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
We were really excited to welcome Funkformat to SPACE the other day to run our JUBILATION! Dance workshop. Over half a day, Sasha from the dance company joined a small group of young people to create and workshop a dance to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Thanks to all those who took part
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!
