Creative Writing & Visual Art - Write Here Project, Revolution on Paper Exhibition February...

‘Write Here’

at Mellers Primary School

Nottingham

Art and Creative Writing

Talking for Writing

Adventures

in

narrative

sequence…

First…

…a visit to see

The Tin Soldier

by Tangere Arts ,

at

Nottingham Trent University…

…working with

the writer Peter Rumney’s

Theatre Design students

then…

back in school,

preparing for our

gallery visit…

….making pictures

with our bodies…

New ways to look at

and talk about

pictures…

Finding our own

stories in art…

…and the writer

messing with our brains!…

“…you say…

……………

………I say….

……………………..”

The

“and-why-because”

game…

…finding new ways

to tell stories…

Then to the

Djanology Art Gallery…

What are these Mexican

artists trying to say to us?…

…about the world?…

Bringing the

images

to life…

“I thought it (the exhibition) was really brilliant because there were lots of stories about the Meixican people and lots of speeches and when we look at the stories I felt that I was scared because if I was in that time, I might be dead because of the war that killed their Father.

The leaflet was brilliant because it was a story about him and Mexican people. Their story was important because it was true.

Because I've seen lots in my life, because I have lots of things in my life like war and I want to learn more about them. Was it like my story or not?

The Mexican people worked hard to get their freedom to show the people what their life was like.”

Walid Year 6

New ways of

looking at…

story structure

!

!!

?

?……

Trying new ways

of writing…

(Post It Notes

for story structure)

Trying new ways

of writing…

(Writing backwards

from the end of the story)

Then…

…back in school…

working with an image

from the exhibition…

…and working with

Peter’s story

inspired by

this picture…

The Story of

Bala and Wareem…

Mapping the story

and acting it out

with Miss Heyman…

…so it becomes

our own….

Looking at

story structures again…

…playing ‘Sevens’…

…and telling stories

through

playing card

sequences…

Looking at

story structures again!…

….. writing our own versions

of Bala and Wareem

using the

Post It Notes again…

Playing

‘and-why-because’

again to help

with the detail…

Sentence ASentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Sentence A

Sentence B

Why? Because…

Sentence A

Sentence B

Why? Because…

1…………..

Sentence A

Sentence B

Why? Because…

1…………..

Why? Because…

Why? Because…

2…………..

3…………..

Sentence A

Sentence B

1…………..

2…………..

3…………..

Sentence A

Sentence B

1…………..

2…………..

3…………..

Sentence A

Sentence B

1…………..

2…………..3…………..

Sentence A

Sentence B

1…………..

2…………..

3…………..

Writing backwards

from the end

of the story…

Linking up with how

Miss Weyman works…

We wanted to work

with a visual artist…

Huw Feather…

Drawing the

sections of the

Bala and Wareem story…

….. as if it were shot with a TV

camera…

…and exploring

narrative sequences…

Evaluating the

project

so far…

…thinking about what

helped us to be

more confident writers,

and what didn’t…

Thinking about the whole

journey of our project

as a story

or narrative…

to help evaluate it…

Designing

TV camera shots

to help us

evaluate

the project…

A finished piece of writing…

A finished piece of writing…

developed through

visits to the art gallery and theatre,

drawing, acting,

story mapping

and kinaesthetic activities…

• Finished image

Funded by

Writing East Midlands

Lakeside Arts Centre

Nottingham Central EIP

Mellers Primary School

The Mighty Creatives

Supported by

Nottingham University

Nottingham Trent University