Hay Festival are kindly supporting our Young Carers this year with a series of activities at our clubs followed by a day at the festival itself in May.
Author Jenny Valentine is joining us for our next 2 clubs to do some creative activities with the group, then we are holding an extra club in the Easter holidays this year, where artist and animator Nick Brown is going to animate what the group made with Jenny and this will be displayed at the Hay Festival, to which we are invited for the day, with transport, lunch and a £10 book token included. Obviously, we would like as many Young Carers to participate as possible, so please come along ready to have fun and get creative (don’t worry if words aren’t your thing, there will be other ways to take part!) Here’s the dates for your diary:
Session 1 – Wednesday 26 March 6-8pm Creative Writing workshop with Jenny Valentine
Session 2 – Wednesday 9 April 6-8pm Creative Writing workshop with Jenny Valentine
Session 3 – Wednesday 16 April 6-8pm Animation workshop with Nick Brown ( Easter Holidays)
Hay Festival visit Thursday 29 May – 11am-5.30pm (inc. transport, lunch and a £10 book token)
Here’s what to expect at our next few clubs:
A World of Different Lists with Jenny Valentine
Jenny Valentine has been thinking about lists.
Long lists, short lists, shopping lists, wish lists, missing lists, to-do lists.
Everybody writes them, one way or another.
Our lists say more about us than we realise.
And they can be very helpful when you are writing a story.
Come and make some lists with Jenny about everyday things, material things, silly things and important things.
Build a world for your story step by step, or list by list.
Jenny Valentine is an award-winning writer for Young Adults. Her first novel Finding Violet Park won the Guardian’s Children’s fiction prize in 2007 and since then she has written many books, including Broken Soup and Fire Colour One, as well as a young fiction series Iggy and Me. Her work has been published in 19 countries. In 2017 she was the Hay Festival International Fellow, spending the year meeting and learning from teenagers all over the world.
A World of Animation with MASH Cinema
Explore the world of animation in this exciting, hands-on workshop led by visual artists MASH Cinema. Try out different techniques, including Claymation, hand drawn, rotoscope, and cut out animation and bring your wildest ideas to life. The completed animated films will be screened at Hay Festival 2025