And the winner is…

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Kathy Whitestone!
Well done, Kathy. Your £10 voucher for the Book Nook children’s bookshop will be winging its way to you soon.
Thank you to everyone else who took the time to give us feedback on our open mic night last week. Kathy’s favourite parts were ‘all the great poems and stories’ and [...]

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Clapping away the rain

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It poured. It poured some more. But it still didn’t stop us! Thank you to everyone who came to perform and watch last Tuesday at our open mic night 2009. We were so proud watching our Piglets and Saddlebacks. It was a great night.
See more photos from the evening on Flickr.
Come [...]

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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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Ask the Audience

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 [...]

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Still inspired…

  
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 [...]

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A great success

         
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. [...]

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Little Green Pig Performance Night

Picture courtesy of Gratzer

Roll up, roll up! We will be holding our first Little Green Pig Performance Night on Tuesday 10th June. It looks set to be a great night, giving the children and young people from the Piglets and Saddlebacks a chance to perform the best of their writing from the last six months. The [...]

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Speaking out

On Thursday 20th March we had our first performance by three of our writers from the Saddlebacks group. They performed as part of an Open Mic night for young people at Jubilee Library, alongside some writers from the BHASVIC writers collective. It was a great night, and refreshing to hear some young voices – so many open mic [...]

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Getting ready to perform!

Well, despite a pretty soggy February, we’ve been having a great time at the writing sessions over the last few weeks. We had fun with limericks and silly rhymes last week and are now really excited about our guest workshop leader who will be visiting on 11th and 18th March to do some creative stuff [...]

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