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Using examples of art from trucks and rickshaws of Bangladesh and Pakistan, We invite children and families to create and design wall hangings on A3 sheets of paper. Colour or paint your designs and decorate them with sticky gems, pom poms etc. Attach a ribbon or string with beads to the top for hanging and use wool to attach tassels at the bottom.
No need to book! Free drop-in session.
Amazing tales, elegantly told. The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a multi award-winning, family friendly, improvised storytelling show. There will be pirates and princesses, unicorns and dragons, spacemen and swordfights, and all of it completely and irrefutably true.
Imagine Jackanory meets Whose Line Is It Anyway, Live. The cast are challenged to tell increasingly extravagant tales all based on The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. All they have are their wits, a box of silly hats, and the imaginations of a room full of giggling children to ensure that the stories end happily ever after.
Best Children’s Show – WINNER Leicester Comedy Festival 2020
Best Kid’s Show – WINNER Greater Manchester Fringe 2019. Leicester Comedy Festival
Edinburgh Bobby Award – Nominee Edinburgh Fringe 2022
“A joyous show of wit, sparkle and simple happiness” ***** Broadway Baby
“All of the show was brilliant!” **** Festmag
“A must see!” **** One4Review
Seven Kings Library will be offering a variety of book and story themed crafts throughout the Fabula Reading Challenge this summer.
Every Tuesday. Crafts are suitable for children aged 4+
FREE, spaces limited, please book in advance at the welcome desk or over the phone.
Check out their schedule:
Make a zine with Patchlarks! Create a brilliantly expressive mini book – called a ‘zine’. Drawings, collages and words collide in this joyfully creative craft session with a narrative flare. Aimed at all humans aged 6+.
Spaces limited, booking required.
Costs
Child – £2.00
Parent/Guardian – Free
Patchlarks creates immersive storytelling adventures for children. Their adventures combine interactive storytelling, imaginative games, illustrative maps and inventive workshops to get children fizzing with creative curiosity.
Dive into a world of cunning characters, exciting antics, and animal magic in this storytelling show. Oliver Wallace brings his rambunctious style to fairytales and folktales for all ages.
Patchlarks creates immersive storytelling adventures for children. Their adventures combine interactive storytelling, imaginative games, illustrative maps and inventive workshops to get children fizzing with creative curiosity.
Free, drop in, no need to book
Join us for the Fabula Festival’s Families Take-Over Day! Redbridge Central Library will be bursting at the seams – with a whole day of free* family events in store.
There’ll be author visits, special story times and loads of crafts and fun activities. Come along, enjoy the fun – and don’t forget to sign up to the Fabula Reading Challenge!
*a small fee for face painting will apply
See list of what’s on here
Laugh_Able presents FEST_Able – Wanstead’s Inaugural Disability Comedy Festival!
Join us for FEST_Able, a groundbreaking event celebrating the vibrant and diverse talents of the disability and mental health comedy scene. Enjoy a lineup of professional, semi-professional, and emerging comedians as they present their Edinburgh Fringe previews, full-length shows, and more.
The FEST_Able schedule promises 16 shows on 8 dates between 3 to 31 July!
Wednesday, 3rd July – Opening Night
– Mark Nicholas: “This Is Not the Autistic You Are Looking For” (WIP)
– Benny Shakes Things Up: “Respect” (WIP)
Friday, 5th July
– Pauline Eyre: “Body”
– Jamie Green: “The Special One”
Monday, 8th July
– Stephen & Hamlet: “Blind and Mad”
– Ethan Madds & Emerson Young: “Neurodiversions”
Friday, 12th July
– Emily McQuade: “Duck Hunt”
– Alex Gibbon: “Fat Femme and Crippled”
Wednesday, 17th July
– Nicky Vere Compton & Rubynia Reubens: “Freaks and Fools the Musical” (WIP)
– Luke Poulton: “Cracking”
Monday, 22nd July
– Nicola Stephen & Rabiah Coon: “Not Normal”
– Spring Day: “EXvangelical”
Thursday, 25th July
– Lizzy Lenco: “Full Frontal Lobe”
– Barbara Fernandez: “Singing, Sagging and Shagging”
Wednesday, 31st July – Closing Night
– “Trying and Failing with Celine and Jon”
– Stephen Catling: “Beehavioural Problems Something Something Autism”
Don’t miss this unique celebration of comedy and diversity. For show details and tickets, visit https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/laugh-able
We hope you’ll join us for a month of laughter and inclusivity!
Wanstead Library, Spratt Hall Road, London E11 2RQ
All shows pay what you can
BYO drinks and refreshments
Suitable for ages 18+
Join children’s book illustrator Julia Groves for storytelling and a fun collage activity all about honey bees. We will read Julia’s book Polly Bee Makes Honey and find out where bees live and how they make honey!
Julia Groves is an illustrator and a graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. She loves to work with cut-paper and printmaking and enjoys the design process and creating typography for her books. Julia has had six books published with Child’s Play UK/US and recently the Follow my Food series with Scallywag Press. Her books are mostly all about animals!
Join author and illustrator Marjoke Henrichs for a fun storytelling and drawalong event based on her new book Detective Catz and the Missing Nut.
You might even get the chance to become a detective yourself! Marjoke Henrichs graduated from the MA Children’s Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art in 2019. She is also a theatre designer and a painter. She was born in the Netherlands and now lives in Suffolk.