FunSongs at LAKMA Assembly

Vilnius Pedagogical University overlooking the River Neris
Click on the photo to see a video of FunSongs workshop.

Last weekend Charles Goodger accompanied by filmmaker Tiziano Giardiello of RigaBusiness, drove across the border to Lithuania's capital Vilnius to take part in the LAKMA Assembly for teachers of English in Lithuanian schools.
Assisted by music and language expert Giedre Balcytyte and teacher trainer Nida Buneikaite, Goodger involved participants in an action song workshop. The Vilnius trip was also an opportunity to meet Alma Braskyte of the Vilnius of the Puppet Theatre to present the FunSongs Show and it is hoped productions will start in Lithuania before the end of 2009.

Busy times for FunSongs in the Baltics

Latvian school children learning "Time to Play" at the Puppet Theatre

FunSongs Monsters in Downtown Riga!

Despite the Easter break, the last few weeks have been particularly full for Charles Goodger and his Baltic and Russia Schools assistant, Igors Siminaitis. On 24th March the FunSongs Monster Show had its "world premiere" at the National Latvia Puppet Theatre and was well received by the Latvian and Russian-language press. Rehearsals are being scheduled for the new FunSongs European Union Show. The plan is to offer schools a wide choice of workshops as in Italy.

FunSongs workshops and conferences in Latvia, Lithuania and Russia


Teachers at a FunSongs workshop, April 17th 2009

On April 17th Charles Goodger was invited to hold a workshop for teachers at Riga's prestigious Kulturas Skola. The event was well attended though not all teachers present work with young learners. Charles was helped in the mimed presentation of Time to Play and The Monster March by Igors and his eight-year-old son Sammy, (extreme right of the photo) still on Easter vacation from school.

Next week Charles will travel to the Pedagogical University of Vilnius to hold a workshop with music expert Giedre Balctyte at the LAKMA National Assembly of Language Teachers. He has also been invited to participate in a teacher's conference in the old city of Kolonma near Moscow at the end of May.