Michael Rosen talks about his new poem commissioned by Historyworks about the stone lions that recline on plinths above the steps leading into The Fitzwilliam Museum. "The Listening Lions" poem was written and performed by Michael Rosen. To find the audio and the words go to:
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Historyworks devised and organized a session at The Fitzwilliam Museum and created this film, directed & produced by Helen Weinstein, camera & edit by Ross Casswell, sound & mix by Jon Calver.Lion songs were composed by Kirsty Martin based on Michael's words. Schools participating were the Yr 5 & 6 of the King's Choristers, the Yr 6 Chamber Choir of Milton Road Primary, the Yr 5 of St Phillip's Primary, and Yrs 4-6 of the Milton Village CE Primary Choir. We are grateful to all the artists and teachers and students, but especially to Rachel Sinfield and her superb education team at The Fitzwilliam Museum who hosted our creative session. Thanks to all at Historyworks who have given creative input and to the funders at CaMEO who are helping to visit schools and will host a creative concert for Cambridge families on 8th March 2015 with content devised by Historyworks and co-created with Cambridge young people to showcase their compositions, poems, songs, raps, stories, animations. Big thanks to the John Lewis Cambridge Music Award for funding the historyworks outreach visits with Cambridge Primary Schools for the Lions and the accompanying website resources at Historyworks project pages, free for family, children and their teachers to use. To find the resources go to:

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To contact Historyworks if you would like a film made for a museum, gallery, university project, library, archive, or heritage site, email the Creative Director, Helen Weinstein = historyworks@gmail.com