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Music Audio Stories presents Can You Spell It? Free Video Series ▫️Fun videos to help your child learn to pronounce and spell colours and develop visual and reading skills. We are thrilled to introduce our video series called, Can You Spell It? Children will learn how to pronounce and spell each colour and enjoy seeing our flower characters. With illustrations, voice-overs, animations, and music, this video series will help to teach children to spell in a fun and easy way. Children will: ▪️See examples of each colour ▪️Learn how to spell each colour ▪️Hear how each colour is pronounced ▪️Gain better reading skills ▪️Improve concentration and visual skills ▪️Love the illustrated flower characters ▪️Enjoy sound effects and music ⏰ Videos are released on Saturdays at 11 am on YouTube. Subscribe on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/MusicAudioStories and hit the bell to make sure you don't miss a new video. Video Series Playlist: https://shorturl.at/IDVL5 Find out why it's important to develop colour recognition here: https://musicaudiostories.com/blog/can-you-spell-it Enjoy! ♥ Music Audio Stories - Making learning easy and fun! Music Audio Stories is an original company specialising in entertaining music audiobooks, picture books, interactive activities, fun videos, and unique storytelling with multi-award-winner, 'Storytime with Anna Christina'. Music Audio Stories are interactive audiobooks with full orchestral scores and magical soundtracks, catchy sing-along songs and fun stories that teach and uplift little listeners. Videos include uniquely entertaining Storytimes with music, sound effects, narration, voice-overs, illustrations, and animations. Plus delightful activity videos for listening, learning, reading, drawing, and lots of fun! ---------- Website: http://www.musicaudiostories.com/ Storytime: http://storytimewithannachristina.com/ ---------- Subscribe to get a free music audiobook at: http://www.musicaudiostories.com/#subscribe ---------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicaudiostory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicaudiostories/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicaudiostories/ Storytime with Anna Christina Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storytimewithannachristina/

LOOKING FOR: YA, NA, ADULT FICTION Helen Lane has been an established agent for several years, formerly with the Booker Albert Agency before joining the Ki Agency. She has a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia and a postgrad qualification in Acoustics. She lives in London with her family and the world’s naughtiest cocker spaniel. Helen represents (Adult) Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror, Romance, Action & Adventure, and Thrillers. She also represents select YA Fantasy, Horror, and Sci Fi. Her tastes do run towards the dark and she is slightly obsessed with monster stories in general (especially if they have giant sharks or squids). And stories set in extreme environments such as the arctic, jungle, caves, ocean, and mountains. But she DOES NOT want to read about affairs or abuse in any genre. (Her husband likes her to add here that this is nothing to do with him, she just doesn’t like sad stories). Her favourite authors are Mira Grant, Greig Beck, James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, Darcy Coates, Andy Weir, Clive Cussler, R F Kuang, Patricia Briggs, and Kelley Armstrong. Her comfort movies are: Jaws, Outbreak, The Cave, Sanctum, Scream, Buffy, Grey's Anatomy, Charmed, Vampire Diaries. You can find her on: Bluesky: @helenlane.bsky.social Instagram: hflane_agenting Helen would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and first three chapters (Max 5,000 words) of your manuscript in a single word document. (In addition to the paid sessions, Helen is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print).  By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting. The submission deadline is: Wednesday 2nd April 2025

In this series we are going behind–the–scenes with established studios and hearing how they created their own brand.

Workshop is designed to support participants in using the Six Stages Framework in Board development and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We would love to invite you to Art in the Park's ONLINE Portrait Drawing Session with Claudio Giuseppe posing live for us!

We would love to invite you to Art in the Park's ONLINE Life Drawing with harp player, Tatyana!

We would love to invite you to Art in the Park's ONLINE Life Drawing with Cuban born, Singer-Song writer: Jesús Cutiño!

