Introduction to Devising
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Our ambition has been to deliver two distinctively separate yet inter-dependent projects. We started in September 2020 and it will culminate in the last week of August 2021. The first project is devising and the ideas and material it produces will inform the the play Happy Highway, a theatrical promenade on and around the paths of Happy Valley..
We started on 9th September with an on line Empty Gallery Conversation to let people know about the outline of our programme and invite ideas and feedback, building on a sounding we held at the end of the play last year. This was the beginning of finding out what people wanted or imagined Happy Highways might be. It's important to us that the project is a community collaboration. If you missed this first event please it was not a last opportunity. You are invited to join us at any time to have an input into the programme.
To avoid long meetings that feel unproductive we developed Legends of the Rocks by replacing meetings with fun and creative workshops that got the task done. We are continuing in that way., initially through zoom, or one on walk walks. Hopefully by May we will be able to offer outdoor workshops, if you are interested in making land art, writing, music, making, devising, conservation, researching your community or family history, we can endeavour to create opportunities that meet your interests
Our first conversation on 9th September allowed us to be more specific about activities and present a calendar of events. There will be alternate ways of delivering activities depending on the covid rules at any given time but hopefully the outdoor events will have a better chance of being achieved in ways that we would want.
Creative, Devising, and Composition Workshops on zoom generally start with a 'provocation' by which I mean some stimulus to inspire creative thinking, we meet in small breakout, and then we come back as a full group to feedback our ideas. You can see notes we have on previous sessions Here. Later when we can meet physically a provocation might be a piece of music, photographic or art images, a demonstration of how to make something, a selection of materials to make something with, or a page of thoughts, quotes, and suggestions.
We hope our physical activities from May might include new writing, story telling, poetry, photography, painting, land art (images made in the landscape), researching ancestral history, archaeological digs, gardening, walks, drumming, acting, among others. Some of these activities may be workshops in their own right or they may develop into creating or contributing to an event for the festival week in 2021. Possible examples are; garden art exhibition, a film, a theatrical walk, a play, an environmental sculpture park, poems and pints. Decisions about what we do will be part of the early devising process.
We started on 9th September with an on line Empty Gallery Conversation to let people know about the outline of our programme and invite ideas and feedback, building on a sounding we held at the end of the play last year. This was the beginning of finding out what people wanted or imagined Happy Highways might be. It's important to us that the project is a community collaboration. If you missed this first event please it was not a last opportunity. You are invited to join us at any time to have an input into the programme.
To avoid long meetings that feel unproductive we developed Legends of the Rocks by replacing meetings with fun and creative workshops that got the task done. We are continuing in that way., initially through zoom, or one on walk walks. Hopefully by May we will be able to offer outdoor workshops, if you are interested in making land art, writing, music, making, devising, conservation, researching your community or family history, we can endeavour to create opportunities that meet your interests
Our first conversation on 9th September allowed us to be more specific about activities and present a calendar of events. There will be alternate ways of delivering activities depending on the covid rules at any given time but hopefully the outdoor events will have a better chance of being achieved in ways that we would want.
Creative, Devising, and Composition Workshops on zoom generally start with a 'provocation' by which I mean some stimulus to inspire creative thinking, we meet in small breakout, and then we come back as a full group to feedback our ideas. You can see notes we have on previous sessions Here. Later when we can meet physically a provocation might be a piece of music, photographic or art images, a demonstration of how to make something, a selection of materials to make something with, or a page of thoughts, quotes, and suggestions.
We hope our physical activities from May might include new writing, story telling, poetry, photography, painting, land art (images made in the landscape), researching ancestral history, archaeological digs, gardening, walks, drumming, acting, among others. Some of these activities may be workshops in their own right or they may develop into creating or contributing to an event for the festival week in 2021. Possible examples are; garden art exhibition, a film, a theatrical walk, a play, an environmental sculpture park, poems and pints. Decisions about what we do will be part of the early devising process.