SCHOOLCHILDREN from Middlesbrough will bring words and music together in an innovative performance tomorrow.
Pupils from Hall Garth and Kings Manor schools have been working with composer Duncan Chapman to create Borograms.
Working with children's author and poet Mick Gowar, pupils have been exploring the work of artist Tom Philips.
Mr Philips isolated words or groups of words from the pages of a Victorian novel, A Human Document, by William Hurrell Mallock, to create new word clusters or poetry.
The remaining words were concealed beneath artwork.
The youngsters have used their own word clusters to compose a piece of music for the performance, which relies heavily on the sound and rhythm of words.
More than 300 pupils have been involved in the wider project, which involves Ayresome Junior and Archibald and Viewley Hill Primary Schools.
Five of the children's designs will be made into postcards and posters.
Exhibitions of the children's work will be displayed at public venues, and at the performance of Borograms, at Hall Garth School tomorrow.
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