Go Inside

LED + light bulb, originally uploaded by mr.beaver.
Go Inside
Go inside
Take a look?
Maybe not
As it’s bright and boiling hot.
Its hard shell,
To stop it shattering into a million pieces.
It’s so happy
And lazy
Just hanging there all day
All night
To see its bright reflection
In the glass
To sleep a lot.
But when I run out
Someone else would be replaced,
Someone much, much brighter
Here [...]

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Clapping away the rain

DSC01505, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
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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Book Thieves

Stealing isn’t a good thing, but borrowing is ok! This week, the piglets and saddlebacks were creating stories, tales and poems from pictures borrowed from Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief. You may have heard that his book has been chosen by City Reads so you might have spotted people around Brighton reading it.  City Reads selects a novel for [...]

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The tap speaks

Bathroom Tap, originally uploaded by Scootville.
An odd picture to choose you might be thinking. If you had been in the Saddlebacks workshop this week you would have heard some very odd voices too. We had talking swings, talking windows, talking walls. We had a lot of fun imagining the noises and voices our houses and [...]

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And the winner is…

Well done Carmen! Your name was picked at random and you will get  a prize at the workshops today. Carmen wrote a fantastically gruesome sentence using the word shark – take a read! Well done to everyone else who entered, I was impressed by how you all took the instructions and used them in different [...]

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Cinematic Experiences

The Ghost cinema, originally uploaded by phill.d.
Lots of memories are evoked when we go to the cinema, as both Piglets and Saddlebacks found out in their writing sessions this week. Local readers’ and writers’ forum, QueenSpark Books, are compiling interesting texts written by people from Brighton and Hove about the history of cinema in Brighton. [...]

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News News News: anthology coming soon!! New workshop leaders!!

Adam performing for Saddlebacks, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
We hope you enjoyed having Adam in to do some great workshops with you. We should have lots more workshop leaders helping out at Little Green Pig now, as we have received some funding from the National Lottery funded organisation Awards for All, so each week will be [...]

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Performing poetry

Adam & Leo, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
We’ve had performance poet Adam Dench (aka Invokal) leading some workshops for the last couple of weeks. The Piglets really enjoyed reading the poem ‘Ladles and Jellyspoons’ (which I’m sure we must all know by heart by now!) and learning how to perform. Here’s a great photo of Leo [...]

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It’s good to talk…

 
DSC01201, originally uploaded by littlegreenpig.
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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