Open Mic Night, Tuesday 7th July

Please join us next Tuesday 7th July for a night of performing Piglets and Saddlebacks – aka our talented young writers aged 7 to 16 who have been attending our Brighton Youth Centre. The performers will be stepping up to the mic and wowing you with some of the best words they’ve written over the [...]

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When I ride my bike…

We had fun on Saturday leading a ‘Words on Wheels’ trail in Hove Park as part of the Council’s Bike Week activities. Children had to ride round and find word clues and use them to write poems about cycling.  Here are some of my favourite lines taken from all the poems that were written by [...]

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Words on Wheels, Saturday 20th June

shadow play (crop), originally uploaded by ༺lifemage༻.
Join us in Hove Park this coming Saturday 20th June, 12 – 4 pm  for ‘Wheels on Words’.  A word hunt for 7 – 11s, we’ll be setting you off on your bikes to find clues and write poems. It is part of a whole load of events taking [...]

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Rehearsals begin

stage door, originally uploaded by slimmer_jimmer.
Just a few weeks to go before we take to the stage at our second Open Mic night! With this in mind, the Piglets and Saddlebacks had some coaching from local performance poet Adam, whose stage name is Invokal. They picked up some great skills and top tips for keeping [...]

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Bookmakers

   
Laura F and Piglets, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
We’ve been busy making finishing off our  books at Little Green Pig over the last couple of weeks. The Piglets really enjoyed making their own books, complete with covers and illustrations. You will be able to see some of the finished books at our Open Mic night – [...]

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