In this extraordinary workshop you will be guided by author and clinical arts therapist, Susanna Crossman on how to bring something unique to your writing. Borrowing from the visual arts, she will help you examine tools like mind-mapping, and Russian cinematic collage montage technique to help juxtapose, complement or amplify hybrid elements. From music, she will highlight jazz and discover how improvisation works to help writers understand the rhythms of language, the use of a riff, and listening to our work. From theatre, the workshop will focus on specific improvisation/performance techniques, and an understanding of what happens when writers spontaneously write. From each artistic practice you will learn specific practical writing tools, and hear from leading musicians, actors, and artists on their use of creative thinking and how it relates to writing (guest list to be confirmed).
In this 2hr session we will:
- Look at ‘creative thinking’ practices inspired by visual art, theatre and music and apply this to our writing practice as seeing, embodying, and hearing
- Use writing exercises from visual arts, theatre and music to generate material
- Look closely and try out the 3-step creative thinking writing model
- Q+A with author, lecturer and clinical arts therapist, Susannah Crossman
This session welcomes beginners and experienced writers, poets, essayists, novelists, short story writers as well as teachers.
Tickets
This event will be recorded for the purpose of sending to ticket holders who can’t make the event, and those who require the recording to meet their access needs. Tickets purchased after the event takes place will give access to the session recording until the 4th of July 2025.
You can purchase an individual £20 ticket for this event, or a combination £70 ticket which includes Susanna’s other sessions in this series:
- 22nd March | Writing Using Creative Thinking | £20
- 21st June | Developing a Creative Thinking Writing Practice | £40
