A post from Setpember 2016 mentions the TVAF Dementia Poetry Project The video below shows the performance piece staged as part of the TVAF 25 year celebrations at The Lights in Andover on Thursday 17th November. Thanks to Anna Carr…
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TVAF 25 Year Celebration – Dementia Spoken Word Piece
Posted in Poetry, Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Andover, Anna Carr, Caro Reeves, Catherine Wright, Damian O' Vitch, Dementia, Romsey, TeaPoet Collective, Test Valley Arts Foundation, The Lights, TVAF@25
Words In The City – Sunday Afternoon at the Stage Door
In this order: Nell Leyshon, Craig Chalmers, Grant Sharkey, In Conversation With Matt West & LST, Stewart Taylor Sunday 30 October, The Stage Door, Southampton I spent all Sunday afternoon at the Stage Door, which doesn’t mean I was hanging…
Posted in Music, Poetry, Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Catherine Wright, Craig Chalmers, Grant Sharkey, Leigh Taylor, LST, Matt West, Nell Leyshon, SO: To Speak, Southampton, Stage Door, Stewart Taylor, Words In The City
Reportage By The Sea – NAUTILUS by Trygve Wakenshaw
NAUTILUS, Trygve Wakenshaw Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth, 14 October The link below goes to my work as published on the Reportage By The Sea blog. Nautilus review by Syd Meats
Posted in Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Artfulscribe, Arts By The Sea, Bournemouth, Comedy, Mime, Nautilus, Reportage By The Sea, Shelley Theatre, Theatre Beating, Trygve Wakenshaw
Reportage By The Sea – What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright, Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth, 13 October The link below goes to my work as published on the Reportage By The Sea blog. What I learned from Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright – Review by…
Posted in Poetry, Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Artfulscribe, Arts By The Sea, Bournemouth, Luke Wright, New Labour, Reportage By The Sea, Shelley Theatre, Urbania, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
Reportage By The Sea – Migrating Melodies & Heart String
Migrating Melodies & Heart String Don Kipper, Jack Maguire, Sharon Muiruri, The Company Of Fools Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth 12 October The link below goes to my work as published on the Reportage By The Sea blog. Migrating Melodies and Heart…
Posted in Music, Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Artfulscribe, Arts By The Sea, Balkan, Bournemouth, Damian Maguire, Don Kipper, Gypsy, Heart String, Jack Maguire, Josh Middleton, Klezmer, Migrating Melodies, Music, Refugees, Reportage By The Sea, Sharon Muiruri, Shelley Theatre, The Company Of Fools, Tim Karp
Reportage By The Sea – Launch Event
I attended the Arts by the Sea Festival Launch on the evening of Friday 7th October. The link above is to the Reportage By The Sea blog, where you can see a couple of creative responses to the event (a…
Posted in Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Artfulscribe, Arts By The Sea, Aurora Starr, Bournemouth, Gemma Alldred, Mark Fisher, Matt West
Reportage By The Sea – Jekyll & Hyde / Nerve Review
This is me with my press pass ! Something that was covered in the Reportage By The Sea workshop on Sat 1st October was the idea of a creative response in a review. I’ve applied this to Reverend Productions Jekyll…
Posted in Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Artfulscribe, Arts By The Sea, Bournemouth, Jekyll and Hyde, Nerve, Reportage By The Sea, Reverend Productions, Shelley Theatre
Elemental Dialogues – Water, Mottisfont, 24 Sept to 9 Oct
I was lucky enough to catch this on what was originally planned to be its penultimate day (30th Sept ), and to also have a chance meeting with filmmaker Anna Cady. This installation came about through various poets being asked…
Posted in Film, Poetry Tagged with: Anna Cady, Brian Evans-Jones, Elemental Dialogues, Joan McGavin, Mottisfont, Pauline Thomas, Romsey, Water
TVAF Dementia Poetry Project
As part of the celebration of 25 years of the Test Valley Arts Foundation, today I was leading a group of poets in collecting stories and reminiscences from dementia patients and their carers. We will be using this material to…
Posted in Poetry Tagged with: Anna Carr, Caro Reeves, Catherine Wright, Damian O' Vitch, Dementia, John Baxter, Papa Webb, Romsey, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Test Valley Arts Foundation, TVAF@25
Reportage by the Sea – Review of “Growth”
Never Mind the Bollock! “Growth” by Luke Norris, Roundabout at Poole Park, 17 Sept 2016. The world of “Tobes” Piper is turned upside down when the sudden end of his relationship is followed by a shock diagnosis. As he faces…
Posted in Theatre Reviews Tagged with: Bournemouth, Growth, Luke Norris, Poole Park, Reportage By The Sea, Roundabout
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