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I would like to acknowledge the elders past,
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present, and into the future as well.
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And I would like to thank them for the contribution
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that they make to our country, and to our culture, and art,
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and story time, and storytelling, especially.
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And we have a wonderful story for you today.
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Today, we'll be having Sally Yule
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reading her beautiful book, Dancing with Memory.
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We also have Mandy who is doing some Auslan interpretation
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for us today.
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So thank you so much, Mandy.
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After Sally has read her book to us,
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Philip will be coming in
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and we'll be doing some movement with you.
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So such a nice break
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getting off our couches and off our bottoms.
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And then we'll be doing some craft together today.
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So I hope you're excited as much as we are today,
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and welcome.
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And I'll hand over to Sally.
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Welcome, Sally.
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Thank you, Lucy.
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And hello, everyone. Thank you for Zooming in
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from wherever you're Zooming in from
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to listen to story time.
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Today, I'm going to tell you a story that I've written
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about a lady called Lucy who lives with dementia.
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Dancing with Memories.
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I am Lucy and I dance with memories.
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Sometimes I remember,
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sometimes I forget.
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Sometimes I remember that I forget,
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sometimes I forget that I remember.
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Do you ever forget things? I do sometimes.
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My home is full of memories,
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black and white, and full of colour.
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I lose them and find them,
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and find them and lose them.
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Dancing with memories helps me remember.
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Can you think of what some of the memories are
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that Lucy might have in her home?
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Perhaps you can see them on the screen.
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There are photos.
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Perhaps she's got some of her favourite cups.
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I think she listens to her favourite music.
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Lots of memories in Lucy's home.
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I remember that today is special.
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My granddaughter is getting married.
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I remember she loves me, and I smile.
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Lucy's looking very happy there.
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Phoebe and Tom's wedding, 4:00 PM today.
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We'll pick you up at 2:30.
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Remember, you're doing the reading.
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My daughter has left a note.
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She wants to pick me up, but I'll get to the wedding myself.
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I think Lucy is a very determined lady.
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My doctor says I have dementia.
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I wish I didn't, but I do.
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"Your brain has changed," she says,
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"but you are still Lucy."
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She knows I have a brain and a heart.
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Who do you think's telling the story?
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That's right. It's Lucy.
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Lucy's telling us her story. She's speaking.
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And she's telling us, even though I've got dementia,
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I'm still Lucy. I'm still me.
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I think she wants to get that message across to us.
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My brain is foggy, but my heart burns bright.
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I can't do everything I used to.
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I can't say everything I want to,
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but my family and friends look out for me,
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like the twinkling stars watch over the earth.
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Can you think of ways that Lucy's family and friends
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might look out for her?
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And even though Lucy can't do everything,
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she can still do a lot.
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I walk, and pray, and write.
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I laugh, and watch, and sing.
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I listen, and cry, and garden.
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So Lucy can still do lots of things.
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When I remember, I eat blueberries and vegetables,
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every colour of the rainbow.
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And you can see there,
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lots of yummy, healthy things that Lucy eats.
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You might want to pick out what your favourite fruit
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or vegetable is there.
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I live beside a park.
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Reuben and Rejy are my park friends.
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Rejy is a Kelpie with dreamy eyes.
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He always remembers.
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There's Lucy in the park
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waving to her friends, Reuben and Rejy.
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Do you have a favourite park that you go to
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or you meet your friends?
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Lucy does.
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It's the day of the wedding.
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Getting ready takes longer now.
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The clock says there's plenty of time.
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I put the note in my handbag because I remember I forget.
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Lucy always looks at her clock.
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I walk out the door into the sunshine.
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I wave to Nellie, my nutty neighbour,
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and I feel as free as a magpie.
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There she goes. She looks so smart, doesn't she?
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She's got her beautiful red shoes and a purple handbag.
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She's gonna find her own way to the wedding.
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Do you think she will? I hope so.
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Down the street, through the park,
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around the corner, and past the cafe,
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across the road to the bus stop,
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I wave and smile at everyone.
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"Oh, my goodness. I forgot my pass.
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I'm going to my granddaughter's wedding
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and I need to be there by four o'clock."
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The driver waves me onto the bus.
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Aren't you glad that there was a kind driver?
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She said, "Come on Lucy. You can get on the bus anyway."
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It's a small thing,
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but I think that would've made Lucy feel a bit better.
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Houses and shops float by.
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Nothing looks familiar.
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"Excuse me, driver,
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can you tell me the way to my granddaughter's wedding?"
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But the driver is busy.
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I get off the bus and look around.
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I try to look confident, but I feel bewildered.
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I don't know which way to go, but I keep walking.
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Have you ever been lost?
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It's not a very nice feeling.
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I'm tired and thirsty.
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My heart sinks.
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I think really hard. I mustn't miss the wedding.
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My head hurts.
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I wonder if my daughter is worried.
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Maybe she'll call the police.
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Lucy looks very worried.
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I remember my note, an hour to get to the wedding.
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A tear rolls down my cheek.
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I look for my phone.
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I remember I've forgotten it.
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I'm pretty sure I'm lost.
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More strange shops, more strange houses.
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I must get to my granddaughter's wedding.
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I wonder how Lucy's feeling.
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She's walking down that street.
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Do you think she might be feeling worried?
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Or a bit sad?
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Or a bit lonely?
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I think she might be feeling all those things.
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I cross the road and get a wonderful surprise.
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Reuben and Rejy are sitting outside the cafe.
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There they are outside cafe Zephyr, Reuben and Rejy.
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I remember them and they remember me.
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"I'm on my way to my granddaughter's wedding, but..."
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Reuben smiles and gives me a glass of water.
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"First, we'll show you the way home."
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That was a kind thing of Reuben to do.
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It's a little thing, but it was a kind thing,
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and it made a lot of difference, I think, to Lucy.
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See, there are lots of little things
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that people do that help.
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Around the corner, through the park,
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up the street to my house.
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I am so happy I do a little dance.
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Reuben and Rejy can't stop smiling.
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Nellie, my nutty neighbour, gives me a humongous hug.
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My daughter jumps for joy.
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Everyone is here. My heart is full.
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I am Lucy and I dance with memories.
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Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget.
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And if you think about it, Lucy in the book, in the story,
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she remembers quite a lot of things.
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She remembers to bring her note.
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She remembers to walk to the bus stop.
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She remembers Rejy and Reuben.
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She also forgets a few things, doesn't she?
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She forgets the way home.
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She forgets lots of things along the way,
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but she remembers as well.
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Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget.
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I live with dementia.
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I wish I didn't, but I do.
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My brain has changed, but I am still Lucy.
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Thank goodness I have a brain and a heart.
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And I did dance at my granddaughter's wedding.
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And that's the end of the story.
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Thank you so much, Sally, for that beautiful reading.
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I'd love to know if anyone has popped anything
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into the chat.
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Maybe you have a question for Sally.
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I might ask her a quick question.
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And then if anything has come into the chat,
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Jill can let us know.
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And then we'll ask Philip, invite Philip to come over.
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And we also have a very special guest here today,
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Cheryl, who did the illustrations in Sally's beautiful book.
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But can I ask you a quick question, Sally?
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Is it a true story?
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There are elements of truth in this story.
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So, I, with my siblings, look after my mum and my dad,
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and they live with dementia.
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And so, yeah, there are elements of truth in the story.
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But Mum didn't get lost going to a wedding, so.
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But there are elements.
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There are lots of a number of different people
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who I've known who have lived with dementia,
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who have had things like this happen.
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And when I wrote the story,
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I wanted to honour those people,
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and I wanted to help everyone understand
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just the beauty and the dignity of the person
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who is living with dementia,
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and to just be able to know that we can all do things
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to help them enjoy life
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and to value the way they can live their life.
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And I really loved the members of community
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who were helping, like the bus driver,
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and Rejy and Reuben.
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I thought that was really beautiful
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when people in the neighbourhood would help Lucy as well.
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Well, the Rejy story, that's a true story.
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A dog helping a person with dementia find their way home.
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And so, that actually happened to
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one of my friend's mothers.
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And so, there are lots of little things.
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You'll notice that they're not big things that people do.
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But the bus driver,
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the kindness that that bus driver showed to Lucy,
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it's a small thing for the bus driver,
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but that's a very big thing for Lucy.
