Celebrating Change

Ever wanted to pair your poetry with film? Have a taster & learn some basics at our next Poetry Playspace, as we welcome @TellingChange to @arcstockton for an afternoon of visual experimentation on your phone or tablet. FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-plays…

Two opportunities to make a short film in a morning, using free editing software we'll show you how to install onto your phone or tablet! Free but booking is essential - please check and email the contacts on these flyers... @EastDurhamNews @SundCulture @we_make_culture

So proud of @JulieEasley and all the Thriving Women for bringing creative expression to this essential issue, and representing us at this important event. Thank you, and thank you @ThriveTeesside for all you do!

Our #BlueDice sessions @HartlepoolHubs Central next week are - Tuesday 10-1pm, Wednesday 10-1pm & Thursday 11-2pm 👍😊 @ClsHartlepool @hartlepoolnow

Join us at Grindon Church Community Project on Saturday 29 October for a free film-in-a-day workshop. Email us saying whether you want to come for the morning or the afternoon, and we'll send you info of the free app you'll need on your phone/tablet!

Join @ImeldaSays and @TellingChange for a free life writing workshop next Monday 👇 #CelebratingChange is a project that teaches you how to tell stories from your life using memoir, poetry, and film. Get involved in the next session! Learn more: facebook.com/events/7137113…

@BloomInArt1 Music by Madonna? Makes the people come together

Our next free life writing zoom is Monday 23rd, 1pm - looking at clothes and fabrics as a way to reflect on the changing roles and phases of our lives. RSVP and link here fb.me/e/5CvCTOFyT @EDCreates @EastDurhamTrust @Cultural_Spring @NHeartlands @Creative_Dton

If you missed the @dumuseums #StreetMuseum exhibition last week, don't worry! All of the artefacts are listed on our website, as well as information about their origins and the reasons that our #Blackhall curators selected the objects. Take a look! 👇 eastdurhamcreates.co.uk/3d-printed-obj…

"My father seemed to me a kind of Essex cavalier - every week a different woman and a new scheme for riches" Writing pen portraits of the people who have shaped your life story - a a free Zoom workshop, Monday 1pm fb.me/e/1iozzZK2p

"Bending over in her men's slacks, to plug this bit into that, her bottom presented its width to the world" Free zoom workshop looking at pen portraits of the characters in our life stories, Monday at 1pm fb.me/e/1iozzZK2p

" A 25-year old widow, she had long lashes casting velvety shadows around her wide, chocolatey eyes" Free Zoom workshop on describing the people who have influenced our life story, Monday 1pm - drop in! fb.me/e/1iozzZK2p @Dolphincontrol @culturemag @TheWord_UK @AET_Live

"She has a dazzling smile, a raspy voice that sounds like a wheelbarrow being dragged over stones" Writing Pen Portraits about the people who made us what we are: Monday 1pm, free Zoom workshop fb.me/e/1iozzZK2p @NHeartlands @Borderlands_CPP @BloomInArt1 @teesvalleyarts

@SundCulture @SunCWFestival @we_make_culture @FireStationSun if you have anyone keen on creative life writing in your networks, can you let them know about this please? Everyone is welcome - every 4th Monday on Zoom, & we will send full handouts of previous workshops on request

Everyone! join us on Zoom Monday 25th 1pm for the next workshop on creative ways into life writing. We'll map out our personal connections, and look at the art of Pen Portraits to reveal both character & story fb.me/e/1iozzZK2p @EDCreates @Cultural_Spring @WritersNorthern

TONIGHT!! Still time to grab your free ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/twoomph-the-… Please share!!

Our next free life writing session is MONDAY 25th - have some big paper on hand, we're going to map out our circles of love and connection... facebook.com/events/2188937… @EDCreates @Cultural_Spring

So sad to hear of the unexpected death of Grant Tabard, whose poem Whistle If You Want To was published on our blog, and who was a big poetry presence for many. celebratingchange.blog/2020/02/28/whi…

I can now confirm that Spring is here. "How?" you might ask and I would answer: Because of the unmistakeable flash of blue and yellow the whooshing, speed of light flight the frantic fluttering of tiny wings the excitable chitter chatter of blue tit parents tending their young

Our 'We Are Teesside' group of digital storytellers have been doing micro-films for spring haikus "Frogspawn miracle - where dots become commas, and if they’re lucky, write their own lines"

NEW weekly micro-memoir prompt! Show us what you write in the replies! Take a photo or 10 secs of film that represents your thoughts, memories or associations with the theme SPRING or MOTHER. Write a Tweet-story about yourself to go with it 🧵 @EDCreates @Cultural_Spring