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