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Leicester Open Centre
and
present a
CREATIVE WRITING DAY SCHOOL
on the 21 January 2006
as part of their project,
TELL-TALES
DAYSCHOOL 2 : 21 JANUARY 2006
Im in words, made of words, others words.
(Beckett, The Unnamable)
21 January : TIMETABLE
9.30-10amRegistration and Introduction
Robin Webber-Jones and Jonathan Taylor10-11.30amWorkshop 1 : The People We MeetVicky Smith
11.30-11.45amBreak
11.45-1.15pmWorkshop 2 : Mini-Drama / Maxi-Effect
Tony Coult1.15-2.15pmLunch break
2.15-3.45Workshop 3 : Research and Fiction
Gareth Watts
DESCRIPTIONS OF WORKSHOPS
(21 January 2006)
Dear Creative Writer,
Welcome to this dayschool. The main point of today is enjoyment, so I do hope you enjoy the day and benefit from the classes, seminars and workshops.
The dayschool is part of an ongoing project Crystal Clear Creators is running with Riverside Midlands, called Tell-Tales. This project is funded by Riverside and is supported by BBC Leicester. The aim is to run a series of three free dayschools in Leicester on creative writing. Weve already put on one dayschool in BBC Leicester, on the 1 October 2005. This successful event included workshops by Maria Orthodoxou, Mystie Hood and Kate Delamere. Todays dayschool represents an opportunity to work with other successful writers. Were planning a third dayschool very soon, so keep in touch.
Thereafter, Crystal Clear Creators will upload some of the work developed in and after the workshops onto its website ( HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org" www.crystalclearcreators.org) and produce a c.d. of selected recordings. After the workshops, please consider rewriting and developing some of the writing and send it to me (Jonathan Taylor, HYPERLINK "mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk" J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk) for consideration for the website and/or the c.d. Its your chance to get your work published, recorded and professionally produced!
Many thanks, and enjoy the day,
Jonathan Taylor
Crystal Clear Creators.
Short Descriptions of Individual Workshops, 21 January 2006
The People We Meet with Vicky SmithThis workshop focuses on building characters from the initial spark of an idea to the development of well-rounded individuals with something to say. Having worked as a group to generate characters we will then use our ideas for monologue work. The ideas that come out of this session will help writers of fiction and non-fiction work.
Mini-Drama / Maxi-Effect: Radio writing with Tony Coult
Increasingly a practical use for Radio drama is the delivery of PSIs (Public Service Announcements) in Developing Countries. Radio writer Tony Coult has worked with ex-BBC and now successful independent radio producer Turan Ali (Bona Lattie Productions) to run courses at Radio Nederland on the use of Drama in health and social campaigns, for radio producers from countries all over the world. Tony will run a practical workshop to develop ideas for short, punchy drama, as well as for longer, soap-formatted series. You will be working in territory somewhere between Art, Advertising and Drama for Development. Depending on numbers, it is hoped that some pieces can be recorded with participants as actors. The workshop will be focussed on social andenvironmental issues on the Home (i.e. local) patch. HYPERLINK "http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/" http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Research Into Fiction with Gareth Watts.In this session, Gareth will be looking at the ways in which we convey information in our writing, both in terms of giving simple descriptions of characters, as well as detailing more complex, specialist knowledge that forms part of our stories. Using games and exercises, I aim to present fun ways of establishing the balance between providing enough information for a piece of fiction to work, whilst not allowing the research to take over the entire story.
AFTER THE DAYSCHOOL
Please take away the work you have drafted in the seminars and workshops today and rework it. Then do submit it to be considered for Crystal Clear Creators website and for the c.d. we are aiming to produce at the end of the Tell-Tales project. Please send any poetry, prose or short scripts to Jonathan Taylor at HYPERLINK mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk (electronic copies only in the first instance word attachments preferred). If you want to find out more about the other dayschools we are running, contact Robin Webber-Jones at HYPERLINK mailto:rwebberjones@yahoo.com rwebberjones@yahoo.com
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS AND ORGANISERS
Tony Coult is a writer and teacher of drama. He has written books about the playwrights Edward Bond and Brian Friel, and the art and performance activists Welfare State International. His theatre plays have been performed by young peoples and Theatre-in-Education companies in all parts of England, and his plays for radio have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Education. He writes regularly for eMagazine and runs weekly drama workshops in the Snowsfield Adolescent Unit and Evalina School, both at Guys Hospital in London.
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Vicky Smith is the Assistant Manager of the publishing company, Featherstone Education. She has held this position for just over a year, following her Masters in Modern and Contemporary Literature (Creative Writing Pathway) at Loughborough University. Vicky spends much of her spare time, and all of her money, travelling. Much of her own writing and photography work is inspired by her travel. She has had work published in various places, including The Coffee House (forthcoming) and Speaking Words: Writing for Reading Aloud.
Jonathan Taylor is convenor of the M.A. strand in Creative Writing at Loughborough University. He has had short stories published in various magazines including Staple, Raw Edge, Kimota, The Coffee House, Xenos, A Chides Alphabet and The Wandering Dog. His work has been performed live at various venues. He has also had radio plays recorded and broadcast on various stations; these include The Music Master which was commissioned by East Midlands Arts, and a comedy-soap called The Willows for Carillon Radio. He is the co-founder and co-director of Crystal Clear Creators. In 2003, he was awarded an Arts Council grant to research and write a novel-length memoir entitled Misrecognising Bogart, which he is currently completing.
