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What’s on_ Children’s story telling John Edgar Because it’s an anthology performance, John Edgar’s Big Story World is suitable for all ages. JOHN EDGAR’S BIG STORY WORLD STORY CHEFS WORKSHOP with LINDSAY BAILEY Similarly, the length of both performance and BANTOCK HOUSE MUSEUM CENTRAL LIBRARY children events Sun 28th January - 12.30pm – 1.30pm Sat 27th January 10.30am – 11.30am workshops can be tailored to suit specific Tickets £4 / £3 CONCS Tickets - £5 requirements. Bring along your imagination and John Edgar’s Big Story World is a choice collection Lindsey Bailey is a writer, teacher and the founder be amazed and astounded by these big stories of favourites from John’s repertoire, taking in African, of Story Chefs – offering interactive creative writing American, European and Asian traditional tales alongside workshops for primary aged children. She has 8 years’ from the length and breadth of our small planet. John’s original bizarre ballads and riotous rhymes. It’s a experience as a class teacher in schools across London, world in which mysterious beings lurk under every bush Dubai and the West Midlands, and is now on a mission to and tree, and animals talk. you’ll meet such characters as share the many benefits of writing for pleasure. Lindsey Himsuka, the parrot who could really talk, the fiercesome will be popping up with all the ingredients young writers Hulak who once haunted the lakes of America (and need to cook up a SOUP-er story! may still be there!), the scratchy Fleaman, a runaway hamster, monsters lurking in the canals of England’s West CHILDREN’S BOOK FAIR SLADE ROOMS Midlands, half a cockerel with ideas above his station and an ageing fox who proves to be far too clever for the hunt. Sat 27th January 11am - 4pm There’s also a song or two for good measure. And once Free Entry you’ve heard John’s rather gruesome and grotty version of Cinderella you’ll never look at this famous old fairy tale ON THE DOG WALK - Read by author DAVID J. in the same light again. ROBERTSON Because it’s an anthology performance, John Edgar’s Big CENTRAL LIBRARY (CHILDREN’S SECTION) Story World is suitable for all ages. Sat 27th January at 2pm – 3pm Free Entry ROSINA TROTMAN - THE NONSENSE OF MR. MARMA AND MR. LADE ON THE DOG WALK is local author, David J Robertson’s CENTRAL LIBRARY (CHILDREN’S SECTION) third book recounting the adventures of border collie Misty and her friends. Released at the end of 2017 it Sat 27th January at 11.30am – 12.15pm tells of how an innocent walk in the country turned into a Free Entry journey home to remember. Rosina will be reading from her book The Nonsense of Mr Marma and Mr Lade - a tale, written in rhyme about two David’s first book, DOGNAPPED! got to the final of The good natured gentlemen who decide to take a journey People’s Book Prize and his second, IN THE DOGHOUSE to White-Water-On-Sea and build a sand castle. Their was released soon after. journey is delayed by many adventures and in their Come and meet the author, some of his furry friends and excitement they overlook one very important fact – can see some of the original artwork you work out what it is before the end? An exciting read Suitable for children up to age 11 (and adults of all ages). for parents and children. Wolverhampton Literature Festival Wolverhampton Literature Festival 2 3 What’s on_ THE ADVENTURES OF ALIEN EGG- THE EGGSTRATERRESTRIAL CENTRAL LIBRARY (CHILDREN’S SECTION) Sat 27th January at 3pm – 3.45pm WRITING WEST MIDLANDS’ YOUNG WRITERS GROUP Free Entry WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY Join local children’s author, Lee Benson as he introduces Sat 27th January 1.30pm – 3.30pm you to Alien Egg. Costs £5, booking required online Twelve of Lee’s Henry Egg stories have been performed on television. The stories were either out of print or new www.writingwestmidlands.org/wolverhampton-young-writersgroup and unpublished until local publisher APS decided to do Writing West Midlands present a creative writing group for young writers new editions. aged 12–16. Led Lee would also like placed on record that he is the proud by professional writer William Gallagher, the group will look at all sorts of Lee Benson - Alien Egg owner of a Blue Peter badge, presented to him on the writing to inspire creativity, expression and confidence in young people and a television programme in 1986 by Biddy Baxter. chance to make new friends. PAULINE QUIRKE ACADEMY PRESENTS JURASSIC JEFFREY (A Tale of Dinosaurs in Wolverhampton) BANTOCK HOUSE MUSEUM Sun 28th January - 11am – 11.45am Free Entry In the style of strolling Medieval players meet Jurassic Jeffrey and his pals in a feel good play especially directed at a younger audience. Packed with jokes and fun join the gang as they recognise the things that make them different and discover that friendship is what binds them together… Performed by