Workshops and Readings 2015

Dates for your Diary, 2015:

January 6th: workshop and reading for Suffolk Poetry Society delighted to be invited for the third year running, from one Peninsula to another.you can find more info about the workshop and reading, here

WRITE IN THE FOREST, series of four creative writing workshops in The Yan, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria - suitable for writers at any level
11am-3pm, £25 incl refreshments, free parking
February 28th, June 6th, September 5th and November 7th
Booking through Geraldine Green
please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1@gmail[dot]com

 more info here

February-June: Write on the Farm -  writing workshops on Saturdays at Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale: cost £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch
February 21st, March 21st, April 25th, May 23rd, June 27th
Note: April 25th with David Burbidge (tbc), May 23rd full day workshop on Piel Island

February Saturday, 21st Write on the Farm, 10.30-4.30pm £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch. Morning session: indoors writing exercises. Afternoon session: part of it outdoors, part spent on quiet writing time. Suitable clothing and footwear advisable

March 21st: Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

April 
16th 2.30pm-4pm Launch of Arachne Press Anthology 'The Other Side of Sleep, Grange Library, Grange-over-Sands Cumbria Arachne Press

April 25th Write on the Farm Jane's farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - special morning workshop with David Burbidge - Singing on the Farm!

May 23rd Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale - please note: this workshop will take place on the wonderful Piel Island, Furness Peninsula, SW Cumbria!

June 27th Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

June 

WRITE IN THE FOREST, series of four creative writing workshops in The Yan, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria - suitable for writers at any level
11am-3pm, £25 incl refreshments, free parking
February 28th, June 6th, September 5th and November 7th
Booking through Geraldine Green
please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1@gmail[dot]com

12th-14th: Midsummer Festival of Words, Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria
 Swarthmoor Hall mini Literary Festival celebrating my time as writer-in-residence at the Hall and also celebrating work produced on the Living Words workshops by participants - all welcome!

Friday - 2pm - Geraldine will read from her new pamphlet A Wing & A Prayer
Saturday 10.30am-12noon - Story Trees! children's writing and drawing playtime in the Meadow
Saturday 2pm - Living Words reading by contributors to the Living Words anthology, host Geraldine Green
Saturday evening Quaker Music

Please see Swarthmoor Hall's website for more details and how to book (link above)
Sunday Music from Gershwin

19th-21st  Midsummer Poetry Course with Penelope Shuttle and Geraldine Green  Brantwood Coniston email: Brantwood - early booking advisable

June 27th Write on the Farm Jane's farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale

photos: Geraldine Green, Swarthmoor Hall 12.11.2014, Williamsburg Bridge NYC July 21st 2014

Poetry Trip, New York/New Jersey/Connecticut

August 4th Sip This, Valley Stream, Long Island, host Lorraine Conlin

August 5th William Carlos Williams Centre Rutherford New Jersey, host Claudia Serea

William Carlos Williams

August 9th Maritime Center East Hampton Long Island, host AnnaLee
August 11th The Noshery Amityville, Long Island, host Russ Green
August 13th Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY with Andy Clausen
August 14th Artist Tree Bristol Connecticut with George Wallace, host Colin Haskins

Back to the UK!
August 27th Mungrisdale Writers - Creative Writing Workshop, Mungrisdale Village Hall

September 5th Furness Abbey Medieval Fair - delighted to be reading again at this wonderful place! Furness Abbey, Barrow in Furness Cumbria

September 18th-22nd Friday-Tuesday Residential Writing Course on Jane's farm, a working upland farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - 2pm-2pm
Course Fee £300 per person
Accommodation at Jane's farm, or B&B's close by, is extra.
Please 'phone Jane 015395-67277 for accommodation details on her farm, or visit Trip Advisor for accommodation in and around Kirkby Lonsdale
Please email me for more details/course bookings
geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

October 8th Carte Blanche Newcastle, contact Pippa Little

October 19th-22nd (Monday - Thursday) Brantwood Coniston with Geraldine Green and Pippa Little Please contact Rachel Litten at Brantwood for cost of course, accommodation and bookings, thanks.

