Under the wintering solstice sun\, she reconnects with the ungainly but affable Thorfinn Coffin\, who helps her address the real reason she has returned to the islands to die. \nAs Helen draws closer to death and ever closer to Thorfinn\, Hel in turn is intrigued by Helen. She\, too\, has a past to confront and a lesson to learn: that perhaps who she thinks she is isn’t who she is really meant to be. \nA powerful reimagining of the Norse myth of Hel\, The Shapeshifter’s Daughter celebrates the joy of reclaiming our stories. \n  \nOrder a hardback copy of the book from bookshop.org. \nPre-order a paperback copy of the book from bookshop.org – released 04 June 2026. \n  \nChris Penhall\n \nSally Magnusson will be in conversation with Chris Penhall. \nChris Penhall writes uplifting stories set in gorgeous places. \nA member of The Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists Association\, she has written six books\, the first of which\, The House That Alice Built won the Choc-Lit Search for a Star Competition in 2019. She is currently working on her 7th book. \nA freelance radio and podcast producer\, Chris worked for BBC Essex for many years and was an Associate Producer for the Richard and Judy Podcast for Jibba Jabba Pods for 9 years. She presents and produces a community radio show called Books and Tunes\, a podcast called Chris and Lizzie’s Random Bookish Chats with fellow author Lizzie Chantree\, and also runs writing workshops. \nYou can find more information about her on her website www.chrispenhall.co.uk\nInstagram: christinepenhall\nor Facebook as ChrisPenhallWriter\nhttps://linktr.ee/chrispenhall \n \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/the-shapeshifters-daughter-2/
LOCATION:Rayleigh Library\, 132-134 High Street\, Rayleigh\, SS6 7BX
CATEGORIES:Fiction,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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SUMMARY:The Boleyn Secret
DESCRIPTION:Alison Weir\nThe Boleyn Secret\nTuesday 23 June 2026\, 7.00pm\nEssex Record Office\, Wharf Road\, Chelmsford\, CM2 6YT\nSunday Times best-selling historical novelist Alison Weir gives a talk about her spellbinding new novel\, The Boleyn Secret. At twelve years old\, Kate Carey attends her aunt\, Queen Anne Boleyn\, to the scaffold. Weir explores in fiction the lasting impact of this event as well as the likelihood that Katherine Carey was Henry VIII’s child. \n\n‘Nobody brings historical characters to life like Alison Weir’\n– Tracy Borman\n\nTickets: £12 / £10\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 \n\n\nEvent Information\n💬 The event will include an audience Q&A session.\n📚 Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day.\n🖊️ After the event there will be an opportunity to get the book signed by the author.\n🪑 Seats are unallocated.\n☕ Refreshments will be available to buy at this event – cash and card payments taken\n🚗 Chelmsford Cathedral is a 5 minute walk from the train station and bus station. The Cathedral does not have its own car park but there are a number of public car parks within a short walking distance: https://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/parking-and-travel/car-parks/.\n♿ The venue is wheelchair accessible. There are disabled facilities on site.\n📸 We will be filming and taking photos at this event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlison Weir\n\n\nDr Alison Weir is a bestselling historical novelist of Tudor fiction\, and the leading female historian in the United Kingdom. She has published more than thirty books\, including many leading works of non-fiction\, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. Her novels include the Tudor Rose trilogy\, which spans three generations of history’s most iconic family – the Tudors\, and the highly acclaimed Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII\, all of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her latest biography is Queens at War\, and her latest novel is The Boleyn Secret (May 2026). Alison is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary life patron of Historic Royal Palaces. \nFor further information visit Alison’s websites at alisonweir.org.uk and alisonweirtours.com. \nFind Alison online: \nX: @AlisonWeirBooks | FB: Alison Weir \n\n\n\nThe Boleyn Secret\n\n\nBoleyn women. Passionate. Legendary. Full of secrets. This is the spellbinding new novel from Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir. \nAt twelve years old\, Kate Carey attends her aunt\, Queen Anne Boleyn\, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses\, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent woman to a terrible death. \nAs the Boleyn’s fall from favour\, Kate serves her now motherless cousin\, the young Lady Elizabeth. Bound by Boleyn blood\, the two girls grow as close as sisters\, until Kate marries for love – and leaves a jealous Elizabeth behind. \nAt court\, Kate cannot ignore the sly