students of The Pauline Quirke Academy Pauline Quirke - Jurassic Jeffrey of Performing Arts in Wolverhampton and written by local children events playwright Ian Henery it is a fun introduction to theatre for a younger audience. LET’S GO AN ‘AVE SOME STORIES BAB: CHILDREN’S STORY TELLING WITH BILLY SPAKEMON Great Big Children’s Story Time BANTOCK HOUSE MUSEUM Sun 28th January at 2pm – 3pm Tickets - £4 WOLVERHAMPTON’S GREAT BIG CHILDREN’S STORY TIME ALL LIBRARIES Black Country writer, singer & broadcaster and community Saturday 27th January 2018 11.30 am – 12 noon projects consulatant, Dr. Brian Dakin (Billy Spakemon) takes his first venture into stories and rhymes specifically Free all ages for children. They have formed the content of his CD “Let’s Participate Join in Wolverhampton’s ‘Great Big Children’s Story Time’ at any of Go An ‘Ave Some Stories Bab”, all original including “The the city’s 16 libraries. Fish That Flew” and “The Moon Lost Is Smile”. At 11.30am, every library in the city will be holding a simultaneous children’s Billy yalks about the storytellers he grew up with in ldbury story time. The whole family can listen to an exciting tale, brought to life by Billy Spakemon - Children Story telling and he may even sing as well! an expert reader at your local library. Library staff will guide children through Enjoy a magical hour spent with Black Country Radio’s 30 minutes of story time fun, promoting a love of books and celebrating the Omma & Chain host. magic of reading. For more information about your nearest local library, visit: YOUNG AUTHOR COMPETITION WINNERS AWARDS & http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/article/2293/Find-a-library PAGE TO STAGE PERFORMANCES 2018 SLADE ROOMS Sat 27th January 2pm to 4pm Tickets £2 on the door Four short plays devised by City Wolverhampton College’s Performing Arts Student from the winning entries of Wolverhampton’s Young Author Competition, a page- to-stage story writing competition for school children. Celebrating our children’s writing. Young Author Competition Wolverhampton Literature Festival Wolverhampton Literature Festival 4 5 What’s on_ Music,Art & Specialist TIM JARVIS - WHEN CUT, THE PRESENT YOU LEAKS CUMMINGS YOUR WAY: music, art and specialist OUT INTO THE FUTURE CUMMINGS UP FOR AIR (OR A BLACK COUNTRY- WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY CENTRIC VIEW OF REGIONAL NOSTALGIA) Sunday 28th January at 7.30pm WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY Free Entry Saturday 27th January at 6.40pm – 7.25pm The haphazard has long been important in art – the Free Entry happy accident, the contingent detail that brings the The past is another county and this time - they’ve really work to life. But in the twentieth century, artists in many crossed the line. mediums began deliberately cultivating the random. Join Dan Cummings and friends as they chuck his In music, serialism and indeterminacy gave rise to walking stick in the cut, break into an old photo and walk shifting and unstable pieces composed according to unconscious or inhuman processes. around inside it for a bit gasp as they walk past doors, amble down streets and lurk in vestibules. In literature, the Surrealists, Situationists, members of OuLiPo, and Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs with Feel the pressure in your lungs as you swim toward the their cut-ups, used aleatory processes, games and dusty light of yesteryear. constraints. For Burroughs, his cut-ups had the power If you like the word vestibule, you’ll love this. of augury, for, ‘When you cut into the present the future ‘Cummings Your Way is a series of online English leaks out.’ travelogues by Dan Cummings and Lee David Harris, This performance will explore the word’s viral nature by with music by Chrome Appliance’ using analogues of chance evolution and metastatic www.youtube.com/cummingsyourway. spread to transform language into sound. The incantation of digitally randomised text will be manipulated into noise by analogue computations. READING IMAGES: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS IN DON POWELL- LOOK WHAT I DUN: MY LIFE IN SLADE The core of the sound will be created by split-second PAINTINGS WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY decisions, where the word, the timbre of the voice, WOLVERHAMPTON ART GALLERY, FOCUS GALLERY Saturday 27th January - 5.30pm – 6.30pm becomes the soundtrack, smeared into grainy drone Sunday 28th January at 12pm – 1pm Tickets £9.50 and twisted into random melodies. It will be a sonic and Free Entry Hear the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell. linguistic requiem for the lost self, a vatic rite to cast Leaders of the glam rock movement, Slade were the UK’s biggest singles into the future and call up the scintillating, decoherent, For the last day of the exhibition Still Life and the Sacred band in the years 1971-74.