http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:48:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/young-writers-group-at-theatre-by-the-lake/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/young-writers-group-at-theatre-by-the-lake/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:46:23 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=3191 Theatre by the Lake's young writers group will start again in September, led by Louie Ingham, an Associate Artist at the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster, where she also works extensively with their Creative Learning programmes. Louie describes what participants can expect from the sessions: “It will be a 12 week practical programme of exploring and writing scripts for theatre. The young writers will work not only as writers, but also as actors and directors ..." Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/young-writers-group-at-theatre-by-the-lake/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/facets-of-fiction-more-storycraft-in-curthwaite/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/facets-of-fiction-more-storycraft-in-curthwaite/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:52:23 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=3004 Brindley Hallam Dennis (aka Mike Smith) has been in touch to tell us that he's running another series of his very popular fiction workshops, at home at Todd Close in Curthwaite. For the uninitiated, that's Curthet, near Thursby, not that far from Wigton. Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/facets-of-fiction-more-storycraft-in-curthwaite/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/poetry-courses-at-stones-barn/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/poetry-courses-at-stones-barn/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:48:31 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=1995 At Stones Barn, singer Maddy Prior has developed a centre of creative expression and excellence in the rugged, unspoilt and little known countryside of the Bewcastle area, north of Brampton. Stones Barn offers weekend courses with expert tuition, excellent company and good home-cooked food, and two poetry courses are on the menu of the 2011 programme. Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/poetry-courses-at-stones-barn/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/new-u3a-popular-science-reading-group-in-penrith/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/new-u3a-popular-science-reading-group-in-penrith/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:05:34 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=760 This new U3A (University of the Third Age) reading group starts on Thursday 8 April. It's for people interested in what has been happening over the last few decades in and around life sciences: genetics, cell biology, evolution. No previous science background is needed - just an interest in how living creatures work and what scientists have been, and are, working on. ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/new-u3a-popular-science-reading-group-in-penrith/feed/ 0