Welcome to the tent that moves and grooves!
Check out BBoy, Nathan's scientific exploration of break-dancing and Shanelle'S introduction to Voguing and Waacking.
Creating a universal entitlement to arts & culture for all children & young people linked to a Virtual School in the West Midlands
Poetry Palace
Enter the palace full of poetry, a whirlwind of words and imagination. Write a rap with Spoz and try Jas Gardosi’s spoken word quiz. Hear professional poets’ work and artists’ feedback on young poets work from Sandwell.
Junior festival goers:
Take a look at these great poems by Spoz that have been transformed into a manga style comic books:
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Brian the Balloon Dog illustrated by manga style artist Purrl Pankras
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The House Fly illustrated by artist Purrl Pankras with accompanying noises!
N.B. links to YouTube
Junior festival goers:
Create a rhyme, riddle or rap. Record yourself performing it.
Older festival goers:
Choose a poem (your own work or an existing one you like) and create a short film including shots of you performing it, and other images linked to the words in the poem.
Older festival goers:
Lemn Sissay spent many years of his childhood in care. He is now a world-renowned poet:
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Lemn talks about the importance of everyday acts of creativity Here
N.B. links to YouTube
Jas Gardosi
For older festival goers
1. Intro
2. Poem - The Battle of the Junior Library
3. Spoken Word Quiz
4. Female Fight Club
Young Poets
5 young poets from Sandwell - Sharday, Manny, Samanta, Finn and Holly - sent us their poems based on the theme of ‘Lockdown’. So we asked 3 experts to read their poems and give feedback.
Hear them read by Therese Collins - Actress/Scriptwriter, Matt Windle- Poet/Former Poet Laureate, and Tonia Campbell-Daley- Actor/Producer/Agent and see what they thought about the poems.
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