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Mother Tongue Other Tongue Celebration Event

4:00pm-8:00pm on Wednesday 19 March

Times shown are in GMT (UTC +0) up to the 26th March. For events on or after 27th March times are in BST (UTC +1).

Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College, Buckingham Rd Cambridge CB3 0DD, CB3 0DD

Presented by champion slam poet, playwright and author, Joelle Taylor, this year's Laureate Education Project poetry competition, Mother Tongue Other Tongue Celebration Event will have a pop-up language event running alongside.

The competition itself has two strands:

Mother Tongue encourages children, who do not have English as a first language, or who speak a different language at home, to share a lullaby, poem or song from their Mother Tongue and to explain what it means to them.

Other Tongue encourages children learning another language to use that language creatively by writing a poem.

In the Celebration Event some of the talented young poets will perform their poems and Joelle will perform some of hers

Booking/Registration is: REQUIRED

Additional Information

Age: All Ages
Format: Other
Timing: In person
Cost: Free
Event Capacity: 140
Theme: Discovery, Society
Accessibility: Full access

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