Performances
The Children’s Bookshow brings some of the best children’s authors from the UK and abroad to local theatre venues and gives teachers and school children the opportunity to hear world-class artists talk about their work.
Theatre performances autumn 2021
Here is our wonderful autumn programme of theatre performances for schools. Click on the links below to find out more:
- Kwame Alexander Performance, Newcastle, Friday 24th September
- Michael Rosen Performance, London, Friday 1st October
- Catherine Rayner Performance, Hull, Monday 4th October
- Neal Layton Performance, Weymouth, Wednesday 6th October
- Natalia and Lauren O'Hara Performance, Stafford, Tuesday 12th October
- Jo Empson Performance, Manchester, Thursday 14th October
- Alexis Deacon Performance, Crewe, Monday 18th October
- Yuval Zommer Performance, Coventry, Tuesday 2nd November
- Kathrin Rohmann Performance, Milton Keynes, Friday 5th November
- Sydney Smith Performance, Exeter, Tuesday 9th November
- Jörg Mühle Performance, Ipswich, Thursday 11th November
- Rachel Rooney Performance, Merseyside, Monday 15th November
- Jan Blake Performance, Margate, Tuesday 16th November
- Valerie Bloom Performance, Wolverhampton, Wednesday 17th November
- Chris Naylor-Ballesteros Performance, London, Thursday 18th November
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More about our performances
We give children the chance to experience an inspiring ‘live’ encounter with an artist. Our authors and illustrators talk about their working lives, show children the paint brushes and notebooks that they use, the tools and tricks of their trade, and in doing this, they offer children a real insight into what it means to work creatively. Feedback from children show their strong appetite for new and challenging experiences, their feeling of personal connection to the writers whom they have met, and their sense of being inspired by contact with creative artists. We want children to feel that great literature and art is for them; that they can engage with it, enjoy it and practise it.
Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development… Reading widely and often increases pupils’ vocabulary because they encounter words they would rarely hear or use in everyday speech. Reading also feeds pupils’ imagination and opens up a treasure-house of wonder and joy for curious minds.
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