Young artists
Artsrichmond Young Writers’ Festival 2010
Use your imagination! Love Words? then send in a short story, a poem, song lyric or a week in the life of your diary! The Gala Awards ceremony is at the Orange Tree Theatre in November. Prizes include £200 to the writer chosen as Young Laureate and £100 to the Junior Laureate. Entries will be judged in the following categories: School year 4 and under, School years 5 and 6, School years 7-10, School years 11 and over.
The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, on November 14th at 3 pm
What happened in the 2009 Artsrichmond Young Writers’ Festival
Chloe Gale was the Young Laureate and Alistair McLaughlin was the Junior Laureate. Lots of other people won books and book tokens as prizes in the different categories. The Greenwood Cups for other outstanding work were presented to Lucas Maayeh (Grey Court School),Gemma Craig Sharples (St. James’s Catholic School) and Alexander Jacob (Kew Prep.)
Extracts from the winning works were read to an enthusiastic audience of parents and children by four Young Readers from the Focus Performance Centre in Whitton.
Here is a review of a chilren's event at the Orange Tree Theatre by Alistair McLaughlin Junior Laureate
Trafalgar Junior School, Twickenham
Review of Henry the V at the Orange Tree Theatre
The play Henry the V is about a Prince called Hal, who spends his youth in a tavern. When his father dies and he becomes king, everyone thinks that he will continue to spend his time in a tavern. However, he completely changes and he rejects and betrays all his drinking friends. Pistol, one of Hal's friends, is a fiery tempered, loyal young man and sticks by him through everything. Sir Falstaff was a great general but he loses all his fortune by wasting his days in a tavern. Princess Catherine comes from a far away land and when she arrives in England she cannot speak a word of English, so her loyal maid Alice decides that she will teach her English herself.
I would recommend this play to people who don't understand or read much Shakespeare because this is one of his plays that is easier to understand than some of his other plays. I would recommend this play to anyone of any age over six because very young children would maybe lose concentration and find it hard to understand what is happening.
I enjoyed this play because it was very funny and the actress that played Catherine showed that she was foreign, she was very funny. I thought the play was very good and I would happily go and see it again.
Laureates with Josceline Dimbleby
Years 1-4
Years 5-6
Years 7-10
Young Writers' Festival 2010
Entries
It is very easy to enter the Young Writers' Festival - write about anything but try to keep it brief (rough guide 500 words or 25 lines for a poem)
Email your entry or send 2 copies of your written entry . Entries must include:
Title of work, Your full anme and address; E mail: Your home phone no; Date of birth; Name of School or club;Your School Year
Closing date for entry - 30 September 2010.
Please send your entry to : artsrichmond, 6 Upper Decd, Phoenix Wharf, Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, TW1 3DY
email: info@artsrichmond.org.uk tel: 020 8892 0556