The next Writers Forum Workshop will be held at The Betsey Trotwood on Farringdon Road from 4 pm to 6 pm on Saturday 26th May 2012 (please arrive between 3:30 pm and 4 pm
It is hoped that a new issue of Pocket Litter will be published that day.
Next workshop
May 17th, 2012Next workshop 5th May 2012
April 30th, 2012Just to remind you that there is a wf workshop on Saturday 5th May 2012 at The Betsey Trotwood
3:30 for 4
all welcome
see you there
Lawrence
There’s also a concert on Friday might that may be of interest
http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=5248
Just to remind you that there is a wf workshop on Saturday 5th May 2012 at The Betsey Trotwood
3:30 for 4
all welcome
see you there
Lawrence
There’s also a concert on Friday might that may be of interest
http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=5248
Next workshop and related concert
March 17th, 2012I regret that I must cancel the next Writers Forum Workshop.
The meeting of 31st March, originally advertised, became impossible; and it has not been possible to organise an alternative
I am very unhappy about this and apologise to you all.
The next meeting is Saturday 5th May 2012.
It is hoped that Benedict Taylor will be present.
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Contributions to POCKET LITTER are still invited with a view to publishing on 26th May 2012. Please get the work in on time. And don’t be shy
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Benedict is also participating in the event at Goldsmiths at New Cross the night before, as is Tina Bass
A concert of my sound works on Friday 4th May 2012 from 7 pm until 9 pm at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Richard Hoggart Building
There’ll be Lawrence Upton, Tina Bass, Benedict Taylor (viola), Tina Krekels (saxophone) and John Levack Drever (electronics / spatialisation)
The concert is free. All welcome. Email if you want directions
(Absence will not be held against anyone)
Lawrence
Guest violist
March 12th, 2012Our guest violist on Saturday 5th May 2012 will be Benedict Taylor
I have also been ASKED to say that there is a concert of my sound works on Friday 4th May 2012 from 7 pm until 9 pm at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Richard Hoggart Building
There’ll be me, Lawrence Upton, Tina Bass, Benedict Taylor (viola), Tina Krekels (saxophone) and John Levack Drever (electronics / spatialisation)
The concert is free. All welcome.
Last workshop / next workshop
March 12th, 2012We met on Saturday 10th March 2012. Numbers were noticeably depleted as illness and various domestic crises coincided. So it goes.
We did have an enjoyable workshop; and, as well as new writing, there were rewarding experiments in performing both Bob Cobbing and Gertrude Stein.
It is intended that the next workshop will be on 24th March; but we await confirmation from the venue management. I think it will be ok; so I hope that you will be prepared to be there. A further message will be sent.
A new issue of POCKET LITTER is being prepared and that is open to anyone who has attended in the last year.
Regulars may expect to receive a consultation email on next year’s meeting schedule shortly.
All the best
Lawrence
Next workshop
March 7th, 2012The next workshop will be this Saturday coming on 10th March 2012. All on the mailing list have been informed. All welcome.
Two other things.
Firstly, the software which runs this blog has just been updated and the working area (my term) looks like nothing on Earth. Forgive me / us / wf if things go wrong.
Secondly, I have resurrected a few pages from a previous wf website. I don’t know how interesting they are. And inevitably they refer to the mindless time wasting that occurred about 18 months ago.
Anyway they are here
PS I am underwhelmed by the way this system works now; but I imagine I’ll get used to it, just in time for the next change.
Checking my own link, I see that one of the pages is centred when it should not be and the main page has lost its colour. That will be dealt with.
I must go now. There is a loud baby imitating a parrot
See you Saturday
Lawrence
Last workshop 4th Feb / next workshop 18th Feb
February 7th, 2012Well, we met, but with some difficulty. Transport for London was less than helpful in its services and we had weather which I thought was behind us and avoided by cancellation of the first meeting.
But we met; and had left before a Buddy Holly celebration — an idea which in one part of my head (the youthful part) is welcome, but…
The bulk of us headed for Kings X, Farringdon Station being closed as usual in order to enhance our travelling experience; and waited over 30 minutes for a bus. All got home eventually. Why is it that this country can’t cope with bad weather? The spanking brand new London Overground had given up by 9 pm; and yet the snowfall in Greater London really wasn’t that bad at all.
Anyway, we are started on our new year. At least one piece of writing that we heard on Saturday has been nabbed for Pocket Litter; but the next issue is still a little while off.
The Bob Cobbing exhibition at UWE has closed and I am working on the next venue — in fact on two venues of which surely one and perhaps both should come to be. I hope one learns from each event. Certainly each exhibition takes a different approach. That cannot go on for ever, of course; but there is still scope; but Cobbing was a richly varied artist and it is appropriate to show different aspects of his work as I aim to make it available in different places.
My thanks to Sarah Bodman at UWE for all her work.
The next workshop is 18th February 2012, 3:30 for 4 pm at The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon Road. As always, unless you are very sure of yourself, it is recommended that you go to Kings X and get a #63 bus. It is usually very reliable and it is to be hoped that we are done with snow until next winter.
See you on 18th
Lawrence
First workshop 2012
January 6th, 2012The first Writers Forum Workshop of 2012 will be Saturday 4th February 20123:30 for 4 at Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon Rd
For non regulars who have not therefore been consulted:
for the last two years , our usual early start has been problematic because of inclement weather; but that may have masked a change in our holiday behaviour; because, this year, with the probability of mild weather, we found that few could actually have made it anyway and would have preferred a later date
Three years in a row, however the presentation of a problem changes, cannot be ignored.
Now that this problem has been identified, we can adjust the schedule to accommodate the wishes of the majority; but it is too late now to fix a new extra date.
Therefore, the workshop for 7th January 2012 has been cancelled after consultation with everyone; and we jump to what was to have been the second meeting
Hope to see everyone + new faces there. All are welcome
Lawrence
Workshop participants’ newsletter
January 6th, 2012In the last few days, I have had a major computer problem. No problem, I thought and reached for the back up. & then I found that, though it was saying it had backed me up, it had actually been doing something incomprehensible and apparently useless
I had notes on publication plans. They will have to be restored and that takes time.
The aim was to start the year with an illusion of efficiency; but there is, in fact, no rush. Nothing was due for a month or two; and the change to meeting schedule has already been announced.
Briefly, new titles are due from Jeff Harrison (USA) and Matt Robertson (Australia & UK) and, later, mIEKAL aND (USA) with reprints of Bob Cobbing and Tina Bass.
And that’s just the start
Lawrence
Next workshop
November 5th, 2011The next Writers Forum Workshop meets on Saturday 26th Nvember 2011 at The Betsey Trotwood 3:30 p m for 4 and runs till 6 pm
Subject to transport, we shall have a special guest: Jill Jones from Australia