Is That You Talking?Original Image by Martine Charalambou, 2000 Hello!In my previous post, I talked about the poem Origins by Imelda Maguire & invited you to write about where you come from. The responses from the groups I worked with were really powerful and there was an interest in the poet and her work. So...
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WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?
We have been looking at the powerful poem below in my creative writing and reading groups recently – Origins by Imelda Maguire. The poem has provoked some really interesting discussions around where we come from and powerful poetry, across the different groups – including my weekly block of three workshops in Muswell Hill and the Care...
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HATS – WHO WILL YOU BECOME?
Hello & welcome to our hat gallery!Over the past few weeks, I have been touring workshops with my hats and it has been great fun…I took the hats into care homes, community centres & my own group workshops in Muswell Hill. I themed various creative writing exercises around them, which included memoir, poetry & story. We also used...
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FREE YOUR WRITING!
My sister bumped into her neighbour the other day, who was writing in a cafe. She discovered that he was a script writer. She said that if he felt that his writing needed freeing, he should contact me! When she told me, I thanked her. I wasn’t only thanking her for spreading the word and...
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DIGGING FOR STORIES
Hello, November is turning out to be another extremely busy month for Creative Writes! I have been continuing with the pilot series of reading sessions in C&C care homes for people with dementia and one of the poems we have been looking at is ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney. It’s been wonderful to share this with the groups,...
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HAVE YOU SEEN MY BULLDOZER?
Have you seen my bulldozer? My two year old nephew lost one of his favourite toys recently – his bulldozer. His sole mission became to find the missing bulldozer. Being very eloquent for a two year old, wherever he went – on a bus, to a party, into a shop – he would ask ‘Have...
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THANKSGIVING
Flowers for a C&C Care Home Workshop in Windsor Hello & welcome back to the Creative Writes blog, I am sorry it’s been a while – I guess it’s a good sign when the workshop leader is too busy running workshops, to update the Diary of a Workshop Leader!I have been thinking a lot about this...
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MAY MUSINGS – HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING TALES?
Hello, I hope May is going well for you so far? So, have you been telling tales, writing poetry for National Poetry Month or perhaps just pondering? Over here at Creative Writes, I have been spinning tales with my groups and also in my own writing space. Some of these tales have been spun into...
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LISTENING
The Little Chamber, Sutton House – National Trust Happy British Summer Time to you all! It was worth one hour less sleep on Saturday, bring on the longer days.It has been a whirlwind week at Creative Writes headquarters. It would take too much blog space to share it all but here are the highlights…During the...
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BLOCK BUSTERS
A room with a view – Alexandra Palace Here I sit at a sunny, scenic Alexandra Palace! Room with a view indeed. How inspiring. Block Busters…I have been thinking this week about block busting – I like to think of myself as a Block Buster! That’s what it is all about isn’t it? During the...