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out and about with Carmen
I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time even…
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Rebellion: Writing Fantasy
Arachne Press Rebellion: Writing Fantasy, author talk and workshop Author Cherry Potts reads from her new novel The Dowry Blade, and discusses ways of writing fantasy with an opportunity for a short writing exercise for the audience. World building, weird logic and rule breaking at Brompton Library 210 Old Brompton Road London SW5 0BS Thursday…
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Sense, Sentences and Sensibility – building poems from scratch
I’m running a poetry workshop on Friday. I keep quiet about poetry most of the time, but the opportunity came up (through Spread the Word), and I’ve been flexing my poetry muscles at the Poetry Cafe’s Poetry@3, Poetry at Mr Lawrence’s and the Towersey Festival recently, so here I go! I’ll be exploring how poems…
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Towersey countdown #SpreadtheWordThree
So, here’s the plan: Myself and two other hand chosen operatives will infiltrate the festival that has been held in Towersey, a small Oxfordshire village for years and years, and turn what has until now been a folk music event into a celebration of the spoken word. Watches have been synchronised, and train timetables perused. …
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Keats Festival 2013 opens
Today is the first full day of the Keats Festival, which is held at Keats House, Keats Grove, Hampstead. I spent yesterday evening at the launch event, listening to the poetry of Jay Bernard (Demon’s in Hell go on strike, in the most visceral meaty bit of poetry I’ve heard in a long time, very…
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Last chance to book Myth and Music
WRITING WITH YOUR EARS: Myth and Music will be cancelled if there are not enough takers. if you were thinking of coming please book asap! Explore the enduring power of fairy tale as part of the Blackheath Community Opera experience, join local author (and opera chorus member) Cherry Potts for an opportunity to write your…
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Food for Thought
Writing Workshop and Writers’ Lunch At the Swindon Festival of Literature Lower Shaw Farm West Swindon Wiltshire SN5 5PJ Tel 01793 771080 12.30pm – 5pm 19 May • £25 12.30pm – 1.30pm WRITERS’ LUNCH where healthy homemade food will nourish you and meeting other writers at table may inspire you! 1.30pm – 5pm WRITING WORKSHOP:…
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Sunday: Writing With Your Ears
My first ever writing workshop went extremely well. The idea was to cross artistic boundaries and get people to sit in with an orchestra (the Blackheath Community Orchestra in this instance), and write whatever the music moved them to write. There was a whole load of explanation about hearing and sound and NLP which I…
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A Garden Full of Metaphor
Plans for the next workshop are shaping up: A Garden full of Metaphor Join author Cherry Potts (Mosaic of Air, Tales Told Before Cockcrow, The Blackheath Onegin) for a weekend of writing and inspiration for all the senses in the glorious surroundings of the gardens at Sussex Prairies in Henfield, Sussex. Why write in a…
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Writing With Your Ears
Booking has opened for my first ever writing workshop! Blackheath Halls 23 Lee Road London SE3 9RQ 29 January 2012 3 to 5.30pm Join me for a taster session on writing (particularly fiction) using all your senses, with an emphasis on hearing. Write to a background of the Blackheath Orchestra rehearsal of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer…
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