The Spirit of Art

Mythic artist Lisa Nicholson and myself seek to step beyond our experiences for Streets Alive (City of York City of Festivals) and the Archaeological Trusts Jorvik experience (Why? Who knows) into sharing art and thought and writing into a performance of your topics. Museums, festivals schools, safe centres, community touring, theatre - lead us to you and we will make everything you have experienced as a seeking body so much more real and lasting.

(See also collaborations with Viking projects.)

 

Roaming around with Romany’s

So Bill has a world of crafts and lore and I have the ability to write for children from dynamic experience and you want to explore cultural diversity. Inter-structural cultures, folk work, dialects, languages, values, hygiene, knowledge, carousel, fair, circus, hedgehogs, pegs, curses, alienation, richness of awareness, alternative view, horses, scrap, miniature crisp packets, recycling, and the free world of the invisible skilled traveller who has passed this way before while looking right at you now. Respect an older member of a whole way of life and learn to recreate, act out, and write.

 

See also Children’s Poetry Drama

 

Numbers

See Creative Context and the forthcoming exciting theme of numbers.

If you are from or know of another Creative Context project other than the East riding of Yorkshire do please let me know. Wherever your project is in the world if you put a series of visits together I will create around your theme.

 

Seaside II

Yet another seaside project. I just end up getting more and more material. This project (Still available to Hornsea Schools at half price) was another Creative Context commission and included a full package of activities.

 

Creation

A whole school project of performance and writing with follow on activities and a show for the grown ups commissioned for Creative Context 2004.

Earth’s Birth

 

Word and Rhythm of the Seasons

This was a delightful project for nursery kids (It is available for you too). Myself and Mo Burrows of Tantara Arts (My agent) put this together for Beverley Manor Nursery. We did a performance for each group of a season poem with atmospheric percussion then split them into groups; Mo’s lot worked on the sounds and rhythms and mine rehearsed the poem (a different season for each group) and wrote a poem for performance too. We then put it all on as a show for the other groups. All that in four one hour sessions!

Here are their poems and one of mine

 

Whatever The Weather

Burlington Infants School, Bridlington asked me back for another commission. It was the seaside last time, this; the weather. A whole series of poems from the Beaufort Scale to signing up as member of the WARM Front. The moon got in a sulk, the children got dizzy spinning round the world and HAND demonstrated a hurricane. Get to know your rain cycle with exciting performance from Adrian Spendlow! There are a few of the poems here for you

 

A school has just rung and asked if I can do a day on George and the Dragon: They want me for next week. I’m going there. Imagine. Your dreams and needs and the child centred creative flow.

 

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You just focus on SATS and the job of funding a school, who could blame you really. Target those kids in the direction that feels right.

Schools projects and commissions