Hook your audience: book available for free for limited time
Hook Your Audience is a toolkit of performance techniques to emotionally engage child and family audiences in interactive, educational presentations. It's been made available for free until the end of October.
Hook Your Audience is a toolkit of performance techniques to emotionally engage child and family audiences in interactive, educational presentations.
They have also compiled the summaries from the end of each chapter as a handy PDF to dip into, or as a quick summary.
The chapters include:
- Hook their attention
- Connect through your character
- Embrace the liveness
- Express your emotions
- Interact through play
- Exploit questions
- Make your volunteers heroes
- Relate through humour
This has been written by Paul McCrory who has spent over 20 years working as an informal educator and trainer.
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