John Hegley Scfhools Performance

Event information ENQUIRIES AND BOOKING All visits to the John Hegley performance must be pre-booked. For more information please email boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk To book your tickets please complete and return the booking form enclosed along with your payment, or call box office to book your tickets.

Tel: 0161 275 8951 (Monday-Friday 2pm-4pm) Email: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk PAYMENT Tickets can be purchased directly from the Box Office in person, by telephone or by post using the booking form enclosed, and can be paid for by cheque or debit/credit card. Please make cheques payable to ‘The University of Manchester’.

ACCESS

Teacher’s Resource Pack To assist in the planning of your trip to The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama we have prepared a Teacher’s Resource Pack full of information.

The pack includes the following resources: • Teacher’s Information Pack • Parental Consent Letter Template • Event Poster • Risk Assessments • Travel Information You will also receive Resource Worksheets with follow-up activities to complete back in the classroom.

You can request your Teacher’s Resource Pack now by emailing: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk

Captivating Audiences “In all honesty very rarely has poetry brought such smiles to the faces of the children I have taught. Hegley made them laugh, smile and positively embrace poetry.”

Teacher “The children were really enthused with John Hegley.”

Teacher

The Martin Harris Centre is fully accessible. There are 2 entrances, one on Bridgeford Street and the other on Coupland Street which has a ramp. Both entrances to the building have auto-opening doors.

There is a level floor entrance to the performance space. There are wheelchair spaces in the performance space. The performance space is fitted with induction loops.

RISK ASSESSMENT We have conducted a risk assessment which will be supplied as part of the Teacher’s Resource Pack but we would recommend that group leaders visit The Martin Harris Centre prior to their visit and conduct a site risk assessment.

TIMING We recommend you leave adequate time for travel.

Please aim to arrive at least ten minutes before the performance is due to start.

GETTING HERE

By Bus: Direct routes to Oxford Road run regularly from Piccadilly Gardens in Central Manchester. The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at The University of Manchester is served by many bus routes. For local bus information check www. gmpte.gov.uk or call 0161 228 7811.

By Train: Oxford Road station is a ten minute walk away. Train enquiries 08457 484950.

By Coach: On arrival coaches can drop off on Oxford Road (outside Cafe Muse) or Higher Cambridge Street but drivers will then need to find an area to park their coach.

AT THE MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE

Interactive Schools Performance themed around the Living Worlds exhibition at The Manchester Museum with

JOHN HEGLEY

English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.

Friday 7th October 2011, 11.30am

The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The University of Manchester

Please note that toilets at The Martin Harris Centre are open to the public and children should be accompanied at all times by a group leader.

Please notify the centre in advance of visitors with special requirements.

USEFUL LINKS The Martin Harris Centre www.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre National Poetry Day www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk The Poetry Society www.poetrysociety.org.uk John Hegley www.johnhegley.co.uk Young Poets Network www.youngpoetsnetwork.org.uk

“John Hegley’s children’s show ‘Animal Alphaboat’ was one of the ten best kids’ shows at the Edinburgh Festival.”

The Guardian 2011 “You’re absolutely guaranteed a good time, kids will love it. I loved it.”

Fringe Review 2010

The University of Manchester Bridgeford Street, off Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: 0161 275 8951 (Mon-Fri 2pm-4pm) Email: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk www.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre www.facebook.com/MHCentre

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VENUE & DIRECTIONS: The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is situated at the heart of The University of Manchester’s campus, behind The Manchester Museum, which is located on Oxford Road. It is approximately 1 mile south of the city centre.

Delivering the Curriculum at the theatre “Prepare to be engaged, enthused and inspired”

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INTERACTIVE SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE WITH JOHN HEGLEY Themed around the Living World exhibition at The Manchester Museum.

Friday 7th October 2011, 11.30am

Celebrating National Poetry Day 2011

The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Thursday 6 October Since 1994 National Poetry Day has engaged millions of people with poetry through a range of events and activities for people young and old throughout the country. It is intended to give a focus to events and stimulate attempts at writing in schools and amongst others who need that extra spur to awaken their creativity.

The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, based at The University of Manchester, is delighted to welcome critically acclaimed performance poet John Hegley to coincide with National Poetry Day 2011. His interactive poetic genius and silliness is guaranteed to enchant children and teachers alike.

John Hegley is widely known as one of the country’s most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. For many years John Hegley has been visiting schools and performing to school children in theatres. He teaches them to think about poetry and to do things they perhaps wouldn’t normally do.

Places are limited so book your school’s place now.

Tickets: just £2 per child.

Teachers/adult supervisors go free.

Theme: Living Worlds Exhibition at The Manchester Museum

What will the Interactive Performance Involve?

What are the Learning Objectives and Outcomes?

The 40 minute Interactive Performance will be themed around the objects in the new Living Worlds exhibition recently opened at The Manchester Museum. This includes favourites such as the Sperm Whale skeleton, Polar Bear and Tiger. The exhibition explores the connections between all living things, including us, and shows how we can all shape the future by the choices we make.

John Hegley will enchant the children with his poetic genius and silliness, delivered in his unique performance style. Rhyming expertise is interspersed with simple ditties that will have everyone singing along in a performance with lots of audience participation!

This event is tailored to complement Key Stage 3 Learning Objectives.

The 40 minute interactive performance will provide a safe, fun learning opportunity for the children, delivered by a highly commended poet.

• They will get an insider’s perspective on authorial intent/author’s craft/author’s viewpoint and how it is conveyed.

John’s heritage is both French and English and he reads versions of his poems in both languages.

• To analyse how writers use linguistic and literacy features to shape and influence meaning.

It is a tried and tested performance which has already been delivered to several primary schools across the country.

• Back in school they can then respond, analyse and evaluate the poetry they have heard.

Who is the Interactive Performance for?

This 40 minute Performance is particularly appropriate to Key Stage 3.

What are the Aims of the Performance?

• This performance aims to develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of poetry and to meet National Curriculum and Key Stage 3 Framework requirements.

This specially adapted performance will be themed around the Living World exhibition at The Manchester Museum.

Performance: • The chance to hear and experience poetry in an actual performance by a professional poet.

• The experience of being ‘on campus’ at The University of Manchester.

• It is designed to make students enthusiastic about listening to poems, analysing them, and then recreating the effects in their own writing.

Natural History/Living Worlds Exhibition:

French:

During the performance John Hegley will select objects from the Museum’s Living Worlds Exhibition and ingeniously craft poetry from them.

By listening to spoken French children will have the opportunity to:

To enhance the natural history learning objectives from your visit why not tie in a trip to The Living Worlds Exhibition whilst you are on campus?

The Manchester Museum is just a short stroll away from The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama.

The fantastic new gallery is not to be missed!

By visiting the exhibition children will have the opportunity to think creatively to explain connections between all living things and look at life processes common to all living things. To plan a visit to the Museum or for more information please contact Nora Callaghan Education Booking Coordinator Telephone: 0161 275 2630 Email: nora.callaghan@manchester.ac.uk www.museum.manchester.ac.uk

• Develop listening skills • Understand how a language works and how to manipulate it • See how language can be used creatively • How to use knowledge of a language creatively and imaginatively • Develop Intercultural Understanding

ENQUIRIES AND BOOKING All visits to the John Hegley performance must be pre-booked. For more information: Email: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk Telephone: 0161 275 8951 (Mon-Fri 2pm-4pm).

See back cover for full event information.

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