Local students perform at the Waterfront

SCHOOLCHILDREN from Ballymena were among 700 students from 30 schools around the province who performed on the stage at Waterfront Hall recently for the launch of “Write Out Loud” an exciting anthology of poems written by them as part of CAP’s Poetry in Motion Schools Project.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Mar 2013, 11:41 BST

Pupils from Slemish College, St Colmcille’s PS and Moorfields Primary School took part in the poetry project.

The children worked with 11 poets in a series of workshops encouraging them to explore their lives and imaginations through wordplay.

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Subject matter covered a vast range including; Human Rights, how the world works, the future, football and even Bubblegum Land! A selection of these poems was published in the anthology and the young poets read their poems on stage.

“Write Out Loud” is the second poetry collection published by CAP and features schools from the primary, secondary, voluntary, integrated and special school sectors from every county.

Conor Shields, CAP Director: “To see the confident ability of our young people, performing their own words to their peers is always a high point of our calendar. Performing on the main stage of the Waterfront Hall is no mean feat. Our young poets were brilliant. This event demonstrates the mutual respect and shared celebration that arts participation can produce.”

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