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And so, there are little things that we can all do,
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and that the children who have Zoomed in today,
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there are lots of really beautiful things you can do
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just by listening to the person you know with dementia,
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by not correcting them all the time.
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Just by enjoying them, and being with them,
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giving them the gift of time.
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And there might be kids out there in our Zoom
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who do have grandparents who have dementia and maybe, yeah,
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they relate to this story a bit as well.
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Did we have any questions or comments in Zoom, Jill?
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Yeah, thanks, Lucy.
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We've had a lot of really lovely chats and comments
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going on.
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One of the pictures that absolutely resonated with people
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was the pictures of the vegetables.
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And we have had a little informal poll going on
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as to whose was their favourite vegetables
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and their favourite things to eat.
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We've had blueberries, watermelon, oranges.
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But I'm wondering if you might be able to tell us
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a little bit about the pictures in the book, Sally.
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Yeah.
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The pictures on that page or all the pictures?
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Oh, just the pictures in general.
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I think people are really resonated
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with the pictures as well as the story.
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Well, the pictures have been done,
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created by Cheryl Orsini.
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And Cheryl's here today.
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And Cheryl, when I took the words to Cheryl,
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she understood perfectly what I was trying to create,
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and she brought the story to life.
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She kind of gave the character of Lucy life,
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but she also created all this magic around the fruit,
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and the memories in the house, and the park.
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So that the pictures
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are equally as important as the words.
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And so, Cheryl did a beautiful job of bringing life,
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and fun, and beauty to the story
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by doing that.
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That's lovely.
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We have actually had a couple of questions,
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quite a lot of questions asking
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whether you've written other books like this, for example.
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This is my first book that I've written,
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but I am writing another book about Lucy.
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That's beautiful.
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Cheryl, though, has illustrated many, many books.
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I'm new to writing,
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but she is very experienced at illustrating.
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What an amazing debut novel. That was beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Margot was wondering how long it took you
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to write the book.
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It took me a couple of years to write the book,
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and I did 32 versions before I felt
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I think this is about right.
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That's brilliant.
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And I think you've probably already touched on this,
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but how you may have come up with the concept,
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or how you decided you wanted to write this book.
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Well, I worked with people with dementia
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in my professional life for 30 years.
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But then when my mum and dad were diagnosed with dementia,
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it became much more personal.
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And I always had a heart for people with dementia.
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and being part of their lives actively,
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really made me think,
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I want people to understand,
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better understand dementia,
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and better understand that the person
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is absolutely still there.
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The people are absolutely still there,
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and that we don't have to feel awkward,
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that there's nothing nice about dementia.
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There are lots of hard things,
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but there are lots of wonderful things and wonderful ways
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that we can still, as a family, work together
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to enjoy life together and do life well together.
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And so, yes, it was when that, when mum and dad
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started living near us, I thought,
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yeah, there's nothing for children.
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I watched the children around us thinking,
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how do I relate to this?
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And I watched children sitting back
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and thinking they're on the edge.
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Kids, you don't have to be on the edge.
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You've got a really important part to play
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when someone you love lives with dementia,
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but a really important part to play.
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It's not in the big things, it's in the little things.
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It's in the accepting and the not judging. It's beautiful.
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I have a question here from Max.
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My name is Max, I'm deaf,
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and sometimes that is a problem, like forgetting.
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Can you write a book about the problems
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when it is hard to hear?
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It could be about how I can get lost in my games.
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That's a beautiful question, Max.
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Perhaps I need your help to understand better
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what the issues are, but I'd love to talk to you.
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Thank you.
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And Deepa asks, are you gonna write all your books
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on Lucy's life and make a series out of her?
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I'm going to write another book on Lucy's life.
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I haven't got past the next one.
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This first one, yes, I've loved writing that.
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And the second one is in the making.
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I'll wait and see whether there's more to say.
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I feel like there's more to say
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than in Dancing with Memories,
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but I think after the next one, that might be enough,
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and I might move into another area.
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But I have loved doing it.
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Beautiful. That's all our questions.
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Thank you so much, wonderful Zoom audience.
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That was really, really, what great questions.
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Thank you so much for participating.
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Thank you so much, Sally,
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for your beautiful answers as well.
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I think we might do some movement
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'cause everyone has probably been sitting
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in front of their computers for way too long this morning.
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So I'm going to invite Philip to come out.
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And Philip, I don't know whether they know it,
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but Sally and Cheryl are going to be Philip's
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backup dancers for today.
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And we'd love everyone at home, of course,
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to get up off their bottoms and to join us as well.
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So Philip, would you like to come out here?
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And I think we're gonna have Sally and Cheryl
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on either side of you.
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Even though I would love to be involved,
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it was felt that was too many people on stage.
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So I'm gonna be quiet.
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So my name's Philip.
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Wonderful to have you here
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for a little movement and dance section
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inspired by this beautiful story that Sally has written.
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Thank you, Sally.
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And I'm very, very honoured to have
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two such extraordinary backup dancers, Sally and Cheryl.
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Thank you very much.
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So we're going to start just a little warm up
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for a couple of minutes.
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And this is to see how fabulous your memory is
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at remembering numbers and counting.
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So the very first warm up dance goes like this.
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Eight claps, and,
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one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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Then we walk for eight counts.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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Then just hit a statue shape and hold it.
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Freeze for eight.
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Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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Got it? We're good?
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Can we gonna try that in a little circle?
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So at home, if you've got a little space
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in front of the front of the television,
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that your screen you're watching,
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see if you can do this in a little circle.
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So I'm gonna come up to here.
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You're there, and we'll walk that way around.
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Are you ready?
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Five, six, seven, claps.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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Walk, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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and freeze.
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Sally, can I invite you to choose another number
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between five and 10, please?
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Thank you.
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Eight.
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We just did eight. A different number?
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Six.
Six. Great number.
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So we're gonna to do the same with sixes.
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So walking the other way, though.
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Six claps, six walks, six freeze.
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But we'll do this travelling the other way.
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Here we go.
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And one, two, three, four, five, six.
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Walk, two, three, four, five, six.
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Freeze, two, three, four, five, six.
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Excellent.
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Cheryl, can I invite you to choose one more different number
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between five and 10?
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We've had six, eight.
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I think we'll go with seven.
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Nice choice. All right, let's do seven.
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So we're gonna walk the other way for sevens.
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Are you ready?
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Clapping this way.
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Seven, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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Walk, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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Freeze, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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Awesome backup dancers. Thank you.
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We're gonna put that all together now just to see
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if the brain's really remembering all those numbers.
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So our first number was?
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Eight.
Beautiful.
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Next one was?
Six.
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Six. And the third one?
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Seven.
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Okay, so let's put them all together.
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So we'll walk one way, then the other,
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and then the other.
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So really challenging the old brain cells and the body,
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because that's what dance does so fabulously.
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All right.
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This way, that way, this way.
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Eight, six, seven, can I remember it?
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Here we go. Five, six, seven, eight.
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Six, seven, eight.
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Walk, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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Freeze, two, three, four, five, six, seven, six.
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One, two, three, four, five, six.
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Walk, two, three, four, five, six.
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Shape, two, three, four, five, six.
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Seven, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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Freeze, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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World premier done.
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So you might like to just play with that dance at home,
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but choose other numbers, maybe even trickier numbers,
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four and a half.
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I'll leave those ones with you.
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But a good one to warm up brain and body, yes.
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And that's such an important part
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of keeping our brain healthy like our body.
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The more we exercise it, the more awake it keeps.
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Okay. Now, the second very short thing we're going to do
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is to create some movement ideas,
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some dance ideas from the beautiful words, and vocabulary,
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and images that we saw in the book.
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That one that really stuck out for me, Sally,
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was sometimes I remember, and sometimes I forget.
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So this a little movement I'd like you to try of that one.
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Sometimes I remember,
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as if you're bringing all those ideas into your brain.
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Sometimes I forget, they've gone.
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One more time.
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Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget.
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One of the issues that Lucy faced off and on.
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I have some other words that really stood out to me.
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So maybe I'll just put these here so we've got them.
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And these are gonna be like the ingredients
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for our dance composition.
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We won't have time to do that composition here,
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but we'll play with them.
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And then maybe after the session, you might like to try
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and make up your own dance using some of these ingredients.
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Remember, Lucy had lots of things on the wall
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to help her remember, didn't she?
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Some photos.
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Beautiful. Yes. Awesome.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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And so, I thought we might make a family photo.
