Centre for Language, Culture and Learning

🎬✨ Join us tomorrow for the Care, Community & Hope Festival 2025 — a powerful celebration of young voices from around the globe! 🌍

👉 www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/events/
13 Jun 2025, 11:00am - 4:00pm
Goldsmiths, University of London

We are celebrating the 13th year of the Critical Connections project, showcasing 20 digital films and 3 digicomics created by young people (ages 6–18) from 10 countries in 28 languages. These moving stories explore what care, community, and hope mean today — from resolving conflicts, to forming bonds and friendship, and finding hope.

Festival Programme:
🕚 11am – Multilingual poetry workshop with Michael Vidon
🕛 12pm – Poetry performance by Professor Michael Rosen
🥪 12:30pm – Lunch
🎥 1:30–3:30pm – Film screenings (in-person & live-streamed)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Come and join us on Friday 17 January at Goldsmiths for a new book launch!

This is a reminder of an exciting public event we have at Goldsmiths for illustrators, writers, researchers, and all those interested in children's and YA literature. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Michael Rosen talk to YA writers, Jenny Downham and Louis Hill, about their new book 'Let the Light In' and Michael Rosen talking about his new book 'One Day' with the illustrator, Benjamin Phillips.

This is a free event but you need to book your ticket here. https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15275

Michael Rosen Day – 12 November 2024 – Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths

Celebrating 50 years of writing books for children. Michael Rosen, a renowned children’s writer and Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, is bringing together children from across the country to read, create and share stories in the inaugural Michael Rosen Day.

Come to Goldsmiths and be inspired by a programme that Michael Rosen helped to create and continues to develop. You can find out about the MA Children’s Literature programme at Goldsmiths here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-childrens-literature/

You can read more about Michael Rosen’s groundbreaking research with MA Children’s Literature students here:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/childrens-literature-in-action/

Read more about Michael Rosen Day on our blog: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/clcl-blog/michael-rosen-day/

🎬 You're warmly invited to the "Critical Connections: Our Planet Digital Storytelling Festival" on Friday 9 June from 1-4 PM, hosted by the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning. The festival will start with performance poetry by Christian Foley, followed by the films from 1:30 PM.

🌱 Here is the link to register:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=14482

🌎 Check out the film booklet to find out more:
https://goldsmithsmdst.com/film-booklet-and-film-screening-2023/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Happy Sunday!

Do come to this event at Goldsmiths this Tuesday 16 May. This is a very rare opportunity to hear Jack Zipes launch his new book, Buried Treasures, in conversation with Michael Rosen.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=14287

The event is hosted by the Children's and YA Literature Research Forum and the Centre for Language Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths.

We're excited to share the latest news about the launch of a new book 'Children’s Literature in Action' by Goldsmiths students! 📚

Children’s responses to literature are at the heart of a “breakthrough” book which brings together innovative research by students at Goldsmiths. The new work entitled Children’s Literature in Action draws on research projects which have explored how youngsters respond to books and stories. Writer Michael Rosen, Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, said the work is “a window into the very point children and adults are interacting around books”.

Visit the link below to find out more and to read or buy the book!
https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/childrens-literature-in-action/

We are delighted to invite you to the online launch of our new edited book Liberating Language Education on Wednesday 15 June 2022 from 6.00 – 7.30 pm.
You need to register for this free event via this link You will be sent a Zoom link before.
We look forward to celebrating our new book with you!
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Event Details:
The editors will provide a brief overview of the vision that underpins this collaborative project and how the book came into being. We will then be discussing the critical and creative research included in the book. This is an exciting opportunity to hear from the chapter authors and commentary writers about their contributions to the book. There will be time at the end for questions. The editors will be joined by the following authors:
Thomas Quehl, Mooznah Auleear Owodally, Cátia Verguete, Ana Souza, Prue Holmes, Jelena Ćalić & Eszter Tarsoly, Simon Coffey, Koula Charitonos, Yu-chiao Chung, Jess Bradley, Louise Atkinson & Zhu Hua.
*Do take this opportunity to order your copy of Liberating Language Education with a 40% discount from Multilingual Matters until 30 June 2022.
40% discount available until 30 June 2022. To use this discount, visit http://www.multilingual-matters.com and search for the book using the box at the top of the page. Add the book to your basket and use the code LYTRA40 at the checkout to get 40% off the list price. This discount is for individual use only.

We have a new exciting online event coming up next week!
"Sita Brahmachari in conversation with Michael Rosen" on why diversity matters for children and young adults.

- Date: Wednesday 17 November from 5.30 - 7.00 pm
- Register for free here (online event): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sita-brahmachari-in-conversation-with-michael-rosen-tickets-190214224867
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This is an exciting opportunity to listen to the acclaimed and much-loved children’s authors, Sita Brahmachari and Michael Rosen in conversation about children’s literature. We are thrilled to be celebrating the launch of Sita Brahmachari’s powerful YA novel, When Shadows Fall (11.11. 21) described as a gripping, tender, terrifying work. We look forward to hearing about Sita Brahmachari’s life, work and books. We are also delighted to be celebrating the launch of Michael Rosen's new picturebook about perseverance, hope and overcoming fear, Sticky McStickstick (04.11.21), illustrated by Tony Ross.

Read more about the event and pre-order the authors' new books here: https://fb.me/e/2dC43WgL6

*A link to the talk will be sent to registered participants nearer to the time of the event.

We are still reeling with excitement from our recent event, "Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen"! Check out our blog post to hear all about it: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/clcl-blog/

This was a rare event bringing together two leading figures in the field of children's literature: Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen.
The blog shares some highlights from this brilliant event; reflections from the 4 panellists (MA/ PhD Children's Literature students at Goldsmiths); a recording of the event; and about 650 words from the Book of Dust, Part 3 (not to be reproduced or published outside the blog). Visit the CLCL blog: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/clcl-blog/

Huge congrats to all the students, lead teachers and schools that took part in Our Planet Digital Storytelling Festival on Friday! 🎥🌍 It was an amazing online event with 20 inspirational films made by young people (6-17 years old) across 7 countries and 20 languages.

If you missed the festival, you can access the films at the Deptford @ Home site: http://deptfordcinema.org/on-demand-calendar/ourplanetfestival

The festival also made National News in Taiwan:
https://www.chinatimes.com/amp/realtimenews/20210612001518-260405?fbclid=IwAR1EbNy-qDz3aYBRIKI8ZoByDYDDJgojBVc8qy22hOJkYkjHtDN1SzZRYPw

Tomorrow's the day! Don't miss OUR PLANET FESTIVAL free online screening event, this Friday, 11 June, 2021 - 1-4 pm! Check out the full program here: http://deptfordcinema.org/on-demand-calendar/ourplanetfestival

All the films from the Our Planet Festival will be accessible on DC@Home from 11 June, 2021 – 23 July, 2021 (and showcased on the Critical Connections website).
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Our Planet Festival 2021 brings together films from around the world, celebrating the multilingual lives of young people through the bi- and multi- lingual digital stories they have created during the pandemic. There are 20 languages included in the digital stories and Lead Educators have worked with young participants (6–17 years old) across 16 educational institutions (primary, secondary, community-based complementary, pupil referral unit, NGO) and 7 countries (England, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Taiwan, Turkey). We look forward to seeing you there!