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Buzzing!
Bumblebee Conservation Trust, August 2010
‘Brilliant - a unique, entertaining, informative and amusing take on the world of bumblebees and other garden insects.’ Professor Dave Goulson, Director, Bumblebee Conservation Trust
‘A great way to get big and little people enthused about buzzers ...’ Jennifer Batty
Buzzing!
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
‘An absolute must ... A terrific show.’ Primary Times
‘Great sounds, great visuals. What’s not to like?’ edfringe.com
‘As soon as the show finished I turned to mummy and said, “I wish it could have gone on all day!” Alex, age 11
‘Amazing, mad, creative, and John’s music was mind-blasting!!’ Nina, age 10
‘Brilliant and interesting. I loved it all and it was amazing.’ Claudia, age 10
‘The best show we’ve seen at the Fringe’ Julian, age 12 and Klara age 9
‘Learnt so much in such a short space of time about my garden friends and enemies.’ P. Knighton (retired)
‘Fascinating - gripping from start to finish.’ W. Stevenson (retired)
Buzzing!
River Foss Society
York, April 2010
‘Your show was quite beautiful ... A rare combination of imagination and scientific accuracy and your audience was entranced.’
John Millett, Chairman, River Foss Society
Raucous Rhymes and Wonder Tales
York Literature Festival
York, 14 March 2009
‘Just wanted to say HOW much Celestine and I enjoyed last night. Thank goodness we decided to come!’
Janice Brown
‘We all [4 adults; 2 children] thought it was delightful! The way you’d planned it and performed together was great, really ‘professional’ but also warm and informal. A really nice atmosphere. The poem that stuck in David’s [age 12] mind and Katharine’s most was the neglected girl with the big sister “Hi-i, can’t talk now...” which we had in the car all the way home!’
Jenny Gwynne
Mad March Hares: Rhyme Time Ramble (for pre-school children)
York Literature Festival
West Bank Park, York, 5 March 2009
‘It was a great session - such a good idea to inject a bit of magic into nature like that, because it got them all going - Molly got really into it, and didn’t want to leave!’
Molly’s Mum
‘It was a truly wonderful morning! I loved watching them all staring up into the Very Tall Tree and really, really WONDERING what they would see from up there. Conor said to tell you his favourite thing was doing the ’We’re off into the woods’ rhyme walking round the flowerbed in a circle!’
Conor’s Mum
‘Busy Bees’ at INTECH Science Centre: Buzzing! performance
National Science & Engineering Week (Save Our Bees campaign)
Winchester, 7 March 2009
‘The feedback we had was excellent!’
Dan Richards, British Science Association (organiser of the event)
‘We really enjoyed your show. I hope that you will be able to do it again here some time.’
Angela Ryde-Weller, INTECH Science Centre and Planetarium
South Otterington Primary School: Buzzing! performance + workshops
South Otterington, 26 February 2009
Feedback from Year 5 and 6 pupils:
‘I personly think that you are the best poet in the world’
‘All your poetry was absolutely brill!’
‘We were amazed and inspired by your magnificent poetry’
‘You are increadible at poetry. I really enjoyed your visit it was great’
Read more pupil feedback from South Otterington Primary School (pdf)
Oxford Playhouse: Buzzing! performance
20 February 2009
‘Anneliese Emmans Dean is a gifted poet, performer and communicator who deserves to be more widely known. Those children who were lucky enough to attend this performance will probably spend the following weekend writing poems, hunting bugs and amazing their friends with their new-found knowledge.’
Oxford Daily Info. Read complete review
‘Thank you for inspiring my children [aged 6 and 4] to take an excited and hands-on interest in the insect world under their noses. They both came back from the show bouncing with excitement and have been talking about it ever since.’
Helen Jezzard
Ledbury Poetry Festival - Schools’ Workshops
25 November 2008, Ledbury
‘The schools were treated to a fantastic experience, as your approach was instructive, entertaining and totally inspiring. Quite and achievement ... A memorable experience for the students.’
Fran Bradley, Poets in Schools Coordinator, Ledbury Poetry Festival, on my ‘Word Wizard Workshop’ with Year 5/6 children
‘A fabulous afternoon. The children loved it! You sparked their creative juices. Thank you so much.’
Mrs Allard, Much Marcle C of E Primary on my ‘Word Wizard Workshop’
U3A (University of the Third Age), Gardening Group
York, 18 November 2008
‘Fantastic - Brilliant - Entertaining and very knowledgeable’
Anne Ryder on Buzzing!
St Oswald’s Primary School
York, 23 September 2008
‘Great! I have a personal passion in promoting “Fun with Nature”. Your performance was a great way to create interest and awareness and impart facts. It was rockin!’
June Coates, Teacher, on my Buzzing! performance
‘We have enjoyed a very interesting and creative morning. Our Year 3 children responded with great enthusiasm and were really engaged in all the activities involved. We were inspired!’
