What is 'Backstories'?

Backstory:

a) an account of the events leading up to what is being written about now (Macmillan Dictionary)

b) the things that have happened to someone before you first see or read about them in a film or a story (Cambridge Dictionary)

Be Creative Backstories is an Arts Council England funded project running through the Summer Term of 2014. Twenty schools have the opportunity of receiving a visit from the Be Creative team of specialist music educators and musicians, who work alongside the children to help write, play, record and perform an original song. (Each class will record their own song.)

Each song will be a unique take on the Backstories project themes of sharing:

• our family and cultural histories 
• our experiences as a community 
• connections we have with the wider world

After the day of workshops, the classes will get to perform their unique songs to an audience of parents, grandparents, teachers and fellow-pupils in an interactive concert.

Please use this space and the ideas in this blog to continue the journey of looking back to help inform your creativity in the present.