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TVAF 25 Year Celebration – Dementia Spoken Word Piece

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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TVAF Dementia Poetry Project

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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

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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

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