The
Manchester Children’s Book Festival is back!
You might not have been expecting to see us again until 2016
but, due to popular demand, the Manchester Children's Book Festival is back,
and now an annual event. We're really pleased to be able to bring you our 2015 programme, taking place at Manchester Metropolitan University and
in our partner venues across
the city.
To browse the programme and book your tickets go to www.mcbf.org.uk and click “What’s On” or call
our box office on 0843 208 0500.
Our theme for 2015 is time travel, inspired by our headline
book series Compton Valance, which sees Compton visit different time
periods using his magical mouldy sandwich. Look out for Compton (and his
sandwich) at our MMU
Family Fun Day and at events in Manchester libraries, museums, galleries
and theatres. You can also tell us where (or when) you'd like to visit in our Time
Travel Comic Strip Competition.
We're proud to maintain MCBF as a festival for everyone and,
with special thanks to our sponsors and partners,
we’re able to offer many free events and also keep ticket prices as affordable
as possible. We are also pleased to continue with special projects that enable
the broadest possible audience to engage with literature and the arts, and
provide opportunities for creative expression. The Festival is a chance to
highlight the year-round work of our outreach and schools' liaison
teams in the Humanities faculty at MMU; we'll be taking authors,
artists and performers into classrooms, and bringing pupils into the university
on our Multi-cultural
Manchester day, for workshops designed to raise aspirations and
confidence in young people - and inspire the festival stars of tomorrow!
There'll be plenty of opportunities to meet the stars of today, too, in our
programme of author events, culminating in our big “Let in the Stars” Children's
Poetry Weekend. More news on that coming soon!
We hope you'll agree that 2015 is one of our most interactive
programmes yet, with lots of opportunities
for you to use your imagination and share your creations, whether you're
writing, drawing, reading out loud ... or even dressing up! And you don't have
to come to Manchester to get involved. Wherever you are in the world, you can
take part in our International
Reading & Writing Relay. Send us your stories, poems, drawings, photos
- and keep the relay going.
We’ll be in touch with more news and updates as the Festival
approaches.
We're looking forward to MCBF 2015 - and hope you can join
us there.
Dame Carol Ann Duffy, James Draper and Kaye Tew
Directors: The Manchester Children's Book Festival
Directors: The Manchester Children's Book Festival
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