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Streetspeak website launched
A brand new website www.streetspeak.org.uk has just been launched. The Streetspeak project, backed by the National Football Museum, uses football as inspiration for young people to write and peform poetry.
And the Streetspeak website is another way to fire their imagination. An interactive game of 5 or 11 a side football uses single words to help visitors write their own poems, choose their own character (or avatar) by changing their kit, eye colour and even hair style and then upload their poem onto the website for all visitors to see. The poets Alan Gibbons, Craig Bradley, Mark Mace Smith,Terry Caffrey and Poet-in-Residence at the National Football Museum Paul Cookson are all available via the website to give tips and answer queries on their poetry and there’s also a taster of a film about the project.
Peter Evans, Education Officer at the National Football Museum said ‘We’re really excited about the new website. It’s a brilliant resource for the project and it’s such a fun way of writing poetry, that we’re sure young people will be really inspired to use it.’
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The Streetspeak project is funded by the Football Foundation and Arts Council as part of the National Football Museum's Poetry in Motion initiative.
Streetspeak is a three-year project (2008-11), in which participants are involved in a programme of performance poetry workshops producing new pieces of poetry (including poems, chants, texts, slang) with a football theme. It will culminate in the creation of on-line learning resources, a film and an exhibition at the National Football Museum and a performance of newly commissioned work by poets and community participants.
800 young people will be included in the project over the time period. The exhibition, learning resources and film will reach an audience of 100,000 people.