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Macmillan Education Winter Fair

Macmillan Education’s Winter Fair is back with a bang at a show-stopping spectacle from some of our favourite performing artists, ELT legends and teacher training extraordinaires!  

The sessions all take the form of teacher training alongside some once-in-a-lifetime performances from Jeremy Harmer (vocals, guitar), Ben Crystal (theatrical performance), Fabiana Parano (school theatre) and Simon Gfeller (opera singer).

 

The event will take place live 3 times on Wednesday 18th December
at 10am, 3pm, and 9:30pm UK Time and will last for around 2 hours.

Event Programme

Click below to read more about the programme

  • From the Stage to the Classroom: Bringing Language Learning to Life using Performers’ Skillsets 

    Simon shows how teachers who embrace their inner performers can create more engaging and impactful language learning experiences. Can this quick tour of the main performing artforms provide a fresh blueprint for your teaching practice?

    Simon Gfeller

    The Long-lasting Impact of Experiential Storytelling

    In this talk, we will explore and experience a storytelling technique that will enable tales to remain in our students’ minds and souls for the long-term. I will also explore how to exploit the storytelling experience in creative follow-up activities.

    Fabiana Parano

    When We Sing Together

    In folk clubs, people love singing choruses together, people gather together to make music in ensembles too and though there is, of course a wonderful tradition of solo performers, still, even then, music exists when there is an audience to complete a group experience. If that’s true of music why should it not be true of learning? 

    Jeremy Harmer

    Art Imitating Life, Imitating Art

    Join actor and author Ben Crystal for a performance about performing. Performance needs both artist and audience. Teacher and cohort of student mirror this dynamic: the ‘performance’ of teacher, and the ‘audience’ of a classroom. How do we perform? And how can the art of performance affect our daily working lives? 

    10:00am, 3:00pm & 9:30pm (UK time)

    Ben Crystal

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