WORKSHOPS
As well as enjoying performances on the main stage, your ticket includes your choice of an interactive and immersive workshop*. Embark on a journey of learning, exploration, and fun! Simply select the one workshop you'd like to attend at the check out. Workshops will last between 45 minutes and one hour.
Please note that you must book a ticket as an adult if you are attending with your child.
*subject to availability.
Debut Author workshop Shine Bright with G.M.Linton
3.30-4.30
FULLY BOOKED
In this workshop G.M. will celebrate the original Windrush generation – of which her parents were part – and their lasting, joyful legacy. She’ll ask you to think about places you would like to travel to and what you would take with them for the journey. She will talk about some inspiring Black Britons and she will invite children to think about their own family, heritage, and community – all the things that make each of us who we are and able to shine bright, just like Sunshine.
G.M. Linton’s book My name is Sunshine Simpson won the Children’s Book of the Year: Breakthrough in the Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Real or Rubbish? workshop with Iszi Lawrence
3.20-4.20
FULLY BOOKED
Join Iszi Lawrence, historical fiction author and font of weird-but-true facts for a workshop inspired by The Week Junior Big Book of Knowledge. In this highly interactive workshop you'll take part in a Real or Rubbish quiz, then test your own journalism skills by creating real or rubbish headlines for everyone to vote on. There will be plenty of examples to get everyone thinking and talking.
STEM workshop with Zanna Davidson
10:00-11:00
FULLY BOOKED
Izzy the Inventor author, Zanna Davidson invites you on a magical science adventure in this workshop.
During the event children will meet Izzy, a girl who loves science and does not believe in magic. However, when Izzy is transported to Fairytale Land she must use her science skills on a quest with a not-very-magical-unicorn as her guide! Zanna will help you think up your own AMAZING INVENTIONS, invite you to act out part of the story, then outwit trolls by making slime, create water balloons to get past terrible ogres and bounce some eggs – just for fun!
Zanna Davidson’s book Izzy the Inventor And The Unexpected Unicorn was shortlisted for children’s book of the year: STEM in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
The Spoken Word Workshop with Nikita Gill
10.30-11.30
FULLY BOOKED
Journey back in time with author and poet Nikita Gill for an incredible event and discover the ancient Indian animal fables of the Panchatantra, which have been told and retold for thousands of years! You’ll meet mighty elephants and courageous mice, cunning crocodiles and clever monkeys, talkative tortoises and little lapwing birds – and each one imparts a different message that can inspire you in different ways! Celebrating friendship, cleverness, love and wisdom, this is not a workshop to be missed!
Nikita Gill’s book Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra took the highly commended title for Audiobook in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Hobbies & Interests workshop- Amazing Infographics: how data can reveal our world in a whole new way with Andrew Pettie
1.40-2.40pm
FULLY BOOKED
This fun and interactive workshop led by authors Andrew Pettie and Valentina D’Efilippo will combine an explanation of why humans are such a visual species, an accessible introduction to what infographics are and how they work, plus a quiz including some of the mind-blowing facts from the book and some visual rounds to show how infographics are all around us! The quiz will be followed by a 20 – 25 mins hands on activity for children to create their own infographic.
Younger Fiction workshop with Carrie Sellon
11.00-12.00
FULLY BOOKED
Join author Carrie Sellon and learn to create your own stories. Carrie will teach the children how to write strong, character-based stories with her foolproof Story Pizza method! The workshop will be based around her briefcase full of magical potions.
You’ll create new potions, design magical pizzas and have a go at writing short stories together.
Carrie Sellon’s book Pizza Pete and the Perilous Potions won the Younger Fiction in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Animals & Nature workshop with Jonathan Emmett
2.00-3.00
FULLY BOOKED
Join author Jonathan Emmett for a highly amusing and informative look at how new discoveries have transformed our understanding of T. rex’s appearance since this giant prehistoric predator was first unearthed over a century ago. Then see if you can win a signed copy of the book by taking part in The Latest Evidence Knockout Quiz game. This fun and interactive workshop is not to be missed! (Suitable for ages 6 -11).
Jonathan Emmett’s book,The Tyrannosaur's Feathers won the children’s book of the year: Animals & Nature in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Comic workshop with Louie Stowell
3.30-4.30
FULLY BOOKED
Love to write and draw your own comics? Are you a fan of Norse myths, or have you ever wondered what Loki, the mischievous shape-shifter and cunning trickster god would be like if they were banished to Earth in the form of an eleven-year-old? Well, look no further – this is the workshop for you! Join author and Norse myth superfan Louie Stowell in this interactive workshop to hear all about her bestselling series Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to…, and discover how to create your own epic comic based on the Norse gods! Packed full of humour and cool facts, this workshop will be perfect for ages 9+
Louie Stowell’s book Loki: Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Ruling the World won the Children’s Audiobook of the Year at The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Reimagining Mythology workshop with Ashley Thorpe
2.00-3.00
FULLY BOOKED
Meet debut author Ashley Thorpe who works as an editor at Storymix, where he helps other writers to create epic stories. His greatest wish is to bring diverse characters to life that he would have loved to have seen, but sorely missed, as a young reader. He’ll be live on stage bringing some of his characters to life. The Boy to Beat the Gods is his first book.
Older Fiction workshop with A.M. Dassu
12.00-1.00
FULLY BOOKED
In this interactive, collaborative masterclass, you’ll learn how to plot an exciting story with award-winning author, A. M. Dassu. You’ll choose a genre, build character profiles and use the three act structure to plan a thrilling adventure. Join A. M. Dassu in this fun, brainstorming session and leave completely inspired!
A.M. Dassu’s book Kicked Out was shortlisted for Older Fiction in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
Wellbeing, Art for the Heart workshop with Xavier Leopold
12.30-1.30
FULLY BOOKED
Discover the joy of expressing your feelings through art in this motivational and interactive workshop for children, based on illustrator and author Xavier Leopold’s creative journal Art for the Heart. Xavier will help you learn how to use art to become more self-aware, understand your feelings, and build confidence. In this fun-filled event, you will be inspired and motivated to love yourself and aim high in the future. Best of all, you’ll get to express yourself through producing your own art from the heart!
STEM workshop with Zanna Davidson
11.40-12.40
FULLY BOOKED
Izzy the Inventor author, Zanna Davidson invites you on a magical science adventure in this workshop.
During the event children will meet Izzy, a girl who loves science and does not believe in magic. However, when Izzy is transported to Fairytale Land she must use her science skills on a quest with a not-very-magical-unicorn as her guide! Zanna will help you think up your own AMAZING INVENTIONS, invite you to act out part of the story, then outwit trolls by making slime, create water balloons to get past terrible ogres and bounce some eggs – just for fun!
Zanna Davidson’s book Izzy the Inventor And The Unexpected Unicorn was shortlisted for children’s book of the year: STEM in The Week Junior Book Awards 2024