Tag: East Lothian

The Three Craws on Radio ECFM 107.6

By Rita Bradd

We are delighted to have returned to East Coast FM 107.6 community radio, https://eastcoastfm.co.uk/ after a break since 2013, to give performances currently every last Thursday of the month at 9 am, with a different script each month.  You can listen in through the internet via the link above, or through your FM radio in house or in your car on ecfm 107.6.  Watch out for upcoming links on my website to voice recorded snippets from these short, fun plays in Scots dialogue demonstrated by The Three Craws coming from different regions in Scotland, such as East Lothian, Fife and near Aberdeen where Doric dialect originates from.  Narration is in plain English.

If you would like to have a go at being a Craw, or indeed purchase scripts and/or merchandise for an in-school performance to promote the use of Scots language, and find out about local and national history, events and traditions in a fun way, please contact me on ritabradd@ritabradd.com .  Suggested age range, 8 upwards, or from P4.

I am also open to commissions, reference Play 9 which was built around local knowledge provided to me by generations of mining families of school children at Cockenzie Primary School to mark the demolition of the power station chimneys, or ‘lums’.  It was a real thrill to receive the information, as well as drawings by some of the children.

Here is the current list of available plays.  Again, if you would like your school or community group to put on any of the plays, please contact me on the link above.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Rita

January        – Play 1   TTC Gaun Tae Rabbie Burns’ Birthday Pairty At The Globe Inn, Dumfries

February     – Play 2    TTC Gaun Aw Lovey-Dovey

March          – Play 3    TTC An The Mysterious Licht At Sunny Dunbar

April             – Play 4    TTC Hae A Strange Eggsperience

May              – Play 5    TTC Find Oot Aboot The Saltire An The 3Harbours Festival

June             – Play 6    TTC Discover Gowf An the  Braw Views Frae North Berwick Law

July               – Play 7    TTC Find Oot Aboot The National Museum O Flight

August         – Play 8   TTC Meet John Muir At Sunny Dunbar

September – Play 9   TTC An The Dounfaw O Cockenzie Power Station Lums

October       – Play 10 TTC An A Spooky Dook Fer Aipples

November  – Play 11 TTC Gaun Tae Bayeux Wi The Battle O Prestonpans Tapestry

December   – Play 12 TTC An The Bairn In A Manger

 

 

Cockenzie Primary School Literary Festival 2016 Poetry Workshop

By Rita Bradd

I was thrilled to be invited by Janey Nicol, P4 class teacher at Cockenzie Primary School, East Lothian, to be involved with the school’s first ever Literary Festival in February 2016.  She requested a poetry workshop with P1s.  With over 50 children in the group, we had lots of fun with a poem for children I wrote and used a few years ago.  We messed about with props, and I showed them on flip chart paper how I illustrated the poem using skills I learned at Edinburgh College of Art summer schools over three years, with Robbie Bush and Mina Braun.   http://minabraun.blogspot.co.uk/

Here are P1 doing a noisy nosey warm-up mantra, where they discover the joy of ‘sneezing’ out words, whilst also learning how to keep germs to themselves!

img_0758I was also really pleased to be able to assist in recommending authors and poets to be involved in the festival.  Over the last few years I’ve been privileged to get to know poets and authors and their work.  This came in really handy.  Cockenzie pupils delighted us all with this ‘Thank you’ poster.  We loved the imaginative, artistic way they designed it.  Well done Cockenzie Primary School!  I wish you well for your new academic year, with a new set of P1s joining the school as the P7s move up to secondary school.

Here I am amongst a fabulous line-up of poets and authors …

... amongst a fabulous line-up of poets and authors ...
A few more images of the poetry workshop, with two of my characters, ‘Poppy’ and ‘Jake’.img_0759 img_0760 img_0761 img_0765