Join us this Saturday Surrey Docks Farm for #seashanties , shearing, a BBQ & more! Raising funds for the wonderful community work they do :)

Emergency in Rafah: Write to the Foreign Office & your MP to demand the UK #stopsarmingIsrael . Send an email using PSC online action palestinecampaign.eaction.online/rafah #CeasefireNOW
Artists for Palestine UK 🍉 Poets For Refugees Poets for the Peace Artists4HumanRights

On a day when a sickening Home Office film of deportations is released support the work of Detention Action & Migrants Organise who are campaigning for the right to see refuge

#RefugeesWelcome #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders

Parliament Square 12pm - hydepark 4pm, march for a #CeasefireNOW & Britain & the US to #StopArmingIsrael

Big thanks to Laila Sumpton, Malinda and Milena for a fun afternoon filming at Brent Museum and Archives among some fascinating (and dodgy) souvenirs from the strange spectacle that was the 1924 British Empire Exhibition in Wembley

#poetry film shoot #9 today for Poetry Vs Colonialism featuring Carinya Sharples fantastic poem 'Souvenir' inspired by her research w Penelope Woods 🕊️ Brent Museum and Archives for the Being Human Festival into the British Empire Exhibition 1924. Big thanks to Middlesex University #film students Malinda & Milena!

#poetry film shoot today of 'Souvenir' by Carinya Sharples inspired by archive materials Brent Museum and Archives of the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. Mini crew of MDXworks students Milena & Malinda from Middlesex University #film school. Part of our Being Human Festival '23 work w Penelope Woods 🕊️

Outsourcing asylum puts lives at risk.

We can and should welcome those who have lost everything and seek safety.

Read our join statement with JRS Europe here: jrsuk.net/news/uk-plans-…

Laila Sumpton Wandsworth Libraries Apples and Snakes Balham Library Tooting Library (75 Mitcham Road) Balham Newsie London Libraries October Jones National Poetry Library National Poetry Day British Library Learning It was such a pleasure having you at Balham Library ! Thank you for curating activities that were such a creative way at looking at cultures and history around the world and was great to see all the different ways the children interpreted it! 🪁✨️📚🖤

#stoptheflights sign Freedom from Torture🧡 petition secure.freedomfromtorture.org/page/147528/ac…
Sacha Deshmukh Amnesty International said the bill “takes a hatchet to international legal protections...it is a matter of national disgrace that our political establishment has let this bill pass' theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Many #poetry kites, baloons and boats launched for global voyages during my #Balham residency Wandsworth Libraries w the Apples and Snakes #SpineFestival ! Busy family workshops & a school session too. A big thanks to Imogen Negomi & all the librarians for your warm welcome & decorations!

Work with the lovely team & Associate Artists as a Project Manager at #intergenerational arts charity Magic Me!

Petition: Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Do add your name, everyone has the right to seek refuge from war. #RefugeesWelcome #ceasef

📢 Callout for proposals: #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

Wandsworth Council are seeking proposals from organisations that can deliver community focused, cultural, arts, heritage-based activities and events for #SAHM24 .

Commissions of £500 - £2k.

Apply by Mon 13 May: bit.ly/Apply_SAHM24

Look forward to hosting my family #poetry and craft workshop Balham Library library tomorrow 11/04 3:30 - 5:30! Oragami poetry boats, and poetry hot air baloons will sail and fly round the world!
#easterholidays #balham #spinefestival

Head to FUSEBOX Kingston this Sat for the Creatives for Culture event 3pm. 'Poems from the Archive' dir Damian Wilk ft poets: Fathima Zahra Laila Sumpton & Daniella Fearon is part of a #shortfilm screening! +DJs, creative #networking &foodstalls
creativeyouthcharity.org/event/creative… #kingston

Just two of the many many kites that we made & flew to India & Jurassic times last sat Balham Library in my #poetry & craft workshop for the Apples and Snakes #spinefestival ! Next family workshop 3:30 Thurs #Balham Library!

TOMORROW (Sat 6/4 at 2pm) Balham Library holds its first of two #SpineFestival events for the public!
Kite Poetry from around the world with poet Laila Sumpton
Come down and get creative! 🎨🪁📚
Apples and Snakes
Wandsworth Libraries

#LoveLibraries #PaperCraft #LibraryEvent #Balham

Families of #Wandsworth , #Balham #Streatham ! Prepare to fly by kite to India and South Korea this Sat Balham Library 2-4pm!

My free #poetry & #crafts workshop, part of the Apples and Snakes #spinefestival

This #EasterHolidays join my free #poetry & craft workshops for families 6th April 2-4 Balham Library
Travel the world by kite, baloon & boat!

Part of my #spinefestival residency w Apples and Snakes inspired by James Berry's anthology 'Around the world in 80 poems'