A Landmark Year for FunSongs!

Charles Goodger presents a FunSongs Choir at a
national Telethon event in Bologna 15th December.

FunSongs English Weeks

2007 turned out to be an important year in the development of FunSongs. As well as successful shows including an unforgettable Naples tour in May, the seven weeks of FunSongs English weeks summer camps in June in Rome, Valle d'Aosta, Bologna and Zola Predosa with over 500 young learners will be remembered as a triumphant learning experience for us all.

FunSongs Madrid Launch

In January Andrew Tyree from Los Angeles took over from Australian David Crisante as the main FunSongs actor working together with Emelie Loeb. David went to London to do a course in journalism. He is now working for ABC TV in Sydney. After completing his stint as a FunSongs actor and FunSongs English Weeks Team Leader (Dino Pack), Andrew moved to Madrid. He is there now working to promote FunSongs shows in the Spanish capital.

FunSongs Labs

FunSongs Labs started in October 2008 in the wake of the interest generated by the FunSongs English Weeks summer camps in Zola Predosa and Bologna. Specially trained FunSongs teachers hold 10-lesson cycles of FunSongs lessons to small groups (never more than 6) of young learners in their homes. In December the following mother-tongue teachers held FunSongs Labs in Bologna and Zola Predosa: Ashleigh Arnott, Krissy Fischer, Edward Calcott, Costa Latsos, Natasha Hannoun, Valentina D'Errico, Beata Lenkiewicz and Emelie Loeb.

C.A.I.L.

As Charles Goodger gets ready to leave Italy to concentrate on writing new action songs and promote FunSongs shows and events in North-Eastern Europe, Emelie Loeb and Valentina D'Errico, together with Michele Chieffo will soon be running C.A.I.L. - the new Cultural Association for Interactive Learning. CAIL will be responsible for promoting and managing FunSongs events and courses in Italy.
Look out for the CAIL website scheduled to go live by the end of January 2008.