Promoting Anti-Bullying Week! - Creative Workshops for Anti-Bullying Week!

Hello Everyone!

So as you know from my last post, this month I delivered 3 workshops to different age groups at a local primary school, all subjected around Anti-Bullying Week! 

Within the workshops I delivered, the children I worked with were able to learn about all aspects of bullying, some of those being; what bullying is, the different types of bullying, the consequences of bullying, and the right thing to do if you experience bullying of any kind. In order to educate and promote the ideas of Anti-Bullying Week effectively to the children I worked with, I used my skills within Community Arts so that they could access the ideas of the workshop creatively, using role play, still images, and 'true or false' games. 

Delivering workshops subjected on a specific subject which a group feels needs discussing is always so rewarding and enriching. Throughout each of the three workshops I delivered, the answers and opinions the children were giving surrounding the subject of bullying were so satisfying to hear, and the results of the workshops were shown by the many smiling faces of the children leaving the school hall! However, two children in particular approached me at the end of my workshops, one expressing how she had been bullied and wondered whether she had handled the situation correctly, and the other thanking me personally for the workshop I had delivered as he felt his class needed to hear the information presented to them within the time I spent with them. It goes without saying that any praise or thanks I receive from delivering a workshop I appreciate and cherish, however these two individuals particular triggered the reinforcement of my love for Community Arts, and delivering creative workshops to individuals who both love and 'tolerate' theatre, in order to use one of my life-long passions for a good purpose, and to achieve a result that could change others lives indirectly as the participants of my workshops apply the knowledge they have received from the three workshops I have delivered. 

Educating children on the importance of Anti-Bullying, not just for a week within a month, but throughout their whole lives is so important, and I feel so lucky to have been given the opportunity to promote such a positive change using the skills I have for one of my passions.

Thank you all again for your amazing support, and I will see you soon for my post about my 'good deed' for December! 

Be good!

Kizzy :)

November - Creative Workshops for Anti-Bullying Week

Hello Everyone! 

So we have reached November now, and  I thought I would write a quick post on here, letting you all know my 'good deed' for November. I have been trailing the internet searching for fundraising events happening in November,  and came across a few options 'Movember' was a potential winner considering the amazing cause it is in aid of, until I decided a challenge is a challenge and I was really making it hard for myself! So I opted for one which is just as amazing and worthwhile, but slightly more realistic! 

This month I will be running 3 Creative Workshops in a local primary school, in aid of this year's 'Anti-Bullying Week'!

'Anti-Bullying Week' is an annual event that focuses on raising awareness of, educating people on, and ultimately ending bullying. The 'Anti-Bullying Week' event is particularly focused on within schools, and the event is used to educate their students on the effects and consequences of bullying, whether this be through literary work, or creative work. 

Throughout November, I will be delivering 3 Creative Workshops at a local primary school, which will use drama techniques: such as roleplay and forum theatre, aswell as group discussion and reflection, in order to educate students from 5-11 years old, on what bullying is, the effects bullying can have, and how to deal with bullying. 

I am so excited to have been given the opportunity to teach the different aspects of bullying through theatre, as I am able to use my skills, in order to give people options on the way they act, and allow them to realise the choices they have the potential to make towards others, which is what I love to do, and what makes me very happy. Of course we all make mistakes and we learn from them, but I have always believed that the pettiest, most random comment can have such an effect on someone else, and this is something that can be so easily avoided. Bullying isn't just a comment or an action you make, it's a look you give, or what you don't say, even though you have the potential to make someone happier, bullying is when you choose to not take that opportunity. Throughout all of my creative projects with people in the community, I have always wanted to make it clear that I am not offering an hour of preaching disguised as theatre, but an hour to open your mind, and to realise that you have choices, whether you are 80 or 8, you have a choice to do the right thing, even to do the 'better' thing. Even though bullying undoubtably happens in all stages of life, I am excited to educate these primary schools students within their childhood about the choices, they can choose to take with them and consider within adulthood. 

Once again, I just wanted to thank all of you for your amazing support with this project, and I will upload a new post at the end of November, letting you all know how the creative workshops for 'Anti-Bullying Week' went! 

Be good! 

Kizzy :)

A Hopeful Night! - 'A Night of Hope' with World Vision

Hi Everyone! 

So this weekend brought Halloween, and I spent mine carving a heart carved pumpkin in support of World Vision's 'A Night of Hope' campaign, in order to raise money and awareness for the children of Syria. After carving my pumpkin, sharing it on social media, and donating by text, I had a scroll through the 'A Night of Hope' hashtag, and had a look at other's posts supporting the campaign. The support World Vision, and therefore the children of Syria has received through this idea has been incredible, and it is so inspiring to see that many people promoting change for the better.

Here are some pictures from my participation in the campaign on friday! 

Once again, thank you all for the amazing support with this project, and I will see you in a few days to announce my 'good deed' for November!

Be Good! 

Kizzy :)