Saturday 7 May 2016, Portsmouth Cathedral, Old Portsmouth
13.00-13.45
A presentation in which I’ll be discussing how writing can help to foster empathy and compassion. Illustrated with poem films from the award-winning live literature production, Zones of Avoidance.
Details of the day’s events can be found here:
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Zones of Avoidance – A reading followed by Q & A
Zones of Avoidance – The Cellars at Eastney
Thursday 24 September 2015
5.30pm
Dimbola Museum and Galleries
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9QE
Read the rest of the review here:
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/maggie-sawkins-zones-of-avoidance
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My interview with Greg Freeman from Write Out Loud
‘Earlier this year Maggie Sawkins won the Ted Hughes award for innovation, with Zones of Avoidance, a poetic account of a daughter’s addiction that is also an ambitious multimedia presentation using film, voices and sound. Sawkins, a teacher and the organiser of the long-running Tongues&Grooves poetry and music night in Portsmouth, talks to Greg Freeman about teasing out the story’s “terrible beauty”; the “affirming” feedback she has received after each performance; and the difficulty she has had in persuading some theatres and festivals to include Zones of Avoidance in their programmes.’
Click here for the full interview:
http://writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=45649
A Word Dance into the Void of Addiction – Maggie Sawkins
Maggie discusses how writing about her daughter’s dual diagnosis enabled her to reach a place of compassion and acceptance. Her live literature production, Zones of Avoidance, which won The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, is described as ‘beautifully written and uncompromising.’ Through poetry, letters and monologues, Maggie manages to juggle the imperative of honesty – how to tell an important story truthfully – and ‘avoidance’ – how bitter truths may be made bearable. The talk will be illustrated by short poem films from the production.
Lecture Theatre 1027 – Nightingale Building
14.50 – 15.50
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