Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive afternoon entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what to … Read more ►
Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive afternoon entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what to … Read more ►
Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive evening of entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what … Read more ►
January 2024 Chrissie had a great time with this friendly and welcoming ‘Choices’ group delivering a lively interactive morning entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She included a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips … Read more ►
Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive afternoon entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what to … Read more ►
Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive evening entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what to … Read more ►
Chrissie is currently offering supported life story writing sessions with families whose stories need to be told. Contact us if you would like to know more about this. My first contact with M was through the Erewash rEvive ‘Art in an Empty Shop’ initiative when I’d led workshops and drop in sessions for Erewash residents … Read more ►
I’m delighted to have been collaborating this autumn with Leicestershire based photographer Linda Young on the ‘Expression of Freedom’ Project. Following our successful ‘Click Create Connect’ collaboration project in Erewash we’ve been working with two groups of young people engaging with Youth Services in Leicestershire. Along with their youth workers we’ve been busy supporting and inspiring … Read more ►
If you’ve always thought about writing, but never known where to begin, this course is perfect for you. With a small, friendly group and a supportive tutor you’ll be surprised to learn that the many different writing genres call for writers with different personality types, interests and lifestyles. We’ll find out what’s involved in the … Read more ►
Escape to Denman – it’s the perfect place for an indulgent Summer Writing Retreat. Make 2020 the year you dig out that unfinished writing project languishing in a drawer, or come and begin something completely new. Join inspirational classroom sessions with tips, ideas and constructive feedback then work in ‘one to one’ sessions with W.I. … Read more ►
Creative writing is therapeutic, relaxing and good for us. It enhances our well-being and boosts self-confidence. On this course we’ll begin by exploring gentle routes into creative writing using music, location, colours, essential oils and the seasons. We’ll move on to look at a variety of writing genres to help you identify which could be … Read more ►
The Women’s Institute has a proud heritage of writing and performing sketches and short plays to entertain ourselves and each other, as well as performing for other members of our communities. Sketch writing and acting is every bit as much fun now as it always was, and this course is designed to continue with the … Read more ►
Chrissie is thrilled to have been commissioned by Magna Vitae to write a site specific soundscape script for the East Lindsey Audio Trail project. Lincolnshire has miles of wonderful coastline to explore, sand dunes and beautiful clean golden sandy beaches, perfect locations for family seaside holidays, now and in the past. In Derby, the English … Read more ►
Chrissie will be delivering a lively interactive morning entertainment all about life story writing with a menu of delicious tales to tell about the ‘lives’ she’s helped to write. She’ll include a brief light-hearted glimpse back to life writers of the past with tips and suggestions for today, including what to put in; what to … Read more ►
Chrissie is delighted to be working with Derbyshire Scriptwriters and Derby Theatre during Spring 2023 in an exciting collaboration bringing six new plays from members of Derbyshire Scriptwriters to the Studio Theatre. Script in hand performances by local actors, along with Q&A sessions. Performances Sat 11th March 2.30 pm, 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm, tickets … Read more ►
Thank you to the hard working and talented students who joined me for this course at Denman. We enjoyed discovering various creative prompt ideas together, and finding out which ‘genre’ of creative writing best fitted our different personalities, interests and life styles. We worked on short stories, and for those of us who liked the … Read more ►
What a happy, creative and eventful week we had on our Winter Writing Retreat at Denman and thank you to everyone for all the writing they shared and all the constructive criticism we enjoyed. There’s certainly no such thing as an ‘ordinary’ woman and we travelled the world during our writing. We travelled by sea … Read more ►
You’ve made a will, you’ve decided on a final resting place, you’ve perhaps even pre-payed your funeral – but what about your Eulogy? Are you going to leave your family and friends trying to remember things about you to tell a minister or celebrant, or struggling to decide what to say in their own whistle-stop … Read more ►
Come to rural Derbyshire and treat yourself, or a member of your family, to a special day or half-day Life Story Retreat created to suit you and your own unique writing project. Beginners are welcome and you don’t need any previous experience of writing to be able to write your life story. Enjoy personal one … Read more ►
Whether you’re an accomplished writer, or you’ve never written anything except a shopping list before, join our relaxed, friendly creative writing workshop run by Chrissie Hall. Using the exhibition to inspire us, we’ll enjoy finding our own words, poetic or otherwise, to express our responses to the exhibition. We’ll consider the phenomenon of ‘unfinished’ artistic … Read more ►