At the Hands up Project, we love doing intercultural link ups between young people in different places in the world. You can read in a book about what it's like to live in a particular place but it all becomes so much more engaging, and the learning is much richer when you actually hear about it from young people of your age who live there themselves.

Organizing for change! Volunteer Sue Piper tells us about an evening of togetherness across the internet.

'Hey everybody! I've got this really useful tool! It's made of purple and clear plastic, and it's got bristles on the end (that's the bit that you put in your mouth). I use it for brushing my teeth every day. It's called a toothbrush!'

Here's another activity that will be going in 'The Remote Theatre Handbook' (again from the chapter on Physical Activities). We'd love to hear from you if you try it out with your own students. In the summer I ran a remote theatre taster course for English teachers from all over the world and the video below, demonstrating the activity, is from that course.

I'm reposting Diana's blog as I think it's good to be reminded that, although we can't see our audience's faces or hear their voices, there's a whole world out there sharing in what we do.

Here's another activity from our forthcoming, Remote Theatre Handbook, this time from the chapter on physical activities. As always we'd love it if you could try out the activity with your students, and give us some feedback. We'd especially like to have some video versions of students doing some of the 'body idiom' mimes, and, with permission of course, may be able to include these in the book.

We're all very excited at the Hands up Project about one of our new ventures. In collaboration with four language schools (in Croatia, Italy, Romania and Spain), we have been awarded an Erasmus plus KA2 grant from the European Union to create lots of free to access materials related to remote theatre.