2016
June: Brantwood Coniston New York poet George Wallace and Geraldine Green

New York, New Jersey & Connecticut! Poetry Trip August 2015

photo: Williamsburg Bridge NYC July 21st 2014- Geraldine Green

Looking forward to meeting up with old friends and new, on this fab poetry trip to the US, taking in New York/New Jersey/Connecticut

August 4th Sip This, Valley Stream, Long Island, host Lorraine Conlin

August 5th William Carlos Williams Centre Rutherford New Jersey, host Claudia Serea

William Carlos Williams

August 9th Maritime Center East Hampton Long Island, host AnnaLee

August 11th The Noshery Amityville, Long Island, host Russ Green

August 13th Artbar Gallery, Kingston, NY with Andy Clausen

August 14th Artist Tree Bristol Connecticut with George Wallace, host Colin Haskins


Thanks all concerned for inviting me back to the US! Can't wait!

WRITE ON THE FARM, DATES FOR 2015

‘WRITE ON THE FARM’ CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS 2015

WITH CUMBRIAN WRITER GERALDINE GREEN

Dates for 2015:
February 21st, March 21st, April 25th, May 23rd, June 27th

Please note: One of the workshops will take place on Piel Island, Furness Peninsula (May 23rd; one will include a half day 'singing on the farm' session with David Burbidge (April 25th). David is based at Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, the workshop will, however, take place on Jane's farm. There'll be a reading by the Quiet Compere group in Ulverston on Friday June 26th, mc Sarah L. Dixon

This ongoing series of monthly creative writing workshops explores where we live, how we dwell, 'deep maps', memory and myth. Through a variety of writing exercises, stimuli, feedback and reflective walks we will look at links between identity, language and environment. Whether through poetry, stories, travel writing, dreams or journals, these workshops encourage us to explore where and how we live, and how we take experience and memories with us when we travel to other places, real or imagined.

An experienced creative writing tutor and mentor, I’ve had five collections of poetry published; gained a PhD in Creative Writing titled: “An Exploration of Identity and Environment through Poetry” from Lancaster University. Travels and readings have taken me mainly to Europe and North America, where I’ve read at a variety of venues on the East and West coasts and the Mid West.

·      Feedback given by group and tutor on individual’s writing (any genre).
     Please bring six copies of writing to be workshopped

·      Through a variety of writing prompts and stimuli new writing produced

·      Lunch

·      Afternoon reflective ramble and note taking, followed by quiet time for own writing

·      Please note: bi-monthly close reading of a published writer’s work

·       

Workshops take place in Cumbria at Jane’s farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale,

10.30am to 4.30pm:

Cost: £35. Please bring own lunch and waterproof footwear and clothing. Refreshments provided.  further info on Geraldine can be found here

If interested in attending the ‘Write on the Farm’ workshops please email me

WRITE ON THE FARM - SINGING WORKSHOP WITH DAVID BURBIDGE

A MORNING OF SONG ON JANE'S FARM 

WITH DAVID BURBIDGE OF LAKELAND VOICES

FOLLOWED BY AN AFTERNOON OF REFLECTIVE WANDERING AND WRITING

Voice Work and Harmony Singing

Welcome to April's "Write on the Farm" Workshop with  David Burbidge of Lakeland Voices  David will lead the morning’s session. Welcome David, we’re very much looking forward to singing on the farm with you! 

The afternoon session will be spent outdoors around the farm, reflecting on sound/s and how we convey them on paper - through use of different fonts, indentations, shaped poem around the page? - and on how we use our voices.

I'll be referring to Jerome Rothenberg's book 'Shaking the Pumpkin' and also magazines he and Dennis Tedlock edited in the 1970's called Alcheringa (Ethnopoetics, Voice of and from different Cultures), as well as an extract from 'PrairyErth' by William Least Heat Moon

10.30am-1pm – David Burbidge will lead the morning session. There'll be a short break around 11.45am. Geraldine will lead the afternoon session

1pm-2pm - Lunch

2pm-3.15pm - Outdoor session

3.15pm-3.30pm - Break

3.30pm-4.30pm - Quiet Writing Time, plus time for group read and feedback

Next workshop: May 23^rd, the workshop will be on Piel Island, Furness Peninsula

Workshops take place in Cumbria at Jane’s farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale,

10.30am to 4.30pm:

