Chris has been commissioned by Whitby Pannett Park Museum , Whitby , North Yorkshire as their writer in residence for the summer exhibition 'The Fire Over Fylingdale Project'. As well as writing text for the exhibition, Chris will run four FREE collaborative writing workshops for writers at any stage of their career or development. Places are very limited (12 per workshop) with one workshop specifically designed for teenagers. Workshop dates are:

Saturday May 19th 2007 – 12 places

Saturday June 23rd – 12 Place

Saturday August 18th – 12 places; 13 -18 years only

Saturday August 25th – final workshop – 12 places plus anyone who has attended a previous workshop

All workshops are free and will run at Whitby Museum from 10am – 1pm

To book or for further information contact:

Whitby Museum , Tel 01947 602908 www.whitbymuseum.org.uk

The Bluetooth Shakespeare Project – Chris has been commissioned by North Yorkshire LEA to produce animations of Shakespeare characters for mobile 'phones. Working with animators at Level200, artist Paula Wolfenden, the Royal Shakespeare Company and school pupils in art, animation and writing workshops, animations for patching by Bluetooth will be ready just in time for the KS3 SATs! Watch out for the first animation on your phone – 'Caliban Complaining' – this May! Caliban

 

Shutter Books are currently working on a third book of photography and poetry, ' Tees Way One Nine Nine'.

The book with poetry by Chris and writers from the Tees dale and Teesside areas will be published in November 2007.

Tees Valley Arts are currently working with Shutter Books to produce a package that will enable the inclusion of writers, including school pupils, from across the Tees region in what will be a beautiful and enduring book.

See images from the forthcoming book as well from ' Whitby One Nine Nine' and ' North Yorkshire One Nine Nine' at

www.jemisonphotographer.com

 

A CD of poetry from 'North Yorkshire One Nine Nine', with celtic harp music by Katie-Fiona Roberts, is now available. There are 16 poems on the CD, which is available for £10 via www.tripleharps.com . CD Cover

 

A sample track can be heard here:

Righ click the Downloadicon and select 'save target as'
GRAFFITI Download
THE WHITE ROSE Download

 

The Floating World of Tir Na n-Og

 

Interactive whiteboard fantasy game, is launched commercially this spring after a version was commissioned by North Yorkshire LEA for use in all North Yorkshire Schools. The educational game, created for use in English and Citizenship lessons, is loved by all pupils who play it!

Teachers enjoy it too.

Follow the 'publications' links for more on all of the above.