Community
COMMUNITY - SELECTED EXAMPLES OF PROGRAMMES DELIVERED : 1996-2019
Older People
Special Needs : Physical Disability
Special Needs : Learning Differences
Youth Theatres
Children and Young People
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh A Madman Sings to the Moon
Adult Drama: Series or day sessions on all aspects of performance. Organised independently or through local authority. Audition tuition.
Professional development –for teachers at all levels, youth workers, health workers
Creativity – Range of workshops. Includes Kindness and Creativity; Fun and Creativity; Creativity, Fooling and Performance
I have also organised, planned and run theatre-based courses, programmes and events for many other groups and organisations. These include:
Older People
- Drama Artist in Residence – People with Dementia,Adamwood House, Musselburgh
- Associate Trainer in Creativity, Age Concern (Ayr, Glasgow, Dundee). 3 year period
- Drama in Sheltered Housing (Perth, Edinburgh)
- Drama to stimulate ideas for Reminiscence Publication (Kinross)
- Creativity for Stroke Patients ( Perth Royal Infirmary, Pilot Project and Report)
Special Needs : Physical Disability
- Multi -sensory installation at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh
- 20 workshops in theatre to encourage young people and their carers into the theatre
- Scottish Executive: Drama input to video by young people with disability aimed at persuading Scottish Executive to promote more inclusive policies in leisure provision
- Hearing dog toured Scottish schools for first time with deaf actress TIE programme
Special Needs : Learning Differences
- Lung Ha Theatre Company : Leading sessions, drawing up 10 week programme aimed at training company members in workshop leading skills
- Edinburgh’s Telford College : Drawing up and delivering year’s programme linked
- Devising and directing various productions
Youth Theatres
- West Lothian Youth Theatre : Week long project on Power
- Edinburgh Youth Theatre: Co-Directed Seniors in “ The Magdalene”, later reprised for Edinburgh International Festival Fringe
- Stirling Youth Theatre : mainstream sessions with Seniors and collaboration with Aberlour Trust for 10-14 year olds with special emotional needs
Children and Young People
- Sikh Girls Group: Confidence - building and self expression
- Royal Court, London: Mentoring Young Playwrights
- Residential Care and Health Project for looked after people in their teens not attending school (with community nurse and psychological services)
- Highlands Museums Project: Touring rural Highland museums creating plays in a day stimulated by museum artefacts. Performing to public, family and friends
- Several residencies in primary and secondary schools (Fife, Angus, Edinburgh, Motherwell)
- 2001 An Tobar Arts Centre,Mull Around the Heart
- Mental Health: Workshops, directing performances, acting and voice-over in two award - winning videos; chairing discussion following premier at Cameo Film Theatre, Edinburgh
- Health and Well-Being: Youth and health pilot project which led to many in school and out of school projects including a play that I devised and co-wrote with the youth project leader being published and used in schools.
- 2004/05 Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh A Madman Sings to the Moon
- Scottish Executive Mental Health & Well-Being Funded Workshops for Adults
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh A Madman Sings to the Moon
- Workshop Director for a series of script-based theatre workshops working alongside actor Tony Cownie and Mark Thomson ( director and writer of “ Madman”) Similar workshops for Sharman MacDonald’s Girl with Red Hair
Adult Drama: Series or day sessions on all aspects of performance. Organised independently or through local authority. Audition tuition.
Professional development –for teachers at all levels, youth workers, health workers
Creativity – Range of workshops. Includes Kindness and Creativity; Fun and Creativity; Creativity, Fooling and Performance
I have also organised, planned and run theatre-based courses, programmes and events for many other groups and organisations. These include:
- SOLAS (for people diagnosed as HIV positive)
- Amnesty International in Glasgow
- Transition for people recovering from drug and alcohol abuse in Edinburgh
- Iona Community: week long project in the theme of Hope
- Dundee Rep. at Whitfield: A Play in a Day with local young people
- Pilton Video Project: Acting tutor for film students in award-winning film about 2 people in love and aged in their 90s.