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Judging a Book By Its Cover
Joan Taylor-Rowan talks about choosing the right cover for her novel, The Birdskin Shoes, and discovering the work of artist Teresa Villegras joan taylor-rowan clip 6 book cover © Cherry Potts 2012
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From First Idea to Last Word
Joan Taylor-Rowan discusses the writing of her novel The Birdskin Shoes. joan clip 4 the writing journey © Cherry Potts 2012
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Seismic Acrobats
More from Joan Taylor-Rowan, about the initial inspiration for her novel, The Birdskin Shoes, and how the idea travelled from a taxi in the English countryside to Iran, Ireland and beyond… joan clip 3 inspiration © Cherry Potts 2012
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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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Friday: FOG at the Finborough
A mass outing from the Raise the Roof Theatre Appreciation Society to the Finborough, to see the penultimate performance of FOG, a new play by Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton. You might wonder why I would bother to review something that has just closed. Well for the simple reason that a) it was brilliant, and…
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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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Brittle Bright Young Things
Last night we fought freezing temperatures, planned engineering works closing off three possible routes, and failed signals on the DLR to get to the wonderfully named St-Sepulchre-without-Newgate, for an evening of Ivor Novello songs with the Oxbridge Opera Company. I wouldn’t have gone if it hadn’t been brought to my attention by Simon Dyer (Bass-Baritone),…
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Saving Elsie Bear
There’s been a skip outside a house up the street for a couple of weeks now, gradually filling with rubble from demolition, then off-cuts of wood, then spare bits of insulating board. Each time we walk past we automatically check the contents and think, can we use any of that? Untreated wood gets hauled out…
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