Jane Stinson, Year 3 Teacher, on my ‘Lexical Expedition’ poetry workshop
‘Thank you for coming to our school. I am from St Oswalds. I really enjoyed your visit. You performed the poems really well. Hope you come back to our school!!!’
Tasha
‘I really enjoyed you coming to st oswalds school. Some of the poems you acted out were really funny and cool. You can do really good acsents for the creatures, hehe! Id love you to come again!:)’
Jessie
York Festival of the Rivers, Buzzing! performance
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, York, 24 July 2008
‘A wonderfully entertaining hour for everyone from 6 to 106.’
Roma Oxford
‘Tonight’s performance was superb ... I enjoyed every part of it.’
Barry Male
‘Funny and fascinating.’
Alan Suggett
‘I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your Buzzing show ... it was both entertaining and educational.’
Andrew Hill
‘Brilliant production!’
Sue Whittaker
‘Your poems are so creative and your photography is beautiful.’
Jill Malusky-Bacon
‘Marvellous. So different, talented, enthusiastic! We loved it!’
Iain & Rita Brand, Scotland
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Buzzing! performance
Ledbury, 13 July 2008
‘Every primary school in the UK should book this enjoyable show.’
Ledbury Reporter
‘Buzzing! put smiles on lots of faces and lots of happy children made friends with lots of garden creepy crawlies.’
Chloe Garner, Festival Director
NYBEP Science Day Buzzing! workshops
Scarcroft Primary School
Thursday 3 July 2008
‘You could have heard a pin drop!’
Year 5/6 Teacher
‘The session was very informative, fun, lively and kept the children’s interest throughout. I’m sure they have learnt alot. Thank you.’
Year 5/6 Teacher
‘You’re well good at poems, you are.’
Year 5 pupil (boy)
National Insect Week Moth Night Buzzing!
York Cemetery
Wednesday 25 June 2008
‘Captivating!’
Paul Rhodes
‘Your performance was fantastic. The show was captivating and energetic. I shall never look at those poor bugs the same again. I’ve been enjoying my CD and your great characters - Thank You. A performance to recommend.’
Michelle Cooper
‘Wonderful show’
Chris Wood
‘Thanks - a really super show.’
Jackie Ashcroft
Rhyme Time Ramble
Toddler Group, West Bank Park, York
1 May 2008
‘We enjoyed the rhyme time ramble a lot. Anneliese is ‘fantastic’ and ‘great’ (Oliver’s mummy has never before seen him quite so utterly besotted with a person) ... We are looking forward to the next time we can join Anneliese on an adventure.’
Read more from Oliver and Tabitha
‘Since the Rhyme Time Ramble I have since been thinking a lot about birds and asking my mum what kinds they are; it is very disappointing that she does not always know. She is very bad at looking at the right time. Ollie and Ed and Sam were the ones who helped Anneliese find most things on the Rhyme Time Ramble. ... My baby brother Paddy still likes the Flubba Dubba Dubba rhyme best. My favourite is Charlie is an Earthworm, I know all the words.’
Read more from Conor
York Literature Festival 2008
LitFest LitFeast (for grown-ups only!) at Meltons Too restaurant
Sunday 9 March 2008
‘Thank you for a wonderfully enjoyable, sociable, hedonistic and educational evening on Sunday! It really was a wonderful night out.’
Rowena Field
‘You were amazing last night. What a natural performer you are. I really enjoyed myself. The whole event was incredibly professional. Your poems were great fun. I love the way you play around with sounds of words.’
Gail Fox
‘I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your fabulous performance.’
Anne Hutchison
Ilkley Literature Festival
(Buzzing! with live music specially composed by John Rayson)
7 October 2007
‘Thank you for a truly fantastic performance (by everyone involved) at Ilkley yesterday. My family and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done!
John Sykes
‘What wonderful entertainment, and I will not have been alone in going home and having a good look round my own garden. My friend Jill, who used to teach here, came with her grand-daughter and both were similarly enthralled.’
Margaret Longden, Boyle and Petyt Primary School, Beamsley
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Adrian’s Party
York Environment Centre
15 September 2007
‘It was such a great pleasure for me to be present at your show and see you perform very wonderfully. The way you identified the insects and gave them a sense of life and enabled them to be viewed as persons, was and is a very unique skill … I can imagine how you inspire those who have the privilege to listen to you.’
Wishart Malinga
Visit Wishart’s website to find out about the school he is setting up in his home country, Malawi
‘I really enjoyed your Buzzing - it was great. So is the CD!!’
Dr David Chesmore, Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
Find out about Dr Chesmore’s bioacoustics insect research here
Lord Deramore’s Primary School, Heslington
Year 6 Poetry Workshop
22 June 2007
‘Thanks for the superb workshop. The children have been really fired up about it.’