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So if we all just
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come together,
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and we're in a very dignified family photo
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looking very, very, yes.
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This might be photograph number one.
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And then can we just change around
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and make photograph number two.
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So we might shuffle around a bit.
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And I might even go down here.
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Photograph number two. Yes.
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Okie dokies.
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And if you want to be really fancy,
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you might even have photograph three and four,
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but we'll just do two photos for now.
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Remember that.
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Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget.
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Photograph one and two.
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Another thing Lucy did lots of was,
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which was great, walking.
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Can we just walk around the space?
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And off we go.
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Nice and easy.
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And sometimes she watched.
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This is what I'd like you to try for watching.
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You're just gonna put out an arm
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and slowly turn on the spot,
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looking at all the things around you,
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helping the brain to absorb it.
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You might try the other arm as well and turn the other way.
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So we've had walking, we've had watching.
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Sally also does lots of writing.
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So can you write, but with really big handwriting,
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so not this size.
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We're thinking really big, big writing.
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It says she's got a massive blackboard.
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So this is my blackboard and I'm gonna to write my name.
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Can you show us how big you can write your name?
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Aren't they fantastic? Awesome.
527
00:25:27.990 --> 00:25:30.088
All right. So we've had.
528
00:25:30.088 --> 00:25:31.604
I'm just gonna.
529
00:25:31.604 --> 00:25:32.604
Thank you.
530
00:25:34.300 --> 00:25:35.480
Sorry about that.
531
00:25:36.820 --> 00:25:39.380
Movement and microphones don't go so well together.
532
00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:43.460
Sorry. Sorry. Thank you very much for that.
533
00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:45.363
So we've had photos.
534
00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:48.123
Remember and forget.
535
00:25:49.390 --> 00:25:53.400
And Sally talked about her brain being a little bit foggy.
536
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:58.400
Could you show with your body that swirling fog around you?
537
00:25:58.630 --> 00:26:02.670
Yes. So it's swirling up high, down low,
538
00:26:02.670 --> 00:26:04.620
and you might even be turning around
539
00:26:04.620 --> 00:26:08.410
as that fog is swirling, swirling, swirling.
540
00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:12.880
A beautiful ingredient to throw into our dance composition.
541
00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.400
Great.
542
00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:17.843
Foggy, another very important ingredient.
543
00:26:19.090 --> 00:26:21.970
We had stars. Stars.
544
00:26:21.970 --> 00:26:23.960
Can you just remind us what the stars,
545
00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:26.980
what role did they play in the story, Sally?
546
00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:29.860
It said "My family and friends look out for me
547
00:26:29.860 --> 00:26:32.580
like the twinkling stars watch over the earth."
548
00:26:32.580 --> 00:26:36.400
Exactly. And let's just try stars.
549
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:39.270
Can you show them in different positions all around as well?
550
00:26:39.270 --> 00:26:41.610
Love that kind of little shimmering of the fingers.
551
00:26:41.610 --> 00:26:44.730
It gives a really beautiful movement quality
552
00:26:44.730 --> 00:26:47.030
compared to everything else we've done.
553
00:26:47.030 --> 00:26:48.850
Beautiful. Thank you, Sally.
554
00:26:48.850 --> 00:26:51.863
Stars. Tick that one off.
555
00:26:53.150 --> 00:26:54.373
We've done walking.
556
00:26:55.760 --> 00:26:56.820
We've done writing.
557
00:26:56.820 --> 00:26:59.673
We're speed dancers here. Fabulous.
558
00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:02.730
We've done watching as well.
559
00:27:02.730 --> 00:27:04.670
All these ingredients.
560
00:27:04.670 --> 00:27:09.210
Ah, what did Sally like to do outside?
561
00:27:09.210 --> 00:27:10.480
Lucy like to do.
562
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:13.590
Sorry, Lucy. Thank you, thank you. My brain's.
563
00:27:13.590 --> 00:27:16.423
What did Lucy like to do outside?
564
00:27:17.800 --> 00:27:18.633
Garden.
565
00:27:18.633 --> 00:27:19.637
She liked to garden.
566
00:27:21.479 --> 00:27:22.423
Fancy, fancy gardening gloves. Aren't they fantastic?
567
00:27:25.612 --> 00:27:26.810
They belonged to my mum.
568
00:27:26.810 --> 00:27:28.640
They are amazing, aren't they?
569
00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:29.730
She gardens in style.
570
00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:33.390
You could go to a ball in those, I think.
571
00:27:33.390 --> 00:27:35.920
So let's try garden.
572
00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:38.380
Can you choose whichever gardening activity
573
00:27:38.380 --> 00:27:39.700
that you would like to do?
574
00:27:39.700 --> 00:27:44.540
You make up your own gardening activity, and go.
575
00:27:44.540 --> 00:27:45.536
Pruning.
576
00:27:45.536 --> 00:27:46.369
I'm digging.
577
00:27:46.369 --> 00:27:50.836
You're digging and I'm gonna do some raking.
578
00:27:50.836 --> 00:27:51.900
I'm gonna water my geranium.
579
00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:54.313
Fantastic. Yes.
580
00:27:56.900 --> 00:28:00.780
Excellent. Beautiful. Terrific.
581
00:28:00.780 --> 00:28:03.440
Another movement inspired activity.
582
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:04.800
Okay. Gardening
583
00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:10.620
and listening.
584
00:28:10.620 --> 00:28:13.610
This one I kind of, I like.
585
00:28:13.610 --> 00:28:18.610
Why was listening important for Lucy?
586
00:28:19.290 --> 00:28:23.500
Lucy does a lot of watching life go by.
587
00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:28.500
As Lucy gets older and her life gets smaller in some ways,
588
00:28:29.070 --> 00:28:30.537
she does a lot of observing, and a lot of watching,
589
00:28:30.537 --> 00:28:32.630
and a lot of listening.
590
00:28:32.630 --> 00:28:35.523
And in my story, Lucy is a great listener.
591
00:28:36.620 --> 00:28:38.270
She's a listener,
592
00:28:38.270 --> 00:28:41.773
and people still come to Lucy because she's a listener.
593
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:44.420
So listening is a beautiful skill that Lucy has.
594
00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:47.840
Absolutely. Great skill for us all to have, isn't it?
595
00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:50.430
For listening, I'd like you to just to put one hand
596
00:28:50.430 --> 00:28:53.200
to one ear, and can you walk around the space,
597
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:56.400
but listening up high, as well as down low?
598
00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:57.290
And go.
599
00:28:57.290 --> 00:28:58.123
Listening.
600
00:29:06.256 --> 00:29:10.180
And beautiful. Great listening.
601
00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:12.250
And the last ingredient of our dance
602
00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:17.250
will be dancing at the final part of the story, which was?
603
00:29:17.487 --> 00:29:18.320
At the wedding.
604
00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:19.153
At the wedding.
605
00:29:19.153 --> 00:29:20.600
Oh, my goodness. That's lovely.
606
00:29:20.600 --> 00:29:23.350
Indeed, and beautifully illustrated too, Cheryl.
607
00:29:23.350 --> 00:29:25.960
All these people from all around the neighbourhood
608
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:28.050
having a very fine shindig.
609
00:29:28.050 --> 00:29:31.430
So this is where I guess you can let it all rip.
610
00:29:31.430 --> 00:29:33.680
If you had some music at home,
611
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.780
then would perhaps inspire you all the more
612
00:29:35.780 --> 00:29:39.400
to really let loose, cut those moves on the dance floor.
613
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:43.853
So have a bit of your very own dancing, and go.
614
00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:53.140
Excellent. All right.
615
00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:56.310
So all those many ingredients
616
00:29:57.794 --> 00:30:00.640
of the story, and just taken a few of those words
617
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.530
from this beautiful story that Sally's written.
618
00:30:03.530 --> 00:30:06.810
So you might like to then put those ingredients together,
619
00:30:06.810 --> 00:30:10.020
maybe choose four or five of them to make your own dance.
620
00:30:10.020 --> 00:30:14.763
And they were starting with remember and forget.
621
00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:19.410
We had foggy, foggy brain.
622
00:30:19.410 --> 00:30:24.410
But we had the stars, the beautiful shimmering fingers. Yes.
623
00:30:24.770 --> 00:30:27.330
That casts their light down upon the earth,
624
00:30:27.330 --> 00:30:29.360
looking after the earth.
625
00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:31.073
Sally did lots of walking.
