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July 2016 – Workshops – Kings Theatre
4 week creative writing course
Saturday 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th of July, 1 til 4 pm
Adults only (Open to all abilities)
Book via Box Office
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September 2016 – Workshops – Kings Theatre
Saturdays 17 & 24 September 2016
1 – 4.30pm
The Irving Room, Kings Theatre, Albert Road, Southsea
Ferry Tales Creative Writing Workshops
Free (booking essential)
maggie@ferrytales.org
Ferry Tales is a community-based project which links the Isle of Wight to mainland ports, through the inter-connection of verbal, aural and visual arts. Poets, Robyn Bolam and Lydia Fulleylove and singer-songwriters, Paul Armfield and Dom Prag will involve groups – from ferry travellers to the socially and physically isolated – in making songs and poems exploring significant arrivals and departures in their lives, using commissioned photographs by Mark Lanigan. These, with writings and a soundtrack, will be showcased in exhibitions and events at a mainland port and on the Island. Lydia, guest poet, Maggie Sawkins, Robyn and Dom will also run workshops at several venues, mainland and Island.
Source: About the project
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Finding the Words
May – July 2016
A pilot poetry project for people living with dementia, based at Newman Court Resource Centre in Basingstoke.
PEOPLE LIKE US
People like us we didn’t go abroad.
We went to the beach on a charabanc.
There were so many people you had to fight for space.
We sat with our clothes on. Chocker block.
They didn’t have tights in those days.
The deckchairs used to end up upside down.
Two bob for an hour. All day for a pound.
We used to buy a Mr Whippy in a wafer.
We were easily pleased.
My mum knitted me a two piece
and when I went for a swim —
the weight of the water made it drop!
You could hear the mums and dads shouting:
‘Don’t kick the sand over there!’
What pleasure was it really?
It was a big event to go down to the sea.
Group Poem
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Hampshire Festival of the Mind
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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Made it in Portsmouth
Very proud to be included in this campaign to inspire the young people of Portsmouth.
http://www.saferportsmouth.org.uk/young-people-portsmouth/made-it-in-portsmouth
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January 2016 – Reading – Winchester
Monday 11 January 2016
A Reading from Zones of Avoidance
LOOSE MUSE
Winchester Discovery Centre
Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8SB
£5 on the door
Open Mic
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September 2015 – Reading – Dimbola Museum and Galleries
Zones of Avoidance – A reading followed by Q & A
Thursday 24 September 2015
5.30pm
Dimbola Museum and Galleries
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9QE
March 2015 – Book Launch – Square Tower
Maggie Sawkins will be launching her new collection, Zones of Avoidance, based on the live literature production that won last year’s Ted Hughes award, in Portsmouth on Saturday 28 March.
Ted Hughes award judge Denise Riley described Zones of Avoidance, which was directed by Mark C Hewitt, as “a challenging, painfully open account of a daughter’s addiction, yet it’s an account which also offers graceful good humour. Beautifully written and uncompromising, it’s a modern story that we felt the writer was compelled to tell; it acts as a vivid witness of harsh experiences which aren’t often described in poetry, and Maggie Sawkins’s illuminating descriptions will prove helpful for others to hear.”
In an interview with Write Out Loud last year, Maggie
said: “The story is very personal. I’d been gathering draft material on the subject over a period of 20 years. Much of it was in the form of diary entries and some was in the form of unsent letters to my grandson, who’s been estranged from my daughter since the age of three. My motivation was to keep a record for him – when someone close to you is gripped by addiction you’re always expecting the knock on the door. I could have written the story as a memoir and perhaps made a lot of money. However, reading back through the drafts, I realised that the ‘truth’ could be told in relatively few words. I think all of us have the one tale to tell and there are different ways of telling it. Writing in poetry enabled me to tease out the terrible beauty from what, in reality, has been a much darker story.”
The launch of the book, published by Cinnamon Press, is at The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth at 7.30pm. Entry is free. More details and Map
Background: ‘The dramatic material provided by living in a battlefield is a gift for any writer’
Music with Bernard MacDonagh and Claire Ward
Review – Zones of Avoidance – Lewes
‘Multimedia live literature production Zones of Avoidance was written and performed by poet Maggie Sawkins and directed by Mark C Hewitt with film sequences from Abigail Norris. Colin Hambrook reviews a performance at the All Saints Centre, Lewes on 29 October.
Winner of the 2014 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, Zones of Avoidance is haunting, creating a resonance with my own life struggles. The words within Zones of Avoidance speak to the largely buried, impossible plight of thousands of families from all walks of life, up and down the country.’
Read the rest of the review here:
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/maggie-sawkins-zones-of-avoidance
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