PERFORMANCE |
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Gez delivers a fast-paced, high-energy, attention-grabbing performance which aims to engage even the most disinterested onlooker. Following this first hour-long session combining poetry and comedy, Gez spends the rest of his day facilitating relaxed, informal workshops. Participants are encouraged to develop ideas and compose their own work with the objective of creating a performance poem which can be presented to the rest of the group at the end of the session. In the primary sector Gez offers a performance for Y2-6 while workshops are best-suited to KS2. These can be of 30/60 minutes' duration, depending on time-table needs. In secondary education he works primarily with Y7-8 of KS3 but can also offer sessions for Y9, 10 and 11, if required. In addition, prose workshops can be offered to form the basis of creative writing input for a day focusing on fiction. Working in a variety of settings including schools and libraries, at festivals, playschemes, summer schools and residentials, Gez also provides input at teaching conferences. Comfortable working with young people of all abilities and backgrounds, Gez caters for children in mainstream education, EAZs, EiCs, prep schools, residential units, and those with specific needs such as dyslexia, challenging behaviours and learning difficulties. |
BACKGROUND INFORMATION |
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Since their first publication, West Yorkshire based Gez’s zany poetry collections have helped him to become a cult classic and feature on innumerable local radio stations, plus BBC Radio Five Live, several television slots (ITV's Calendar and BBC's Look North) and be interviewed in national newspapers. His material has been translated into German and Portuguese, used in talking books. Gez currently writes and performs full-time, taking his unique blend of comedy and poetry to audiences in schools, libraries and festivals country-wide. Apart from the obvious entertainment value of his books, many teachers have found Gez’s work invaluable in targeting reluctant readers and those who have no interest in ‘proper’ poetry, or indeed books and reading. Since The Spot on My Bum, the first publication in the Potty Poets series, was written to stimulate his own dyslexic son, although not specifically aimed at those with reading difficulties, Gez’s books have proved useful in this field, especially as their subject matter is an obvious attention-grabber and different to most poetry that children will have encountered, and he has a growing reputation for inspiring difficult-to-motivate readers. |
COSTS |
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£195 per day plus travel (Gez is based in West Yorkshire). |
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