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The Poetry in Motion for Schools project is now in its seventh year. Since 2001 more than 6,000 students have taken part in this project, and over 1,250 poems have been published.
We intend this year to theme the work around the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from which the convention that governs the rights of children has developed.
As with the community literature project, this year New Belfast is taking a radical new direction with the Poetry in Motion for Schools project. We wish to harness the development of information technology and its application within the arts and the rise of performance-based poetry.
This year, students’ poems will be audio-recorded (where possible), collected and published in an audio anthology and also featured on dedicated pages on this website. We are hoping that as a result the young people who take part can find their creativity reaching a wider audience in Belfast and beyond.
For those schools chosen to perform poetry at a finale event, in June 2008, there will be the potential for extra facilitation in interpretative movement, bringing another new dimension to the development of poetry for young people.
Poetry in Motion for Schools 2008 will run between February and June in 30 schools. The programme is open to primary, secondary, grammar and special schools based in Belfast and is provided free of charge.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (34kb)
The Northern Ireland report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (1.3 mb)
If you don't have access to a way to record your poem in a digital audio format you can still send us your poetry text via mail or email and we will get your poems read for you by an actor.