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Notre Ville by the Sea with New Writing South – Final performance and final thoughts

By littlegreenpig | Published: March 9, 2012

P2240121, a photo by littlegreenpig on Flickr. We’ve been taking part in a Interreg funded New Writing South project called ‘Notre Ville by the Sea’. You can read more about our the project and our first days here. Our final performance in France was to the general public in Cayeux-sur-Mer on Friday evening, to open their [...]

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Notre Ville by the Sea with New Writing South – Day 4 in Cayeux-sur-Mer

By littlegreenpig | Published: March 9, 2012

P2240118, a photo by littlegreenpig on Flickr. We’ve been taking part in a Interreg funded project commissioned by New Writing South called ‘Notre Ville by the Sea’. You can read more about our first days here. Our penultimate day in Cayeux-sur-Mer was packed full of performances! We started off in the morning with a dress [...]

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Notre Ville by the Sea with New Writing South – Day 3 in Cayeux-sur-Mer

By littlegreenpig | Published: February 23, 2012

P2220038, a photo by littlegreenpig on Flickr. We’re in Cayeux-sur-Mer in France, working on a project commisioned by New Writing South and ‘La Passe Muraille’. Today we have been putting everything together for our performance tomorrow. Here’s Stani’s thoughts: ‘Stani here, I don’t currently have a Youtube channel but me and William will be making [...]

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Notre Ville by the Sea with New Writing South – Day 2 in Cayeux-sur-Mer

By littlegreenpig | Published: February 23, 2012

P2220069, a photo by littlegreenpig on Flickr. We’ve had a packed day here in Cayeux on the New Writing South project, ‘Notre Ville by the Sea.’ Today we met the twelve French young people we are working with here in Cayeux and who will be visiting us in Brighton in April. All the young people [...]

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Notre Ville by the Sea with New Writing South – Day 1 in Cayeux-sur-Mer

By littlegreenpig | Published: February 21, 2012

On the beach at Cayeux, a photo by littlegreenpig on Flickr. Our Little Green Pig writers have arrived in France! We are taking part in a project commissioned by New Writing South and french company ‘La Passe Muraille’ called ‘Notre Ville by the Sea.’ Twelve of our young writers aged from 10 to 16 have [...]

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Stop press

By littlegreenpig | Published: December 6, 2011

Headline, a photo by emmakerf on Flickr. We had fun a few sessions back in our Saddlebacks group chopping up and rearranging newspaper headlines and using them to write news stories. Here’s 13 year old Eddie’s witty story on an out-of-control toddler: He Can Do Whatever But We Can’t Do A Thing Oliver Wilson has [...]

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Saddleback Hannah wins in The Guardian!

By littlegreenpig | Published: December 6, 2011

Moxie Teenz Gavin + Melrose, a photo by Nataloons on Flickr. A big congratulations goes out to Hannah, one of our writers in our Saddlebacks group. Hannah was a winner in the Television category in the The Guardian’s young arts critics 2011 competition, with her hilarious review of reality TV show ‘The Bachelor’. You can [...]

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Tortoise

By littlegreenpig | Published: November 18, 2011

Tortoises, a photo by hectormolini on Flickr. A few weeks ago with our Piglets and Spots writing groups, we wrote from the perspective of animals. Seven year old Morgan from the Piglets group chose to write from the perspective of a tortoise – not just any household tortoise though, but a tortoise who lives in [...]

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“The Spirits Answer” – Cleo

By littlegreenpig | Published: October 24, 2011

Scary Halloween Sky, a photo by ghostofhalloweenspast on Flickr. This is Cleo’s frightening good poem, “The Spirits Answer” She was alone All alone next to her mother’s death bed Her head flicked She screamed but nothing was present She turned her head again She saw a shadow of a man She shouted, “Help!” But only [...]

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Haunting Rhymes – Leila