Agenda for July

Date : Thursday 19th July.
Time 7.45pm
Place: The Old Custom House, Watergate Street (first floor)

1. Notices.

2. Readings. 
3. Homework. 
4. AOB. 

Performers at Frodsham's Summer Solstice Event

Photo by Mark Hewitt

A small but select group...(photo missing John J who was also present but camera-shy): in order Austin, Ian E, Muriel, George, Clare, Die and Ian C (and Tiglet, front).  Read Mr Tiglet's version of events here.

And below: from the front...

Photo by Ravi Raizada

and with Die and Tiglet.

Photo by Ravi Raizada

June Meeting

Our June meeting will be replaced by the Midsummer Night's Performance Evening on the Thursday 21st June at the Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham 8-9pm.

Agenda for May

Date : Thursday 17th May.
Time 7.45pm
Place: The Old Custom House, Watergate Street (first floor)

1. Notices.

2. Kathryn Riddington from the Museum presentation on writing about  fossils and the evolution of life.
 
3. Readings.
 
4. Homework.
 
5. AOB.  Next meeting CAN Solstice Event in Frodsham on 21st June 8 - 9pm.

Minutes for April

Date : Thursday 19^th April.
Time 7.45pm
Place: The Old Custom House (first floor)

1. Notices.

a.  Meeting place - decided to stay at the Old Custom House.

b. Voted to opt for an evening performance for Chester Writers at this year's Litfest.

Interest in Bitesize slot, poetry for children in GobbleDEEbook and warm up sessions in school.  

 c.  Decided to invite Kathryn Riddington to give us a chat about forthcoming Museum exhibition.

2. Readings.

3. Homework:

Think of a minor argument you’ve had this week.  Write an account of  it in the form of a diary extract for yourself, then a letter to a friend.  Now try and write another letter this time using the voice of the person you were disagreeing with.  Go through this last piece again exaggerating the word choice, the syntax and the imagery.  Make it extreme.

 4. AOB.   Next meeting May 17th

Agenda for April

Date : Thursday 19th April 
Time 7.45pm
Place: The Old Custom House, Watergate Street (first floor)

1. Notices.
 (i).  Meeting place - any suggestions/comments.
 
(ii). Die, our Chester LitFest rep, has reported back from the Chester LitFest with the following:
(a)  Chester LitFest.
(b) Recommendations for novelists.  
(c) Recommendations for poets for children.
(d) Tentative suggestions for warm up sessions in schools from writers for children.

(iii)  Kathryn Riddington from the Museum on writing about  fossils and the evolution of life.
 
2. Readings.
 
3. Homework.
 
4. AOB.

Minutes for March

Date : Thursday 15^th March.
Time 7.45pm
Place: The Old Custom House (first floor)

1. Notices.

Sheriff of Cheshire’s Prize.

2. Warm-up:

Think back to when you were aged 5. Quickly draw a map.

Make a list of the boundaries.

3. Readings.

4. Homework:

Write a piece about the real or imagined territory of your childhood world. What lay beyond it? What guarded it? Describe what happened when you broke through

5. AOB. Next meeting April 19th.