In celebration of International Youth Day 2009 HeadSpace took part in a streetdance workshop at the library hosted by Toby Gorniak, from the streetfactory studio. We all learned some new moves, including streetdance steps, flips and tricks. Sam and Pete were a great partnership on the dancefloor, showing off their stavros -flatley style moves! We are looking forward to visiting the new streetfactory studio as a group this autumn.
MCLyricl travelled from London to host a lyric and writing workshop. We really enjoyed the warm up exercises, which showed us how to be more creative with our lyrics and vocals. Later we looked at rhyming words, similies, onomatopoeia, idioms and alliteration and used them in our lyrics. Here are some of the examples:
What if I did some rhymen? What if I did some farmen? What if I was me? What if I could just be?
As quick as lightening, as cool as ice, as hard as nailz…
What if life sang, what if what if, dang!
We ended the session writing some bitesize stories, MCLyricl gave us the first and the final sentence for these two examples:
She had a book, she put it down and something strange happened the book opened by itself and – she was sucked into it. Miaka was reading a book about a celestial princess in the library, hiding from her mum and it was getting late. Now she is a celestial princess, in the world of the book…
A girl and a boy were at a campfire party, but someone spilt some lit coal on the grass and it caught alight. Tom put his jumper over his friend Rose so she wouldn’t choke. The smoke filled the air as they were finding cover. They stayed close as a heavy wind started to blow and when the smoke cleared they held hands and looked at each other…
We’ll be sharing all of our raps and stories at HeadSpace next Tuesday.
Thanks to Europe Direct Information Service for funding our workshops and to Plymouth Evening Herald for their support in promoting and covering the event. Look out for more workshops and events at HeadSpace Efford this year.
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