Community events

Speaking Well In Public offers occasional free community events for parents, teachers and business people in the Brighton and Hove area.

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Free Event Invitation: Reading Aloud to Your Children

A free, fun, 45-minute workshop with me, Philippa Hammond, professional actress and teacher of public speaking and reading aloud skills.

The Book Nook bookshop in Brighton and Hove Monday February 20th 10.00

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SpeakEasy: Free Public Speaking and Networking event in Brighton

About SpeakEasy – an occasional series of informal discussion events for anyone speaking in public for business, performance or a social occasion, who’d like some friendly support and advice.

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SpeakEasy

A new idea – Speaking Well In Public presents SpeakEasy,  an occasional series of free informal drop-in discussion events. It’s for anyone who has to speak in public for any reason and would like some friendly support and advice. Bring your public speaking ‘issue’ to discuss, share ideas and inspiration with the group and get

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Literacy in the news

Mr Men celebrate four decades of reading fun 7th August 2011 The Mr Men franchise is 40 years old this week – and still sells a copy every 27 seconds. The creator, Roger Hargreaves, died in 1988 yet he remains the third most successful author of the last decade behind JK Rowling and Dan Brown.

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Saturday 18th June 2011: The Critical Incident

“Thanks for putting on the excellent seminar on public speaking and script reading today. I found it very useful.”  Chris Wardman Saturday 18th June 2011:  I was happy to be part of this year’s Critical Incident on the theme of Connection. Around a hundred and fifty people attended over the thirteen-hour event at the Phoenix

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Recommended books for reading aloud to children

I’ve added an article to the Reading Matters heading which explores authors for parents and teachers to read aloud to children. Recommended for reading to children Tales of mystery, adventure and the great outdoors,  theatre, ballet and life on the stage,  other worlds and mythology … a great start to a bookshelf to keep for

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