Essex Book Festival’s Pop-Up Storytelling Armchair will be at Firstsite all day as part of our Place weekend. Come along to hear authors of all shapes, sizes and varieties! For our first session on the day we welcome children’s author Susie Violet, with her story The Little Cockroach.

Young Essex at PLACE

This event is part of Essex Book Festival’s Oh, The Places We’ll Go! Young Essex at PLACE weekend in Colchester on Saturday 23 March.

Join us for a fab day out for families at Firstsite, exploring place, identity, history and heritage through books, reading, writing and storytelling. Our Pop Up Storytelling Armchair is back; there’ll also be bookmaking, writing workshops, origami boatbuilding and Chinese calligraphy, not to mention The Mothership Project, when children in Essex will be exchanging messages of friendship with children in China.

Click here for an overview of all our Young Essex events across the county this March.