These programs give students access to writing tools used by real life artists. This is probably different to what you are doing in the classroom but focused on enhancing and complimenting the work you do as teachers. Together we can get students exciting about writing and equipped to succeed.
Our facilitators have a variety of professional experience creating texts; writing prose and song lyrics, writing for stage and film, writing from physically devised material and oral storytelling. They also have life experiences that directly relates to the workshops they are facilitating.
Our facilitators have a variety of professional experience creating texts; writing prose and song lyrics, writing for stage and film, writing from physically devised material and oral storytelling. They also have life experiences that directly relates to the workshops they are facilitating.
The core concept is, to help them find their unique inner creative voices and give them the confidence to succeed at creative writing.
Writing About Personal Journey
The beginning of the workshop focuses on
energies and feelings. By identifying this first,
one can then learn how to transform the
different moods into performance and written
pieces. For example, in one of the games we
will look at chaos, stillness, noise and silence
and in which energy you feel more at home?
Have you felt any of these in your own personal journey?
Exercises go on to explore how word association can turn into sentences. The students will also get the chance to work with the actors, getting to discover how different feelings can also be transformed into difference movements on stage.
KEY FRAMEWORKs OF IDEAS
WRITING ABOUT PERSONAL JOURNEY
2 hourS
$18 PER STUDENT
$1800 Minimum booking fee
Writing About Protest
Drawing on the training of the key facilitator Paul Robertson, the short writing exercises focus on responding to embodied elements of protest. Somatic exercises give students a way feel what its like to; voice your “NO”, take a stance either with or against the majority, strive for a collective goal and fail, and imagine what its like to have the names of loved ones disrespected.
As we move on to the mentor texts chosen by the school, we have exciting material on all sides. The humour and satire of Vonnegut could be the prompt to write about, banning a loved activity as a “postive”. The Friday essay, if performed, will emphasise chants and singing as a binding force in protest. The suffragette piece would be delivered, focusing on particular phrases and how they grow in significance with repetition.
KEY FRAMEWORKs OF IDEAS
WRITING ABOUT PROTEST
2 hourS
$18 PER STUDENT
$1800 Minimum booking fee
Writing About Play
Play is our foundation for social connection as human beings.
When we participate in play in the form of games, sports and improvisation, we strengthen our communication, and interpersonal and personal awareness. When we view play – we bond and create shared experiences through attending sports games, exhibitions and live performance.
We also agree to play by society’s rules or not and our choices, our willingness to play along or not, often effects change. The rules of society and play are not universal, they change within different contexts, time periods and countries.
KEY FRAMEWORKs OF IDEAS
WRITING ABOUT PLAY
2 hourS
$18 PER STUDENT
$1800 Minimum booking fee
