New vending machines in Canary Wharf are serving up free reads on white privilege and colonialism. The Telegraph has the story.
Publisher Penguin Books and the Canary Wharf Group have teamed up to relaunch Short Story Stations in the area’s Crossrail Place Roof Garden and Jubilee Place.
Poems, stories and extracts championing “diversity and inclusion” will be free to print from vending machines to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month, Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Commuters will have access to extracts from books such as Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld, in which he explores the cultural, economic and political impact of the British Empire, and Kalwant Bhopal’s Race and Education. …
Visitors will be able to print the one, three or five-minute-long stories onto eco-friendly paper. …
The short story vending machines were first launched in Canary Wharf in 2019.
It comes after it was announced that the HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf would turn it into a tourist hub with terraces for visitors to enjoy views of London. …
Just over half of the businesses based in Canary Wharf are now in the finance industry, down from 70% about a decade ago.
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