{"id":52651,"date":"2026-03-24T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/?post_type=event&#038;p=52651"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:30:36","slug":"rashmi-sirdeshpande-this-is-who-i-am-6yrs","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/event\/rashmi-sirdeshpande-this-is-who-i-am-6yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashmi Sirdeshpande: This is Who I Am | 6yrs+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover that we are so much more than where we are from with award-winning Rashmi Sirdeshpande, as she presents her latest picture book,\u202fThis is Who I Am.<br \/>\nThis beautiful, poetic celebration of children with shared heritage, illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane, was one of the Guardian\u2019s Best Children\u2019s Books of 2025. Join Rashmi as she discusses all the things that make us who we are and how we should be proud of that.<\/p>\n<p>About Rashmi<\/p>\n<p>Rashmi Sirdeshpande is a lawyer-turned-storyteller, who was part of the Penguin Random House WriteNow mentoring programme in 2018. As a British Indian child, she didn&#8217;t get to see many children like her in the books she read, so she is now passionate about writing stories that children from all backgrounds can relate to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightonfestival.org\/whats-on\/XmA-rashmi-sirdeshpande-this-is-who-i-am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brightonfestival.org\/whats-on\/XmA-rashmi-sirdeshpande-this-is-who-i-am\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":52793,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_categories":[1028,930,1431],"class_list":["post-52651","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-book","event_categories-family-fun","event_categories-storytelling"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-17 18:27:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"event_categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52798,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52651\/revisions\/52798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=52651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}