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Blackheath Cendrillon: At Home with the Haltieres
OMG! Have I got a Scoopydoop of a Scoop! Madame de la Haltiere is going to be sued! Sorry forgot to say, L.C. Spinetti here. Have a listen to this sound file, where Harriet Lime, director of Season 5 of At Home with the Haltieres reveals what it is really like behind the scenes at…
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Blackheath Cendrillon: Prince Charming … alarming
L.C.Spinetti here again, Cherry’s too busy with Arachne Press to cover the unfolding drama at court, so REALly!? have given me a short commission to keep up with action in the small kingdom of BlackHeath. Quite a change from covering Crufts. So you’ll never guess who I met on the heath this morning. The Royal…
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Blackheath Cendrillon: Princesses’ Hour
A Guest blog here from L.C. Spinetti, roving reporter for REALly?! magazine, part of the REALly?! Empire which includes everyone’s favourite REALity show At Home With the Haltieres™, (the first installment of the fifth season is aired on July 17th at a special showing at Blackheath Halls. You can book your tickets here.) Last night…
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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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Monday: Musical Theatre at Blackheath
There’s rather more theatre in this musical theatre lark than I quite anticipated. Maybe it just feels like that because we are improvising, so there’s a lot being tried out that won’t get into the final product. We reviewed our memory of what we were doing with Under Pressure and our scene on the train…
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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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Musical from scratch
This is definitely an experiment: A and I at Blackheath Halls with quite a crowd of Blackheath Chorus, Gospellers and Find Your Voice-ers with Lee Reynolds directing, for a seven-week make-a-musical… there will be an invitation only performance in week seven. The plan is that we come up with a musical from scratch: we aren’t…
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Welcome Yule
The to do list is getting smaller. Presents bought and wrapped. √ First batch of mince pies cooked and eaten.√ Cards written and posted or delivered.√ Christmas concert sung√ Carols sung and money raised for Crisis√ Someone else’s carol singing event attended.√ Family visits lined up.√ Christmas tree bought.√ Decorate tree√ Gather winter fuel.√ Still…
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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…
Cherry Potts, Writer 