Super excited to be able to announce a second term of writing classes at EDAS!
Classes are open to people in recovery from addiction, or currently accessing treatment & support through EDAS.
If you’re interested in coming along, please contact me for more details and to book a place
So if you’ve ever wondered what happens in a community based writing class….. this could be just the insight you were after!
New creative writing course starting soon at EDAS in Poole open to people using EDAS service, as well as people who may not currently be in treatment, but are in recovery from addiction.
If you attend EDAS, please speak to Michelle about signing up. If you’re interested in attending the course, but aren’t currently in treatment, please contact me directly for more information and to book a place.
The course will be held in Poole, and will be an introduction to lots of exciting ideas in creative writing, sessions will be fun and you will be encouraged to work at your own pace.
This 10 week course has been kindly supported by Lit Up! and Arts Council England
As we approach the end of 2015 I am already excited to jump into a year of exciting new projects and developments, including a creative writing project supported by Lit Up!, working with people with experience of addiction and in the Spring I will be lecturing at Arts University Bournemouth, working with Acting students to develop their skills and knowledge in applied theatre contexts.
I’m currently in the very early stages of speaking with agencies working with refugees and asylum seekers, with a view to making some early work based around this research to be performed at Lighthouse Poole in February.
Season’s Greetings and hope to see you in the New Year!
Really excited to be working with Poole Lighthouse and Lit Up! on delivering writing workshops in the community inspired by ‘She Called Me Mother’ which will be performed on 15th and 16th October – having read bits of the script its sure to be great!
The workshops will take the script as a starting point and hopefully participants will finish the session having had fun with words and with the beginnings of their very own monologue, written in their ‘own voice’.
So I have been incredibly quiet on the solo performer front since way back before the sun had really shone and when the optimism of early summer was still upon, now as the nights draw in and the sun shines once again, alas I am indoors.
But that’s a fair sacrifice to make for Boscombe Fringe Festival which is taking place 13th &14th of September.
There’s some wonderful work and I’ve my director’s head on three shows, my events management head on the whole affair and my marketing head hoping it will all look beautiful and that the word will spread far and wide… and we’ll get some funding to make it bigger and better next year!
Having originally hoped to simply programme a small in house affair in Vita Nova’s new venue in Boscombe I was quickly approached by other companies and artists wanting to programme work… so with virtually no budget and a bit of whim, blind faith and a stubborn attitude we have a really exciting line up (here) including, photography, film, spoken word, theatre, live art & workshops!
Testament to the power of thought – the secret is out of the bag and best of all the whole lot is free to attend, however if you thought we did a good job … well we’d like you to pay what you think it was worth on your way out!
I do hope this sunshine lasts all September.
… still fairly top secret, yet very exciting new project on the horizon.
I can say this though….exactly how much power might a rumour have?
So many other exciting things in life in Bournemouth too.
Just spent an Arvon week, with the most exciting emerging talent, raw, fresh, vital and simply screaming to be heard, and the best bit is I get to keep working with them all – its my job. Although consequently, as all beautiful new projects have a tendency to do, ‘The Distance Travelled’ and dear old Joyce are slipping further out of reach.
Decidedly time for some to do lists and action plans!
We presented an evening of text based work, using three short scenes from three playwrites.
The company split into three groups, and with the assistance of the collaborating theatre students, worked on the performing and staging of:
What, Where by Samuel Beckett
Plenty by David Hare
Baal by Bertolt Brecht
A site-specific intervention in the Holgate building’s reception at York St. John University. Commissioned as part of the well-being initiative for World Mental Health Day.
The space was invaded by suspicious men with suitcases, gentlemen/women exchanging top hats and newspapers, the world’s most miserable party, Mr.Hat and Mr. Bucket, two chatting cleaners, a group of camp cleaners, aliens intrigued by suitcases, a Greek Chorus, and people being manipulated by the person beside them.
