We’re meeting in the first floor meeting room at Derby Museum for our December meeting -the agenda and DSW member Maria’s work in progress are now available for members to download.If you’d like to join us, you’d be more than welcome, click here to get in touch.
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Using words and images to inspire change
DSW Member Chrissie and Leicestershire based photographer Linda Young, are working with two groups of young people engaging with Youth Services in Leicestershire, to support and inspire them to create words and photographs marking Leicestershire’s contribution to the international campaign, ‘Sixteen Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence‘. The exhibition will include work created by …
November Meet at Derby Museum: 2-4pm, Sun 7th Nov
We’re meeting up in our usual location on the first floor in Derby Museum for our November meeting -the agenda and DSW member Chrissies work in progress are now available for members to download.If you’d like to join us, you’d be more than welcome, click here to get in touch.
Crits and congratulations for October
It’s great to share good news as well as our work, which is why October’s meeting went so well – DSW member Lynda couldn’t make it to the meeting, but thanks to Johnny lending us his telephone we could still offer feedback to her as a group, and congratulate her for ‘Voltaire’s Garden’ being a …
Next meeting: Sun 3 Oct, 2-4pm at QUAD
In light of all sorts of climates right now, we’ll be meeting outside at Derby Quad this Sunday from 2pm to discuss a duologue from DSW member Lynda – if you’d like to come and say hello, you’d be very welcome – let us know you’re coming along on an email to info@derbyshirescriptwriters.com
Covid-19 update
Derbyshire Scriptwriters is regularly reviewing where and how it holds its monthly meetings due to the current Covid-19 pandemic – but we’re still here, still writing, and still supporting each other by exchanging information and opportunities and critiquing scripts.We hope to be back inside our regular meeting place inside Derby Museum soon, and will keep …
Better later than never: AGM report (27 June 2021)
It was a breath of fresh air in every way for members of Derbyshire Scriptwriters to finally meet for their Annual General meeting last weekend – our AGM met in the outside seating of Quad Cafe to catch up on what had been achieved in the last year, and discuss what we planned to do …
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February member update: Stories continue to be told with help from DSW member Chrissie
Twenty six participants from Warwickshire joined Chrissie for an interactive talk about life story writing recently. They enjoyed time \’together\’, and were inspired to start capturing their own \’anecdotes\’ from memory after hearing extracts from some of the extra-ordinary things some of Chrissie\’s students had been writing about during lockdown and before. Chrissie will be …
DSW member Richard featured in new anthology
Great news from DSW member Richard, whose short story Coming of Age in Fairy will be featured in City Limits Publishing\’s latest collection, Another Place, Another Time: A Collection of Short Stories -congratulations, Richard!
December 2020 meeting roundup
Our final meeting of 2020 was over the internet again, with a great deal of discussion about the merits of outdoor performances alongside DSW member Johns ghostly tale in the park. And as a new, and hopefully brighter new year is around the corner, a number of DSW members have been awarded Bursaries and will …