12 Jun 2025
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Online
About the event
Join our EmpathyLab and National Literacy Trust event, part of the Empathy Day Festival 2025. Celebrate Empathy Day with a free fun and interactive empathy-themed session with brilliant authors – poet and former Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho and Elle McNicoll. Jump into someone else’s story through brilliant characters and poems, Empathy Challenge activities and a live Q&A. This is a fantastic way to bring the Empathy Day Festival to a close and celebrate the empathy work you have been doing throughout the Festival and on Empathy Day itself.
About the authors
Poet Joseph Coelho is the former Waterstones Children’s Laureate and author of titles including Poems Aloud and Overheard in a Tower Block.
Multi-award-winning Elle McNicoll is author of Keedie and A Kind of Spark, now an award-winning BBC TV series.
Click here to sign up for the event and receive FREE Empathy Day Festival resources!