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OUR WORDSMITH AWARDS

**Young Identity has established relationships with Manchester schools, colleges and academies inspiring over 10,000 students from year 4 to 11, under our project Wordsmith Awards.**
Our outstanding facilitators deliver poetry and performance projects, assemblies, creative writing workshops, one-off or as part of a weekly term programme.

**We inspire young people to develop their passion for writing and performance and explore the possibility of the arts as a career.**
Our Wordsmith Award Programs are great enrichment opportunities for the students who want to become familiar with spoken word poetry, literature, page poetry, performance and creative expression.

We believe that the arts can be creatively transformative, as well as educational and entertaining. We embed self-confidence and encouraging self-expression through artistic endeavour and discipline are at the heart of a YI project.

WE OFFER A RANGE OF SERVICES:

Young Identity is committed to helping young people to have an enriching experience with the poetry featured on the National Curriculum. Our roster has some of the leading poets in the North West, who use their skill sets to capture the many voices of the authors featured in the National Curriculum Anthology to provide workshops to help students better engage their curriculum work.
Young Identity offers the chance for our poets to become artists in residence in your school community, engaging and creating art in response to students, staff, and schools environments. This program allows students the opportunity to directly engage in art making and the creative writing process of professional poets.
School poetry team slam style competition as a result of theme driven writing and performance workshops lead by Poet Facilitators with groups of 4-6 students over a series of weeks. Engaging all years with key skills; teamwork, writing and performance.
Young Identity poets are available for World Book Day and National Poetry Day workshop and experiences, including performances, educational talks and assemblies to better engage students on the fun and importance of literature both in and outside of the school program, discussing all the ways students can access information, creative mediums and a professions in the creative arts.
Workshop programs Incorporating a range of cluster schools across Manchester, culminating in a multi-arts slam showcase bringing together staff, students and ethos’ together as a result of writing and performance workshops lead by Poet Facilitators over a series of weeks

"The sessions were great, the feedback via tutors has been really lovely, they had a great time!"

Holy Cross College and University Centre
"An excellent session superbly managed by facilitators"

Rugby World Cup Collaboration
"The children were immersed and fully engaged."

Rugby World Cup Collaboration
"They had a really great afternoon and are going to take some of the creative writing techniques back to the classroom."

Rugby World Cup Collaboration