Exciting projects in the pipeline

100 Words is entering an exciting couple of months. At the end of March, we’re running a workshop with young writers from Birmingham REP’s Transmissions programme. This forms part of the REP’s new Generation Festival showcasing work for, by and with young people aged 12 to 25.

We’re delighted that we’ve been invited to be part of this. While in Birmingham, we’ll also be researching partner links that exist between some of the city’s schools and their counterparts in Guangzhou, in southern China.  There is a growing city-to-city relationship between Birmingham and Guangzhou, and we’re keen to see how 100 Words could contribute to this.

In April, we’ll be able to pick up the baton at the other end as we’re off to Guangzhou and Shanghai to carry out research and consolidate partnerships in both cities. This visit has been supported by the British Council through its Connections through Culture initiative. We’re obviously very grateful for their continued support.

We’re just starting to turn our minds to getting together a detailed itinerary.  Luckily, we’ll have both our wonderful adviser Dr Li Ruru and our Chinese producer Cheung Fai with us, so arranging meetings and talking to people will be much easier.  More to follow on this over the next few weeks.