looks thrown her way\, nor the whispers behind her back. Only when her mother\, Mary\, lies dying\, does she learn the life-shattering truth that the Boleyn’s have been hiding for years. \nIt is a secret that will follow Kate throughout her life\, as she flees religious persecution with her husband and lives abroad in fear\, only returning home when Elizabeth becomes queen. But the bond between the Boleyn cousins will never be the same again… \nOrder a hardback copy of the book at bookshop.org. \n\n\n\nPraise for Alison Weir’s Tudor Fiction\n\n‘History has the best stories and they should all be told like this’\n– Conn Iggulden\n\n‘Alison Weir is ahead of the curve – and at the top of her game’\n– Sarah Gristwood\n\n‘Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else’\n– Barbara Erskine
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/the-boleyn-secret/
LOCATION:Essex Record Office\, Wharf Road\, Chelmsford\, Essex\, CM2 6YT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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SUMMARY:Common Treasures: Ambitious Thinking About the Future of Rural Communities
DESCRIPTION:Giles Smith\, Hana Loftus and Ken Worpole\nCommon Treasures: Ambitious Thinking About the Future of Rural Communities\nWednesday 10 June 2026\, 6.30pm – 8.30pm\nThe Commons Community Kitchen & Café at The Minories\, 74 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1UE\nGiles Smith\, founding partner of the architecture and design collective Assemble\, Winner of the 2015 Turner Prize\, will be discussing the Common Treasures project and accompanying books with writer\, designer\, and Essex-based planner Hana Loftus\, and writer and social historian\, Ken Worpole. \nCommon Treasures in an anthology that offers a credible and compelling vision of what life in a rural future might look like. \nTickets: £10 / £8 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nBox Office: eventbrite.co.uk \nThis event will be chaired by Joanne Ooi\, founder of @eafestivaluk & EA Sustain\, events about environment\, culture\, literature\, art & more and Chair of @creativecolchester.  Follow Joanne @culture.vlog. \n  \nCommon Treasures – The Project\nAmbitious thinking about the future of rural places\nCommon Treasures explores the challenges faced by rural communities by bringing together people with a broad range of different skills and experiences who are committed to a form of rural development that prioritises communities over profit\, promotes sustainable agriculture and land stewardship\, and combines lasting economic impact with ecological and social values. The project has emerged from ongoing conversations between members of the architecture collective Assemble and Common Ground\, which focussed on alternative approaches to rural housing — rethinking how it is developed\, designed and built — and emerged through the Raise the Roof project. \nFind out more about the Common Treasures project at commontreasures.org. \nCommon Treasures – The Books\n \n  \nPublished by Little Toller Books\, Common Treasures emerged from ongoing conversations between members of the architecture collective Assemble and the arts organisation Common Ground\, seeking fresh\, connected approaches to rural housing\, land and livelihoods. \nVol. 1 – Common Treasures: Land\, Food and Farming (July 2025) explores food systems\, regenerative agriculture and rural livelihoods. Contributions range from reviving British wool and flax production to more sustainable farming methods\, community-led land ownership and strategies for strengthening local economies.\nContributors: Maria Benjamin\, Philip Trevelyan\, Megan Willoughby\, Charlotte Hollins\, Stella Peyerl\, Stephen Davies\, Jez Ralph\, Clare Hill\, Alice Clark\, Colleen McCulloch\, Stefan Laxness and Kaye Song \nVol. 2 – Common Treasures: Housing\, Planning and Construction (September 2025) focuses on rethinking housing development\, planning policy and building methods to support rural regeneration. Essays cover community land trusts\, sustainable construction materials\, and collaborative approaches to housing delivery.\nContributors: Rebecca Smith\, Rob Hopkins & Frances Northrop\, Ruth Munns\, Andrew Kirby\, James Shorten\, Loretta Bosence\, Hana Loftus\, Barbara Jones\, Kim Squirrell\, Ken Worpole\, Tim Crabtree and Summer Islam \nThe Common Treasures series bridges architecture\, agriculture\, planning and community action\, offering practical blueprints for resilient rural futures. Across both volumes\, farmers\, architects\, planners and campaigners share lived experience and tested strategies\, making this a vital resource for anyone shaping life in the countryside. \nBuy a copy of the book from: commmontreasures.org. \nFollow Common Treasures on Instagram: @commontreasures_ \n  \nCopies of Common Treasures volume 2\, which Hana Loftus and Ken Worpole contributed to\, will be available for sale at the event. \n  \nCommon Ground\nCommon