ARTS NEWS DAILY SUMMARY - TUE 01 APR 2008
Description:
Sunday 13th April
Writing the ballad: a day workshop with Naomi Foyle
11 am – 4 pm (with one hour lunch) at Brighton Writers’ Centre
£22/£20 concs, Friends of THE SOUTH, £20/£18
The traditional ballad is a compelling form of narrative verse, encompassing romance, adventure, crime, ghost stories, gossip, and oral history. In this four-hour workshop we will look at folk ballads from the United Kingdom and North America, as well as contemporary examples of the form by writers including Charles Causley, Alice Oswald and Nick Cave. There will be time to write our own ballads, and to share our work with each other.
Tutor Naomi Foyle holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College, London. She is an experienced workshop facilitator, and has performed her own ballads at festivals and theatres in the UK and Ireland. Her poetry has been published in journals including Ambit, The London Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review and PN Review. Her first collection The Night Pavilion is due from Waterloo Press in 2008.
Description:
Building on from the success of his previous workshops with THE SOUTH, David Taubman will now be holding a four-week storytelling workshop. During this time you will explore storytelling techniques, styles and traditions, and the use of archetypes in storytelling to help construct positive life-scripts. You will examine the history and uses of storytelling; look at how to tailor storytelling for your own personal and professional development; and will explore the development of your own practice – themes, styles and applications.
Dr. David Taubman is a storyteller working mainly in the field of personal, social and emotional wellbeing. He has a doctorate in the educational use of story, has lectured at Sussex and Middlesex universities, and has taught R.E. in secondary school for a number of years. A workshop leader for the Society for Storytelling, he also produces Personal and Social Education teaching materials for schools and writes on youth culture for the journal of the UK’s leading progressive think-tank, IPPR. David is currently working on his first novel. Visit his website www.abracadia.com for further details.
When: Mondays, 7th – 28th April (4 weeks), 7 – 9 pm
Where: Brighton Writers’ Centre, 49 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 9QA
How much: £44/£40 concs, Friends of THE SOUTH £40/£36 concs
To reserve your place on the course please go to www.thesouth.org.uk
For further details, call Nathan on 01273 571700 or email: nathan_at_thesouth_dot_org