Write Here Lakeside Arts Centre
Writing East Midlands is working in partnership with Lakeside Arts Centre and up to 16 Nottingham schools (Primary & Secondary). The writer, Peter Rumney will facilitate workshops that will help school students engage with art in exhibitions, and develop ideas for creative writing. The Central Education Improvement Partnership for Nottingham City Council Children’s Services are also partners in this project.
The main output for this project will be new writing by Peter and over 800 young people. In partnership with Joy Buttress, the English Coordinator at Mellers Primary School, and Ruth Lewis-Jones, the Learning Officer (Galleries) at Lakeside, Peter Rumney will also write a guide to working with young people in a school environment responding to art collections through creative writing. This will be a published resource for teachers engaging in creative writing and interpreting collections.
About Peter Rumney
An award-winning playwright, poet & unraveller of stories, Peter’s dual roles as a writer and enabler of others’ creativity are intimately connected. He is equally at home writing alone in the garden shed, or collaborating with other people on large projects, such as productions by Dragon Breath Theatre (of which he is Joint Artistic Director).
Peter’s residency at the Lakeside Gallery has grown out of a long association with visual arts, from a gap year studying art history in Italy 35 years ago, to his current role as a lecturer in the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University.
Between now and July Peter will be responding to four exhibitions at Lakeside through prose and poetry. During the residency, Peter will continue teaching Theatre Design at NTU, support creative curricula in a number of Nottingham schools, work on three theatre scripts and, if he can find the time, continue to develop his own prose following the completion of his recent MA in Creative Writing at NTU.
Click here to see Peter’s Writer Profile.
