OF SILLINESS AND SOULFULNESS
An exploration of the relationship between poetry, comedy and creativity
Emerson Village, Forest Row
Sunday 13 to Friday 18 November 2011
We rarely give ourselves permission to break free from the “way
things are”. It’s safer not to break the rules. But
our usual way of thinking imprisons our souls. So, how do I think
the world differently? What if instead it is the world who thinks
me?
This course has at its heart a simple question Paul Matthews asked
me. “Can one teach this way of looking at the world”?
My answer was “Yes and you are doing it”
Paul’s work and the clowning share a way of thinking that
invites me to turn my world upside down playfully and lightly. It’s
absurd, funny, poetic, deep and emotional. I feel alive.
Creative writing invites me to un-know myself so I might better
meet the other. When I suspend judgments of what is right and wrong,
then things begin to speak to me and I create. It does not make
sense just yet, but the world has turned on its head.
As MC Richards says “Poetry often enters through the window
of irrelevance.”
Facilitators: Paul Matthews and Vivian Gladwell
To book: £120 non-returnable deposit secures
your place.
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here to enquire about available places and booking
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Course fee:
£375 - course fee
£170 - Single room accommodation, 3 meals and tea/coffee
£134 - Single room accommodation + breakfast only
£110 - non-residential and all meals
£77 - non-residential and lunches only
The group is limited to 12
Venue: Emerson
Village, Forest Row, East Sussex
Date and times:
The course begins Sunday - after supper - 19h30
Ends Friday - after lunch - 14h30
Please note
You will receive a reduction, if you do this course as part of the
two-year clown training.
For further details
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