DSW member Chrissie has been busy in Ilkeston as part of the Erewash rEvive Art project, working to regenerate the High Street by putting arts projects in empty shops in Ilkeston, After collecting life stories from visitors to the project\’s Bath Street store, Chrissie has worked with artist Julie Genner, to create a window display from the life stories donated by participants.

\”Each story  box is unique, covered with random extracts of real, local life stories , arranged to replicate the way our stories link us together, overlapping – touching – weaving through – cutting across and underpinning. The ‘people’ are all unique too, if you look closely enough you’ll see each one is smothered in stories!\”

Happy New Year! Now the final turkey vol-au-vent has been munched, it\’s time to say hello to a new year of writing. Derbyshire Scriptwriters are kickstarting 2015 with a write in on Sunday 4 January, and anyone writing for stage, screen or radio is welcome to join us.

Write-ins are a great way of forcing all those good story ideas out of our head and onto the page, with a little peer pressure from fellow writers who are doing the same thing around you. We\’ll spend a couple of minutes telling one another what we\’ll be working on, take out our pads, pens and laptops, and get going! There\’ll be time to talk about what we\’ve achieved at the end, and if anyone is feeling brave, maybe a reading…

This is your year to write – make it happen!

Hello and Merry Christmas (too early?) – we\’ll be meeting to discuss DSW Member Richard\’s script this Sunday at Derby Museum (there may even be mince pies), as we say goodbye to 2014 – if you\’d like to join us, please get in touch through joinus@derbyshirescriptwriters.com.

Hello, we\’ll be meeting up for more script discussions and critiquing at the start of November – you\’re more than welcome to join us – email joinus@derbyshirescriptwriters.com (the email does what it says in the html- or something)

Congratulations to DSW member Richard Layton, whose Pint-Sized Play goes from strength to strength, with performances by two theatrical companies in October-

Embers Theatre Company at The Joseph Stone Centre, Sheffield

and Chase Theatre Company at Lantern Arts, London

Hello, we\’ll be meeting at Derby Museum at 2pm, ready to discuss DSW member Isabel\’s current script in progress – we\’ve discussed it at a previous meeting, so we\’re looking forward to seeing what\’s new in this updated draft.

If you\’d like to get involved, email us to let us know you\’re coming along – you can get in touch with joinus@derbyshirescriptwriters.com

Our next meeting will be our official Annual General Meeting, where we have a look back on last year, look forward to next year, and elect our board members.

Spring is sprunging, and we\’ll be back at Derby Museum to discuss scripts we\’re currently developing from 2pm on the first Sunday of the month – if you\’d like to join us, get in touch –  send an email to joinus@derbyshirescriptwriters.com

Just had a great bit of news about a play we\’ve blogged about before – DSW member Richard\’s play \’It\’s all in the Mind\’ will be performed by Zoom Arts on May 11th at Western Front in Brighton.  It was originally one of the winning Pint Sized Plays performed last year, and it\’s great news that another theatre production company has taken an interest in Richard\’s writing.