Ground is charity based in Dorset\, which has been at the forefront of community conservation and environmental education in England for the last thirty years. We are not a think tank or political pressure group. We are a small\, grassroots organisation that collaborate openly to reconnect people with nature and inspires communities to become responsible for their local environment. \nWe believe that enjoying where you live and celebrating the connections people have with the wildlife and landscape on their doorstep\, is at the root of meaningful conservation. \nFind out more about Common Ground at commonground.org.uk. \nGiles Smith\nPhoto of Giles Smith by Hannah Thual \nGiles Smith is an architect\, writer and educator. He is a founding partner of the award-winning architecture practice Assemble\, where his work focuses on socially-oriented projects at scales that range from furniture and events to complex buildings and masterplanning. Much of this work intersects with cultural infrastructure which builds on his experience as the chair of trustees for a South London Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation. As well as Assemble\, Giles has co-founded the celebrated play project Assemble Play (now Playworks Studio) and the organisation Common Treasures which undertakes projects relating to contemporary challenges in rural communities. He has taught at numerous institutions and currently teaches at the University of Cambridge. \nHana Loftus\nPhoto of Hana Loftus by Polly Alderton \nHana Loftus is a planner\, designer and writer based in Essex. She co-directs HAT Projects\, an architecture and planning practice based in Colchester\, and as a writer has been published in Apollo\, Icon and widely in the architecture and planning press. Her first full-length book\, Sixteen Acres\, will be published by Profile Books in 2027 and an early version was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2025. \nHana contributed an essay to Volume 2 of Common Treasures. \n  \nKen Worpole\n \nWriter and social historian Ken Worpole is ‘a literary original\, a social and architectural historian whose books combine ‘the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition\,’ according to The NewStatesman. Ken has pursued a lifelong interest in the social history of London’s East End and its relationship to the Thames Estuary and coastal East Anglia. His two most recent books are No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime Britain (2022)\, and Brightening from the East: Essays on landscape & memory (2025)\, the latter being chosen by Geoff Dyer as one of the New Statesman’s ‘Books of the Year’ 2025. \nKen is a contributor to Common Treasures. \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/common-treasures/
LOCATION:The Commons Community Kitchen & Cafe at The Minories\, 74 High Street\, Colchester\, Essex\, CO1 1UE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Non-fiction,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Dave Monk
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of Dave Monk\nHosted by Brian Southall with guests/friends David Roberts\, Steve Scruton and Ian Wyatt.\nSaturday 06 June 2026\, 12.45pm – 1.30pm\nColchester Samaritans\nWalsingham Road Community Hall\, 34 Walsingham Road\, Colchester\, CO2 7BN\nJoin us as we celebrate the Essex life of ‘BBC legend’ and festival patron\, Dave Monk\, who sadly died last year. We will be sharing fond and funny memories\, talking about Dave’s memoir\, Whatever Happened to Dave Monk? and the contribution he made to Essex and Essex Book Festival. \n  \nTickets: Free\, donation to Kids Inspire or Farleigh Hospice kindly welcomed (donation links below) – both are charities which were close to Dave’s heart. \nPlaces are limited so please reserve a space at Eventbrite.co.uk. \nCopies of Dave’s memoir will be available to buy at the event. \nKids Inspire is a children’s mental health charity supporting children and families who would not otherwise be able to afford specialist trauma recovery support.\nFind out more and donate here. \nFarleigh Hospice provides hospice care to people affected by life-limiting illnesses and bereavement across mid Essex.\nFind out more and donate here. \n  \nPart of our Love & Loss day of events at Colchester Samaritans. \n  \n\n  \nWhatever Happened to Dave Monk? The Essex life of a ‘BBC legend’\n \nA few months into writing his memoir\, Dave Monk received some devastating news. The recently retired BBC Essex presenter was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. \nThe former solicitor\, disc jockey\, wine bar owner and compere had a seemingly endless stash of riveting stories to tell\, so he naturally included his cancer tales. \nMuch of this entertaining autobiography shamelessly name drops the many fascinating individuals Dave has encountered and interviewed. He tells of his evening with a murderer\, recalls his argument with a pop superstar\, reveals what he said to the President of France and shares what he’s learned over the years from his favourite pastime – eavesdropping. \nFrom family secrets to his love of dressing up\, Dave tells all. \nAs a hugely popular presenter on BBC Essex over five decades\, Dave spoke with the famous\, the infamous\, the happy and the miserable\, delving deep into the real stories and people of the much-maligned county of Essex. \nNow it’s time for Dave’s own story after decades of keeping his own counsel. \nOrder a copy of  Whatever Happened to Dave Monk? \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/a-celebration-of-dave-monk/