626
00:30:32.690 --> 00:30:33.893
Sorry, Lucy.
627
00:30:35.470 --> 00:30:37.170
Did Sally do a lot of walking too?
628
00:30:39.270 --> 00:30:42.363
We had family photos. Can you remember our family photo?
629
00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:46.300
That's right, yes. Beautiful.
630
00:30:46.300 --> 00:30:47.800
And remember our second photo?
631
00:30:49.030 --> 00:30:52.030
I think it was changed the other way around, didn't we?
632
00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:56.573
Can you remember your two photos? Good luck. Good luck.
633
00:30:57.470 --> 00:31:00.500
We had listening. Do remember our listening movement?
634
00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:04.970
It was travelling around, up and down, listening, listening.
635
00:31:04.970 --> 00:31:06.213
We had gardening.
636
00:31:08.360 --> 00:31:09.690
You got some amazing gloves.
637
00:31:09.690 --> 00:31:12.630
They would make you a really incredible gardener.
638
00:31:12.630 --> 00:31:13.833
We had watching.
639
00:31:15.170 --> 00:31:16.463
Turning one way.
640
00:31:17.540 --> 00:31:21.330
You can do that fast or slow, or the other way.
641
00:31:21.330 --> 00:31:22.750
We had writing.
642
00:31:22.750 --> 00:31:26.600
Remember writing on that massive big, big blackboard
643
00:31:26.600 --> 00:31:27.743
in front of you.
644
00:31:29.130 --> 00:31:30.410
Writing your name,
645
00:31:30.410 --> 00:31:33.333
or you might be writing a story like Sally has.
646
00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:38.750
And I think in the last one was at the wedding
647
00:31:38.750 --> 00:31:40.603
letting those moves rip.
648
00:31:42.430 --> 00:31:45.930
So perhaps choose any of those ideas put together
649
00:31:45.930 --> 00:31:47.750
in your very own dance.
650
00:31:47.750 --> 00:31:50.610
That will be a lovely little summary of what's
651
00:31:50.610 --> 00:31:53.110
this beautiful story is all about.
652
00:31:53.110 --> 00:31:56.600
So thank you for inspiring
653
00:31:56.600 --> 00:32:00.430
all those extraordinary movement ideas, Sally,
654
00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:02.970
and Cheryl, with all those fantastic.
655
00:32:02.970 --> 00:32:04.840
And in fact, we've just done a little taste of this
656
00:32:04.840 --> 00:32:05.750
with a group here,
657
00:32:05.750 --> 00:32:10.127
and fantastic compositions came out of them, so thank you.
658
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:12.033
Thank you.
659
00:32:12.033 --> 00:32:15.150
And hope you might create a new masterpiece at home.
660
00:32:15.150 --> 00:32:16.200
Thank you, everybody.
661
00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:19.270
Thank you so much, Philip.
662
00:32:19.270 --> 00:32:21.160
And thank you so much Sally and Cheryl
663
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.030
for your beautiful dancing.
664
00:32:23.030 --> 00:32:26.120
And don't run away too far, ladies,
665
00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:28.870
because I'll be asking you to help me with some craft
666
00:32:28.870 --> 00:32:30.690
in a moment if you don't mind.
667
00:32:30.690 --> 00:32:33.080
But thank you so much, Philip. That was wonderful.
668
00:32:33.080 --> 00:32:37.240
I hope everyone enjoyed that amazing dance.
669
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.944
Jill is looking at me.
670
00:32:38.944 --> 00:32:41.110
Oh, Lucy, I just have to say.
671
00:32:41.110 --> 00:32:44.390
Well, no, because everyone's too busy dancing.
672
00:32:44.390 --> 00:32:45.440
But I just have to say,
673
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.250
I'm able to see the wonderful faces
674
00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:48.430
who are participating today.
675
00:32:48.430 --> 00:32:51.100
I know that our presenters can't see your faces
676
00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:52.560
as easily as they'd like to,
677
00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:54.690
but they will be able to during the craft activity
678
00:32:54.690 --> 00:32:55.800
that's coming up next.
679
00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:59.060
But guys, your movement was amazing.
680
00:32:59.060 --> 00:33:02.290
And a shout out to Deepika who managed to,
681
00:33:02.290 --> 00:33:05.189
instead of gardening gloves, managed to find some mittens.
682
00:33:05.189 --> 00:33:08.610
So she's accessorised and done exactly
683
00:33:08.610 --> 00:33:09.990
what we needed everybody to do.
684
00:33:09.990 --> 00:33:11.940
And the movement was really, really terrific.
685
00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:14.290
So thank you for joining in, everybody.
686
00:33:14.290 --> 00:33:15.880
Thank you, yes, for your participation.
687
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.520
And I think at this point,
688
00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:20.780
we're also going to thank Mandy for her help.
689
00:33:20.780 --> 00:33:23.040
And we're going to say goodbye
690
00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:25.820
because she has been doing so much interpretation
691
00:33:25.820 --> 00:33:27.130
for us today.
692
00:33:27.130 --> 00:33:31.600
We don't want to cause her to have sort of exhaustion.
693
00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:35.163
So thank you so much, Mandy. You are really incredible.
694
00:33:36.130 --> 00:33:38.100
Yeah. Thank you so much.
695
00:33:38.100 --> 00:33:41.460
And I think we might get into some craft now.
696
00:33:41.460 --> 00:33:44.060
So I hope everyone has their materials.
697
00:33:44.060 --> 00:33:45.610
We did give out a material list,
698
00:33:45.610 --> 00:33:48.450
but we can talk about that as we go over.
699
00:33:48.450 --> 00:33:50.930
We're gonna move over to the craft table
700
00:33:50.930 --> 00:33:54.090
and I'll ask Cheryl and Sally if they could come over to,
701
00:33:54.090 --> 00:33:55.330
if that's all right.
702
00:33:55.330 --> 00:33:56.763
So we'll head over this way.
703
00:33:59.170 --> 00:34:00.670
And there's some water as well
704
00:34:00.670 --> 00:34:04.000
'cause I think everyone's been doing all this movement.
705
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.180
We're all like, exhausted now.
706
00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:08.883
So please take a seat.
707
00:34:10.210 --> 00:34:12.820
Hopefully everyone can hear us still.
708
00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:17.610
We've still got audio and vaguely visual as well.
709
00:34:17.610 --> 00:34:21.410
So today we hope to do two craft activities
710
00:34:21.410 --> 00:34:24.770
that were inspired by Sally's wonderful book
711
00:34:26.030 --> 00:34:30.690
and the beautiful illustrations that Cheryl did as well.
712
00:34:30.690 --> 00:34:33.933
And we thought we might do,
713
00:34:35.210 --> 00:34:36.993
we kind of do some work together.
714
00:34:38.070 --> 00:34:42.790
So we've got about 20 minutes that we can work for.
715
00:34:42.790 --> 00:34:46.950
Hopefully everybody has some materials with them.
716
00:34:46.950 --> 00:34:51.430
For our first activity, we need a large sheet of paper.
717
00:34:51.430 --> 00:34:53.440
So hopefully everyone has a large sheet of paper.
718
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.370
If you don't, you can actually use some wrapping paper,
719
00:34:58.370 --> 00:34:59.880
which is what I'm gonna be using.
720
00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:01.350
But these guys are going to be working
721
00:35:01.350 --> 00:35:02.690
on one of those pieces.
722
00:35:02.690 --> 00:35:05.870
And you'll be working together as well.
723
00:35:05.870 --> 00:35:08.280
Yeah, you're gonna work together.
724
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:13.280
And then we'll also need a pencil or a pen.
725
00:35:13.290 --> 00:35:15.040
We've got some lead pencils here.
726
00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:17.370
You might want to use a texta,
727
00:35:17.370 --> 00:35:19.210
but we're gonna be doing something
728
00:35:19.210 --> 00:35:21.580
where we don't want to get too messy.
729
00:35:21.580 --> 00:35:24.800
And then you might also want some collage materials.
730
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.803
So today, we have our scissors, which you need to,
731
00:35:30.830 --> 00:35:32.830
if you're feeling like you might cut yourself,
732
00:35:32.830 --> 00:35:35.670
ask someone who's more experienced with scissors
733
00:35:35.670 --> 00:35:37.280
to help you with that.
734
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.280
Also, some glue and some tape.
735
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:42.710
And we just have some bits of paper as well.
