BBC seek writers, poets and performers for CBeebies show

THE SERIES – The Rhyme Rocket : CBeebies

“The Rhyme Rocket” will aid basic literacy amongst early year’s children and open the audience’s eyes to a mouth-watering world of tongue-twisting, eye-popping and laugh out loud rhymes, poems and songs. It is due to be aired on in mid-March, with a second series in the summer.

THE TOUR – The Rhyme Rocket Mission

The events will take place at 5 UK locations in mid April/early May 2012.

1. Glasgow – 19 & 20 April

2. Washington, Tyne and Wear – 24 &25 April

3. London - 30 April & 1 May

4. Salford, North West  – 3 & 4 May

5. Armagh, Northern Ireland – 10 & 11 May

The Rhyme Rocket Mission will be a place for children to laugh and learn through the creation and performance of rhymes. On each day there will be a morning and an afternoon session, with 90 children invited to each. They will be split into 3 groups and rotate around the workshops and performances.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

At each of our 5 locations we are looking for enthusiastic performers/poets with great ideas which will engage and entertain our young audience of 4-6 year olds. The performances should be 15 minutes each and could be combined with an end performance with all 90 children interacting.  

In addition the Rhyme Rocket TV crew want to film original poems/performances at each location that will be used for the second series of the programme.  They will have been written for the series, should last no more than a minute and inspire a pre-school audience. Please note that the poems must be spoken and not sung.

WHAT DO WE REQUIRE?

We’d love to hear your ideas for performances and poems which would take place at the events. We are looking for the widest possible range of styles, be they beat boxers, storytellers, rappers, puppeteers, percussionists….the list is endless. They will all have something in common though – the children will be captivated and inspired by them!

We are looking for:

•  Ideas for a performance based workshop (which could be taken around all 5 venues) or just at one venue

•  And/or 1 minute performance based on one of the following themes for the programme you have been assigned:

TIMELINE

If you are interested in being considered for the tour, please reply to this email by 5pm on Friday 24th February 2012 with your thoughts and ideas for delivering a performance and a recording (on DVD format) of you reciting your original poem using one of the themes assigned to you. Please also clearly state which locations from our tour you can do.

We will then invite a shortlist of candidates to present their ideas to us at our offices at MediaCity in Salford.

With your submissions, please include an indication of your costs/daily rates.

We look forward to hearing from you!

BBC Learning I Third floor I Bridge House I MediaCityUK I Salford M50 2BH