LOCATION:Samaritans Colchester\, Walsingham Road Community Hall\, 34 Walsingham Road\, Colchester\, Essex\, CO2 7BN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:FREE,Memoir,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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SUMMARY:Grief Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:James McDermott\nGrief Writing Workshop\nSaturday 06 June 2026\, 10.30am – 12.00pm\nColchester Samaritans\, Walsingham Road Community Hall\, 34 Walsingham Road\, Colchester\, CO2 7BN\nDrawing on his new collection\, Father Myself\, James McDermott will lead a special writing workshop to help you to re-see bereavement\, grief and emotional loss. This inclusive and interactive workshop is designed for writers of all abilities – all welcome. \nTickets: £20 / £15 concessions (students\, under 27s and unwaged)\nBox Office: Eventbrite.co.uk \nPart of our Love & Loss day of events at Colchester Samaritans \n  \nFather Myself\, James McDermott\n \nIn 2022\, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In Father Myself\, his second collection from Nine Arches Press\, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son\, he had to learn to father himself. \nIn clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems\, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic – documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye. Both powerful and compassionate\, these extraordinary poems have the capacity to go beyond simply a record of events\, reaching sensitively for the human details that matter – the beat of a heart and movement of breath\, the touch of a hand\, the words we use for goodbye. \nPraise for Father Myself: \n‘Father Myself is a bright devastation of a book\, a meditation on father-son love\, queerness\, loss\, imperfection\, and a man slowly becoming his own father. Lyrical\, haunting and exquisitely rendered.’\n– Joelle Taylor \n‘This is emotional\, gut-punching stuff. McDermott’s best work to date.’\n– Luke Wright \n  \nBuy a copy of the book from bookshop.org. \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/grief-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Samaritans Colchester\, Walsingham Road Community Hall\, 34 Walsingham Road\, Colchester\, Essex\, CO2 7BN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:For Writers,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Bride Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sally Gardner\, The Bride Stone\nIn partnership with Federation of Essex Women’s Institutes. ‘When women support each other incredible things happen.’ \n1796. An estate on the line. A marriage of convenience. A bride with a hidden past. The Bride Stone is a spell-binding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner that opens with a ‘wife sale’ in Thetford and ends with a delicious twist. \n  \nThis event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by Sally. \nTuesday 24th June\, 7.00pm\nVenue: WI Centre\, Whitelands\, Terling Road\, Hatfield Peverel\, CM3 2AG\nTickets: £10 / £8 WI members and concessions (Students\, Under 27s and Unwaged)\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\n  \n\n  \nThe Bride Stone by Sally Gardner\n \nThe spellbinding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner. \nIt is 1796. Duval Harlington\, recently released from a French prison\, is on his way home. He must reach his late father’s estate Muchmore House before the following evening if he is to inherit it. \nBut the inheritance rests on another condition: he must also be married. He is at a market\, hoping to buy a fast horse\, when he hears about a wife sale. He takes his chance and makes an extravagant bid for young widow\, Edmée Hyde. To his delight and dismay\, the bid is accepted and they marry\, only to find that he and Edmée are both hiding life-threatening secrets. \n  \n  \n\n  \nSally Gardner\nPhoto of Sally Gardner credit Peter Arkley \nSally Gardner gained a first class degree at a leading London art college and became a successful theatre costume designer before illustrating and writing books. Her debut novel\, I\, Coriander won the Nestle Gold Award and she is also a Costa and Carnegie prize-winner. Her books have been translated all over the world and have sold over two million copies. \nFind Sally online at sallygardner.co.uk\, or on Twitter @TheSallyGardner. \n  \n\n  \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/the-bride-stone/