736
00:35:42.710 --> 00:35:45.550
So what we're going to do, is the first thing
737
00:35:45.550 --> 00:35:48.123
is we're going to make a family foot portrait.
738
00:35:50.970 --> 00:35:52.190
This might be a little bit tricky.
739
00:35:52.190 --> 00:35:55.310
We might need to move our camera a little back
740
00:35:55.310 --> 00:35:57.980
because I'm gonna to ask Sally and Cheryl
741
00:35:57.980 --> 00:35:59.070
to come out the front
742
00:35:59.070 --> 00:36:01.770
and I'm going to trace around their feet.
743
00:36:01.770 --> 00:36:04.490
And I'm glad it's them who were being the foot models today
744
00:36:04.490 --> 00:36:07.010
'cause they both have beautiful shoes on.
745
00:36:07.010 --> 00:36:08.360
Or they can take their shoes off.
746
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:11.253
We'll just do one, I think Sally, if that's okay,
747
00:36:13.100 --> 00:36:15.410
just to give a bit of a demo to everyone.
748
00:36:15.410 --> 00:36:17.330
So it's a bit like twister.
749
00:36:17.330 --> 00:36:20.350
So both of you, you can put one foot on
750
00:36:20.350 --> 00:36:23.320
and I'll trace one foot.
751
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:26.340
And if you have your family with you today,
752
00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:27.630
you can help each other out.
753
00:36:27.630 --> 00:36:31.470
Maybe you'd like to organise your feet smallest to largest.
754
00:36:31.470 --> 00:36:32.760
Get creative.
755
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:35.640
So I'm gonna start with Cheryl.
756
00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:38.830
And this is why I'm not using a texta today
757
00:36:38.830 --> 00:36:42.420
'cause I don't wanna do anything to these beautiful shoes.
758
00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:43.470
And look at Sally's.
759
00:36:43.470 --> 00:36:45.310
I wonder how I'm gonna do yours, Sally.
760
00:36:45.310 --> 00:36:47.610
Actually, yours are slightly tricky,
761
00:36:47.610 --> 00:36:51.893
but I love this 'cause it will be an interesting shape.
762
00:36:53.010 --> 00:36:54.830
And I'm just being super rough.
763
00:36:54.830 --> 00:36:58.620
And now we'll swap our feet around 'cause I want four.
764
00:36:58.620 --> 00:37:00.763
And they can overlap if they want.
765
00:37:03.340 --> 00:37:06.170
And Sally, where would you like to position yours?
766
00:37:06.170 --> 00:37:07.290
Lovely. Okay.
767
00:37:07.290 --> 00:37:09.823
So we're doing our family foot portrait.
768
00:37:10.870 --> 00:37:13.143
And here we go.
769
00:37:14.910 --> 00:37:18.110
You guys can get started and follow along with us
770
00:37:18.110 --> 00:37:22.720
or you might want to just watch our demo.
771
00:37:22.720 --> 00:37:25.189
Got some people drawing their hands
772
00:37:25.189 --> 00:37:26.022
instead of their feet.
773
00:37:26.022 --> 00:37:27.600
That's a great idea.
774
00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:30.137
And I was even thinking if you had like, a favourite toy,
775
00:37:30.137 --> 00:37:32.670
you could do your toy's foot as well.
776
00:37:32.670 --> 00:37:33.503
Thank you, Cheryl.
777
00:37:33.503 --> 00:37:35.593
So we'll come and take a sit down.
778
00:37:38.363 --> 00:37:40.520
I'll go first, thank you.
779
00:37:40.520 --> 00:37:42.130
Okay.
780
00:37:42.130 --> 00:37:44.253
And yeah,
781
00:37:45.310 --> 00:37:46.940
this is where we get creative
782
00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:50.233
and we can turn our feet into a portrait.
783
00:37:52.180 --> 00:37:55.680
We can grab our materials, whatever we're interested in,
784
00:37:55.680 --> 00:37:58.550
and we're just gonna work for a while on our feet.
785
00:37:58.550 --> 00:38:00.650
We can use our collage.
786
00:38:00.650 --> 00:38:03.580
We can use our tapes.
787
00:38:03.580 --> 00:38:05.000
And you can make your feet
788
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.520
into the people whose feet they are.
789
00:38:07.520 --> 00:38:11.810
So you could put faces on them.
790
00:38:11.810 --> 00:38:14.163
You could put arms and legs on them.
791
00:38:15.080 --> 00:38:18.560
You could make, I think in our last programme,
792
00:38:18.560 --> 00:38:22.360
one of our friends, Amanda, made one of her feet into a dog.
793
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.620
So you can go wild.
794
00:38:24.620 --> 00:38:27.660
I, myself, am going to,
795
00:38:27.660 --> 00:38:31.180
I just had little, I got my daughter's feet this morning.
796
00:38:31.180 --> 00:38:34.650
So I'm gonna put them on my piece of wrapping paper.
797
00:38:34.650 --> 00:38:39.030
So we will get started, and you guys can get started too.
798
00:38:39.030 --> 00:38:40.530
Jill is still looking at the chat.
799
00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:42.970
So if you guys have any questions,
800
00:38:42.970 --> 00:38:45.713
you're very welcome to pop them into the chat.
801
00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:48.850
I think we also had a slide.
802
00:38:48.850 --> 00:38:50.810
I'm not sure if you're able to bring it up, Hector,
803
00:38:50.810 --> 00:38:53.037
with some instructions if people are like,
804
00:38:53.037 --> 00:38:55.157
"Oh, I forgot one step."
805
00:38:57.475 --> 00:39:00.710
You'll be able to ask us questions if you have any.
806
00:39:00.710 --> 00:39:02.620
And we'll work for a few minutes,
807
00:39:02.620 --> 00:39:05.360
and then we'll go onto our next one.
808
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.370
And we are feeling super lucky at the moment
809
00:39:08.370 --> 00:39:12.310
because we can see you now. We are in a position, can't we?
810
00:39:12.310 --> 00:39:15.393
So we get to see all these wonderful faces.
811
00:39:16.790 --> 00:39:18.023
It's very exciting.
812
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.713
And if you want to, you can even name your feet.
813
00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:28.620
If it's your name you want to put it there,
814
00:39:28.620 --> 00:39:30.500
or you can actually,
815
00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:32.950
maybe you have names for your feet, I don't know.
816
00:39:36.820 --> 00:39:39.760
So I'm gonna be using the wrapping paper today
817
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.443
just as a different example.
818
00:39:44.290 --> 00:39:47.653
And I'm actually gonna be collaging my feet on as well.
819
00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:53.750
And we would love to see at any time,
820
00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:56.500
if you guys are making progress,
821
00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:59.620
if you at all want to show us what you're doing,
822
00:39:59.620 --> 00:40:03.370
we love to see what you're making as well
823
00:40:03.370 --> 00:40:04.930
and how creative you are.
824
00:40:04.930 --> 00:40:08.480
'Cause we sometimes have ideas about how things might look,
825
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:13.260
but then always, the amazing people in our audience
826
00:40:13.260 --> 00:40:15.110
come up with incredible ideas.
827
00:40:15.110 --> 00:40:18.453
So we would love to see what you're doing as well, guys.
828
00:40:23.650 --> 00:40:25.580
Did we have any questions or comments
829
00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:26.990
in the chat at all Jill,
830
00:40:26.990 --> 00:40:29.620
or is everyone just super concentrating
831
00:40:29.620 --> 00:40:34.620
on their amazing family foot portraits?
832
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:37.710
Of the people that I can see,
833
00:40:37.710 --> 00:40:40.080
all I can say is a lot of the tops of people's heads
834
00:40:40.080 --> 00:40:44.253
as they're busily creating their family foot portraits.
835
00:40:46.130 --> 00:40:47.830
We did have a request for people
836
00:40:47.830 --> 00:40:49.390
to be able to see what's on the paper,
837
00:40:49.390 --> 00:40:51.900
but we've managed to zoom the camera in a little bit now.
838
00:40:51.900 --> 00:40:54.140
So I hope that everybody can see
839
00:40:54.140 --> 00:40:55.823
the great craft that's going on.
840
00:40:59.680 --> 00:41:01.113
Okay.
841
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.730
Oh, wow.
842
00:41:04.730 --> 00:41:06.683
Cheryl and Sally are really getting into it.
843
00:41:06.683 --> 00:41:08.723
They're like, doing some great collage.
