Antique Children’s Books – IMG_4171, originally uploaded by greensh.
We’ve had children’s literature expert Laura Atkins leading workshops for us for the last couple of weeks. It’s been great to have someone in who knows so much about children’s books. Laura’s written about last week’s workshops on her blog. This week the Piglets spent some time [...]
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Little green bookworms
Posted in Recommended books and resources, Visiting workshop leader on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No pens needed
Posted in Gallery workshops, Piglets (ages 7-11), Visiting workshop leader, tagged Ben Fairlight, storyteller, storytelling on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week our storyteller, Ben Fairlight, returned, after his second workshop was postponed because of the February snow. After wowing us with a traditional story from Bangladesh, Ben told us to keep our pens and paper in our bags - we were now going to get the chance to tell some of our very own [...]
Who am I?
Posted in Visiting workshop leader on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Imaginary Self Portrait, originally uploaded by katherine lynn.
How would you describe yourself to others? How much do other people really know what we’re like? These are some of the questions we were thinking about last week. Visiting workshop leader Rosy Carrick is working with the Piglets and the Saddlebacks and Piglets for two weeks. After [...]
News News News: anthology coming soon!! New workshop leaders!!
Posted in Anthology, Piglets (ages 7-11), Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Visiting workshop leader on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Performing poetry
Posted in Piglets (ages 7-11), Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Visiting workshop leader, tagged Adam Dench, Invokal, Leo, performance poetry on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
It’s good to talk…
Posted in Everything else, Saddlebacks (ages 12-18), Visiting workshop leader, tagged Add new tag on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]