The Pencil Portal

Creative writing charity, Fighting Words NI, will launch its month-long residency at Banana Block - East Belfast’s newest destination - during the first weekend of the Belfast Children’s Festival.  Parents and children can get comfy with a book in The Pencil Portal writer’s studio or brandish pencil and paper and transport into a story of their own.    

Enjoy a special story-making session facilitated by the Fighting Words NI team, challenging everyone to let their imaginations go bananas, inspired by the amazing space and an exhibition of artist-illustrated stories by East Belfast Children.