844
00:41:13.885 --> 00:41:16.880
Yes, yes.
845
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:18.670
Cheryl, yours, who is yours?
846
00:41:18.670 --> 00:41:20.524
Is yours a specific person or?
847
00:41:20.524 --> 00:41:23.550
This is Sally. No.
848
00:41:23.550 --> 00:41:27.694
My, Sally, how your hair has shrunk.
849
00:41:27.694 --> 00:41:30.413
This is just the person that just grew out of this shape.
850
00:41:31.819 --> 00:41:35.200
I just thought, he needs a bow tie.
851
00:41:35.200 --> 00:41:40.040
So Cheryl was inspired by the shape of the foot.
852
00:41:40.040 --> 00:41:41.050
I'm still trying to work out
853
00:41:41.050 --> 00:41:42.720
what to do with this heel area,
854
00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:44.220
if you've got any suggestions.
855
00:41:47.569 --> 00:41:48.920
Oh, I know what it could be. It's okay.
856
00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:49.787
All sorted out.
857
00:41:52.980 --> 00:41:55.120
Margot had a good suggestion that people could take
858
00:41:55.120 --> 00:41:57.420
their shoes off and trace around their feet.
859
00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:00.360
Yeah, yeah.
860
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.960
So yeah, you can do it with your shoes on
861
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:04.900
or with your shoes off.
862
00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:06.220
They could also trace around the shoe
863
00:42:06.220 --> 00:42:07.919
by taking it off and putting it up on the paper.
864
00:42:07.919 --> 00:42:11.240
Yeah, exactly. That's a great idea.
865
00:42:11.240 --> 00:42:13.370
Deepa's got her teddy out
866
00:42:13.370 --> 00:42:15.173
to trace the foot of Teddy.
867
00:42:18.040 --> 00:42:19.570
Can't wait to see Teddy portrait.
868
00:42:19.570 --> 00:42:21.130
He's a beautiful teddy.
869
00:42:21.130 --> 00:42:23.100
I actually see someone who's got her foot
870
00:42:23.100 --> 00:42:25.330
up on the table, I think.
871
00:42:25.330 --> 00:42:27.173
That's more flexible than I am.
872
00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:29.920
She's doing her own.
873
00:42:31.422 --> 00:42:32.810
It is a pink person.
874
00:42:32.810 --> 00:42:34.550
I don't see her name, but she has
875
00:42:36.380 --> 00:42:38.670
some pink jammies on.
876
00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:44.620
The heel that was Sally's shoe has turned into
877
00:42:45.490 --> 00:42:46.913
a pocket on a shirt.
878
00:42:50.870 --> 00:42:55.583
Cheryl is really using her imagination on these.
879
00:43:01.070 --> 00:43:03.870
And I cut my feet out.
880
00:43:03.870 --> 00:43:06.380
I put them onto some other paper. I cut them out.
881
00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:11.363
So I'm gonna like, place them on my paper as well.
882
00:43:17.470 --> 00:43:21.240
Oh, origami paper, yes, of course.
883
00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:22.793
I'm gonna steal the glue.
884
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:30.640
And wonder if anyone was helping the other members
885
00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:33.483
of their family trace their feet.
886
00:43:42.170 --> 00:43:43.440
Maybe one of the younger people
887
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.293
was tracing around the older people's feet or vice versa.
888
00:43:49.550 --> 00:43:51.100
Charlotte, Avery, and Henry,
889
00:43:51.100 --> 00:43:53.764
they're helping each other with their feet portrait.
890
00:43:53.764 --> 00:43:58.764
Oh, are they little people or big people?
891
00:43:59.410 --> 00:44:00.243
Or a mixture?
892
00:44:01.770 --> 00:44:04.180
And Athena's little friend there
893
00:44:04.180 --> 00:44:06.700
has a beautiful little footprint
894
00:44:06.700 --> 00:44:08.963
underneath the foot of her toy.
895
00:44:09.958 --> 00:44:11.250
Oh, beautiful.
896
00:44:11.250 --> 00:44:16.250
Yeah. Please do hold your foot families
897
00:44:16.450 --> 00:44:19.210
up to us 'cause we do love to see them.
898
00:44:19.210 --> 00:44:22.000
I think I saw one that was just an amazing collage
899
00:44:23.910 --> 00:44:25.853
with lots of bright colours on it.
900
00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:36.243
How fun is glue?
901
00:44:40.978 --> 00:44:42.890
Is that a serious comment, Cheryl?
902
00:44:42.890 --> 00:44:44.943
Oh, okay. Okay.
903
00:44:49.096 --> 00:44:50.746
I'm getting it all over my hands,
904
00:44:51.940 --> 00:44:53.900
and then it will be in my hair.
905
00:44:53.900 --> 00:44:58.417
I've made Cheryl's feet into Cheryl and her daughter.
906
00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:04.940
I love her smile, though, Sally.
907
00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:07.410
You've given her a beautiful smile.
908
00:45:07.410 --> 00:45:08.600
That's really lovely.
909
00:45:08.600 --> 00:45:11.000
Does she have a beautiful smile? I bet she does.
910
00:45:12.210 --> 00:45:15.240
Now, I'm just looking at the time,
911
00:45:15.240 --> 00:45:18.950
and I think we might work for another two minutes.
912
00:45:18.950 --> 00:45:21.150
So we'll just work for two minutes,
913
00:45:21.150 --> 00:45:24.960
and then if you've still got more to do, that's fine.
914
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:28.233
You can do that maybe later on after lunch or whatnot.
915
00:45:29.550 --> 00:45:31.090
But we'll work for another two minutes
916
00:45:31.090 --> 00:45:33.530
and then we'll do one more activity
917
00:45:33.530 --> 00:45:35.050
'cause we'd like to share with you
918
00:45:35.050 --> 00:45:37.453
just our last activity as well.
919
00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:41.070
Sophia managed to get her cat's foot.
920
00:45:41.070 --> 00:45:43.370
Whoa, her cat?
921
00:45:43.370 --> 00:45:45.461
I don't know any cats that would sit enough
922
00:45:45.461 --> 00:45:47.190
to be able to trace around them.
923
00:45:47.190 --> 00:45:51.150
That is a very good cat. Love to see a cat.
924
00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:53.860
I can imagine a cat like, going across like,
925
00:45:53.860 --> 00:45:55.360
a painting or something,
926
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:58.620
and having little painted paw prints.
927
00:45:58.620 --> 00:45:59.893
That would be beautiful.
928
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:04.900
Yes. The way that I've done it is taking a long time.
929
00:46:04.900 --> 00:46:07.660
You guys have like, whizzed away,
930
00:46:07.660 --> 00:46:09.900
and I'm still cutting out my feet.
931
00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:12.697
But anyway, we all work at different speeds.
932
00:46:14.227 --> 00:46:15.427
They are beautiful feet.
933
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.010
I'm trying, but I am going very slowly.
934
00:46:22.010 --> 00:46:25.053
And Cheryl's doing another one.
935
00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:34.930
Is that a swimming hat that it's wearing?
936
00:46:34.930 --> 00:46:36.049
Like, the swimming cap?
937
00:46:36.049 --> 00:46:37.556
It was kind of gonna be hair,
938
00:46:37.556 --> 00:46:39.793
but it's more like a swimming cap. You're absolutely right.
939
00:46:39.793 --> 00:46:41.223
That is lovely.
940
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:46.170
Gosh, everyone is concentrating so well.
941
00:46:46.170 --> 00:46:49.433
And just looking at everyone on this screen, it's fantastic.
942
00:46:52.140 --> 00:46:55.240
Everyone's creations are looking good.
943
00:46:55.240 --> 00:46:57.603
We had somebody who had a Transformer foot.
944
00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:02.713
You could do like, a miniature.
945
00:47:05.122 --> 00:47:06.720
Ooh, could I have a look?
946
00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:08.210
Oh, that's lovely.
947
00:47:08.210 --> 00:47:12.060
The little girl whose name is Gareth on the iPad
948
00:47:12.060 --> 00:47:13.440
is holding up her creations,
949
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:14.630
and that's looking pretty amazing.
950
00:47:14.630 --> 00:47:16.053
They're hand portraits.
951
00:47:18.350 --> 00:47:21.450
We have very creative, very creative people
952
00:47:21.450 --> 00:47:24.320
who participate in our programmes.
953
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:28.090
I see one with lots of triangles.
