Karen Performance

Driftnet Poets and Friends Saturday 3 March 8pm @ Ropery Hall, North Lincolnshire

Driftnet Poets and Friends Saturday 3 March 2012 8pm @ Ropery Hall, The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire DN18 5JT

Driftnet Poets and Friends present an evening of Poetry, Music and Song. The evening is in support of WaterAid 8pm £5/£7 on the door

Driftnet Poets have put together a cornucopia of words and music, inviting some of their friends to join them on stage in support of WaterAid.

Performing together for more than 10 years, all six Driftnet Poets write in a variety of styles which translate from page to stage to great effect.

Merlin’s Keep from Grimsby has four albums behind them and members are continually writing new material to add to their popular repertoire.

Trevor Millum and Bernard Young have worked together for many years as the duo Double Talk. Their witty poetry takes a light-hearted but sometimes barbed look at life.

Roger Beard has been singing and playing around the country for many years, performing traditional and contemporary folk alongside acoustic versions of rock classics.

This performance will include new work created especially for the occasion.

All proceeds will go to WaterAid – come along and share a special evening in support of a vital cause. Together we can make changes.

Tickets from Ropery Hall website: http://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/roperyhall/theatre.htm#driftnet

Poet Bernard Young School visit

Highcliffe Primary, Guisborough 31st October & 1st November

Thanks for making me welcome. I enjoyed my two day visit very much.

Day one started off in the hall with a performance to the whole school. Great joining in on Brilliant and Ref Rap kids. Loads of poems were written. Individual and group ones. And a few class ones (with added guitar) when I worked with Reception and Yr 1 & 2.

Great to start with Reception on the morning of day 2 and finish the day with a yr 6 session. There were poems about pirates, swimming, dancing, teachers, football (of course) and a lump in the throat one about a soldier going to war.

Days like these remind me why I love being a poet who visits schools.

Karen Performance

24 October 2011 Family Fun Writing Workshop

Join Bernard Young for a fun writing session at the The Quaker Tapestry Exhibition Centre & Cafe in Kendal, Cumbria. Bernard will give a short performance to get things going and then give you lots of ideas to help you write your own poems.  Children and grown ups writing together! Poems, raps, serious, funny – whatever you like. No pressure. Just some fun with words. For more information and to book a place see: http://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/events/family-fun-writing-workshop/

Poet Bernard Young Classroom ideas

Bernard Young

Photo Bernard playing guitarBernard is a guitar playing poet and has been writing poems and ‘songs’ since his early teens i.e. for ages! These days it’s still what he loves to do, but now he does it for a living. So he considers himself to be a very lucky man indeed.

Performances have been given in a variety of settings (from prisons to pubs, leisure centres to libraries, as well as colleges, schools, playgroups and supermarkets!). He has performed at many literary festivals including Hull, Ilkley, Lancaster and the Young Readers Birmingham Festival.

His poems feature in numerous anthologies of poetry for young readers (including The Works, The Poetry Store, Wizard Poems, Pet Poems, Family Poems, Space Poems, Spectacular Schools, How To Survive School, The Secret Life of Pants!) and have been broadcast on local and national radio and on BBC’s The One Show.

For more information about Bernard see: https://bernardyoung.wordpress.com/about/