DFGF Voices

2. DFGF UPDATE

Walk This Way!

DFGF Sponsored Walk ... FunWalk

The weather was particularly horrendous on Sunday 29 October 2023 the day of our First Big Sponsored Walk … FunWalk! event at Anson Primary School.

Luckily we were walking inside around the school hall and moving to a great playlist made by DFGF’s trusty Access Support worker (Administrative Assistant) Serena. 😇😇

We raised an amazing £390 so we nearly doubled our original target of £200 and money is still coming in! If you would like to donate. Please go to the JustGiving page. Thanks. 🙂

 I was joined on the Walk by Andree, WFDA Supporter from my Waltham Forest dyslexia group and a lovely family consisting of mum and two daughters, one of whom went to Anson Primary School. 

Thank you to all those who generously sponsored us and to the fantastic Walkers. 

Donations can still be made here on Just Giving and please take a peak at the Facebook page to see how we all got on!

Tyan’s Under 5s Taster...

Which took place on Sunday 15 October 2023.

Tyan Jones of Dramagical Entertainment Ltd, children’s entertainer, actress, teacher, song writer and more, kicked off our short series of Taster events with the ONLINE Under 5s Interactive Storytime Fun with Tyan session on Sunday 15 October. 

Using simple *BSL sign language Tyan entertained and engaged the children with her reading of the story of Brilliant Bea by Shaina Rudolph and Mary Mujkanovic also playing her original music and songs.

Due to technical difficulties, we didn’t get the number of attendees we expected. 

However, despite this, Tyan hosted a wonderful, very lively and enjoyable session.

📅NEW DATE!!📆

Catch Tyan at her "Hello Winter!” show next weekend on Sunday 26^th November and again afterwards, at the DFGF event in March, next year … more about that later. 

Event:  “Hello Winter!" Arts and Crafts

Session mixed with Storytelling 

On: Sunday 26th November 2023 |

From: 10 am-12 noon

Location: Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery,

Ealing, W5 5EQ. 

Age Range:  For All Ages.

*British Sign Languge, BSL.

For further details: Contact Tyan via her social media

www.dramagicalentertainment.com   

www.instagram.com/dramagicalentertainment

For more information on the:

Part-Time Freelance Volunteer Coordinator Role:

Go to CV Library

and for the

Event Volunteer Role email:

info@dyslexia-funday.com

This month the Spotlight is on Asher Hoyles, Performance Poet & Author

This issue’s Spotlight falls on Asher Hoyles Performance Poet & Author, our Compere for the DFGF event taking place next March 2024.

 A bit about Asher:  for over 25 years, Asher has been composing poems and performing them in many different venues including Glastonbury and Westminster Abbey.

 Asher has run poetry workshops in schools, colleges and prisons as well as teaching performance poetry for the last 16 years at Clean Break Theatre Co. in Kentish Town.

 Asher works as a Learning Support Practitioner by day at the  New Vic Sixth Form College in Newham, London.  But with her other hat of performance poetry, Asher offers up a mix of reality with a dash of humour and wit all brought together with insight and great delivery skills. 

On the Funday (Sat 9 March 2024) Asher will be hosting the event, judging competitions, performing one or two spoken word poems, announcing and guiding visitors in her inimitable style.

But before then learn how she became a Performance Poet and have a go at writing your own 5 minute poem at our Taster Session part of the Online DFGF Live! Series. Join us for

🎤🎙️ONLINE Chat & Taster Session with Asher Hoyles Dyslexic Performance Poet & Author. 🗣️🎤

For further details see below in What’s On.

5. What's On

DFGF LIVE! Taster Session - Take 2

6. Your Voice

Share your creativity

Got a picture you want to share, a poem you'd like other's to appreciate or another example of your creativity you'd be happy to provide? Then please feel free to send it over and we'll share it right here. Contact details below.

This month Poppy from People with Voices has offered to share her awesome paintings and an inspirational poem.

Paintings by Poppy Medenis

Poppy is the first to provide something for this section of our newsletter, DFGF Voices which is especially apt as Poppy is the Group Leader of People with Voices – more about their fantastic monthly sessions later. 

