Production of Gatz – June 2012 This week, I have seen two powerful theatre productions – ‘Mary Shelley’ at The Tricycle by Shared Experience and ‘Gatz’ at Noel Coward Theatre by the Elevator Repair Service. Both productions were inspired by ground breaking works of literature (Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’) and their...
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CREATING CHARACTER
Artist Martine Charalambou’s painting in progress of Drag Artist Jonny Woo, at Sutton House live painting event in May Last Sunday, Creative Writes participants of the Creating Character workshop were sent out into the wilds of Muswell Hill Broadway to take inspiration from ‘real life’ characters. Before setting out, we wrote a list of characters/people...
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A LITTLE BIT OF NON LITERAL THINKING!
Where do you call home? Last week, during the Creative Writes Workshop at the Leluu Supper Club venue – we did some non literal thinking! The writers really enjoyed being asked to think differently. The first exercise was to write a list of words and phrases that you associate with Summer and then I asked the...
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CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
Dinner & writing by Leluu at Creative Writes workshop in London Fields, 22 May 2012 It’s been an exciting few weeks for Creative Writes, running new workshops and forging partnerships. There has been the ‘Chance’ themed workshop at the British Library, which was part of the ‘Write Around the Monopoly Board’ series for Mendham Writers. We...
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Creative Writes runs guest workshop for London Lapidus!
Creative Writes workshop for London Lapidus at the Poetry Cafe, 31 March 2012 Lapdius is a National organisation which looks at ways in which we can use creative writing for health and wellbeing. I was excited to run a guest Creative Writes workshop for the London Lapidus group at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden...
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World Poetry Writes!
World Poetry Day Celebrations at Creative Writes Workshop today, 21 March 2012 Today at the Creative Writes workshop in Muswell Hill, we celebrated World Poetry Day by sharing our favourite poems and also by writing our own. One of the exercises was to give your partner a list of words that were written during a...
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Writing Parenthood
North Bank House & Gardens, N10 Last night, I sat around a table at the inspiring North Bank house in Muswell Hill with 6 mothers for the Creative Writes ‘Writing Parenthood’ workshop. The workshop had been organised in collaboration with North London Mums, to enable parents to spend time just to focus on creative writing....
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Inspirational St Pancras!
Creative Writes & Mendham Writers workshop, St Pancras International Station, Creative Writing Workshop, Jan 2012 We had a wonderful, creative day on 21 January at St Pancras Station! We were inspired by hearing about the history of the station from Rochelle at Mendham Writers. We then armed our writers with lots of ideas as they...
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Surrounded by poetry!
A room with a view. The Circus, Bath. November 2011 Happy New Year! I am surrounded by poetry today, as I plan for workshops… Two of the collections are by very different poets – John Betjeman and Sharon Olds. I am taking inspiration from Betjeman for the Creative Writes workshop at Kings Cross International Station,...
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Poetic Sketching
Hello! I wanted to share with you a recent visit that I had to the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street – to see an exhibition of drawings by the poet Sylvia Plath. We hear about Plath’s troubled mind – often conveyed through her poetry. Many of us also know of her tragic ending. It was...