Scriptwriting Workshop
Katie Etheridge and Simon Persighetti
Penryn Arts Festival, 2017
Photos: Field NotesIn 2017 Field Notes re-envisaged the Penryn Arts Festival as a celebration of the creative practices of the town’s many resident artists and makers, and as an opportunity to share skills and interests. Throughout autumn and winter, a series of free artist led workshops and dinners took place in the Temperance Hall, in the centre of the town, providing opportunities for residents from different generations and communities to converse, learn skills and engage in creativity.
Scriptwriting workshop, Katie Etheridge and Simon Persighett, 2017
Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti are artists, performance makers, and educators based in Penryn, who create and produce projects locally, nationally and internationally that explore the interrelationships between people and places.
For their workshop they presented Making Writing Penryn, a creative gathering that explored writing as a making-process that took as its starting point the making of the town of Penryn. Katie and Simon began the session with an introduction to different modes of performance writing. Then participants began ‘mapping’ Penryn; looking at maps of the area to explore how the town is defined by place names, signage and activities. They gathered key images and words to generate texts that took shape like maps of place and memory; drawing on methods devised by experimental poet and director Fiona Templeton to create an oracle-like writing machine in which the generation of words becomes an instantaneous, rolling performance as the muse or oracle answers questions about the making of Penryn.
Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti are artists, performance makers, and educators based in Penryn, who create and produce projects locally, nationally and internationally that explore the interrelationships between people and places.
For their workshop they presented Making Writing Penryn, a creative gathering that explored writing as a making-process that took as its starting point the making of the town of Penryn. Katie and Simon began the session with an introduction to different modes of performance writing. Then participants began ‘mapping’ Penryn; looking at maps of the area to explore how the town is defined by place names, signage and activities. They gathered key images and words to generate texts that took shape like maps of place and memory; drawing on methods devised by experimental poet and director Fiona Templeton to create an oracle-like writing machine in which the generation of words becomes an instantaneous, rolling performance as the muse or oracle answers questions about the making of Penryn.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Penryn Arts Festival 2017 was supported by funds from Big Lottery, Arts Council England, Penryn Town Council and FEAST.
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