Commissioned by Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe Developed with kind support from Forest Forge Theatre Company Be part of the first audience ever to see my latest performance, its about lying, liars and may even attempt to explain the inner workings of the minds of French Philosophers through cheese sandwiches. Reserve a seat here
Category Archives: Writing
Autumn Writing Classes!
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
Creative Writing – Evaluation & Documentation Report
Click on the image for the evaluation and documentation report of this 10 week creative writing project. The report includes both traditional style evaluation, as well as documentation of the work done on the course and examples of some of the writing generated. So if you’ve ever wondered what happens in a community based writing class…..Continue reading “Creative Writing – Evaluation & Documentation Report”
Someone else’s Story – Scratch Performance
I’ll be performing at Lighthouse Poole on Thursday as part of Scratch the Surface – an evening of short works across genres. Tickets are £5 available from the theatre and kick off is at 6pm. Someone else’s story is based on the written testimony of an Iraqi woman, artist and refugee, I will attempt toContinue reading “Someone else’s Story – Scratch Performance”
Creative Writing Course
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, pleaseContinue reading “Creative Writing Course”
Looking Forward to 2016
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 developContinue reading “Looking Forward to 2016”
the questions are in…..
I recently challenged you all to come up with some questions, that we could ask of art, together. There are some seriously deep thoughts amongst the responses, which is great. I guess people really do think art can answer those huge universal questions, as well as those day to day fearful observances which challenge our sense ofContinue reading “the questions are in…..”
Question Art….
Art can often help us understand a bit more about life’s great questions… why are we here? How can I be happy? what will I have for tea next tuesday?! I’m going to try and respond to some of these questions by creating 3 short works which will be made for online publication. But IContinue reading “Question Art….”
Performance coming up! – Left Luggage – 24/10/15
The “beautiful and moving poem about what it means to be human” will be performed in a slightly unusual venue at 4pm on Saturday October 24th at Chaplins Bar in Boscombe, Bournemouth. I’m performing as part of Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe, which you should check out (if you haven’t already!) as there’s some really excitingContinue reading “Performance coming up! – Left Luggage – 24/10/15”
She Called Me Mother – Writing Workshops
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 andContinue reading “She Called Me Mother – Writing Workshops”
Gemma Alldred 