MMU Academy Day
On 27th February 2009, some seventy Manchester Academy students spent a day at MMU. Divided into five groups, they worked with MMU staff, MMU graduates and current MMU students on a series of workshops designed to explore the various ways in which their stories could be told.
They explored:
Courtesy of MMU Aimhigher, MMU Student Ambassadors took Manchester Academy students on a guided tour of the campus and giving them a taste of student life to complement the taste of student food they'd just enjoyed!
- Journalistic storytelling with Rachel Broady
- Poetry with Mike Garry and Paul Mayers
- Scriptwriting with Julie Wilkinson and Jonny Evers
- Prose with MMU staff members Sherry Ashworth and Calum Kerr and MMU students
- Pel Peacy, Liz Bark, Iris Feindt and Laura Ann Joyce
- Visual Arts with Manchester Academy Head of Art Bob Smith, MMU graduate Bridget Johnson and MMU student Pel Pearcey
- Video Production with MMU students Loren Dunn and Rachel Hall of Blue Robot Films
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