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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.