Poetry Workshop for All Who Love Speaking Poetry: From Haiku to Hopkins and onwards…a gallimaufry of poets
Format
The 30-hour workshop runs 7 hours a day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - and Saturday morning. Thursday is a day off for sight-seeing or rest.
Content
This workshop is for poets, poetry lovers, spoken word and performance poets and anyone who longs to speak poetry out loud but is a bit afraid they’ll get it wrong. For the avid poetry speaker, here is the opportunity to revel in a banquet of versification while exploring the significance of changing rhythms, rhyme schemes and poetic forms.
There will be daily voice and body warm-ups.
We start with a haiku because it provides a perfect miniature poetry-speaking exercise. Within 17 syllables we experience how to embody imagery and arouse sensory and emotional response to words. We address the multiple levels and layers of imagination, imagery, memory and experience that lie behind and between the words on the page and the spoken word. Each participant will be given a haiku to work on.
Thereafter the teaching will be active, on-your-feet, choral practice through a range of poetic styles from John Donne to Alexander Pope, John Keats, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dorothy Parker, Stevie Smith, Samuel Beckett and others.
Following the group work there will be individual work with each participant on a poem of his or her own choosing. Participants can either come with a prepared poem, one of his or her own creation, or choose to work on one of the workshop poems.
Bring:
Loose clothing for work. No belt. No jeans.
Accommodation
You will be housed at the Voice Centre in our purpose-built Bothy. All rooms are single occupancy with shared toilet/shower facilities.
Duration
The workshop offers a minimum of 30 hours tuition time.
Sunday:
Please plan your arrival to be at the Voice Centre for 6pm for a welcome dinner and orientation. You will be collected from the ferry or airport and taken to the Centre (please note travel times: 45 mins from airport, 20 mins from ferry).
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday:
These are your core working days.
Classes run from 9.00am - 1.00pm and 3.00pm to 6.00pm.
There will be a two-hour lunch break from 1.00pm - 3.00pm.
The evening meal will be served at around 6.30pm.
Thursday:
This is a day for study and relaxation, either staying home at the Centre or out exploring Orkney. Breakfast will be available as normal but lunch and dinner will not be provided. You may cook for yourself or eat out at a restaurant. Thursday’s plans will be arranged once you are here.
Saturday:
There will be a final morning session of voice work 9.00-12.30.
Departures are any time after 2pm, and lunch is provided before departure.
Qualifications for attendance:
No previous training necessary. Fluent ENOUGH in English to follow Kristin's instruction.
If you are unsure if you fulfil the prerequisites for your chosen workshop please contact us.
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For online workshops
Once you have been accepted on to a workshop and your deposit captured, the deposit of £30 is non-refundable.
The balance due on your workshop fee is to be paid in full 14 days prior to the workshop start date.
If you cancel more than 14 days before the workshop start date KLVC Ltd will retain your deposit (all deposits non-refundable) but it can be allocated to another workshop.
If you cancel in the last 14 days and KLVC can not fill your place we shall retain your deposit and the remaining balance paid on your workshop. There will be no option to allocate your deposit/balance fee to another workshop.
KLVC Ltd reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any workshop or event at any time. Should the reschedule dates or alternative offered by KLVC Ltd not be suitable to you we shall refund any balance payments made by yourself but KLVC Ltd will retain the non-refundable deposit.
Please note, 2022 online listings will have the same Cancellation Policy as below.
For residential workshops
Full payment is due 30 days prior to the workshop start date.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel more than 30 days before the workshop start date, a 100% refund will be provided.
If you cancel within 30 - 14 days before the workshop start date a 50% refund will be provided.
If you cancel within 14 days before the workshop start date no refund will be provided.
Subject to availability, the cost of any amount not refunded could be put towards the cost of another course.
KLVC and Karen Tweed reserve the right to cancel or reschedule any workshop or event at any time. Should the rescheduled dates or alternative offered by KLVC not be suitable to you we shall refund any payments made by you.
Travel Arrangements
Information on Current Covid guidance for travelling to Scotland and International travel to Scotland.can be found using these links. Please note we cannot answer specific individual questions on travel and recommend you contact Scapa Travel with any such queries.
Please ensure that when making your travel arrangements you have suitable insurance to cover any other losses associated with your trip as KLVC and the course organiser cannot take any responsibility for any additional costs.
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We are closely monitoring and adhering to Government and local guidelines and will advise you of specific local requirements prior to the commencement of your workshop. It is your personal responsibility to ensure you meet the requirements for travel to and from Scotland. Information on Current Covid guidance for travelling to Scotland and International travel to Scotland.can be found using these links.
If you are travelling to Orkney from within the UK, KLVC policy is that workshop participants are fully vaccinated so that a duty of care is maintained for fellow international workshop participants, your tutor(s) and KLVC team members. In making a workshop booking, you are confirming that you are fully vaccinated. A definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ as determined by the Scottish Government may be found here.
Dietary requirements
Special dietary requirements must be restricted to allergy and medical needs - these do not include lifestyle preferences. KLVC Ltd will do our best to accommodate these needs based on the information given at application. But we cannot guarantee that all foods are 100% allergen free.
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DATES
DURATION
1 Week
LOCATION
Kristin Linklater Voice Centre, OrkneyPRICE
£850.00 (inc. VAT)
*Total cost £850.00 = Workshop fee £838, Booking fee £12.00