Black Country Touring, Multistory and The Public have been working together on a project ‘Stories from the Playground’ Jonathan Lee has produced a short documentary. Documentary from Jonathan Lee on Vimeo.
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Installing The Art of Story 0
Things are slowly coming together on the Allan Ahlberg project. The work has been going on in the schools, a day a week for several months now and we are getting ever closer to the opening of the exhibition “The Art of Story” at The Public, which will house much of the work. The designers …
Read MoreWhat Mum’s Dream Of 0
The Art of Story workshop sessions in the schools have been going really well, with the artists firing up the children and the children becoming positive creative furnaces. Emma Purshouse was working with one group, reacting to a picture of a sleeping mum, from Peepo – one of Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s best loved books, …
Read MoreAllan Ahlberg visits his old school 1
Writer Allan Ahlberg, author of such children’s classics as Peepo, The Jolly Postman, Woof and Funny Bones, came back to visit his old primary school, Rood End in Oldbury, today. He was visiting as part of project that BCT is doing in collaboration with Multistory and The Public. We are using several of Allan’s books …
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