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IPAY Talk in Philadelphia
Licketyspit goes to Philadelphia! On 15th January 2019, Virginia was part of a Scottish Children’s Theatre delegation to the IPAY International Showcase. International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) brings together specialist children’s theatre companies [...]
Learning to communicate with words empowers children!
I spent the early years of Licketyspit writing, directing and producing big, complex shows for children and families (and acting in them too!). Licketyspit is rooted in theatre, and we continue to produce full [...]
Conferences in Inverness & Greece!
Licketyspit is committed to joined-up thinking and exploring new ways that the widest possible range of children’s services can collaborate in achieving our shared goals. That’s why we work with Glasgow City Council, Scottish [...]
Read Blogs about our recent activities
FOREST STORYPLAY
Forest Storyplay is a new collaboration with our friends from The Children's Wood! After last year's fantastic Picnic & Play sessions and Storyplay Festival 2024 at The Children's Wood we all wanted to go back there for more Licketyspit fun! The Children's Wood are very happy [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4
Castlemilk Blog! A massive circle, love letters, Chefs & a Cake good enough to get a job in a kitchen! What a time we’ve had with our Castlemilk Library friends the last 4 weeks at Porridge & Play. This bunch of grown-ups and children really take [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4
Whiteinch Blog! Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast! Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 4
Govan Blog! Celebrating play & friends at Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play! It has been great to meet and play with friends old and new in Govan this year, we have had so much fun! We feel so lucky that you have all shared your incredible ideas [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 3
Castlemilk Blog! Do you know why circles are great? Because when we are all in a circle, you can see everyone and everyone can see you and playing is best when we all do it TOGETHER! We had a great big circle yesterday at Castlemilk Library [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 3
Govan Blog! Witches, potions & a Magic Ball adventure!!! The sun was shining in Govan today and our lovely space for Porridge & Play was full of sun rays! Storyplay began with a warmup that is also a story full of action! Have you heard about [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 3
Whiteinch Blog! A Witchy Porridge & Storyplay afternoon at Whiteinch Library! Whiteinch Library felt very witchy today as the brilliant librarians had selected a bunch of books for us about magic, fanatic creatures, werewolves, vampires, monsters and of course witches! Before we kicked off our Storyplay, [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 2
Castlemilk Blog! The sun was shining in the windows of Castlemilk Library and because most of us arrived early we had so much time for Storyplay! That's the way we like it! Woo hoo! Everyone is really getting great at imagining they can be anyone, do [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2
Whiteinch Blog! We did our Dancing Warm-up to start the session and then we met fantastic Funky Chicken animals like Aaliyah's Silly Spider; Katie's Hopping Horse, Nina's Evil Cat, Mohammad's Angry Dinosaur and Sara's Sad Dog! We all dressed up as Forest Creatures! Sara was a [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 2
Govan Blog! We had a lovely Porridge & Play this week with Sarah, Cami and with Paul Chaal. Paul is a Glaswegian whose Mum and Dad came to Scotland from India when they were teenagers. So although Paul was born here he can speak Urdu, Hindi [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 1
Castlemilk Blog! Big Porridge & Play Castlemilk Is back! We were thrilled to meet eightnew families and to see our old friends Mel, Avery & Freya, Ingrid & jese. So with the Licketyspit actor-pedagogues, Sarah, Andre, Steven & Virginia we were 26 - a good number [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 1
Whiteinch Blog! It was fantastic to be back in the Library again with Porridge & Play Whiteinch. We had a great group of families with 20 children, 13 grownups plus the Licketyspit actor- pedagogues - Cami, Andre, Steven & Virginia - so we got off to [...]
