Autumn performances 2024 › Exeter

Past event

Kate Wakeling and Elīna Brasliņa performance

How did it go?

The always brilliant duo, poet Kate Wakeling and illustrator Elina Braslina entertained over 400 children at the Exeter Northcott! Children were treated to an energetic performance of live poetry from Kate that got everyone's imaginations fizzing, while Elina drew alongside on stage. It was joyful to watch and every child went home with their own copy of Cloud Soup.

Kate Wakeling Workshop

Year 5 and 6 children from from two lucky Exeter schools enjoyed working with Kate Wakeling on their poetry writing skills in their own classroom.

Elina Braslina Workshop

Children from two lucky Exeter schools enjoyed an illustration workshop where Elina worked with year 5 and 6 in their classroom. The children had the opportunity to experience what it's like to be an illustrator themselves, and rose to the challenge of drawing pictures to accompany Elina's wild and wacky prompts.

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Every child attending this performance will receive a **FREE** copy of _Cloud Soup_ to take home and keep! cover

Every child attending this performance will receive a FREE copy of Cloud Soup to take home and keep!

Venue:
Northcott Theatre, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QB
Date:
Monday 7th October
Time:
10:30 am
Duration:
Approx. 1 hour
Age range:
Years 4, 5 and 6

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Kate Wakeling

Kate Wakeling is a poet who writes for both children and adults. Her debut collection of children’s poetry, Moon Juice (The Emma Press) is illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa, won the 2017 CLiPPA and was nominated for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Kate’s second collection for children, Cloud Soup, came out in 2021. Kate studied music at university and often collaborates with musicians, including as writer-in-residence for Aurora Orchestra. She loves writing scripts for musical performances, and her work has featured at the Southbank Centre, the Barbican, Kings Place and on BBC Radio 3.

Praise for Cloud Soup

Both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful, some of these poems, on subjects from weird cakes to good ideas, bodies, dust and Antarctica, will surely stay with their enthralled readers for ever.

The Guardian


Elīna Brasliņa

Elīna Brasliņa is an illustrator and artist from Latvia. She studied printmaking at the Art Academy of Latvia, and discovered her love of book illustration there. She has worked on close to 30 titles, most of them children’s books by Latvian authors. She made her international debut by illustrating Kate Wakeling's collection of poems, Moon Juice (published by The Emma Press). Elīna enjoys playing around with styles and techniques, and even when she works digitally, she almost always incorporates scanned textures to give her work a more hand-drawn feeling. She lives in Riga with her husband, her daughter and their dog Bonnie.

Praise for Moon Juice

Moon Juice, from the Emma Press, illustrated with spiky charm by Elīna Brasliņa, won the 2017 CLiPPA, ranges from dreamy celestial meditation to comet-streaking speed

The Times Literary Supplement


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