scholarly journals Creative Writing Workshops and the Narrative Construction of Self: Using Oral History to Explore the Impact of Public Engagement in the Arts and Humanities

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Liam Harte ◽  
Barry Hazley
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

scholarly journals ‘The story of the reel that went for a swim’: Cinema Memory and the History of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as Narrated through Oral History Interviews and surrounding Metadata

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Sarah Neely
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Surprising Discovery ◽  
The Way

This article draws from existing work relating to the creative writing strand of the Major Minor Cinema project, which was inspired by the surprising discovery of project's pilot study that some cinema-goers from the period of research had been inspired to write poems or stories in response to their experience of going to the Film Guild screenings. Building on an earlier publication in the journal Participations (May 2019), which largely focused on the project's use of creative methodologies and creative writing workshops as a way of exploring cinema memory, this article will consider the way which cinema memory was narrativised in project's oral history interviews and their surrounding metadata, focusing in particular on the specificities of cinema-going in rural Scotland, and taking into consideration the significance of Scotland's oral history and storytelling traditions in relation to the arrival of cinema to the Highlands and Islands.

Les ateliers d’écriture créative littéraire en classe du FLE : quel impact sur la construction des compétences linguistique, interculturelle et esthétique ?

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Soulaf HASSAN
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Communication Humaine ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Méthode Qualitative ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

RÉSUMÉ. Les ateliers d’écriture créative en FLE ont effectivement leur place. Cependant, les activités proposées portent principalement sur les apprentissages linguistiques et culturels de la langue. Cette recherche tente de déterminer l’impact des ateliers d’écriture créative littéraire dans la construction des compétences linguistiques, interculturelles et esthétiques. L’étude est menée par la méthode qualitative consistant à analyser des productions écrites réalisées lors de l’expérimentation et classées par niveau. Il s’agit d’évaluer des critères relevant, à la fois, de la linguistique textuelle et de la communication esthétique. Les résultats montrent que des savoir-faire linguistiques limités ne sont pas un obstacle à la créativité. Les tâches d’écriture réalisées impliquent constamment un travail sur la langue dont le but est l’expression de soi, de l’évolution de son rapport à la langue acquise et à la communication humaine. Cette étude contribue à la réflexion sur l’élaboration d’un cours de production écriture créative. Mots-clés : Atelier d’écriture, Compétence interculturelle et esthétique, Didactique de l’écrit, Écriture littéraire, Français Langue Étrangère.     ABSTRACT. The Creative writing workshops in French as a foreign language have effectively their place. However, the proposed activities focus mainly on linguistic and cultural’s language learning. This research attempts to determine the impact of creative literary writing workshops in the construction of linguistic, intercultural and aesthetic skills. The study is conducted by the qualitative method of analyzing written productions made during the experiment and classified by level. It is a question of evaluating criteria relating both to textual linguistics and aesthetic communication. The results show that limited language skills are not an obstacle to creativity. The writing tasks performed urge every learner to work on the language with the purpose of self-expression, of the evolution of his relationship to the target foreign language and of human communication. This study contributes to the reflection on the development of a creative writing production course. Keywords: Didactic of the Writing, French as Foreign Language, Intercultural and Aesthetics skills, Writing literary, Writing workshop.  

There’s Something Happening Here: The Positive Impact of Collaborative Songwriting on Veterans Suffering from PTSD

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Mary Judd
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Small Pilot Study ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Skilled Professional ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

SongwritingWith:Soldiers (SW:S) is a non profit, coaching-based program that uses collaborative songwriting to build creativity, connections and strengths in order to help improve people’s lives. The results have been positively life changing, even lifesaving, for many. The focus of a recent small pilot study by Harvard Mass General researchers on the impact of SW:S’s collaborative songwriting intervention (CSI) on veterans found the CSI sessions to reduce PTSD (-33%) and Depressive symptoms (-25%), potentially sparking further positive change and movement forward. In full SW:S weekend retreats, 8-12 veterans are paired with highly skilled professional songwriters to turn their military experiences into songs. When not writing songs, the participants attend creative writing workshops, meditation or yoga sessions and other activities to foster further connections and post traumatic growth. More than 400 veterans and family members have attended SW:S events; more than 400 songs have been written, countless lives changed. Feedback from retreat participants reveals post-retreat increases in feelings of hope and optimism (77%), increased creative pursuits (83%), connections with others (78%) and a 100% endorsement for other veterans to attend. Efforts are under wayto expand the study and eventually broaden it to include additional components of the positive psychology, coaching-based program.

