Date: Monday 11th March
Time: doors 5.30, 6pm Concert
Venue: Great St Mary’s, Market Square, Cambridge CB2 3PQ
Tickets: Available online from February 15th 

Historyworks is organizing an early evening concert with Michael Rosen stuffed with Poetry and Song for the young in age and the young at heart, with performances by Michael Rosen of his favourite poems & action songs. 

It will be an uplifting participatory event, suitable for all ages to join in from babes in arms to toddlers to youngsters to elders who enjoy rhythm and rhyme!

This event will feature our Poet in Residence at Historyworks, Michael Rosen, performing favourites such as Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake, & No Breathing! New lyrics and songs will be about Cambridge, researched and commissioned by the public historian, Helen Weinstein, about local places for which Michael Rosen has written lyrics set to music by our composers to be performed by singers from Cambridge schools with participation by the audience. These action songs will be led by our fantastic singing team at Historyworks of Mario Satchwell and Bethany Kirby and Rebecca Powell, performing alongside Michael Rosen.

Historyworks has especially commissioned new pieces on this year’s theme for HMD “Home” and ‘Torn from Home” so Cambridge young people will also perform their own poetry and songs inspired by our programme of workshops in schools delivered by Historyworks on this theme as we empathize with those who are homeless and torn from their homes.

The event will be a fundraiser for CamCRAG (Cambridge Calais Refugee Action Group) and SCU (Street Child United) and Jimmys (Homeless Shelter), a fundraiser the young people on our project asked us to organize, so that they could take action to make a difference in helping refugees and those without a home living in unsafe places, both street children overseas, and the homeless closer to home who need our support in Cambridge itself.