News and
Events
11 June 2007
AGM Update
19
June, 7pm, CB2
The WRiTEON! committee was forced to
postpone the 2007 AGM due to insufficient numbers of people to do the
essential jobs without which WRiTEON! will cease to exist. The meeting has
been rescheduled for 19 June, 7 pm at CB2 (basement).
The
positions for which we currently do not have volunteers are Chairman of
the committee, Treasurer, and Bookings/Venue Co-ordinator.
The Chairman prepares the agenda for each
meeting and runs the meetings. He or she takes a leadership role with
outside agencies (i.e in meetings, etc.) and, where possible, runs the
feedback sessions at performances. He or she may also take a role in
submitting funding applications. We need someone with excellent
communication skills, who is happy to take on a leadership role and who is
able to create and sustain a focussed, constructive atmosphere in
meetings. The time commitment for this position is moderate. The committee
meets approximately every two months, and the main additional time
commitment is attending performances. However the feedback role can be
delegated to other appropriate members as necessary.
The
Treasurer maintains the WRiTEON! accounts and does our
books, prepares a simple, yearly financial report, looks after and
maintains the cashbox, and co-signs cheques. He or she also has a role in
filling out funding applications. The voice of the treasurer is obviously
influential in making planning decisions. It is possible that this
position could be shared.
The Bookings/Venue
Co-ordinator is a new position. Their job will be to make
bookings at appropriate venues (mostly CB2) for rehearsals and
performances.They will need to form a good relationship with CB2 staff,
keeping them informed of changes. They may be asked to look over CB2 to
ensure lights are working, floors are clean, etc, before performances. It
would be helpful if this job-holder lived near to CB2. We would also be
very interested in hearing from people with ideas for additional,
alternative venues, as we need a larger space for Naked Stage
productions.
If you are interested in any of the above
positions, please contact Peter Daldorph (current Chairman) on
peter.daldorphATntlworld.com (replace AT with @) as soon as possible,
before the AGM. In the event of more than one person applying for a
position, we will hold a secret ballot at the AGM to decide the
election.
Duologues
III
17 June 2007, 7 pm CB2
The standard of writing and performing for the duologue festival so far
has been very high, with two more full programmes still to come. Plans are
afoot to stage a "Best of the Duologues" at both the Cherry Hinton
Festival and the Camfringe Festival, so please come along and add your
vote and verbal feedback to the decision making process. Next Sunday's
lineup is:
Behind the Dashboard
by Jane
Grant
Directed by Geoff Broad and performed by Irsan Ismail and
Francesca Brown.
Ash Wednesday
by Holly
Kingsley
Directed by Pamela Jenner and performed by Geoff Broad and
Cara McLean.
The Connection
by Geoff Broad
Directed
by Pamela Jenner and performed by Paul Smith and Kevin Hind.
Sea Legs
by Jean Rees
Directed by Geoff
Broad and performed by Colin Lawrence and Heather Yeadon
The Royal Tapes - BBC Radio
Writing Opportunity
Deadline: Friday 29 June 12
noon
BBC Radio Five Live is looking for duologues up to three minutes in
length, inspired by the role that the monarchy plays in our lives. The
five best scripts will be made into radio plays and broadcast on Matthew
Bannister's programme.
Entries can be funny, surreal, poignant or challenging, about anyone,
and set anywhere. The chosen duologues will be performed by the
multi-voiced and multi-talented Alistair McGowan although of course any
female characters will be cast separately!
[Out-of-date links and contact info removed.]
Cambridge Comedy
Festival
17 June - 3
July
The university's Jesterlaf Comedy Club has curated an exciting new
Comedy Festival for Cambridge. Runnning from 17 June - 3 July at the
University Centre, the line up includes many acts on the way to Edinburgh
and some of the best from last year's fringe, including We Are Klang,
Andrew Lawrence and Phil Nichol. For the full listing of events, see www.cambridgecomedyfestival.com/.
Hoipolloi's Floating at
Barbican Centre
19 to 30 June
Many WRiTEON members will have worked recently with Cambridge Theatre
Company Hoipolloi's Artistic Associate Shon Dale-Jones as part of the
Junction performance group. The Hoipolloi production Floating was one of
the hits of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006, winning the coveted Total
Theatre Prize for that year and going on to a successful run in New York
city. This production can now be seen as part of bite07 at the Barbican
Centre. See www.hoipolloi.org.uk/production/floating/index.html
for more information about Floating.
Jackie Kay In Performance Plus
Writing Workshops
Performance Wednesday 4th
July 6.30pm - 8pm, Workshops 14 and 15 June, 10 - 12
Fitzwilliam
Museum
The doors of the Fitzwilliam will open at 6pm on the 4th July for an
after-hours visit to the exhibition Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007,
followed by a reading in the Courtyard by Jackie Kay - poet, novelist and
playwright recently awarded the MBE. Her novel ‘Trumpet’ won the 1998
Guardian Fiction Prize. Her latest collection of poems is called ‘Darling:
New and Selected Poems’.
£9 (£7 concs) (including entrance to the exhibition and a glass of wine)
[Out-of-date links and contact info removed.]
True Colours - Creative Writing with Jackie Kay
Two workshops associated with the Howard Hodgkin Exhibition
Thursday 14th June,10am - 12noon:
Finding a voice - dramatic monologues and short story writing.
Friday 15th June, 10am - 12noon:
"These Foolish
Things" - Poetry writing from painting.
£20 (£18 concs.) per workshop
[Out-of-date links and contact info removed.]
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