Cost: £35. Please bring own lunch and waterproof footwear and clothing. Refreshments provided.  further info on Geraldine can be found here

If interested in attending the ‘Write on the Farm’ workshops please email me

'The Other Side of Sleep' Narrative Poems from Arachne Press

THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP

Poetry Reading 

Grange Library

Grange-over-Sands

Thursday April 16th 2.30pm-4pm

£1 incl. refreshments

Come and join 

Judi Sutherland
Cherry Potts

 Geraldine Green

reading from Arachne Press' new anthology 
of narrative poems

The Other Side of Sleep

* plus showcase of local poets *

Grange Library, Grange Fell Road, 
Grange-over-Sands Cumbria LA11 6BQ

all welcome - just turn up!

info on Arachne Press

Grange Library

The Ordination of Trees

photo by Geraldine Green

The Ordination of Trees: Since the Write in the Forest creative writing workshop in Grizedale Forest last Saturday (28th Feb) I've been busy doing this and that - collating poems and prose for the Living Words anthology, helping to organise and shape the Festival of Words and Music at Swarthmoor Hall - all good stuff! All the while I've caught myself reflecting on the ordination of trees, photos of which were on display in Grizedale Forest. 

photo of two of the writing group, taken by Geraldine Green (permission given to use photo)

We (the 'write in the forest' group) walked to Luke Duggleby's poignant photographic exhibition and saw, set in Forestry Commission woodland in Cumbria, the passion and dedication of Thai Buddhist monks and villagers in The Aereng Valley, Cambodia. Why were they carrying long swathes of saffron-coloured cloth through the Cardamom Forest? To ordinate the trees, to protect them from loggers. The idea of ordinating trees has been with me since then... how would we ordinate trees? What colour cloth? How would we honour the trees? What is the meaning of the colour saffron?

Tree Meditation

I was pondering on our next forest workshop, planning things to do... something I've been calling to myself 'tree meditation' is one thing I'll ask the group to do. Choose a tree to sit against, reflect and attune the senses. Listening, quieting the breath, letting thoughts drift in and out like birds... just allowing ourselves to be...

photo of Thai Monks by Luke Duggleby; photo of Luke Duggleby's photo in Grizedale Forest by Geraldine Green

I had no idea about forest monks, until just now, when I was researching the meaning of the colour saffron:

http://buddhism.about.com/…/theravadabu…/fl/Forest-Monks.htm

Dates for the next Write in the Forest Workshops:

Saturdays: June 6th, September 5th, November 7th

11am-3pm £25 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch

with thanks to Grizedale Forest and the Forestry Commission for the use of The Yan and also for the work they do.

Venue: The Yan, Grizedale Forest

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/theyan

info on Luke Duggleby's exhibition:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-9ppeem

The photo exhibition by Luke Duggleby in Grizedale Forest ended on Sunday March 1st.

For booking: please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1[at]gmail[dot]com

Visit my website: http://geraldinegreensaltroad.blogspot.co.uk

WRITE IN THE FOREST GRIZEDALE FOREST CUMBRIA UK

Write in the Forest - an exciting new writing adventure! In the heart of the Forest, in the inspiring English Lake District

Write in the Forest - a series of four creative writing workshops with local writer Geraldine Green. Drawing on the natural world and forests in particular, these workshops will help inspire your writing and get you back in touch with nature. Workshops will take place in the inspirational Yan Centre and also outdoors - please wear suitable footwear and clothing.

£25 per workshop:

Saturdays 11am-3pm

February 28th

June 6th

September 5th

November 7th

Booking essential. Adults £25 for each of the four workshops. Refreshments available. Please bring own lunch or use cafe facilities. Lunch is not included in cost of workshop

Venue: The Yan, Grizedale Forest

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/theyan

The first workshop will focus on the award-winning photos of Luke Duggleby, currently on display in Grizedale Forest, but will also include a variety of writing exercises and stimuli.

Info here:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-9ppeem

For booking: please email: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry1[at]gmail[dot]com

Visit my website: http://geraldinegreensaltroad.blogspot.co.uk

With thanks to Grizedale Forest and The Forestry Commission for offering us the venue for the writing workshops and for the work they do to keep forests alive and thriving