Apples and Snakes
Shake the Dust is a nationwide youth poetry slam, giving young people the opportunity to work with leading spoken word poets to write, perform and compete with their words. Shake the Dust's Executive Producer Lucy Crompton-Reid, Assistant Producer Miriam Nash and Artistic Director Jacob Sam-La Rose tell us all about the project.
Young people review the 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal winning book written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay. Then compare what they say with the 'real judges' comments
A poem by Kate Fox specially commissioned to launch Manchester Literature Festival 2011.
"What we talk about when we talk about Arts and Culture" Over three months in early 2012 Curious Minds talked to ten groups of young people across the North West about their experiences o...
Jawdance is the show where you find poets on stage and poets on film poets in the audience and poets propping up the bar guest poets, putting-it-to-the-test poets, stars of the silver screen and stars...
