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Journeys into the Magical Landscape
Journeys into the Magical Landscape creates one-day adventures for 11-17 year olds on the beautiful landscape of Falkland Estate. The project has been designed to be delivered in partnership with local secondary schools and other groups. We work with local community workers, teachers and staff to ensure that the project includes as wide a range of young people as possible. This can be a single day or a number of visits with the option of a follow-up session at the school or community venue. We will be developing a range of activities, connecting with outdoor environments – fostering new skills, ways of thinking, feeling and doing.
This year’s Journeys are Magical! Over the coming months, students from local secondary schools will work with artists, poets and craft practitioners to explore and imagine the magical realms beyond enchanted fairy doors hidden in the woods.
Let the magic begin!
Our current ‘Journeys’ project runs until February 2020.
Thanks again to our funders Cashback for Communities Award for making this possible.
For more information contact Rebecca Sharp, Project Coordinator.
Find out more from previous participants
Get inspired! Some useful links:
The Scottish Book Trust: this is a brilliant site where you can spend hours learning great writing tips, watching author videos and surfing around for everything you need to know about what’s happening for writers and poets in Scotland and further afield. There is a special young peoples’ section and regular competitions and prizes to be won.
The Poem Hunter: this is an excellent site for exploring new poetry, lots of sound files…lovely human readings but don’t bother with the robotic versions!
The Poetry Foundation: an excellent site for more poems and detailed information about American and other internationally famous poets.
SuperSummary: offers a compehensive Learning Guide For Poets, Students and Educators.
Get inspired! Some inspirational poems:
Here is an in-depth interview with the poet Mary Oliver. We’ve read her poems many times on our Journeys to the Literary Landscape.
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
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