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The Reader Organisation presents

‘Words and Images’ Readers Day

in partnership with The Brindley

Sat 13 June | 9.30pm - 4pm | £20, £15 OAP & Student, £12 Unemployed & Leisure
Card | Lunch Included.

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Revolution - we are making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities
to enjoy and engage with books on a deep and personal level. Discover your own way
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unique programme of reading events.

09.30 - 10.00: Doors open, guests arrive, register - tea and coffee

10.00 - 10.45: Introduction and panel discussion:

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We all know that first question which comes out of everyone’s lips after going to see
an adaptation of a much loved classic in the cinema. Hosted by Jane Davis, Director of The
Reader Organisation, guest writers Clare Allan and artist Viv Levy come together to reflect
upon the relationship between words and images, each considering that age-old question of
how visual art relates and compares to the written word.

Sharing their own experiences of films and books, our speakers will recommend films
that have been inspired by books and books that have been inspired by films.

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10.45 - 11.00: Tea and coffee break

11.00 - 12.30: Morning workshops (choose one of the options below):

AM1 AM2 AM3 AM4

Strange Writing What happens Pictures in
poems for Photographs: when words Your Head
Strange Times and pictures
Close up, wide get together? A workshop with
Is it Possible to angled or slightly The Reader
Write a Poem About blurred: a poetry A workshop with Organisation’s
Anything? workshop Director Jane
writer Clare
with Angela Allan and artist Davis in which we
This is a chance
to read a range MacMillan, Viv Levy, who will talk about what
of contemporary where readers are currently happens when
poems with local will consider a collaborating on a we read a story.
poet Rebecca Goss,
addressing the weird
variety of poems novel told by a dog. Nothing to read in
written in response The session advance - Jane will
and the wonderful.
to looking at offers a chance to bring a surprise
In a relaxed photographs; explore the ways short story on the
atmosphere come including work by day!
in which text and
and discuss poems Thomas Hardy,
you may not have image can impact
seen before and Les Murray, on each other and
discover images of Sharon Olds and includes a first ever
startling originality. Douglas Dunn reading from the
work-in-progress.

12.30 - 1.30: Lunch with screen showing of locally produced film in the Studio as
follows:

1.00pm: ‘Screen Play’ A Further Stages Film Project

Studio | Free Event

Following a ten week series of workshops co-ordinated by Arts Development on the

art and craft of screen acting which was held at The Brindley at the end of 2008. A
group of 9 people completed the making of short films written by local writers. All the
participants of the project are from Halton and most of them are newcomers to either
acting or scriptwriting.

The group is facilitated by professional actors Louise Nulty and Jacqueline Pilton
who also directs pieces alongside Runcorn film-maker Hayley Evans. The film scripts
include a satirical family situation, the story of a mysterious woman in a mental health
hospital and a 21st century ‘Likely Lads’ tale. Funded and supported by Arts
Development.

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