UCL Horizons Project with TCW - Workshop Leaders
(March 2010 - date)
The aim is to create a series of 3-5 minute documentaries about the opportunities UCL offers young people. The Horizons Project plays an important role in offering them different career opportunities where they can engage in a series of practical workshops.
All of the completed films are edited and uploaded onto the UCL website.
The Bromley Pledge - Workshop Leaders
(May - September 2010)
We lead a series of workshops in acting and film making with young people in foster care within the Bromley area.
The finished pieces were devised from their own stories about their experiences in care and how they feel in relation to social services.
We used the Bromley Pledge as a basis to initiate the content of the pieces developed.
Workshops included: Masks, Creating Adverts and Writing Short Films.
Drama School Coaching - Acting Teachers/Worksho
Leaders (2009 - date)
We lead acting classes in film & theatre at Stagecoach Acting School, Razzamataz and Anna Fiorentini Theatre & Film School.
We work with a range of students from young children to adults.
Examples of classes lead include: Basic & Advanced Acting, Acting for Camera, Audition technique and Animal Studies.
Stagecoach www.stagecoach.co.uk
Anna Fiorentini www.annafiorentini.com
Razzamataz www.razzamataz.co.uk
The Actors Work www.theactorworks.co.uk
Selladoor www.selladoor.com
Coconut Grove www.coconutgrovestudios.com
FiSahara - Workshop Leaders
(2008 - date)
We lead acting, script writing and directing workshops in the Saharawi refugee camps.
These culminated in a presentation of the work at the FiSahara Film Festival in the refugee camp of Dakhla.
We continue to visit the camps and work with the refugees giving them the tools and technical materials to create their own film & theatre pieces.
The Complete Works - Tutors
(December 2007 - date)
The Complete Works (TCW) engages with young people who have been removed from mainstream education.
As tutors we have to work hard to motivate disruptive and disaffected young people. We have had to develop different interactive approaches to the curriculum, which best suit each of their demands.
We are often in a situation where we have to exercise high levels of patience and remain positive around their unpredictable behavioural patterns.
This is extremely rewarding work, which has really developed our interpersonal skills as we have had to be alert at all times around the young people we are working with.
www.tcw.org.uk
Sandblast - Charity Co-ordinators
(2007 - date)
As part of this charity project we have travelled to the Southern Algerian Saharan desert to work with the Saharawi Refugees.
We researched for a theatre project that was presented at FiSahara in the camps & in the UK to increase awareness of the current political conflict of the Western Sahara.
We continue to co-ordinate for this charity and are involved in much of the musical and theatrical output.
www.sandblast-arts.org.uk
Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Workshop Leaders
(August 2007)
We co-ordinated a season of plays for 2008’s Fringe Festival, our roles included liaising with directors, actors, venue managers, designer suitable sets, crew and marketing shows.
Whilst in Edinburgh we lead workshops with young people. adults and people with disabilities.
