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Renowned for his telling of The Odyssey, master storyteller and musician Odds Bodkin is proud to announce
his modern language version of Beowulf. Elemental, vivid and filled with moving music, Bodkin’s Beowulf
roars to life from the first moments and delivers a tour de force of characters, sounds and emotions.
Meet Grendel, who unable to speak, growls as he devours thanes. Meet King Hrothgar, haunted by the
monster and his terrifying mother. Meet the hero Beowulf, courageous, generous and good, on a mission of
mercy.
True to the original Old English tale, here is the essential Beowulf adventure without its extensive ceremonial
speeches. Bodkin’s elegant narrative, character voices, vocal effects and virtuoso 12-string guitar score paint a
movie for the mind’s eye. Once your students hear this, they will read their school versions avidly, minds
filled with imagery.
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The Essential Beowulf
A One-Hour Performance
Appropriate for Upper Elementary, Middle and High School audiences
Special Budget-Sensitive Fee: $850 plus 50/mile
To book The Essential Beowulf Performance or be emailed an mp3 sample of Odds Bodkin’s The Essential
Beowulf, email Mil Bodkin at mil@oddsbodkin.com or call at 603-938-5120
Forging the Golden Ring: Summer Storytelling Competency Circles
with Odds Bodkin
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The Golden Ring––a circle of teachers forged into storytellers––can spark a fire of literacy and creativity at
your school. In a one-day workshop, children’s author and storyteller Odds Bodkin can forge a Golden Ring
for your school. What does it take? Talk to your teachers, choose one day over summer when at least ten can
attend, and open your school for a day.
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With live music on Celtic harp and 12-string guitars, personal workbooks, stories, good humor and a method
developed during years teaching storytelling at Antioch New England University, Odds will take your
teachers, step by step, through imagination, memory and on to the spoken word. At day’s end, your school
will have a Golden Ring of Storytellers, ready for fall. One that can widen and last for years.
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• New collegial relationships
• An outlet for teacher creativity that can animate lesson plans
• Modeling behavior by teachers that can inspire students to read, write and
enjoy literacy more
• A way to re-capture digitally immersed children in elementary, middle, even high school
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The Golden Ring.
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Fee: $75 per person.
6 contact hours
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To book your Golden Ring workshop day with
Odds Bodkin, Please contact: Mil Bodkin at mil@oddsbodkin.com or by phone
at
603-938-5120
Judy Pancoast is a children's musician and artist-educator from Goffstown who is a member of the NH State Council on the Arts "Arts in
Education" roster. Her original music for children is upbeat and interactive with clever lyrics and memorable melodies and her school
assembly programs are rich in cross-curricular themes which stress literacy through music.
She presents concerts and residency programs in songwriting at elementary schools throughout the country. In addition to her Literacy
Through Music Songwriting Residencies and "What When Down When Jack and Jill Went Up" Conflict Resolution Assemblies, Judy
currently offers the following programs of particular interest to literacy professionals:
Reading Our Way Across The USA
Concert Assembly, 1-5 Buckle up and join Judy as we make our way out from Maine across the US on a road trip that includes upbeat
songs, tons of interaction and dancing and a great geography lesson! Judy engages children in a musical literary adventure in search of real
children's literature connections (like the Boston ducklings and Balto in Alaska!), cool places to visit and just plain weird things (How many
giant statues of Paul Bunyan can there be?)
What is the only state in the USA where you can tour a REAL legitimate royal palace? In which state can you sit and watch thousands of
bats fly out from a cave every evening? Where can you visit Laura Ingalls' Wilder's homestead?
Learn the answers to these questions and more when you read your way across the USA with Judy Pancoast!
This program helps fulfill the National Education Standards for Social Sciences/Geography, Language Arts and Fine Arts.
Once Upon a Time
Concert Assembly, K-5:
Designed to “get kids into books”, this concert tells the musical tale of a Princess who wanted to do more than “lead the Princess life,” and
decides to read every book in the Kingdom Library. Songs are lively, interactive, and point children toward the different sections of the
library, from fiction to non-fiction, nursery rhymes to biographies.
Approximate time, 45 minutes.
This program helps fulfill the National Education Standards for Language Arts and Fine Arts.
Take Me to Your Reader
Concert Assembly, K-5:
This concert is designed to build enthusiasm for books and reading, it revolves around a friendly alien who comes to earth to learn to read.
Featuring lively, interactive songs which are extensions of popular children’s literature, including “Wild One,” based on Where the Wild
Things Are, “Ladybug, Ladybug” inspired by The Very Grouchy Ladybug and “Try, Try” featuring a chorus of “I think I can, I think I can”
from The Little Engine that Could.
Approximate time, 45 minutes.
This program helps fulfill the National Education Standards for Language Arts and Fine Arts.
For more information visit www.judypancoast.com or email judy@judypancoast.com.
