To help you fill the anxious wait (just over a fortnight to go!) until this year’s ALL2014, don’t miss a wonderful festival of poetry and music coming up this week in Cambridge organised by ALL committee member Josepa Munoz in support of the Catalan cause. Visit their website for full details. Elsewhere, from the sublime to the canine as ALL artist Tom Hackett has been transporting some marvellously desirable Shaggy Dog Stories, on show in Scunthorpe until next Spring. And amongst many other ALL artists who have been busy over the summer, check out Lizz Brady‘s project, Broken Grey Wires. She is crowd funding for…

The ALL Map has arrived! So today we start to distribute our highly-desirable Map, Poster and Bookmarks around town. The Map is already a collector’s item – pick up your copy when you see it, you won’t be disappointed. Do contact us if you would like to stock some copies or can help with distribution. Also new today, check out our totally revised and revamped ALL Web front page too, with latest details of our programme of events, including Panel Discussion with poet John Kinsella, Tea Party hosted by Engine ChatChat and Day of Performance. Browse our updated Artists page (thanks to Sara…

We have a Green for Go for our ALL Launch Party this year, which will take place at the ALL Hub on the Top Floor of Waterstones Cambridge on Weds 15th October 6-9pm. Very pleased to confirm that Louise Ashcroft (above, performing at this year’s Latitude festival) will be showing a brand new performative text piece entitled Silicone Fen. Louise says: “Silicone Fen is a comically surreal play that weaves stories and situations around fragments of Cambridge that might otherwise never have met.” We are also delighted that Molly Jackson, Deputy Chief Executive of the South Bank Centre, will be formally launching ALL2014 for us, whilst…