We are delighted to partner with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in 2024 to offer automata-making workshops to primary school aged children as one of the ‘8 Ways to Connect’ schools engagement

The festival team is delighted to announce that Southeastern Communities Rail partnership CIC will become one of two major project partners in the 2024 festival exploring book choice The Railway

Discover which 12 young writers are prize winners this year, with competition judges Yasmin Aishah and Maya Coombs reading the shortlisted entries

We invited schools to create their own bunting designs inspired by this year’s book. Explore this animated showcase of pupils’ work…

Artists Ruby Colley and Hannah Collisson have been working with students at local secondary schools to write new songs on the theme of adventure

A Town Explores A Book runs throughout the Spring school holiday. Here is a round-up of family activities during the festival!

A Town Explores A Book festival centres the voices of those who have experienced barriers to accessing heritage literature in traditional educational settings

One of the school engagement projects this March has been a brush stroke exploration. Water colourist Susan Miller has been working with 200 school children exploring Mary Seacole’s adventures through

School communities have asked for an extension to this year’s creative writing competition for 5-14 year olds in order to set this activity as a holiday project! The new deadline

#ATownExploresABook23 is inviting schools to create artwork inspired by this year’s book, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole, which we will print and display as bunting

A Town Explores A Book is all about community, and planning is already underway for two big events in April that come under the festival banner, and will bring together

The festival community showed up and and showed overwhelming support for #ATownExploresABook23 and our aim to offer creative workshops and activities to thousands of school-age children. As the Crowdfunder closed

In 2022 ATownExploresABook hosted a programme of events, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to mark the 150th anniversary of Gensing Gardens.