Gareth Watts is a student in the English Department at Loughborough University, currently working on a PhD project which involves both critical study and creative writing. He is particularly interested in the overlaps between fictional and historical writing, enjoys writing poetry and recently wrote a pilot for a radio comedy with Crystal Clear Creators. He has also had work anthologised in Speaking Words: Writing for Reading Aloud.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Crystal Clear Creators is a not-for-profit organisation which develops, records and showcases new and established talent for radio, including writers, voice-overs and producers. It has recorded radio drama, poetry and prose. It is developing links with radio stations across the region as well as with the B.B.C. It has had material broadcast on Heat FM, Loughborough Campus Radio, Virtually American, Resonance FM and Takeover Radio. It is currently developing programmes for Carillon Radio, Rutland Radio, One Word and Takeover Radio. It records work for various organisations, including audio books. It has hosted various public events in Loughborough and Leicester. It is currently developing a publishing wing, and has recently published its first book, Speaking Words: Writing for Reading Aloud, edited by Deborah Tyler-Bennett. Its website is HYPERLINK "http://www.crystalclearcreators.org" www.crystalclearcreators.org. Crystal Clear Creators is funded by the Arts Council England, National Lottery schemes, Riverside Housing, Ernest Cook Trust, Charnwood Arts, and other bodies.
Membership of Crystal Clear Creators is 5 yearly. If you wish to become a member, please contact Jonathan Taylor ( HYPERLINK mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk). Members receive regular newsletters and can appear on our website, simply by sending us contact details and a short biography (say, 4-5 lines). Crystal Clear Creators is always looking for new writers, performers and producers for members; it is also always looking to record and produce new work. As a member, you are entitled to have your work considered for recording and broadcasting via the website. You will also have the opportunity to work on the various programmes we are currently producing for local radio stations.
SOME THOUGHTS ON HOME AND AWAY
From Robert Frost, Death of the Hired Man.
Warren, she said, he has come home to die:You neednt be afraid he'll leave you this time.
Home, he mocked gently.
Yes, what else but home?It all depends on what you mean by home.Of course hes nothing to us, any morethen was the hound that came a stranger to usOut of the woods, worn out upon the trail.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,They have to take you in.
I should have called itSomething you somehow havent to deserve.
From Charles Lamb, The Old Familiar Faces.
Ghostlike, I paced round the haunts of my childhood;
Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.
From Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
But here you are at your own hearth and home; here you can utter everything and pour out every reason, nothing is here ashamed of hidden, hardened feelings . But down there, everything speaks, everything is unheard.
From Blake Morrison, Havens.
A brass bedstead, a record still turning,
a pair of empty tumblers in the sink;
while history filled its tanks outside the door
there were always such places to miss it for,
.
Even the study, the cold spot of the house,
could be warmed and soundproofed by new verse.
Then whats this danger that passes through bricks?
How come we are melting away like this?
From Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters.
An elegant new brass plate, large enough to accommodate everyone, was ordered for the front door. Jal suggested the names should be engraved in alphabetical order:
Mr. & Mrs. Yezad Chenoy
Mr. Jal Contractor
Mr. Nariman Vakeel.
From Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters.
They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seemd the sea, wary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, We will return no more;
And all at once they sang, Our island home
Is far beyond the wave, we will no longer roam.
From George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.
And then southern England . It is difficult when you pass that way to believe that anything is really happening anywhere. Earthquakes in Japan, famines in China, revolutions in Mexico? Dont worry, the milk will be on the doorstep tomorrow morning . The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earths surface. Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shal never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
From William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey.
Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind mans eye;
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet.
From John Clare, An Invite to Eternity.
Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
Where the path hath lost its way
Where the sun forgets the day?
DAYSCHOOL FEEDBACK SHEET
Dear Dayschool Participant,
Were always looking for feeback, comments and suggestions on the events and projects we run. Crystal Clear Creators is a members-led and public-led organisation. So please take a few minutes to fill this form in at the end of the dayschool. You can either hand it to one of the course leaders, or post it to: Dr. Jonathan Taylor, Crystal Clear Creators, c/o Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU. Many thanks for your time.
Jonathan and Robin.
What comments would you like to make about the dayschool?
What suggestions do you have for future dayschools, or future projects in general?
Your name and email address (optional)
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SPEAKING WORDS: WRITING FOR READING ALOUD:
NEW ANTHOLOGY OF CREATIVE WORK
A book of short stories and poems by writers from Loughborough, Leicestershire and the East Midlands region has been published by arts-based writing organisation, Crystal Clear Creators. The book is called Speaking Words, and is an anthology of short works specifically designed for reading aloud. There are pieces suitable for whispering, speaking, shouting, singing and performing. They can be read out to your family, your friends, or even yourself. Contributors include such established writers as Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Julie Boden and Robin Hamilton, as well as an array of exciting, new talent.
The anthology represents the culmination of a year of creative writing events and workshops held by Crystal Clear Creators across the region at Loughborough University, BBC Leicester and in Lincolnshire. The project was funded by the National Lotterys Awards for All scheme. It is Crystal Clear Creators first publication, and will hopefully mark the beginning of a new publishing imprint in the East Midlands for up-and-coming poets and writers.
Copies of the anthology cost 4.50 and are available from Jonathan Taylor, c/o Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, email HYPERLINK "mailto:J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk" J.P.Taylor1@lboro.ac.uk Cheques should be made payable to Crystal Clear Creators.
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