Events
Workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions for everyone.
Our 2023 Events Programme, Connect through Creativity, is a year long programme of practical arts workshops, writers’ salons, 1:1 advice and networking sessions. These are all online, BSL Interpreted, have auto-captions, and are open to deaf & disabled people. Connect and become part of a Creative Community!
What’s On
Workshop
Moving your Body
Led by Dark Horse Theatre
Wednesday 27 September, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
In this workshop, you will connect with your body and all its parts, discovering new possibilities for creative expression. We will be inspired by music and pictures, exploring movement that works for you and the potential to show different emotions, characters and stories physically.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Salon
Refined Chaos
Led by Aarian Mehrabani
Monday 2 October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
Refined Chaos: A look into how we can take the guard rails off our imagination and writing in order to create with no expectations, before then examining and refining the work to find direction.
n this session we’ll look at some of the ways Aarian approaches his writing, as well as some of the tools used to create “It’s A MotherF**king Pleasure”.
Through a series of exercises we’ll explore finding the central question of your work and building off these to improvise, free write and refine to produce the skeleton of your work.
We’ll also look at how we can use our real lives and lived experience to feed into our work without necessarily creating something autobiographical and mining our trauma or lives.
It’s a careful balance to strike between needing to have a direction and central question you are always working towards, whilst also allowing yourself to abandon everything you’ve created in order to create freely and potentially find a real gem that you would have never found had you just gone off exploring a side street in your imagination.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Workshop
Falling down into the grass – how to write authentically and in your own voice
Tuesday 10th October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
Writing memoir requires that we are willing to be naked in front of ourselves, in order to write to the truth of our lives. This workshop will look at truth v. emotional authenticity, drawing on selected excerpts from other writings, guided exercises, and prompts to get you close to the heart of our story
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Workshop
Building a Movement Sequence
Led by Dark Horse Theatre
Wednesday 25 October, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
In this final workshop, we will develop characters using your body, the shapes and patterns you can create and the movements you can make, to tell a series of stories.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
19 October, between 2.30-3.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
19 October, between 3.30-4.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Workshop
Being idle and blessed – how to find (and nurture) the wonder in your words
Victoria Bennett
Thursday 14th November, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
Memoir can take us up close and personal with our lives – the beautiful and the bruised. Using inspiration from other artists and writers, along with guided exercises and prompts, this final workshop is about developing and nurturing the wonder in your words by creating a nourishing writing life.
£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
(Sessions with BSL Interpreter available below)
Connect Session for Deaf and Disabled People
Led by CRIPtic Arts
Thursday 23 November 2023, 2-4pm / Zoom
CRIPticArts networking sessions are an open and inclusive space for deaf and disabled people with an interest in the arts to chat, share knowledge and experience, and meet like minded people.
This is a very relaxed event with no pressure: just a great way to meet new people, make connections and grow your network.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Workshop
Storytelling through movement
Led by Dark Horse Theatre
Wednesday 29 November, 6.30-8.30pm / Zoom
In this final workshop, we will develop characters using your body, the shapes and patterns you can create and the movements you can make, to tell a series of stories.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
18 December, between 6.30-7.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
18 December, between 7.30-8.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
Connect Session for Deaf and Disabled People
Led by CRIPtic Arts
Thursday 25 January 2024, 2-4pm / Zoom
CRIPticArts networking sessions are an open and inclusive space for deaf and disabled people with an interest in the arts to chat, share knowledge and experience, and meet like minded people.
This is a very relaxed event with no pressure: just a great way to meet new people, make connections and grow your network.
£0 / BSL / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
22 February 2024, between 2.30-3.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / BSL Interpreter pre-booked / Auto Captions
CRIPtic Chats
with Jamie Hale
22 February 2024, between 3.30-4.30pm / Zoom
15-minute advice sessions with Jamie Hale, Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts.
£0 / Integrated AD / Auto Captions
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