RISING BROOK WRITERS - providing creative opportunities for the Over 50s and Senior Citizens.   (Adult Learners' Week Award Nominated 2009)



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RISING BROOK WRITERS IS A VOLUNTARY

CHARITABLE TRUST

 


 

The aims of the charity are to provide creative opportunities for

the Over 50s:

 

 

 

As a unique niche service provider opportunities  provided include:

  • Library Creative Writing Workshops
  • Touring Community Workshops
  • Websites - e-publishing
  • Online Workshops
  • Anthology Publishing
  • Drama Day Workshops
  • Live Performance Poetry
  • Audio Tracks For Broadcast/Download/CDs
   



LIBRARY VENUE: 

Rising Brook Branch Library Merrey Road Stafford

Monday Afternoons: 1.30pm to 3.30pm

All Over 50s welcome - no experience necessary - free of charge

 


Rising Brook Writers has other websites:

www.myspace.com/risingbrookwriters

www.myspace.com/risingbrookwriterslive (downloads/audio tracks)

and can be found on Facebook

NEW: 2009: A bespoke website opens with FREE audio download tracks of COLDWYND SANDS and WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WEIGH also over 40 audio tracks of seaside memories recorded during the 2009 Heritage Recording Oral History Project: "Oh! We DID like to be beside the seaside!"

www.risingbrookwriters.org.uk


DIARY EVENTS:

1st February 2010:  Touring Workshops Distribution Round begins at Rising Brook Centre followed by Holmcroft Community Centre later that week. Touring Workshops will run until end of June.



17th May 2010: Launch Seaside Memories Book/Audio Tracks - Shire Hall Galley

 

 

 

2nd-3rd June 2010: County Show Stand

 

24th July 2010: Drama Day Gatehouse Theatre complex - STAFFORD FESTIVAL FRINGE (all day plays and poetry recitals)

 

Some we did earlier:-


15th DECEMBER 2009: Littleworth Community Centre - social evening RBW poets with Age Concern Choir and Quest Creativity Group

 

19th October 09 Riverside Civic Offices

Launch:

 

 

Where There's A Will There's A Weigh

book and audio tracks


 

Coldwynd Sands, book and audio tracks, was launched from the Shire Hall Library in Jan 2009. Tracks were accepted by Hospital Radio/Prison Radio/Blind Talking Newsletter.


SDVS COMMUNITY EVENT: 21st NOVEMBER 2009

Rising Brook Centre - All day exhibition

 

Stafford's MP David Kidney drops by the RBW stand

 

Rising Brook Writers Stafford Festival 2009:

FRINGE EVENT:

Drama Day Workshop and Live Poetry Performance:

Saturday JUNE 27th 2009 - RBW DRAMA DAY - Gatehouse Theatre Complex (front suite) - RBW in rehearsal - five new plays 11.00am till 5.00pm with professionals from the Rotten Park Road Theatre Company and Etruria Cafe Theatre

  

Actors Laura Dawson and Patrick McConnell rehearsing scenes  Directed by Matt Rozier

  

  

 

 

 

Images from Drama Day 2008 with members of Etruria Cafe Theatre:

    

 Playwrights being presented with their certificates

     

 

 

 

Below are some of RBW publications which are all written/recorded and produced by RBW workshop participants and are available from RBW at cost price (RBW is a not-for-profit organisation):-

 

 COLDWYND SANDS LAUNCH

Monday 26th January 2009 2.00pm Main Library

To download  FREE OF CHARGE audio tracks

'a gentle comedy'  -   'warm and reassuring' - PRA Review

 please visit the LINKS page

 

Presentation of a box of books to SCC Your Library Service.      Presentation by Cllr Mike   Poulter via the  SCC Members Initiative Scheme - IT Equipment

 

Presentation to Hospital Radio Stafford and Cannock and Stafford and Stone Talking Newspaper of  audio track flashcards ready to broadcast

Staffordshire Community Foundation videoing some of the event

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Poetry Collection 2009

ECLECTIC MIX

launched 27th JUNE  Gatehouse Theatre Complex

 

 

     

    

        

 

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LIVE RECITAL: MONDAY 6th JULY

STAFFORD BRANCH OF OXFAM

Sheridan Centre 1.30pm to 4.00pm

Raising money for Oxfam's BookFest

to stock libraries in developing countries

   

Staffordshire Introspective 2008 1st Poetry Collection 

Eclectic Mix 2009 2nd Collection - 

look out for INSIDE OUT coming out in 2010

 

 2008 First Reminiscence Anthology

Community Workshops Tour 2007-08


 First Creative Writing Workshops Publication launched at Rising Brook Library 2006

 

 Second publication launched Ancient High House in 2007 spooky tales and local research

 


EVENTS  DURING 2009

26th January Launch Coldwynd Sands

31st Jan Broadcast on Hospital Radio Stafford and Cannock

June Festival Fringe Events : Drama Day - Launch Eclectic Mix

July Oxfam Bookfest Performance

Sept AGM & Lunch

October 5th Rising Brook Library National Poetry Day Recital

21st Nov SDVS Community Event - Rising Brook Centre

exhibition stand and video display of Heritage Project

15th December Quest Evening  Poetry Performance Littleworth

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February 2009 Community Touring Workshops:

a programme of 24 two hour workshops in venues around the

North Staffs. A Heritage Lottery Fund supported project:

Oh we DID like to be beside the seaside!

Recording seaside memories of yesteryear.

(SEE DEDICATED WORKSHOPS PAGE)

Holmcroft Community Centre 12 Feb 2009

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Other forthcoming events : dates still to be announced:



Launch :  Oh we DID like to be beside the seaside!

book and DVD project from touring reminscence workshops

See Workshops Page for Project Information

 

 


RBW received a certificate and was nominated for an Adult Learners' Week Award in 2009


Some previous and current funders and/or umbrella organisations of which RBW are members :-

 

 

              

 

 

S.C.C. Members' Initiative Fund

Cllr M Poulter MBE  - 2009


   

 

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To listen to some of our audio work please click on the icon below - this is a small download size 1.94mbOur new website www.risingbrookwriters.org.uk has pages and pages of free audio MP3 tracks for downloading.

 
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