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Free Slam Poetry Workshops with Dave Lordan for TY/Senior English students. Calling all performers, poets, writers and lyricists!
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To tie in with IFI Educations schools screening of?We are Poets?(http://wearepoets.co.uk?), Poetry Ireland in?collaboration with the IFI are offering a number of?FREE WORKSHOPS?to 12 lucky participants, between the ages of 15 and 18, who are interested in learning the art of slam poetry.
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These high-energy slam poetry workshops will be led by award-winning poet and spoken word performer, Dave Lordan. The participants will learn about performance, writing and the art of slam poetry, and work towards a live performance which will take place on Dec 12th?after the screening?We are Poets.
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??????????If you would like to take part, please email and tell us why or send in an example of your work.
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??????????E:?schools@irishfilm.ie?or contact Dee or Elaine on 01 6795744 for more information.
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??????????Open to individual students. Places limited. Closing date Nov 12th.
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?Our inaugural Creative Writing Workshop for Teenage Writers, which was??designed and led?by Dave Lordan, was one of the great successes of this year?s West Cork Literary Festival. It sold out very quickly, and participants travelled from all around the country to take part. Parents expressed their appreciation that a workshop aimed specifically at creative teenagers was available. In this course, Dave concentrated on the participants? creativity, without limiting it to writing, which allowed them to develop a very broad spectrum of artistic skills. One young man, for example, was invited by renowned author Dava Sobel to perform a section of her play during her own headline event. A young woman, who had insisted on the first day that she would?never?do a public reading, nonetheless read her extraordinary piece about the Christchurch earthquake on the following Friday. Several of the group, with Dave?s guidance, volunteered to take part in our Amnesty International Writers at Risk campaign, which involved reading to huge audiences, in front of world-class authors. Dave?s work on this involved helping the group to write and edit their pieces, coaching them in public speaking, and giving moral support at the event.? Having young people involved, like this, in many aspects of our programme was an asset to the festival ? and would not have been possible without Dave. His dedication to his group was extraordinary. He made himself available to them around the clock, which in fact made it possible for the WCLF to hold this workshop in the first place. The group produced brilliant work in the classroom sessions and their performances at a special reading on the final day were also a testament to Dave?s hard work. Several parents spoke to me in moving terms about what this very special week in Bantry had meant to their children, and so to them, and this is entirely due to Dave?s talent, dedication, and sensitivity. I very much enjoyed working with him, and look forward to repeating the workshop again next year ? with Dave at the helm.??
Denyse Woods, Artistic Director, West Cork Literary Festival.
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