This workshop will provide participants with the insight and skills to be more effective business networkers, face-to-face and online. The approach taken is to build on the strengths people already have and their successes. It is easier to develop what you already have than to try and develop skills that do not come easily. Being yourself is the most effective tool for business networking and building relationships. This course will help those attending: Appreciate the importance of networking, and different forms of networking Understand the dynamics of communication that are specific to networking Become more confident and assured when 'working' a room Improve their influencing skills, especially with people who are experts and in positions of authority 'Sell' themselves and promote their company Identify and manage their profiles using online social networking sites Use effective follow-up to maintain active contacts and connections Select the correct networking groups, clubs and events Create their own personal network 1 The importance, and different types, of networking Personal objectives and introductions Test networking session Examples of the importance, purpose and format of various types of networking, and benefits you can expect 2 How to work a room - preparation and strategy Three things to know before you attend any event Non-verbal communication and art of rapport Breaking the ice - worked examples with practical demonstration 3 Communication dynamics in networking - the power of the listening networker Why it is better to listen than talk Effective questioning and active listening Creating a natural and engaging conversation, 1-2-1 and in a larger group 4 Assumptions when networking How to use the 'instant judgement' of others to your advantage What assumptions are you making? How to keep an open mind 5 Business networking etiquette Meeting and greeting at a business networking event - approaching complete strangers and introducing yourself Socialising: joining and leaving groups easily Making a good first impression in 30 seconds The use of status when networking 6 Making connections Asking for cards, contact details and referrals Gaining a follow-up commitment Some tips and tricks 7 Business networking rehearsals Practice sessions 8 Personal business networking online Overview of different types of networking sites - there is a lot more out there than just Facebook! Examples of creating an effective profile Using social networking effectively - case studies and application 'Advanced' applications - blogs, articles, twitter, feeds, etc. Online demonstration and examples 9 Building relationships - follow-up and follow-through Maintaining a good database Developing a contact strategy with different types and levels of contact How to analyse your contact base

Monthly online ekphrastic writing workshops exploring contemporary artworks for story inspiration.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is ideal for beginners and intermediate frontend developers who want to become full-stack developers. You will need some prior working knowledge of JavaScript and MongoDB as we skim over its basics and get straight to work. Overview At the end of this day, students should be able to: Understand the MEAN architecture Create RESTful APIs to complete CRUD tasks Build a blogging application with basic features Describe best practices to secure node applications Implement authentication and authorization Create simple animations using Angular Perform unit testing on Angular applications MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js Fundamentals begins by demystifying the MEAN architecture. You will review the features of the JavaScript technologies, frameworks, or libraries that make up a MEAN stack. You will also understand how to develop a RESTful API using Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB Atlas. This course will enable you to discover how to build a blogging application using the MEAN stack. Next, you will learn about authentication using MEAN, and explore the features of Angular, such as pipes, reactive forms, modules and optimizing apps, animations and unit testing, and much more. By the end of the course, you will have all of the knowledge you need to become a pro at developing efficient web applications using JavaScript technologies. Introduction to the MEAN stack MEAN Architecture Demystification Getting Started with Node Activity 1: Creating an HTTP Server for a Blogging Application Understanding Callbacks, Event loop and EventEmitters in Node Understanding Buffers, Streams and Filesystem in Node Activity 2: Streaming Data to a File Developing RESTful APIs to perform CRUD operations Getting Started with RESTful APIs Getting started with MongoDB Atlas Activity 3: Connecting the Node Application with MongoDB Atlas Getting Started with Express Activity 4: Creating Express API Route and Controller Activity 5: Testing Fully Functional RESTful API Beginning Frontend Development with Angular CLI Getting Started with Angular CLI Using Components, Directives, Services, and Making HTTP Requests in Angular Activity 6: Designing the Frontend and Components for the Blogging Application Activity 7: Writing Services and Making HTTP Request Calls to an API Understanding Angular Forms and Routing Activity 8: Creating a Form Application Using the Reactive/Model-Driven Method Activity 9: Creating and Validating Different Forms Using the Template and Reactive Driven Method Activity 10: Implementing a Router for the Blogging Application Understanding MEAN Stack Security Node Security and Best Practices Node Application Authentication with JSON Web Token (JWT) Activity 11: Securing the RESTful API Node Application Authentication with Passport Activity 12: Creating a Login Page to Allow Authentication with Twitter Using Passport Strategies Angular Declarables, Bootstrapping, and Modularity Using Inbuilt Pipes, Custom Pipes, Custom Directives, and Observables Activity 13: Communicating Between Two Components Using Observable Angular Bootstrapping and Modularity Activity 14: Creating a Lazy Loaded Application Testing and Optimizing Angular Applications Angular Animations and Latest Angular Features Activity 15: Animating the Route Transition Between the Blog Post Page and View Post Page of the Blogging Application Optimizing Angular Applications Testing Angular Applications Activity 16: Performing Unit Testing on the App Root Component and Blog-Post Component Overview on the new features in Angular