SCHOOLS
We invite primary and secondary schools to visit The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares during term time, and attend a special workshop. The workshops have been created with industry professionals and teachers and are delivered by our trained (especially in the art of bonkers) workshop leaders and their band of merry volunteer story mentors. Workshops are interactive, child-led, and offer as much one-to-one support as possible. They introduce amazing ways to ignite minds. And, importantly, we challenge a child’s perception of what’s possible by providing a real outcome. This could be turning their words into a printed story or hosting a mock trial with their teacher in the dock. This is when it becomes more than just a piece of writing, it becomes transformative.
“I fell in love with books when my parents left my sister and I in a dungeon, Well, it wasn’t a real dungeon. The glow-in-the-dark skeleton lying in the corner was made of cardboard, the giant spider hanging from the ceiling was made of plastic and the cobwebs had been sprayed from a can. It smelt of new books which has to be in the top five smells of all time, and had been created in the basement of a bookshop as a place for children to discover, sit and read all kinds of wonderful stories. I fell in love with books in that dungeon and it turned out to be a love that lasts a lifetime. I will always be grateful to that dungeon and I am certain generations to come will look back at their visits to The Bank of Dreams & Nightmares with equal affection and gratitude.”
— Garth Jennings author of The Deadly 7 and writer/director of SING the MOVIE