Poppy’s provided some colourful, vivid images from her summer sketchbook which is just a small selection taken from this artist's body of awesome original work.  Also check out below one of her favourite inspirational quotes.

Paintings by Poppy Medenis

6.  Poppy says,

 “I love noticing everyday moments of beauty and celebrating these through colourful sketches. My aim is never to make ‘perfect’ illustrations, but to convey energy and a sense of humanity.”

Here is one of my favourite quotes by Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s Mother. It appears in the preface to his poetry collection ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete.’ - Youtube track and poems.

 “Celebrate life 

through the music 

through the spoken word

through the splatter of 

               colour on paper 

               or wood 

               or iron 

               or canvas 

But celebrate your life 

Celebrate your ability 

        to feel joy and 

        sadness

Celebrate your ability to feel!

Only then will we be free to 

Feel!”

Paintings by Poppy Medenis

Poppy and People with Voices have monthly sessions in Palmers Green Library, N13 4EY. Information and sign up for People with Voices

 Also sign on for Poppy’s DFGF Workshop at the Dyslexia FeelGood Funday event, Sat 9 March ’24.  Details to follow.

Interested? Then please send your contribution to us.

Email us at: info@dyslexia-funday.com

Phone us on: 07 90 87 15 308 or 07 94 10 24 742.

N.B. We mainly work on Thursday's, but whenever you email/call we will try and get back to you as soon as we can, but please expect some delay. 

7. DFGF Explained

Dyslexia FeelGood Funday (DFGF)

... So DFGF events are all about:

-Building the confidence of members of the dyslexic community

-Enabling the making of connections with other like minded individuals

-Gaining and improving skills

-Developing and thriving

-Improving well-being

-And simply having FUN!

At DFGF we want individuals and families to turn up at events and have the chance to try different activities and really enjoy them, so-much-so, in fact, that they carry on doing them beyond the life of the event(s)!

We want people to be comfortable at our events and feel that they are in a safe space with understanding and similarly like-minded individuals who they can connect with.

In order to do that we want to give our visitors and audience valuable information & tasters along the way to help them link up with activities which will benefit them by raising well-being, interest and self-esteem. Things which can all be at low levels in a dyslexic person's life.

We'll achieve the above through the bi-monthly or quarterly newsletter, DFGF Voices, (what you're reading here right now!😉).

In DFGF LIVE! the bi-monthly or quarterly Taster Sessions see page 5- What's On .

These will be led by the DFGF Artist-Partners, wetting your appetite ahead of the exciting workshops and drop-ins they'll run at the Funday.

Lastly well-being and connections can also be achieved via the friendly social, fundraising events.

7. DFGF Explained

Dyslexia FeelGood Funday (DFGF)

... So DFGF events are all about:

-Building the confidence of members of the dyslexic community

-Enabling the making of connections with other like minded individuals

-Gaining and improving skills

-Developing and thriving

-Improving well-being

-And simply having FUN!

At DFGF we want individuals and families to turn up at events and have the chance to try different activities and really enjoy them,

so-much-so that they carry on doing them beyond the life of the event(s)!

We want people to be comfortable and feel that they are in a safe space with understanding and similarly like-minded individuals who they can connect with.

In order to do that we want to give our visitors and audience valuable information & tasters along the way to help them link up with activities which will benefit them by raising well-being, interest and self-esteem. Things which can all be at low levels in a dyslexic person's life.

We'll achieve the above through the bi-monthly newsletter, DFGF Voices, (what you're reading here right now!😉).

In DFGF LIVE! the bi-monthly Taster Sessions see page 5- What's On.

These will be led by the DFGF Artist-Partners, wetting your appetite ahead of the exciting workshops and drop-ins they'll run at the Funday.

Lastly well-being and connections can also be achieved via the friendly social, fundraising events.

8. Contact us

Email us at: info@dyslexia-funday.com

Phone us:: 07 90 87 15 308 or 

07 94 10 24 742.

Website to come in the not too distant future!

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Thank you.

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Thursdays 10.30 am - 5 pm

We work limited hours, mainly on Thursdays, but whenever you email/call we will try and get back to you as soon as we can, but please expect some delay. you.

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