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"Writing with Heart" - Poetry / Creative Writing Workshop - £35-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, 25th May, 2024 - 10am to 4pm
An immersive exploration using writing as a means to empower and connect with the mind and the body's lived experience to create writing from the heart.
This will be the second of The Jawbone Collective's 2024 series of workshops where we partner with outstanding poets from the Southwest.
Our co-facilitator for this workshop is Ceri Baker the Current Bard of Exeter. Ceri is a seasoned performer and facilitator, a multiple poetry slam winner and was recently published in her own collection “F*ck It, Pass The Salt!”
This event will take place at the Four Seasons Studio at Othona. A beautiful location on The Jurassic Coast near to Bridport and Burton Bradstock.
We will be weaving words… Using the prompts of Mind, Body and Heart. Those are the starting points. During the day our two facilitators will use a variety of methods that may include a mixture of accessible yoga, breath-work, poetry, and creative writing, exploring writing as a means to empower and connect with our mind’s and the body's lived experience to create writing from our hearts.
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The Facilitators
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Ceri Baker is a performance poet, and the current Bard of Exeter, living in Devon, UK. She writes poetry to be performed, felt and for connection. She facilitates workshops and spaces to support people in raising and finding their voices.
Ceri has performed her work across the UK and is a multiple Slam Competition Winner. She has trained and worked as a performer, artist in residence, writer, workshop leader, Dyslexia and ADHD specialist,Teen Yoga and Thrive Practitioner. The unifying factors in all her work are about engagement, connection and identifying strengths and curiosities in human learning and growth.
Ceri says “I am always growing and exploring new avenues through my constant curiosity regarding human creativity and our capacity for learning and connecting. I'm also very grateful for the sometimes-tumultuous journey my life has taken and the opportunities for personal development and connection that has offered. Change and growth starts with us as individuals and in community, working on ourselves and sending out those ripples.
Inner to outer. The bigger picture will always work itself out."
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Peter Roe is an alliterating, artistic, autistic, prize-winning performance poet, writer and former Bard of Dorchester. He is the Managing Editor of The Jawbone Collective and small press publisher Wessex-Media. He has been widely anthologised and is the author of three poetry collections and a novelette, Odin and The Mead of Poetry. He is host and compère of spoken words events Jawbone Online, Jawbone at The Poet Laureate in Dorchester and for Bridport Apothecary.
Peter has a background in technology and education, he runs events and workshops for The Jawbone Collective, Schools, Museums and other Arts Organisations. He is a Community Health Champion who believes passionately in the role of creativity as an aspect of personal health and mental wellbeing.
Peter says "I strongly believe that everyone has a creative being within. It is only our social conditioning that prevents us from giving voice to the tales that we carry in our heads. Everyone has a story to tell, many stories. My own tale grew from illness and a life changing accident. Writing was my lifeline and poetic expression was me... writing myself well."
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Four Seasons Studio, The Othona Community, Burton Bradstock, Bridport, United Kingdom
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