It’s been a long time coming but the JUBILATION! Children’s Poetry Anthology is now published. You can see a digital version here:
Or if you would like a physical copy please get in touch with us and we will send you one (postage and packing payable). This is FREE but all donations are gladly received.
We were delighted last week to welcome Hampshire singer-songwriter and workshop facilitator, Jim Chorley to SPACE to run our 2 workshops with local young people to create a song for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Jim’s interest is in how the Queen and in particular, her seventy-five years on the throne have fostered a sense of community and how this can be explored through song. Working together Jim and our young people created a song entitled Lovely Jubbly Jubilee. You can find the lyrics and listen to the song below.
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Lovely Jubbly Jubilee
The Queen lives in London
The Jubilee was on Thursday
We had lots of fun
She slayed the day away
Chorus:
Let’s have a lovely Jubbly Jubilee
Seventy years of Majesty
Lovely Jubbly Jubilee
Her favourite dog is a corgi
She loves all animals
She created the dorgi
Maybe the next will be camels
Chorus
There are Monarchs all over the world
But none as cool as our Elizabeth
Her hair looks great straight or curly
And she’s got many private chefs
Chorus
She’s never without her pearls
She loves to wear the colour blue
Her hair is worn in curls
How about you?
Chorus
This weekend, and for the next two weeks you can come down to SPACE and see the JUBILATION! giant artwork in all its glory. Featuring the work of our Art Course workshop group and backed onto blue satin this giant artwork celebrates the remarkable feat of 70 years on the throne through the eyes of local children and young people.
There is also the chance to read some of the poems written by Fareham children between the ages of 7 and 12 and which will be featured in our poetry collection coming later this summer!
Our poetry workshops culminated in an in-person session today, a nice change from our online sessions. We’re so proud of our workshop group and the brilliant way they’ve worked together and on their own poems over the last few weeks and we look forward to showcasing their work in the JUBILATION! poetry work we’ll be publishing over the summer.
Huge thanks to Lucy Flannery who took today’s session and who has been running our outreach sessions with a local school. We’re busy going through all the poems from these at the moment and are looking forward to including as many as possible in our eagerly awaited book of children’s poetry.
We’ll be updating here as soon as possible with details of the upcoming book!
We’ve been inspired by the work of our art workshop members and those who have visited our drop-in sessions. The work that has been undertaken over the last five week has been amazing! In fact it’s been so great we wanted to share some of the work from our final session with you!
This weekend we’ve been working hard on creating our bespoke art boxes for every child/young person taking part in the JUBILATION! art course over the next 5 weeks.
Every week for four weeks we will undertake a new project, acquiring a new skill. The workshops will be held over ZOOM! to ensure Covid safety and then on week 5 we will meet in-person to create our individual squares for the large JUBILATION! Art work, celebrating 70 years on the throne for HRH the Queen.
Thanks to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation and funding from Arts Council England, every child taking part has been gifted art equipment and materials that will enable them to continue with their newfound skills even after the course is over and every single child/young person will also have the opportunity to attain an Arts Award Discover, all for Free whilst undertaking this course!
After four days of prep and packing, we are excited to announce our Equipment and Materials boxes for the JUBILATION! Art Course are now ready to go. Every box contains everything that will be needed to create different artworks over the next 5 weeks, with specific boxes for ages 7+ and 11+ containing age-appropriate equipment.
Also included are the booklets for your Arts Award Discover and course booklets detailing what will be needed for every session.
We have great news, for those of you who already have an Arts Award Discover, you can now use our FREE JUBILATION! workshops to achieve your Arts Award Explore, for only the cost of moderation with Trinity College London (our outside moderators who check our marking and administer the award). This means that your son, daughter, or non-binary child can access our free workshops and achieve the next level of arts award for very little cost.
Those who wish to undertake the Arts Award Explore will need to attend all the workshops as part of JUBILATION! Art, Music, Poetry, and Dance, this is because the Arts Award Explore is a higher award and requires more work and evidence than the Discover.
The cost to us for moderation and certificate is £14 per a child, but we are able to reduce this cost by to £12 using some of our contingency funding. If you would like your child to undertake an Arts Award Explore then please email us and we will invoice you via paypal. This will need to be paid as “friends and family” or a “seller you trust” otherwise there will be costs added and it will cost us money rather than saving you money on moderartion.
