Ever tried to write a ballad? It isn’t easy, but the Saddlebacks composed an impressive variety of poems, attempting to stick to the patterend rhythm and rhyme. We started off by listening to some famous love song ballads (or famous for some of us!) and then thought about the various techniques that the form of [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Battling with Ballads
Posted in Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Writing examples, tagged ballads, poetry on June 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What’s your story?
Posted in Competitions, Piglets (ages 7-11), Writing examples, tagged Waterstones, writing competition on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Piglets and Waterstones competition, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Both the Piglets and Saddlebacks wrote entries for the Waterstones What’s your Story writing competition yesterday. It’s amazing how the chance to win £500 of book tokens got the creative juices flowing! With the Piglets group we played a word association game to come up with the opening [...]
Ask the Audience
Posted in Performances, Writing examples, tagged poetry on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saddlebacks waiting to perform, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
You may remember that we left some postcards on the chairs in the audience at our Little Green Pig Performance Evening. Here are a couple of the fantastic responses.
Write a limerick about a man who likes fish:
There was an old curious day-tripper
Who found an old fish in his [...]
Still inspired…
Posted in Performances, tagged feedback, open mic, performance night on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dillan, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Thank you all for your comments about the performance night. We’ve had great feedback from everyone who came along and Lucy and I have been on a high all week. Several of you have asked if we are going to have another one – and the answer is yes, definitely! We [...]
A great success
Posted in Performances, tagged open mic night, performance night on June 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Ione and audience, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Our first Little Green Pig Performance Night yesterday went brilliantly. Seventeen of our young people (eight Piglets, eight Saddlebacks and Lucy McClean, our volunteer) stepped up to the mic and treated our ears to the some of the stories and poems they’ve been creating over the last few months. [...]
Don’t forget…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged open mic, performance night, rehearsal on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saddlebacks at table, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
…it’s our performance night on Tuesday so our Piglets and Saddlebacks will be stepping up to the mic. Here we are making our final preparations for the big night. We were happy to see we got a mention in What’s On Brighton so we’re expecting a good audience. Remember [...]
Tell me your story
Posted in Library workshops, Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), tagged library, life writing, Maya Angelou, young people on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maya Angelou, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
Last week I led a half term workshop for young people at Jubilee Library. The theme for the workshop was writing from your own life experiences. It was a small group but we got some good writing done, and I got to join in too! First of all we looked [...]
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