Young Writers' City
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Stitched: three songs from the student-written hip-opera
Songs from Stitched: a show which was performed at Sage, Gateshead in September 2019, and written by Students from Excelsior Academy
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Young Writers City Playlist
Listen to some of the music created by our Young Writers City project in Newcastle.
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Me and My City: An anthology of poetry by students at Excelsior Academy
In autumn 2021, students at Excelsior Academy worked on a multilingual creative writing project with translators and writers from the Stephen Spender Trust.
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What working on Stitched taught me about young people
30 September 2019 by
Stitched: A Hip Hopera has been an incredibly special project to work on, and one that I feel privileged to...
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Young Writers’ City at Hamilton
17 May 2019 by
*Contains some spoilers about Hamilton Engaging young people in theatre can be hard (in fact, engaging adults in theatre can...
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Colour Blind: Young Writers’ City @ Excelsior Academy
Colour Blind is an important and powerful short film produced by our Young Writers' City programme.
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Teaching students to value learning with Young Writers’ City
12 December 2017 by
Teenagers don’t want to stand out from the crowd. We all know that besides parental example, peer influence is one...
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Young Writers’ City Songwriting Summer School
04 August 2017 by
Every morning we started by doing really fun warm up exercises, directed by Liz and designed to make everyone a...
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Leading rap sessions as part of Young Writers’ City
13 April 2017 by
Kema Kay is a 23-year-old rapper and actor who recently played China in the award-winning Ken Loach film I, Daniel,...
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Exploring utopias and dystopias with Young Writers’ City students
10 April 2017 by
As part of our Young Writers’ City project, poet Bob Beagrie has been working with a Year 8 and a...
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Writing melodies with Young Writers’ City
07 April 2017 by
For this blog I was asked to think about an aspect of the work that’s been interesting or challenging or...
