Tikhtak

Friendships...

Friendships

 Friendships are from heaven above,
 They are full of love.
 They take and give to those most dear,
 And bring to life, a joyful cheer.
 For it's now a time to celebrate,
 Lift up your hands and celebrate,
 To God who loves us and gives us joy,
 And brings us doves from above.

 

For more poetry from Mum go to http://margogracecooper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/friendships.html?spref=fb

My new "Testimonials page"

In the hope of getting more work I haved started a Testimonial Page on my own Profile work blog. Yesterday I delivered an RE day for the Barnabas in schools team on the theme of  "Who am I?" in a beautiful little primary school in Bramley, Surrey. If I say so myself not a bad start to my new page. Of course only the good ones will go up there :)

My Mum's become a Poet.

In 2006 my Mum was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had to give up her home in Much Wenlcock, Shropshire to live in Denville Hall Care home for Actors in London. She faces many challenges day to day but poetry has become an outlet for her and she also hopes to encourage anyone else coping with disability. To see her poems click on this link.

Here is a little taster.

Ow!

Ow!

You’re treading on my toe,

Oh, Oh, Oh, No!

Where’s the rhyme? You let it go!

Now we’ll see all those busies in the bees,

Chase you up into those trees.

Get away from the garden and the fleas,

Bees don’t do all the work!

The others do! You quirk.

I'm back blogging...

I haven't blogged since May 2011 but I have decided to re-open my old blog to attempt to bring together all the different strands of my life. Running my own business SCA, Coordinating a Christian Charity WSP and freelancing as a drama facilitator. I have tried to explain the focus of my blog in the About this blog page. I worked as a Youth Advisor for CMS when I decided to originally blog in 2005 and was encouraged and inspired by my colleague and friend Jonny Baker. Once I finished at CMS in 2009 my blogging cheerleaders were gone and by  2011 I began to run out of steam and time and so stopped. BUT now I am back.

These are some of the things that I might have blogged about iI hadn't stopped in 2011,

The Royal wedding (May),

Bin Laden killed (May),

Amy WineHouse death (July)

Holiday to Canada (July-Aug),

English riots (Aug)

Gaddafi Killed (Oct)

In 2012

The Torch Project  (jan)

Cruise Ship Costa Concordia runs aground (jan),

Cold snap (Feb)

Discovery of Prehistoric Penguin (Feb),

Fabrice Muamba Collapses in game (March)

Man City win premiership (May)

Chelsea win champions league (May)

The London Olympics (July-Aug)

Goodbye to Zach (Oct)

Gangham style fever (Dec)

In 2013

DREAM Schools Project begins (Jan),

New Pope (march)

Man Utd win premiership (May),

Trip to Disney Land (May),

Amma and Daddy visit London(July/Aug)

Syria Crisis (July/Aug.)

 

Singing Teacher needed for new arts project in Kingston on Saturday afternoons

"Saturdays' Cool" is a new performing arts school project that starts on Saturday May 7th in Kingston Upon Thames run by Scene change theatre and Studyscool. The project involves teaching three sessions of 45 minutes between 2pm till 5pm to three age groups, 7-9 yrs, 9-11 yrs and 11-14yrs. The rate of pay is £25 per session, so £75 for the 3 sessions. The project will run for 12 weeks.

If you are interested in being a Singing Tutor on the project please contact David Pollendine on [email protected] or by mobile on 07862728056.

Singing & Dance Teachers needed for new project in Kingston

"Saturdays' Cool" is a new performing arts school project that starts on Saturday May 7th in Kingston Upon Thames run by Scene change theatre and Studyscool. The project involves teaching three sessions of 40 minutes from 2pm till 4pm to three age groups, 7-9 yrs, 9-11 yrs and 11-14yrs. The rate of pay is £25 per session, so £75 for the 3 sessions. The project will run for 12 weeks.

If you are interested in being a Singing or Dance Tutor on the project please contact David Pollendine on [email protected] or by mobile on 07862728056.

 

The King's Quest Schools Drama project tour is under way!

This week saw Scene Change Theatre working with schools from Worcestershire on the new King James Bible project called The King's Quest. The project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible and will run throughout the whole of 2011. The tour moves on from Worcester Cathedral last week to St Paul's Cathedral on February 14th and 17th. We are sure to get some good pictures from there! Check out the new King's Quest blog that will be following the project.

"Bricks in the Wall" Finale at Guildford Cathedral

On Thursday our "Bricks in the Wall" project came to an end with a performance involving some 120 plus children from 3 local schools. Each day we have had 100 or more children in the audience largely due to local schools coming to watch. On Thursday we didn't have any schools coming but we still managed a healthy audience of about 60 adults. The performance starts with 4 pilgrims erecting a cross on Stag Hill just outside of Guildford as they muse about the idea of building a castle on the hill. We then jump forward to 1920/30's Guildford with the children creating scenes from that era. Silent Movies, The Jarrow Crusade and The Charleston dance to name a few. The idea of a Cathedral was in the air, although many shouted the idea down with money so scarce. The action then jumps to the 2nd World War as the children create images from Britain, the home guard, an all Women's workforce and Evacuees from London. In each era our pilgrims returned to muse over the idea of building a Cathedral. After the war the challenge again was money. Although the building had started before the war, there again was no impetus to continue the building. That was until an unlikely lady in a hatstepped forward and led a "buy a brick" Campaign. Elenora Iredale was her name and she seemed a quite formidable character. One of the children played her very well, in a hat, tweed suite and hand bag to boot. Finally in 1961 Guildford Cathedral had its commissioning service with children playing the Queen, her lady in waiting and Bishop Reindorp. The children performed a finale dance with Austin Powers  style moves from the 60's,  John Travolta hips in the 70's, The robot to Kraftwerk to represent the 80's, Britney in the 90's and Robbie Williams to usher in the millennium. Cathedrals don't get built everyday and Guildford was the first one to be built in the south for 500 years,  so to be part of this celebration has been a privilage. It has also been interesting to work on a project in collaboration with a cathedral community, where I was part of a creative team to write the play and oversee its implementation. It really was a team effort involving schools, volunteers and even other Cathedrals ( Southwark provided the pilgrim costumes). Guildford will continue to celebrate their 50th birthday throughout 2011. Photos and comments of the project will follow and I hope to create a photo book of the project.

Next week my attention turns to the opening of Scene Change Theatre's  play for 2011 called The King's Quest. The play looks at the history and impact of The King James version of the bible in this 400th anniversary year. We will open on Wednesday at Worcester Cathedral.

"Bricks in the Wall" drama Project in Guildford Cathedral this week.

Since last September I have been working with the education department of Guildford Cathedral to create a play for local schools to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cathedral. The project is called "Bricks in the Wall" and we will be working with some 400 primary school children over 3 days this week from 25th -27th. The play will look at how and why the cathedral came to be built and the influence and involvement of the local community in this. I am also excited that the project has drawn on a wider community too and there will be many volunteers getting involved on each of the project days, serving drinks and helping to assist in workshops. A number of our costumes have come from various sources which have included schools making some of the props. The education department have set up a blog tracking the process of our collaboration called Guildford is 50.

Happy Christmas & a peaceful New Year