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

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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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Tilting at Windmills

The blog has been a little quiet recently, but we have been very busy!
Our workshops started back after Easter last Tuesday and we’re going to have Laura Atkins leading sessions for the next couple of weeks.
You can also find Little Green Pig taking part in The Book and the Rose Day celebrations this Sunday 26th April in Jubilee Square.  [...]

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Good news and bad news

Bad news (it’s always best to get this out the way first): the Little Green Pig website is still down. Our website master Martin and I are doing our best to learn technobabble and sort it out. 
Good news: we’ve just heard that we’re going to receive some funding through Grassroots Grants, which will pay for [...]

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It’s good to talk…

 
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For the first time this week, the Saddlebacks had a go at writing some drama scripts in the form of a dialogue between two characters. After a few drama warm-ups we got down to creating some great episodes using lots of different voices. Jake’s stands out: a phone conversation between a [...]

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Streets for the People – Saddlebacks’ Storywalk

 
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We had a great time wandering the streets of Brighton this week on our Streets for the People walk, sponsored by Brighton and Hove’s Journey On campaign. Piglets and Saddlebacks enjoyed thinking up characters and then following a trail where extraordinary things happened on what would normally be an ordinary walk. [...]

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Storywalk – Tuesday 16th September

Welcome back to all the Piglets and Saddlebacks who made it last week! We had two new members to the Piglets group – Lula and Scout – and lots of familiar faces who made it last term.
Next week we are running two special Storywalks as part of Streets for the People week. New participants and [...]

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Tales from Beneath – Workshops at Fabrica, August 19th

 
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This is just a reminder about the two writing workshops we’ll be running at Fabrica gallery on Tuesday 19th August. We’ll be exploring the stunning new exhibition THE UNDERCROFT, and using it for inspiration for some writing. It will be a great chance to write in a completely different space, and we [...]

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Good News!

  
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Just to let you all know, we have been successful with our recent funding bid to Brighton & Hove City Council. This is fantastic news as it will enable us to pay for venue hire, buy a printer and get going on production of the first ever Little Green [...]

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Runaway pancakes and runaway blogs

Ho hum. I have accidentally deleted a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, updating you on what we’ve been doing at Little Green Pig over the last few weeks. I even managed to delete a very nice comment from the mother of someone who comes to the sessions. Anyway, here is a brief [...]

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