Peter Heale, Year 6 Teacher
Archbishop of York’s C.E. Junior School, York
Year 6 Poetry Workshop
27 June 2007
‘Thank you once again for the brilliant work you did with the class today. They were literally ‘buzzing’ with excitement. The letter that Francesca wrote on behalf of the class sums up their opinions and you can be assured that this is a true and honest opinion.’
Mr Green, Form Teacher
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Rowntree Park, York
Photography workshop for all the family
13 June 2007
‘I found your tips really useful and you've certainly focussed the kids' minds, as well as their cameras! My daughter took loads of snaps and is really into it now. She is asking for a digital camera with macro facility for her birthday, so you've got her hooked.’
Kate Lock, Friends of Rowntree Park
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The Boyle and Petyt School, Beamsley, North Yorkshire
Buzzing! performances and workshops, 6 June 2007
‘It was funny, humorous, amusing and she never let us be bored.’
Lauren, age 8
More pupils’ feedback (pdf)
‘The children were collecting bugs and looking closely at them for days after your visit - so it really was an inspiring visit.’
Imogen Addy, Head Teacher
‘You really inspired the children in their poetry writing and in the concept of “performance poetry”.’
Karen Bryant, Year 3 & 4 teacher
‘Everyone at school thoroughly enjoyed your inspiring visit - we’d be very happy to recommend you to other venues.’
Margaret Longden, School Administrator
St Nicholas Fields Environment Centre
Buzzing! performance for a class from
Archbishop of York’s CE Junior School,
22 March 2007
‘Thank you so much for the brilliant performance. It was magnificent - Science and Art in an Hour! The children were totally engaged and totally inspired! It also inspired me as a teacher! Congratulations and many thanks - I will certainly tell others about your great show.’
Jonathan Green, Deputy Head, Archbishop of York's CE Junior School
‘A brilliant way of celebrating the world of creepy crawlies and allowing children to engage with nature without the usual ‘urghs’ and ‘yucks’. I can highly recommend this as the class sat enraptured throughout.’
Keely Mellor, York Rotters Officer, St Nicholas Fields Environment Centre
York Literature Festival
Buzzing! performance, Rowntree Park, 11 March 2007
‘What a tour de force! Joyce Grenfell eat your heart out. You were brilliant.’
Verna Campbell, Retired Primary School Head Teacher
‘A great show ... it brought a new dimension to traditional minibeast activities.’
Stephen Whittaker, Community Leisure Officer, Parks & Open Spaces, City of York Council
‘We really enjoyed the afternoon and even learned a lot too! You are truly entertaining and clearly a talented poet.’
Karen Bryant, Primary School Teacher (Key Stage 2)
‘It's always good to get different people in to the Park, and I certainly enjoyed your performance. The children loved getting involved.’
Vicky Harland, Education Officer, Wild About York, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
‘The gig was great fun … Your obvious talent and passion for the subject is a winner for children - you can't fake such things.’
Martine Dunn, Actor
St Piran’s School
Buzzing! performance, Maidenhead, 28 February 2007
‘The show was way cool. I liked the poem about charlie the earthworm
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Kendra, Year 5
‘The poems were awasome. Espicially the charlie was the earth worm.’
Manami, Year 5
‘A resounding success and as Manami and Kendra have both commented, I regularly hear "Charlie is an earthworm" as I walk round school. My favourites were Doug the slug, with his distinctive York accent and the 22 spot ladybird. How you remember all the words is a mystery and they are delivered with such speed and clarity. Not a single mistake!! Anyone wondering whether this would be suitable for their school should contact Anneliese without delay. The pupils (aged 9 to 12) were spellbound and their vocabulary most definitely enriched. Come back when you've written your next volume!’
Clare Howard-Vyse, Form Teacher and Head of Maths
‘hello I loved your poem and the picture of the insect.’
Prajive, Year 7
York Residents 1st Weekend
Buzzing! performance, St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel,
27 January 2007
‘Many congratulations not only on a superb bravura performance last Saturday evening, but also on the originality and vastly entertaining quality of your poetry. I hope you realise what a stunning event you created and what pleasure it gave to those of us who were lucky enough to attend.’
David Sanderson
‘Thank you for such a refreshing fun original presentation last night. Creative and witty poetry, fine images, accomplished and expressively varied acting, well constructed with appropriate musical interludes. Could not do anything but come out of the chapel - happy!!! You deservedly have a winner.’
Rod and Anne Clark
‘A thorough and stimulating performance, brilliantly conceived, delivered and illustrated - what an actress you are Anneliese, you brought those creatures to life in a hugely entertaining way……looking forward to more.’
Anne Hutchison
‘A fantastic performance, which exceeded all expectations! Please keep me posted on future events.’
Wenke Geddert
‘It’s Buzzing - a winning combination of words, music and pictures; well-crafted poems full of humour and conveyed with panache and dramatic effect. A totally entertaining experience.’
Roger and Anne King
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