Date: 18th March
Time: 10am – 12pm
Venue: Florence House, Southdown Road, Seaford,
Tickets: Eventbrite
Ticket prices are subsidised through the generosity of Seaford Town Council and the Chalk Cliff Trust.
There are a limited number of bursary tickets available on a discretionary basis.
Please contact admin@seahavenpoets.co.uk if you have any concerns about ticket prices.
Poetry Workshop – Community Trust
What is this workshop about?
Find inspiration in the theme of Community Trust (see below for further details), that vital component that makes our communities what they are, worth being a part of and supportive.
What will you do during the workshop?
Over the course of a couple of hours, Rich will guide you through some exercises, and pose some questions for discussion. You’ll explore themes, think through what Community Trust means to you in reality in your every-day life, and talk about that amongst the group. Based on these thoughts and explorations, Rich will walk you through a set of exercises aimed at harnessing your creativity to write a few lines, maybe 6 or 8 – or even the first draft of a poem – based on your take of Community Trust, deepened by you discussions. There will be an opportunity to read your work to the group at the end of the workshop.
Practicalities:
Please bring something to write with, and something to write on.
Please arrive 15 minutes early, so you can grab a drink before we start.
Tea and coffee are provided, and there will be a break half way through the workshop.
Community Trust
During this workshop, we will draw inspiration from this paragraph from Nicholas Royle, on the theme of Community Trust:
For all the talk of society as broken (David Cameron, initially back in 2008), it seems that people in local communities still find ways of getting on with each other, often demonstrating surprising kindness to — and cooperation with — others. If we have to a significant degree lost our faith in politicians, we have perhaps not lost faith in one another. Despite many and perhaps increasing challenges, various kinds of community trust still seem to operate. What do we understand by ‘community trust’? Are there ways in which it is being threatened and eroded, both nationally and locally? Conversely, how might community trust be newly affirmed, developed and enhanced? This year’s Seaford LitFest invites us to think about these issues in fresh and creative ways.
Rich firmly believes, and has seen from experience, that people write brilliantly when they connect emotionally with their subject material.
Therefore, whatever your background or experience, Rich will work with you and the group, to find and develop inspiration from these thoughts, and help you develop an understanding of your personal perspective of, and relationship with, this material.
You will then be able to write freely, with honesty, and from the heart.
Rich Hume – Workshop Lead
Rich Hume is an experienced workshop lead, having run popular workshops in the Newhaven and Seaford area for nearly ten years. Rich writes poetry himself, and you can find some of his work on his website: www.richardwrites.co.uk
Rich is renowned for his ability to help people find their creative spark, to write words that have meaning. Rich does this by helping workshop attendees find their emotional attachment and link to subject material. Rich also runs walking poetry workshops in his local area.
