Hay Workshops

On Saturday the 8th of June P.O.V. Producers were given our first Hay Festival workshop where we were given the opportunity to meet Polar Bear, aka Steve Camden,  who is a word artist.  During the  workshop he taught us his way of creating spoken word giving us the chance to have a go for ourselves.  We started by deciding on a character for the story, we chose to use a character called Emma who owned a pasta shop called Emma's Pasta, around this we then decided that our story would be based on a street called Mangalese street.  After deciding on the basis story narrative we then went into separate groups and created other shops and narratives which would also be happening on the street to develop the narrative and make it more interesting.  We then discussed our ideas and together we built links between the ideas to make all of the elements work better together.  This was a great opportunity to learn more about spoken word and creative ways to present our ideas in the future. - Erin