Something special for opening night: the launch of ‘Colour In…Jewish UK’, an exciting addition to Emma Barnett and Jeremy Weil ‘s local colouring book range, ‘Colour Your Streets’.

Created especially in time for our 74th festival, this wonderful colouring book celebrates the country’s Jewish communities, inviting people of all ages to come together to colour in landmarks they love and sights they have yet to discover.

BBC Today presenter Emma Barnett and her husband Jeremy Weil’s highly popular series now covers over 150 cities, towns and neighbourhoods. Join them for a joyous discussion about Jewish places, identity, the importance of home, and why we love seeing where we live celebrated in a colouring book. In conversation with JW3’s director of programming, William Galinsky.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval.

About the speakers:

Emma Barnett and Jeremy Weil co-founded their family publishing business, Colour Your Streets in 2023, not long after the birth of their daughter. Inspired by their pram walks around their local neighbourhood with their older son, they were surprised to learn local colouring books of people’s areas didn’t exist. So they created one: Colour In Brixton, swiftly followed by Colour In Herne Hill, and now the Colour Your Streets family is at over 150 books, adding more each week.

The duo are now mapping neighbourhoods, cities and towns right across the UK and world with their colouring books and are enjoying producing many bespoke commissions too – from individuals through to major brands. Described by the Observer newspaper as “a family business grounded in community and curiosity”, Colour Your Streets is also diversifying into colouring biscuits and posters. The books have been featured in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Stylist magazine, Metro, GQ and many more – as well as appearing on The Jeremy Vine Show, ITV’s This Morning and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch.

Emma works as a journalist for the BBC where she presents The Today programme, writes a column for The i Paper and a newsletter called Trying. Until recently Jeremy worked at the Economist‘s Editorial Intelligence Unit as the head of product but now works full time as the CEO and co-founder of Colour Your Streets. Follow @ColourYourStreets on social media.

William Galinsky is Director of Programming & Impact at JW3, where he has been responsible for several significant new initiatives including the London Jewish Mural, JW3’s annual Panto, and the JW3 Social Action Incubator. William studied Slavonic languages at Oxford before embarking on a career as a theatre and arts festival director. He was Artistic Director of Cork Midsummer and Norfolk & Norwich Festivals and worked as an arts & culture consultant for the National Theatre of Scotland, Nottingham City Council, Universities of Kent and Nottingham, and Waltham Forest and Brent London Boroughs of Culture, and was Creative Programmer for Kirklees Year of Music 2023.