954
00:47:28.090 --> 00:47:30.583
That is gorgeous. Thank you so much.
955
00:47:36.970 --> 00:47:39.393
There's a lovely one as well. I'm not sure.
956
00:47:40.620 --> 00:47:43.180
It's funny that I'm not seeing everybody's names,
957
00:47:43.180 --> 00:47:47.000
unfortunately, but I can see one which looks like
958
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.600
a little girl, and she's got her hand on the foot,
959
00:47:50.600 --> 00:47:53.120
the outline of the foot.
960
00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:56.200
I'm sorry. That is so good.
961
00:47:56.200 --> 00:47:58.210
You guys are amazing.
962
00:47:58.210 --> 00:48:00.640
There are lots of amazing portraits here.
963
00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:02.500
I can see a little boy there with curly hair
964
00:48:02.500 --> 00:48:03.433
called Zephyr.
965
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.950
Well done, Zephyr. That's fantastic.
966
00:48:07.950 --> 00:48:09.980
Ooh, he threw it away. That's very good.
967
00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:12.700
And some really beautiful, bright collages as well.
968
00:48:12.700 --> 00:48:15.260
There's someone holding up hers that's green and red,
969
00:48:15.260 --> 00:48:17.890
and it's just beautiful colours.
970
00:48:17.890 --> 00:48:19.720
Gorgeous.
Really good.
971
00:48:19.720 --> 00:48:21.453
My toy's foot.
972
00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:24.580
I wonder what toy it is.
973
00:48:24.580 --> 00:48:26.530
Can you hold your toy up so we can see?
974
00:48:27.980 --> 00:48:29.743
That is fantastic.
975
00:48:30.714 --> 00:48:31.997
We have so many creative people in this room.
976
00:48:31.997 --> 00:48:34.560
Thank you so much, everybody.
977
00:48:34.560 --> 00:48:37.250
I reckon, though, you guys have done so much work already.
978
00:48:37.250 --> 00:48:39.593
We should do our second one.
979
00:48:41.301 --> 00:48:45.000
We're gonna get to work on a second craft activity now.
980
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:46.503
So for this one,
981
00:48:47.510 --> 00:48:51.070
it might be a little bit more involved.
982
00:48:51.070 --> 00:48:55.690
We need two strips of paper that are quite long.
983
00:48:55.690 --> 00:48:57.330
So I've got one for you guys.
984
00:48:57.330 --> 00:48:59.120
You guys are gonna be working together again.
985
00:48:59.120 --> 00:49:00.963
Hope that's okay.
986
00:49:02.060 --> 00:49:06.853
And this is our community paper doll chain.
987
00:49:07.750 --> 00:49:10.860
So you need one long strip of paper,
988
00:49:10.860 --> 00:49:14.163
and mine is about 10 centimetres wide,
989
00:49:15.240 --> 00:49:16.510
but it can be any width
990
00:49:16.510 --> 00:49:18.823
and it can be any length as well, really.
991
00:49:20.020 --> 00:49:22.560
And you can use some wrapping paper again.
992
00:49:22.560 --> 00:49:24.573
I've got some beautiful rice paper.
993
00:49:25.590 --> 00:49:27.860
And so, what we're going to do is we're gonna make
994
00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:29.240
our paper doll chain.
995
00:49:29.240 --> 00:49:32.173
Actually, a newspaper's really good for this as well.
996
00:49:33.170 --> 00:49:35.670
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna make it
997
00:49:35.670 --> 00:49:38.930
into a concertina so we can cut our paper dolls out.
998
00:49:38.930 --> 00:49:41.330
And so, the best way, in my opinion,
999
00:49:41.330 --> 00:49:44.330
but you can do it in any way we want is to, yeah.
1000
00:49:44.330 --> 00:49:46.400
Who would like to demonstrate on this side? Yep.
1001
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:48.330
So we're gonna fold it in half.
1002
00:49:48.330 --> 00:49:51.063
This is what I do to make a concertina.
1003
00:49:52.130 --> 00:49:54.510
I'm sure you guys have other ways of doing concertinas.
1004
00:49:54.510 --> 00:49:57.393
But we fold in half, and then again.
1005
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:02.970
And then for ours, one more time as well.
1006
00:50:02.970 --> 00:50:07.970
But if we were to cut our paper doll out at this stage,
1007
00:50:08.370 --> 00:50:09.450
they'd fall apart.
1008
00:50:09.450 --> 00:50:11.490
So we have to make sure it's a concertina
1009
00:50:11.490 --> 00:50:12.790
so they all stick together.
1010
00:50:12.790 --> 00:50:14.403
So we're gonna open it up again,
1011
00:50:16.210 --> 00:50:17.930
and then we're gonna concertina it.
1012
00:50:17.930 --> 00:50:22.930
So fold it one way and then back on itself.
1013
00:50:22.940 --> 00:50:25.240
I hope that kind of makes sense.
1014
00:50:25.240 --> 00:50:28.393
So it's one way, back the other,
1015
00:50:30.810 --> 00:50:32.330
back the other.
1016
00:50:32.330 --> 00:50:35.163
And that should, I think that works now.
1017
00:50:36.040 --> 00:50:41.040
And so, when you open it up,
1018
00:50:41.060 --> 00:50:44.353
yeah, it's like a concertina.
1019
00:50:45.380 --> 00:50:47.313
But then we'll fold it back up again.
1020
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:51.930
And if I'm running ahead too much on this, don't worry.
1021
00:50:51.930 --> 00:50:53.530
We can put the instructions up
1022
00:50:53.530 --> 00:50:56.240
and we can answer questions at any time as well,
1023
00:50:56.240 --> 00:50:57.460
if you've got them.
1024
00:50:57.460 --> 00:50:59.000
The next thing is, yes.
1025
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.900
So Cheryl, you anticipated me.
1026
00:51:00.900 --> 00:51:04.360
We are going to draw our person on here.
1027
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.420
And my hot tip for drawing your person
1028
00:51:07.420 --> 00:51:11.140
is that that arms and legs should go to the edges
1029
00:51:12.670 --> 00:51:16.410
of your concertina, otherwise it won't be a chain.
1030
00:51:16.410 --> 00:51:21.410
So I'm gonna do a head and get my arms
1031
00:51:21.710 --> 00:51:23.720
reaching the paper on either side,
1032
00:51:23.720 --> 00:51:26.443
and then the legs are coming out as well.
1033
00:51:27.380 --> 00:51:29.303
Somewhat wobbly person.
1034
00:51:31.870 --> 00:51:34.363
And, hopefully, you guys can see.
1035
00:51:36.160 --> 00:51:37.210
Cheryl's got one too.
1036
00:51:38.270 --> 00:51:39.530
Beautiful, Cheryl.
1037
00:51:39.530 --> 00:51:42.560
I've actually made my legs to the sides as well,
1038
00:51:42.560 --> 00:51:46.240
but you can do it any way. It actually doesn't make.
1039
00:51:46.240 --> 00:51:48.650
No, no, as long as they're touching the arms,
1040
00:51:48.650 --> 00:51:50.630
as long as either the arms or the feet are touching,
1041
00:51:50.630 --> 00:51:53.363
you just need them to be joined in one spot.
1042
00:51:54.740 --> 00:51:57.690
So hopefully everyone's getting that far.
1043
00:51:57.690 --> 00:51:59.360
If you're not, don't worry.
1044
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:03.513
We can always go back and give you the instructions again.
1045
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:10.000
And then we're gonna cut our person out, or our people.
1046
00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:12.110
And the reason why we thought
1047
00:52:12.110 --> 00:52:15.950
we would make this paper doll chain is in,
1048
00:52:15.950 --> 00:52:20.083
as we were talking about before in Dancing with Memories,
1049
00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:26.200
it's a whole community of people who come and help Lucy.
1050
00:52:27.580 --> 00:52:29.583
You can't do it. Oh, no.
1051
00:52:30.890 --> 00:52:33.810
We can put up the instructions for you in a moment,
1052
00:52:33.810 --> 00:52:36.143
and we can go through it with you as well.
1053
00:52:37.276 --> 00:52:38.810
Oh, I'm so sorry.
1054
00:52:38.810 --> 00:52:40.510
That is a great strip of paper, though.
1055
00:52:40.510 --> 00:52:41.850
I reckon you could make your dolls
1056
00:52:41.850 --> 00:52:43.840
out of that strip of paper.
