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THEGIRTYGRAPEVINE
National Year of Reading 
—
A Celebration!
On 15th October, some of the members of WirralCommunity Shakespearetook part in this celebra-
tion by performing „TheWasher Woman‟ scene
from
The Winters Tale
atWallasey Town Hall.In a packed pro-gramme, South Wirral HighSchool performed William
Shakespeare‟s „All TheWorld‟s a Stage‟ from
 AsYou Like It.
Hilbre Schoolperformed a scene from
Romeo and Juliet 
. We allwatched the National Yearof Reading film whichencapsulated some of theexciting reading activitiesthat have been happeningacross the Wirral this year.The film featured some of our own Get Into Readingmembers.Pupils from variousschools across the Wirralrecited poetry, the highlightof which was Lingham
Primary performing „The
Dragon Who Ate OurSchool
.’ 
The poet LeviTrafari entranced us with
his poems „Plastic Fantas-tic‟ and „Reach for TheStars.‟ We were be-
witched by Lucinda Scottfrom West Kirby Gram-mar School who sang
„Defying Gravity‟ from
Wicked 
.The afternoon sawus take part in a dramaworkshop with theEveryman theatre wherewe acted out variousscenes from Frank Cottrell
Boyce‟s latest stage play
Proper Clever 
.In our secondworkshop we heard Frank Cottrell Boyce read fromhis novel
Cosmic 
which hadus all in stitches. Hefollowed with a Question& Answer session whichkept us all totallyenthralled discussing suchtopics as how he startedwriting and where he getshis inspiration.A truly wonderfulday and a good time washad by all.Every Thursday, GIRmembers take a trip toAsylum Link in Liverpool to join in their reading group.We first went along to geta feel for the group andtheir needs. Now we assistthe facilitators in providingone to-one reading help toimprove their literacy skills.We join in theirreading group and it is sothrilling to see how mucheffort they put in to readingout loud and more to thepoint, how much joy theyget out of reading. It isalways extremely movingand often very humbling.
It‟s hard to imagine such
enthusiasm for the Englishlanguage.One of our GIRvolunteers has really got into the whole process. Sheloves every minute of it andshe now acts with confi-dence the like of which wehave never seen in herbefore. It has been a realrevelation and again,another moving moment.We always enjoythe subject matter. It var-
ies from children‟s stories
to poetry. It is alwaysexciting and we wait ineager anticipation to seewhat is coming next.If you would liketo make any donations of clothes, toys or toiletriesto Asylum Link bringthem to The LauriesCommunity Centre andwe can pass them on.They do an amazing jobwith so little.
CALL FORNEWMEMBERS
 
Tuesdays
The Book at Break-fast, LeasoweLibrary, 10.30 am
–
 NoonFeel Better with aBook 2, WallaseyCentral Library,2pm-3.30pm
Thursdays
 
The Book atBreakfast, Rock Ferry Library,10am-11.30am
Asylum Link: One-to-One Reading Sessions
 G e t  I n t o  R e a d i ng  T o d a y 
W inter , 2008/ 09 V olume 1, Issue 1 
Welcome
The Girty Grapevinehas been revamped,welcome to the firstissue in its new lease of life.This is the newsletterfor Get Into Reading
group members: we‟ll
be letting you know
what‟s going on in
other groups, as well asgiving you the chanceto tell us about yourown.
What‟s your group
reading at the moment?Have you been on a
trip together? We‟re
also looking for readingrecommendations, so if 
you‟ve read a book that you‟re bursting to
tell others about, dropus a line.
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