Traverse Theatre workshops with Zinnie Harris, Iain F MacLeod and Alan Wilkins
Zinnie Harris
Playwriting Skills
Mon 1 Oct - Mon 10 Dec
(7pm - 9pm, every fortnight)
Tickets £55 (£35) for all six sessions
Acclaimed playwright Zinnie Harris is leading six fortnightly sessions of playwriting workshops for adult writers looking to develop their skills for the stage.
Zinnie Harris is an award-winning writer whose plays include Further Than the Furthest Thing (Tron/National Theatre), Solstice and Midwinter (RSC), Julie (NTS) and Nightingale and Chase ( Royal Court). She has also directed for theatre and recently has been writing for screen (Spooks; Born with Two Mothers).
The Playwriting Skills Course is for writers aged 26 and over. Places are limited. To book please contact the Traverse Box Office on 0131 228 1404. Or if you’d like further information, please contact Louise Stephens in the Traverse Literary Department on 0131 228 3223 or e-mail louise.stephens@traverse.co.uk.
Iain F MacLeod
Language & Character - New Worlds
Sat 13 Oct (10.30am - 5pm)
Tickets £10 (£6)
To tie in with the current production of his latest play The Pearlfisher at the Traverse, playwright Iain F MacLeod leads a double workshop on ‘creating languages’ and classic structures for the world of your play. A chance to explore and create a new dramatic language for your character or for the world of your play. And to look at the structures those characters inhabit in the course of the drama.
Places are limited. To book please contact the Traverse Box Office on 0131 228 1404 or at www.traverse.co.uk If you’d like further information, please contact Louise Stephens in the Traverse Literary Department on 0131 228 3223
Alan Wilkins
Young Writers Group
Taster Workshop
Mon 1st October (7pm- 9pm)
Tickets free but ticketed
If you’re a new writer who’s interested in trying playwriting and developing your talent by being part of the Traverse Theatre’s Young Writers Group over the coming year,
come along to this taster YWG playwriting workshop run by leading playwright Alan Wilkins. A chance to have a go and see if playwriting might be for you.
This workshop is free but places are limited. To apply for a place, please submit a three-page sample of your creative writing by Tue 11 Sep to Louise Stephens in the Traverse Literary Department (louise.stephens@traverse.co.uk) or call 0131 228 3223 for more information.
NAWE seminar
Creative Writing with People with Learning Disabilities
Thursday 20 September 2007 10.30 - 4.30pm
The Scottish Storytelling Centre,
43-45 High Street , Edinburgh, EH1 1SR (Accessible venue)
This day is aimed at writers wanting to develop their work in this field, who may be new to it, or already experienced and wanting to refresh their skills. It will focus on the changing contexts for this work, workshop ideas, and provide a forum for discussion of the issues involved, such as confidentiality, authorship, authenticity and the role of the scribe. The day also aims to share best practice amongst the writers who attend.
Tutor
Julie Ward is a drama worker, writer, editor, storyteller, performer, director, workshop facilitator, trainer and event animateur. She has been a visiting lecturer at colleges and universities in the UK, Canada, USA and Australia. She is the founder/Director of a creative arts co-op, Jack Drum Arts, based in the SW Durham Dales since 1986 and Jackass Youth Theatre also based in the Dales.
Fees £30 NAWE members, £35 non members (lunch provided)
How to Book
Please contact : Anne Caldwell a.caldwell@nawe.co.uk
WEA's Playwrights Group
WEA’S Playwrights group starts up afresh on Tues 9th Oct 10-12 noon in Riddle’s Court, High Street, Edinburgh with Liz Hare.
A friendly, supportive Playwrights workshop where you can try out new material and develop new approaches, group members will have the option of working with Hugh Farrell of Pilton Video for a few sessions, to write short film scripts.
The fees are £36/£16 for 9 weeks.
To enrol or get more information, contact Nicky Melville, WEA Course Organiser on 0131 225 2580 or n.melville@weascotland.org
The Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups
Europe- Mediterranean 1- 10 February 2008
International Classroom for Theatre Students
Theatre Channels
This programme aims at building a specialized classroom made up of 20 theatre students coming from Europe, the Mediterranean and the region. The classroom is to last for 10 days, 5 hours a day.
During that time, students will be exposed to various educational experiences of various trainers coming from different countries in all the fields of theatre, such as acting, directing, producing, stagecraft, criticism.
This creative programme is, consequently, an opportunity of dialogue, exchange of experiences between young generation and building future joint projects. In addition, it sets up the atmosphere for a multi-cultural world.
For the programme requirements and the application form, please visit:
www.iact-eg.org
You are also invited to apply for the
Publications Programme held during the Forum
Their publication programme for this year is a programme that aims at translating and publishing a collection of one-act plays. Through this bilingual project, of which one party is played by a group of European languages and the other by the Arabic language, we aspire to introduce the Arab theatre artist to the creativity of others, and at the same time, preserve the genius of the mother-tongue in which the original text was written.
They hope through this programme of publications, the theatre texts will reflect the richness of life experiences and Man’s desire to overcome a stronger reality in an era that can be only described as an era of fear.
For details and to apply see www.iact-eg.org
Scottish Language Dictionaries Conference
17 November 10.30am - 4.30pm
Edinburgh
With Keynote speaker Alaistair Allan MSP, special guest speaker Liz Niven and a workshop by Scottish Language Dictionaries staff.
For details call 0131 650 4149 or email mail@scotsdictionaries.org.uk or visit www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk
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