{"id":9723,"date":"2016-03-04T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:36:46","slug":"exclusive-wales-new-young-peoples-laureate-reveals-her-hopes-for-the-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/04\/exclusive-wales-new-young-peoples-laureate-reveals-her-hopes-for-the-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Wales\u2019 new Young People\u2019s Laureate reveals her hopes for the role"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9729\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9729\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9729\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_b-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, 2016.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9729\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_b-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, 2016.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Sophie McKeand, 2016.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">THE St David&#8217;sDay announcement that Welsh poet and educator Sophie McKeand is to become the new <a href=\"http:\/\/youngpeopleslaureate.org\/about\/\">Young People\u2019s Laureate of Wales<\/a> was met by much applause on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite Sophie&#8217;s\u00a0(uncharacteristic) loss for words during the surprise phone call just before Christmas, it takes little imagination to see why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturewales.org\">Literature Wales<\/a> chose her for the role. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sophie&#8217;s\u00a0love of working with young people is rooted in her\u00a0personal experience: \u201cI hated school but loved books. I was reading reading reading but not the stuff I was supposed to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI actually felt like poetry was irrelevant to me. It was only when I went back to university that I started to understand it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aged 28, Sophie left behind the security (and tedium) of her job in sales and sold the house where she and her eight-year-old daughter lived. They moved to North Wales and Sophie began a degree in English and Creative Writing, while earning what she could by copy-writing on the side. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More than\u00a012 years have passed since those days of writing copy for wrought-iron manuals, and Sophie revels in her U-turn of lifestyle. As a full-time freelancer she has not just created her own award-winning poetry, but has also worked tirelessly to encourage creativity among communities through workshops and gigs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sophie is a great believer in sticking at it: \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been one of those stories where a teenager wrote a Shakespearean sonnet and became a legendary poet. For me it\u2019s a craft and I\u2019ve just kept learning how to write.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSlogging your guts out for 10 years is such a truer representation of life, rather than having someone suddenly pop into everyone\u2019s consciousness as a success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here our conversation turned into a screening of Shia LaBoeuf\u2019s <i>Just Do It<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0\">speech<\/a>, which Sophie insisted I watch (with a great deal of amusement). Amid the laughter she picked out one particular line: <em>you should get to the point where anyone else would quit and you\u2019re not going to stop there.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is this emphasis on willpower against the odds that Sophie wants to highlight as Young People\u2019s Laureate. \u201cIf children are being pegged as difficult and written off by the system, it\u2019s not that they are not bright,\u201d she insists. \u201cWe mustn\u2019t let them be funnelled in a certain way, and instead need to ask: why are they struggling?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On taking up the two-year role in April, Sophie intends to use her time to encourage young people\u2019s initiatives in a sustainable way. She gives various examples of these, including Voicebox \u2013\u00a0a popular collective of poets on the North Wales poetry scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9733\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie-McKeand-photo-winter-2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9733\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9733\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie-McKeand-photo-winter-2015-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, 2015.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9733\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie-McKeand-photo-winter-2015-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, 2015.\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Sophie McKeand, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was this sort of event that first boosted Sophie\u2019s confidence in her early stages as a poet. After pushing herself to travel up to Liverpool\u2019s Dead Good Poets\u2019 Society, she used to perform her poetry in a big\u00a0netted skirt to hide her trembling knees and memorised all her lines to avoid letting the audience see her nervous hands holding notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A while later (and tired of commuting to Liverpool), Sophie and her partner Andy founded a poetry event closer to home: The Absurd. She feels that a performance element may be more accessible in allowing young people to engage with poetry and believes performance poetry might benefit from being stitched into Welsh theatres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sophie has always hugely valued collaboration, and her enthusiasm for National Theatre Wales TEAM is especially infectious. Critical Chinwag is a scheme in which NTW funds play tickets for TEAM members and friends (as well as a few post-theatre drinks) so they can discuss the drama and blog about it. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9736\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9736\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9736\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, February 2016.\" width=\"307\" height=\"409\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9736\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sophie_McKeand_Feb2016_a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie McKeand, February 2016.\" width=\"307\" height=\"409\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Sophie McKeand, February 2016.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sophie is considering how involvement in theatre might help performance poetry: \u201cIf it can be stitched into theatre then that might be a way for it to gain a little more funding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> She continues: \u201cI hope to create as many diverse opportunities as possible. I want to let young people take control of things and help promote what they want to do.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The arts need to be out of that ivory tower; everyone is uniquely gifted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Night Out Young Promoters Scheme is another initiative that Sophie intends to boost. She describes it as a project supporting young people to host arts events in their community, which might not necessarily see much theatre in the area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sophie\u2019s passionate confidence in the arts\u2019 potential to help people is inspiring. \u201cI get a bit philosophical, but I genuinely believe the way to change the world is through the arts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe arts doesn\u2019t change the world in itself, but it does change the <em>individual.<\/em> Every time somebody starts to engage and learns how to express themselves you can see that bit of confidence grow, and they just walk that little bit taller.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Find out more about our new Young People\u2019s Laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/youngpeopleslaureate.org\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0or follow Sophie on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SophieMcKeand\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Check out Sophie McKeand\u2019s Young Ones to Watch: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aLsHmjIryh8&amp;list=PLtFFDJe4iP_eGzbaaXZJn0tV89rqB4GXd\">Natasha Borton<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/community.nationaltheatrewales.org\/profile\/Hannah209\">Hannah van den Bergh<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howlpoetry.com\/writers\/4589145339\">Eve Elizabeth Moriarty<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/community.nationaltheatrewales.org\/profile\/Amiinamohamoud\">Amiina Mohamoud<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE St David&#8217;sDay announcement that Welsh poet and educator Sophie McKeand is to become the new Young People\u2019s Laureate of Wales was met by much applause on social media. 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