Workshop leaders needed

We have some job opportunities coming up at Little Green Pig – see details below. 1)    Walking tours workshop leader, March – April As part of Brighton Children’s Festival, we will be leading some children-led story walking tours around the North Laines for children and their parents. You will be taking over this project towards [...]

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Little green bookworms

   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 [...]

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No pens needed

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 [...]

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Who am I?

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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