scholarly journals REALIDADE E FICÇÃO, TRAUMA E AFETO: A AUTOPOIESIS NAS OFICINAS DE ESCRITA CRIATIVA * REALITY AND FICTION, TRAUMA AND AFFECTION. AUTOPOIESIS IN THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Geruza Zelnys de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

Resumo: O texto discute a relação entre realidade e ficção, bem como o trânsito entre uma e outra, a partir do trauma como elemento desestabilizador no discurso literário. Essa reflexão toma como base a instância autoral em processo de criação – escritura e leitura – nas oficinas de escrita criativa, analisando como a irrupção dos estilhaços de trauma convocam o corpo a ser com o corpus em performance coreográfica, o que hiperexcita os corpos tornando-os espaços de agenciamento. Nos momentos de escuta e partilha, favorecidos pela mediação atenta ao arquivo insubmisso do real, pode se observar o processo autopoiético sobre o qual se estruturam as múltiplas aprendizagens – especialmente de si – deflagrando as potencialidades provocativas, educativas e terapêuticas das oficinas, que as tornam suportes indispensáveis à educação não-formal.Palavras-Chave: ficção, trauma, afeto, autopoiesis, oficinas de escrita criativa Abstract: The paper discusses the relationship between reality and fiction, as well as the intersections between one and another, from trauma as a destabilizing element in literary discourse. This reflection is based on authorial instance in its creation process - writing and reading - in the workshops of creative writing. The paper mains analyze how the irruption of trauma convoke the body to be with the corpus in choreographic performance, which hiper excite the bodies turning it in assemblage space. In moments of listening and sharing, favored by mediation attentive to the real's unsubmissive file, it is possible to see the autopoietic process on which the multiple learning are structured, triggering the provocative, educational and therapeutic potential of workshops, which make it necessary supports for the non-formal education.Keywords: fiction, trauma, affection, autopoiesis, creative writing workshops

scholarly journals 'Sedimented histories' and 'embodied legacies': Creating an evaluative framework for understanding public engagement with the First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86
Author(s):  
Larissa Allwork
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
First World War ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
World War ◽  
Community History ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First World

This article reflects on the development of a new methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's First World War Engagement Centres. It shows how through evaluative processes such as academic and community partner Shared Experience Workshops, and community-focused Reflection Workshops, the historical, social, cultural and economic benefits of the centre can be highlighted. It also demonstrates how public engagement in these community history projects has resulted in the identification of new 'embodied legacies' (Facer and Enright, 2016) and heretofore marginalized 'sedimented histories' (Lloyd and Moore, 2015). These lessons in evaluation can be taken forward to inform future national commemorative moments, such as the centenary of the Second World War.

scholarly journals (In)dependent meaning: Representations of addiction and recovery in selected poems produced in a rehabilitation centre

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Pretorius ◽  
Andy Carolin ◽  
Reinhardt Fourie ◽  
Lida Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Drug Rehabilitation ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

In this article we provide a close reading of selected poems written during creative writing workshops at a drug rehabilitation centre. We argue that these poems expose some of the uncertainties and complexities that characterise the representation of identity in experiences of addiction and recovery. We show that the speakers in these poems attempt to imagine and represent their experiences in language through a number of structuring binaries. These binaries include those between the speaker’s experiences of active addiction and recovery, and the speaker’s personal experience versus societal expectations and perceptions. Our reading of these poems is informed by the clinical context in which they were written, and our analysis reflects the bifurcation that governs this liminal space. Individual agency in these different spheres is approached in a very tentative way, and the speakers in these poems are shown to have trouble envisioning the future at the same time as their pasts appear unsettled. We argue finally that while current discourses and vocabularies surrounding addiction seem incomplete and inadequate for the expression of some complex experiences, poetry provides a platform that accommodates ambivalence and a multiplicity of meanings.

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