Youth Performance
Peformance for youth engagment: Every workshop that I undertake will involve me performing. Writing and performance are a huge part of my armoury, both comedy and straight pieces. I write plays, poems, raps, monologues and sketches, just about anything that I think will be suitable to engage a particular group. I find that it’s a fantastic way to break down barriers. If children see me acting without inhibitions, they realise it’s fine to act a bit daft sometimes and it actually makes you feel good too.
It works particularly well when I work with children or adults who are very vulnerable and have very troubled home lives. They may have been excluded from school, and all traditional teaching methods simply have no impact on them. If a child has a multitude of unresolved issues clogging up their overloaded brain, is it any wonder that double maths gets evicted! ‘Engage the issue; Engage The Child’