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Writing workshop in Hobart with Angela Betzien
LIVING NEWSPAPER Date: Sunday 22 June 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Venue: Salamanca Arts Centre meeting room
Cost: $25 members $50 non-members
What to bring: a news story of interest.
Join award-winning writer Angela Betzien and discover her process for writing through her utilisation of the theatre methodology ‘Living Newspaper’, where real news events are used for powerful pretexts for playbuilding. Living Newspaper is the dramatization of a problem. It has a strong tradition from late 19th century Russia to the Federal Theatre Project in America to Brecht, Boal and beyond. This practical workshop introduces participants to the potential of using real current events as powerful pretexts for dramatic narrative building. The workshop incorporates a range of accessible exercises for developing a unique approach to dramatic form and content and introduces an aesthetic and political framework for understanding and critiquing the media driven world we live in. Angela will introduce and discuss her personal process in developing contemporary performance based on The Living Newspaper tradition. The workshop will also include a range of practical writing exercises. Participants will develop an awareness of the tradition of Living Newspaper and apply a range of techniques to their own creative practice. ANGELA BETZIEN is an award-winning playwright. Her work has received several professional and independent productions, including Dog Wins Lotto (Queensland Theatre Company, 1997) Playboy of the Working Class (Queensland Theatre Company, 2001) The Kingswood Kids (La Boite Theatre, 2002) The Orphanage Project (Queensland Theatre Company, 2003) Children of the Black Skirt (Real TV, 2005) and Hoods (Sydney Opera House & Regional Arts Victoria, 2006) Angela is currently developing a new play for young audiences in collaboration with Arena Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Girl Who Cried Wolf will premiere in May 2008 at ASSITEJ, the International Festival for Young People in Adelaide and tour to the Sydney Opera House and The Arts Centre (Melbourne). Her play Hoods was recently awarded an AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences as well as the inaugural Richard Wherrett Prize for Excellence in Playwriting. Poetry Masterclass:
New Directions, Strange Strategies,
with Jan Owen Saturday 5 July 10-4, The Writers’ Cottage
1 Kelly St, Battery Point For experienced writers
Cost: $50 members $100 non-members We can travel further, deeper, darker with our poems. There is a place for the irrational, the contradictory and the oblique in the poetic plot. Starting points, strategies and new directions will be offered along with various exercises on titles, first lines, turning points, contradiction and the ‘irrelevant’. Other suggested writing tasks will play abstract against concrete and welcome ‘maximalism’. Poems and prose poems will be presented as models, and time will be allowed for discussion and feedback Jan Owen is an Adelaide poet whose sixth book of verse, Poems 1980 – 2008, was recently published by John Leonard Press. She has worked as a librarian, editor and teacher, and has been a writer-in-residence in Venice, Rome, Paris and Malaysia. Awards for her poetry include the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the Max Harris Award. An interest in languages, travel, science, art and philosophy is reflected in her work. Contact the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre for more information and for bookings: admin@tasmanianwriters.org phone 62240029. Credit Card payments are welcome.
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