LOCATION:WI Centre\, Whitelands\, Whitelands Business Park\, Terling Road\, Hatfield Peverel\, Essex\, CM3 2AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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SUMMARY:Manifesto For Essex Youth Climate Summit
DESCRIPTION:Manifesto For Essex Youth Climate Summit\nAre you aged 13-25? Passionate about culture\, nature and the environment? This is YOUR chance to get involved\, to share your ideas\, and make a difference. \nDate: Saturday 13th January 2024\, 10am-3.30pm \nVenue: Firstsite Studio\, Lewis Gardens\, High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1JH \nTickets: Free\, booking essential\, register at eventbrite https://Manifesto-for-Essex-Youth-Climate-Summit-2024.eventbrite.co.uk \n  \n\nAbout the Youth Climate Summit\nOur 3rd annual Youth Climate Summit is taking place on Saturday 13th January 2024 as part of EA Sustain at Firstsite in Colchester. \nPanel Discussion\nWe are delighted to announce that Caroline Lucas MP will be taking part in our panel discussion as part our Youth Climate Summit. As the first and\, still\, only Green Party MP (Brighton Pavilion) to be elected in the UK\, Caroline Lucas represents the front edge of environmental-political progress in the UK. Caroline will join our panel discussion alongside local young environmentalists including climate activist and WWF Youth Ambassador\, Hattie Phillips and Performer/Artistic Director Marina Cusi to discuss Healing This Land. \n  \nCreative Taster Workshops\nAs part of the day attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in two of these environmental-themed creative taster workshops: \nGame Changer Workshop: Turning Video Games into Environmental Advocacy with Signals \nTransform classic video games into arcade quests for environmental action and climate change awareness. Explore the world of video game remixing and discover how you can use game design to communicate environmental action. No previous coding experience required. All equipment provided. \nThis workshop is delivered by Signals\, an award winning charity who use technology and creativity to inspire\, engage and empower people of all ages and backgrounds. \nEco-podcast Taster Workshop with Michelle Durant \nEver wondered how a podcast is put together? Experienced broadcaster and Podcast Trainer Michelle will take you through the basics where you can put your new found skills into practice. Interview guests at the summit and turn your work into a striking piece of audio journalism that can make a real impact with listeners. \nAn Introduction to Eco-poetry and Spoken word with Mad\, Who? \nJoin Marina Cusi for an epic introduction to poetry and spoken word\, exploring topics of ecology\, the natural world\, and eco-activism. Marina is Artistic Director of Mad\, Who?\, a Colchester-based theatre company producing original theatre that fuses multidisciplinary arts and activism. \nProtest Banner Creative Maker Workshop with YAK (Young Art Kommunity) \nGet hands-on and help YAK to make a Protest Banner using weaving and recycled materials. \nYoung Art Kommunity (YAK) is Firstsite’s young-people peer-led group which offers a supportive environment where young people can gain experience\, develop their confidence and learn new skills at relaxed and informal creative sessions. \n  \n\n  \nThe Manifesto For Essex Youth Climate Summit is FREE to attend but booking is essential as places are limited. Register your place at eventbrite:\nhttps://Manifesto-for-Essex-Youth-Climate-Summit-2024.eventbrite.co.uk \n  \n \nWith thanks to Asmi Bhatia from Youth Art Community (YAK) for designing our Youth Climate Summit flyer. \n  \nWe are proud that the Youth Climate Summit will be taking place once again as part of EA Sustain – A festival about Environment\, Culture and Entrepreneurship. With talks and performances by top environmentalists and environmental artists including Caroline Lucas\, Helen Browning\, Frances Morris\, Mattias Klum\, Jules Pretty\, Charles Clover and Dominic Jones. \neasustain.com\n \n  \n  \nThe Youth Climate Summit is part of Manifesto For Essex\, a multi-form creative platform run by Essex Book Festival for young people living in Essex and beyond to express their ideas about tackling climate change. \n  \n \n  \nIf you have any queries about the Youth Climate Summit or other Manifesto For Essex activities\, just get in touch – hello@essexbookfestival.org.uk \nFollow us @manifesto4essex \n  \n 
URL:https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/manifesto-for-essex-youth-climate-summit/
LOCATION:Firstsite\, Lewis Gardens\, High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1JH
CATEGORIES:FREE,Manifesto For Essex,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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