from Carolyn Yates:
Electrifying the region all the way from Stranraer to Langholm during the first week of May. 620 people flocked to Wild Science Family Mayhem! Day where Jean Atkin was Writer in Residence. She arrived with her workshops niftily
packed into a battered leather suitcase, rather Paddington Bear. She
unpacked her suitcase and the room filled with kids writing Science
Fiction in a Flash, and then publishing their work in Jean’s latest
invention ‘nanoBOOKS’, which are completed using copper wire and
electrical insulating tape.
Later on the capacious suitcase yielded the
drop-in Poetry Postcards workshop, in which children choose random
nouns, verbs, similes and abstract nouns from little cloth bags, and
with what Jean calls ‘light steering’ create short poems for their own
Poetry Postcard. Which they then embellish with sets of stamps, inks,
and colour pencils. Almost 2000 schoolchildren took part in science
workshops, demonstrations and hands-on activities provided to 15 primary
schools and 7 secondaries and a further 110 for a cosmic day focussed
on Dark Skies as part of the Wigtown Spring Book Festival. All part of the 3rd annual Dumfries & Galloway Science Festival
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