1057
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:45.723
If you fold it back and forward,
1058
00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:49.940
that is another way of doing the concertina.
1059
00:52:49.940 --> 00:52:52.970
Sometimes it's just not as neat as folding it
1060
00:52:52.970 --> 00:52:55.110
the way that we did it.
1061
00:52:55.110 --> 00:52:55.943
There you go.
1062
00:52:57.330 --> 00:52:58.570
Yeah, that looks right.
1063
00:52:58.570 --> 00:52:59.920
That's a concertina. Yep.
1064
00:52:59.920 --> 00:53:02.110
And then fold it back into the concertina
1065
00:53:04.100 --> 00:53:05.433
to get it all together.
1066
00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:09.070
Cheryl's doing well.
1067
00:53:09.070 --> 00:53:13.600
So yeah, we were thinking of those people,
1068
00:53:13.600 --> 00:53:14.933
especially as with,
1069
00:53:17.786 --> 00:53:19.080
through lockdown,
1070
00:53:19.080 --> 00:53:21.750
a lot of us have made friends with our neighbours.
1071
00:53:21.750 --> 00:53:23.930
We've been involved with our community,
1072
00:53:23.930 --> 00:53:26.170
and we were thinking about that community
1073
00:53:26.170 --> 00:53:27.520
when we were making our doll.
1074
00:53:27.520 --> 00:53:28.763
Oh, lovely work.
1075
00:53:30.867 --> 00:53:34.433
It's a good tip to have the legs touching the sides.
1076
00:53:34.433 --> 00:53:35.483
That's really good.
1077
00:53:35.483 --> 00:53:36.980
I mean, you don't have to.
1078
00:53:36.980 --> 00:53:39.640
You guys, I'm sure everyone here has got
1079
00:53:39.640 --> 00:53:41.333
great creative ideas.
1080
00:53:43.255 --> 00:53:45.030
And you wanted to stick it down on here, Lucie?
1081
00:53:45.030 --> 00:53:47.900
Yeah. Well, there are some options.
1082
00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:50.360
So if you want to,
1083
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:54.010
you could just decorate your dolls as they are.
1084
00:53:54.010 --> 00:53:58.760
And you might even want to put the names of those neighbours
1085
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:01.683
who you've made friends with in recent times,
1086
00:54:02.897 --> 00:54:04.490
or your extended family.
1087
00:54:04.490 --> 00:54:09.490
So aunts and uncles, or friends of the family.
1088
00:54:12.730 --> 00:54:14.380
Oh, it's too hard.
1089
00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:16.500
We will pop the instructions out
1090
00:54:16.500 --> 00:54:19.763
if we can in the chat as well. You might want to see those.
1091
00:54:22.410 --> 00:54:25.330
Or if you have a big person who can email us,
1092
00:54:25.330 --> 00:54:28.280
we can probably send those instructions out to you as well.
1093
00:54:29.326 --> 00:54:30.963
Yeah, it's a little green one.
1094
00:54:32.350 --> 00:54:35.040
So we only have a few minutes to go.
1095
00:54:35.040 --> 00:54:38.200
We're gonna wrap up very, very soon.
1096
00:54:38.200 --> 00:54:41.460
But I wanted to give you a few options for this activity.
1097
00:54:41.460 --> 00:54:43.710
I'm gonna rid of, it's so much stuff.
1098
00:54:43.710 --> 00:54:45.890
How does it get so much stuff?
1099
00:54:45.890 --> 00:54:48.310
Cheryl is racing ahead. Yes, this is great.
1100
00:54:48.310 --> 00:54:51.740
So you could just decorate this as they are.
1101
00:54:51.740 --> 00:54:56.150
Or if you want to, you can actually get a nice like,
1102
00:54:56.150 --> 00:55:00.400
thicker piece of paper and attach
1103
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:02.330
your people on.
1104
00:55:02.330 --> 00:55:05.450
And then you can make
1105
00:55:08.700 --> 00:55:10.320
a hat.
1106
00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:13.460
You could make it, it could be a sculpture.
1107
00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:15.880
So it's really nice to be able to change something
1108
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:19.030
that's flat into something that's more three dimensional.
1109
00:55:19.030 --> 00:55:20.930
So that's what we're doing here.
1110
00:55:20.930 --> 00:55:22.983
And then you can decorate it as well.
1111
00:55:24.190 --> 00:55:27.330
We're not allowed glitter in the gallery, but at home,
1112
00:55:27.330 --> 00:55:30.910
glitter, pipe cleaners, buttons.
1113
00:55:30.910 --> 00:55:31.833
Ah, Cheryl.
1114
00:55:33.140 --> 00:55:34.170
That is fantastic.
1115
00:55:34.170 --> 00:55:35.930
And then it's really nice,
1116
00:55:35.930 --> 00:55:37.420
I've done this at home.
1117
00:55:37.420 --> 00:55:40.270
I've gone through and I've actually put the real people
1118
00:55:40.270 --> 00:55:41.103
on there.
1119
00:55:42.333 --> 00:55:43.166
The people in your community.
1120
00:55:43.166 --> 00:55:44.730
Yeah, exactly.
1121
00:55:44.730 --> 00:55:46.850
So new neighbours.
1122
00:55:46.850 --> 00:55:50.110
Brothers and sisters, mums and dads, grandparents.
1123
00:55:50.110 --> 00:55:52.880
So you could even give it to someone.
1124
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:54.750
You could make it as a present for someone.
1125
00:55:54.750 --> 00:55:56.846
It's a beautiful present. Yeah, so nice.
1126
00:55:56.846 --> 00:55:58.700
I think that would look nice on you as a hat, Cheryl.
1127
00:55:58.700 --> 00:56:01.430
It will. Don't you worry. It will.
1128
00:56:01.430 --> 00:56:03.113
I think it'd look nicer on you than me.
1129
00:56:04.286 --> 00:56:07.080
So I think we might wrap things up
1130
00:56:08.650 --> 00:56:09.550
for today.
1131
00:56:09.550 --> 00:56:13.220
We're at the end of time, unfortunately.
1132
00:56:13.220 --> 00:56:15.920
But I would like to thank everybody so much
1133
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.760
for joining in today and dialling in for this programme.
1134
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:23.460
We have really enjoyed sitting in this particular position,
1135
00:56:23.460 --> 00:56:26.170
we can see you all and your amazing works.
1136
00:56:26.170 --> 00:56:28.160
You're welcome to hold them up to the screen
1137
00:56:28.160 --> 00:56:30.550
because we would love to save them.
1138
00:56:30.550 --> 00:56:34.130
I would also like to thank so much, Sally Yule,
1139
00:56:34.130 --> 00:56:37.100
for coming in and reading her amazing book,
1140
00:56:37.100 --> 00:56:38.620
Dancing with Memories.
1141
00:56:38.620 --> 00:56:41.410
And Cheryl Orsini, who did the pictures,
1142
00:56:41.410 --> 00:56:43.500
which it's just been such a pleasure.
1143
00:56:43.500 --> 00:56:44.910
Thank you so much for coming in.
1144
00:56:44.910 --> 00:56:46.740
And of course, Philip,
1145
00:56:46.740 --> 00:56:49.270
who did those movements with us,
1146
00:56:49.270 --> 00:56:53.220
and Mandy, who did our Auslan interpretation today as well.
1147
00:56:53.220 --> 00:56:55.470
And thank you to the team at the NPG
1148
00:56:55.470 --> 00:56:57.710
for doing everything as well.
1149
00:56:57.710 --> 00:56:59.330
One last thing.
1150
00:56:59.330 --> 00:57:02.580
We have so much happening online at the moment
1151
00:57:02.580 --> 00:57:04.650
so please go onto our website,
1152
00:57:04.650 --> 00:57:07.240
and we do have online programmes.
1153
00:57:07.240 --> 00:57:08.570
If you go into "What's on",
1154
00:57:08.570 --> 00:57:11.420
you'll see all sorts of great things you can join in.
1155
00:57:11.420 --> 00:57:13.760
Or if you can come into the gallery,
1156
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:17.800
we have an amazing nanawall six seasons art cart
1157
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:21.580
that you can come and do a bit of crafting with as well.
1158
00:57:21.580 --> 00:57:25.280
So thank you, everybody, and goodbye.
1159
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:26.610
See you later, everybody.
1160
00:57:26.610 --> 00:57:29.173
Thank you so much. Bye.