The following list gives examples of Kevin's contributions to conferences and training courses:

EARLY YEARS CONFERENCE
Demonstration and workshops for Early Years practitioners as part of the London borough of Barnet’s annual Early Years conference and ongoing training provision. [2004-05]

KEY-NOTE SPEECH
Delivering a key-note address and a workshop on storytelling techniques at a conference of Early Years practitioners in the London borough of Kingston upon Thames. [2004]

WESSEX PRIMARY MUSIC CONFERENCE
A day of practical workshops for teachers at Key Stage 1 looking at links between music and storytelling. [2003 & 06]

EDUCATION BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
Demonstrations at a conference of business men and women contributing to a voluntary reading scheme in East London primary schools. [2003]

WONDERFUL WORDS
Demonstration and workshops on stories with an environmental theme hosted by the National Trust at Morden Hall park in South London. [2003-06]

BEACON SCHOOLS
Performances for Year 2 children in two South London Beacon schools observed by staff and followed by teacher-training workshops on issues arising from their observations. [2003]

EXPERIENCED MUSIC MANAGERS
Demonstrations and workshops for a conference of primary music teachers and co-ordinators in Hampshire. [2003]

ONCE UPON A TIME
Workshops on storytelling skills for a conference of Hampshire teachers at Key Stage 2. [2003]

NURSERY TEACHERS
Demonstration for A Touch of Magic and I Want To Tell You A Story, conferences of Early Years practitioners and pre-school care-providers in the London Borough of Lewisham. [2002-03]

LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
Demonstration and workshops exploring links between words and music at Especially Music, a conference of teachers of young people with learning difficulties in Hampshire. [2002]

TATE MODERN
Gallery tour for trainee teachers from Bradford College exploring links between visual art and language development. [2001]

LAMBETH LIBRARIANS
Training workshops for Lambeth librarians working with pre-school children. [2001]

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY CONFERENCE
Demonstration and workshops for a conference of primary school literacy coordinators in Hampshire. [2001]

SOUTH EAST LONDON LIBRARIES
Demonstration and workshop for librarians in South East London working with pre-school children. [2001]

TATE MODERN
Workshop leader at Global Stories, a conference of writers and storytellers from around the world exploring connections between words and images. [2000]

TATE GALLERY
Performance and key-note address for Arts & Imagination, a conference of art and technology teachers. [1997]

SOCIETY OF STORYTELLERS
Lecture to an annual conference of the Society of Storytellers on the story-collecting work of the Irish Folklore Commission in the 1930’s. [1997]

TATE GALLERY
Gallery tour of the Symbolism in Britain exhibition promoting the Tate Education Department to art and technology teachers. [1997]

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
Performance and address to conference of Hampshire co-ordinators of Speaking and Listening, and Literacy in the primary English curriculum. [1996]

SPEAKING AND LISTENING
In-service workshop for primary school teachers in Kensington on achieving Speaking and Listening attainment targets through storytelling and story-making games and exercises. [1996]

BARNET INTERCULTURAL RESOURCES FAIR
Workshops, demonstrations and resources for Barnet teachers. [1995 & 1996]

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
Workshop for teachers and educators attending Stories of Day and Night, a conference on language and literature in education. [1996]

NURSERY TEACHERS
Workshops on pre-school storytelling for Lambeth nursery teachers, assistants and nurses. [1995]

TATE GALLERY
Gallery talk and in-service workshops for art and technology teachers exploring relationships between verbal and visual arts. [1995]

CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA
Opening address and demonstration to a conference of actors and educators looking at the role of oral skills in language development. [1992]

ENGLISH SPEAKING BOARD
Key-note speaker and workshop leader at Time to Talk, a conference about the educational value of the spoken word. [1991]

THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Key-note speaker at Just Imagine, a conference of librarians exploring their role in the sharing of non-literary stories. [1990]

ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
Contributions to the work of the Baylis Program at English National Opera including workshops with teachers and students on creating original music-theatre and co-ordination of an education pack on interdisciplinary approaches to the arts in education. [1989-1994]

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