NATURE IN THE CITY PROJECT 2009

This project, for Liverpool’s 2009 year of the environment, seeks to celebrate and promote eco-writing and images as a way of raising the wider consciousness amongst aspiring writers and the general public of natural habitats and landscapes within the urban environment.

What will the Project involve?

We will launch the project at FACT in Spring 09 as part of their Climate for Change initiative with a and this launch will include the project leaflet, a talk about nature writing and some celebratory readings of nature poetry and prose and other eco-writing. Our main guest for this event will be award-winning poet,Jen Hadfield. The leaflet will promote engagement in eco-writing – asking Liverpool writers and aspiring writers to submit poetry and micro-fiction to the theme of nature in the city – to North End Writers (closing date September 09).

Workshops

Between June and September we will host 3 community based Nature writing workshops (in Tuebrook, Fazakerley and Norris Green) open to anyone interested to encourage eco-writing and participation as well as renewed appreciation of the green spaces surrounding us.

Community Lecture Series Launch

Under this project we will hold our first Community Lecture. This will be a free event and we hope to have William Fiennes as our first community lecturer.

Community writing

In October a panel from North End Writers and associates will select the most inspiring pieces of work to be made into a series of posters and post-cards which will be displayed across the city including an exhibition and readings at a suitable green space venue.

Photography

We will work with Liverpool based photographer Christian Petersen to create appropriate photographic images to be used as posters and post-cards.

Although this project will be time specific it will create a legacy of writing and resources which will continue to promote as part of North End Writers work beyond 2009.

THANKS TO LCVS

Projects 2009 - thanks to Awards for All we will be developing our Writing Development project this year - establishing new groups in Fazakerley and Walton.

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Previous projects

Previous projectsPP

Volunteering and our New Writing Development project were 2 key aims for 2008 as well as to secure more stable funding

New Writing: Park! - a new play: As one of our writers has withdrawn from this project we are currently reviewing our options and will keep you informed here.

In 2007 we started a collaborative writing project working on the theme of Liverpool Birthdays. From Summer 2007 the team working on developing this theatre piece (Steve Donegan, Joan Mac, Pauline Rowe & Rachel Connor) met at Breck Road library on the last Saturday of the month. From May 08 Kev West has come on board as our Director. The script is nearly complete. We will stage the play later in the year. Full details will be posted here and in our newsletter.

 

e-mentoring

Co-ordinated by Tommy McIlravey Liverpool JMU are running an e-mentoring scheme providing six of our writers with mentors. The project started in April 2007. We are grateful to Volunteer development staff at LJMU for their interest and support.