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Roald Dahl Foundation Funding

The Roald Dahl Foundation has just confirmed funding for the Walton Neurological Centre reading group. This means we will be able to continue delivering reading groups to the patients at the centre. 

Thanks to Roald Dahl!

Liverpool Reads Small Island Launch - January 2006

Small Island Read 2007 - the largest mass reading project Britain has ever seen - launched on Thursday 11th January 2007 across the country.

On Thursday 11th January, Andrea Levy visited Liverpool and read from her award-winning novel, Small Island, during a unique launch event in the Picton Reading Room at Liverpool Central Library, William Brown Street.

Tens of thousands of people from Scotland to Cornwall are expected to join the project and read Small Island together.

Beatlife drummers from Windsor High Primary School at the Albert Dock

Heart Beats Poetry Night

Liverpool's new poetry night - Heart Beats - put on a Small Island related night last Tuesday. Trinidadian poet Anthony Joseph amazed the audience with his Carnival rhythms of Trinidad and other planets, and Leeds poet Michelle Scally Clarke staged an impromptu collaboration with the reggae DJs - Senator Sound System.

Anthony Joseph

Michelle Scally Clarke and Daddy Mountain from Senator Sound System'.

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