We're back with a theatre club at The Grove Primary School. In 8 weeks will make a performance of Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches. A story so good that NATO had 500,000 copies translated into Serbo-Croation to give to children to encourage tolerance in Bosnia Herzegovina in 1998.
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We had a lot of fun talking to members of the public outside the Civic Hall and St Mary's Church Hall as people milled around before and after performances around the market and streets of Totnes. We asked questions and played word games on the theme of 'sea change' and based on the responses we received, we've arranged a Song For Sea Change Well I guess it's too early to sing Standing on the steps of the Civic Hall Collecting lyrics The children are in Syria The undertakers are on the stage This town is waking Let's change the time we wake up in the morning And my hair and my hair and my hair and my hair We are considering stopping all nasty things and terrorism People's attitudes to keeping bears in prison Everyone's going to have somewhere nice to live... In the desert I will pluck the feathers off your wings and your head It's a kind of murder ballad The school the bank the school the bank the school the bank the school The children are on fire The undertakers are on fire This town is on fire I will pluck the feathers from your legs and your beak We are considering changing our garden Getting some tools Being kind to each other Sitting on a hill In the Middle East When the sun goes down What we need right now is fewer choices We'll make it happen slowly so no-one notices On the steps of the Civic Hall Quietly demanding equality for women in every different country We are quietly demanding We are hesitant We are uncertain We are already dead Now now now now now Never As soon as it can be clearly expressed Start coming to terms with the fact that a more peaceful world is a better place As soon as possible The Jungle within Parliament within We offer these words to anyone who wants to turn the lyrics into a song. Get out your old guitars, tambourines and tubas and give it a go. Anyone can make a song, how? Just do it. Record it and let us listen. Put it on Soundcloud or Bandcamp or send us an email or come over and play it live on Victoria Street outside our flat. With thanks to all who took part, especially Drift Records for putting on the festival and asking us to take part. Thank you to our new collaborators Chief Questioner Rosie Wolf (7) and Chief Photographer Martha Wolf (5). This band name is up for grabs everyone
#4 The Band = Exactly Album = Shouted First Single = Medicine #3
Band = Bigger Pigs Album = The Crow Single = The Harness Who will start this band? #2
Band = Don't Forget Album = It First Single = As small as a pin This band name generated by memebers of the public at Sea Change festival Totnes are up for grabs for anyone to use. Make a band. Why not? #1
Band = Medicine Number Album = A Hand Single = Good Look At Sea Change Festival we spent time outside the venues collecting song lyrics from the public #LyricCollector. Some of them also got to play one of our favourite games...#BandNameGenerator You choose a book at random, flick through to a random page and with eyes closed point to a word or words which gives you your band name, album name and first single. All that's left to do then is actually start the band! Have a go yourself at home, it's really fun. |
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