Showing this video sparked some really great discussions with the groups. I think they started to see spoken word as a way of expressing their views as oppossed to a poetic art form that they are alienated from. Some of them began to share their own personal stories of their experiences of education.
The music workshop was also extremely successful. They created two new songs which involved bars written by the clients from the turn around centre and lyrics from brit kids. These songs are really powerful and we are hoping to develop them further so we can then perform them live on 12th July as a part of our performance. What would also be really great would be to get some recording time in the studio at school so they can have a CD of their work to take away. What I think would be a great thing to do would be to make copies of the CD's and sell them at school and donate the money to the turn-around centre.
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