Shakespeare Globe

Saturday 18 April

FELT PEN

This year Free the Word! introduces some new events for younger minds and imaginations. FELT PEN invites children and their families to come and play, read and write, and share what they think heaven and earth is all about.
Venue: Globe Watkins Rooms

Around the Globe

Ages 4-6
From the weird to the wonderful, storyteller Deborah Newbold comes armed with a bucketful of traditional and original tales and spellbinding songs from all over the world. Help her tell these stories by sharing them with your family, whispering them to your neighbour or just shouting them right across the Thames.

Time: 12 noon
Tickets: £5

Dream Journeys

Ages 3–6
Using music and storytelling through the rhythms of the African Caribbean world, Dream Journeys promises to be an exciting and playful trip across land and sea. With Keith Waithe, Sandra Agard and Jo Jo Yates.

Time: 2pm
Tickets: £5

Sweets

Ages 6+
Do they have sweets in heaven? Joris and Oscar think so. Dutch illustrator, writer and animator, Sylvia van Ommen reads Sweets, a story about a cat and a rabbit and their thoughts about heaven and earth. Come and create your own animated animal characters and talk about what sweets you would like to eat in heaven.

Time: 3.45pm
Tickets: £5

Hell on Earth

Lydia Cacho, Christian Jungersen and Carolin Emcke

A writer’s role in a conflicting world, whether it is real or imagined, can take unheard and untold stories and experiences, and re-tell them with a powerful honesty so that there is no choice but to listen. Yet it can literally be hell on earth.
Mexican author Lydia Cacho, recipient of the 2007 Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children's Rights and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2008, was arrested, extradited and jailed for her book Los Demonios del Edén (Demons of Eden) in which she accuses high profile politicians of being involved in a ring of child pornography and prostitution.
As an editor and war correspondent for German newspaper Der Spiegel, Carolin Emcke has reported on human-rights violations and war crimes in places such as Lebanon, Colombia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Christian Jungersen is a Danish author of two prize-winning and bestselling novels, his latest being The Exception, a work which takes place in a small fictitious organisation, The Danish Centre for Genocide Information. This event is chaired by Peter Beaumont, Foreign Affairs Editor at the Observer whose new book The Secret Life of War is available in May.

'Lydia Cacho is a model for all who wish to work as journalists'
Roberto Saviano

'A horribly vivid and fiendishly clever novel'
The Independent on Christian Jungersen’s The Exception.

Time: 6pm
Venue: Underglobe
Tickets: £5

International Futures

In association with PEN International Magazine

Kamila Shamsie, Bertrand Besigne, Petina Gappah and Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

A sold-out event last year, International Futures is back to celebrate the eminent writers of tomorrow. Kamila Shamsie, the acclaimed author of numerous novels including her latest, Burnt Shadows, talks with some of the brightest contemporary international voices whose work already heralds stellar international futures: Bertrand Besigne (Uganda/Norway), Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe) and Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (India).

'A writer of immense ambition and strength'
Salman Rushdie on Kamila Shamsie

Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Underglobe
Tickets: £5

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