Category: News
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Auditions for Charles Dickens: Hero or Zero?
Rochester Cathedral’s Dickens bicentenary programme is now taking shape and the latest project is about to go live!! Charles Dickens – Hero or Zero? is a new play by Alis Hawkins, commissioned by the Cathedral with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund . It transports Dickens – quite literally –…
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Casting call for ‘Cleaners’
Via Talent Circle, director Al Corretta is looking for eight cast members for the sequel to his indie film, What You See Is What You Get. Called Cleaners, it’s set in New York (via Medway!) and picks up the story of time served Mafia associate Donnie Di Maggio. More details…
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Status Stories – Short Fiction on Facebook
Again, maybe not so appealing to everyone, but for those with lots of shorties bursting out of their heads, there is a home on Facebook: Status Stories is an open group where you can share short – very short – fiction (100 words or less!) Go explore, there are already…
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Are you a songwriter looking for an outlet and like minds?
Then I may have found the perfect home for you! It happens to be on Facebook and I know, it’s changed again: by-pass the fear, as you may want to become a member of the Medway Songwriters Circle, where you’ll find amongst their number such talents as Didi Bergman, Porlie Eidolon…
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Rochester Creative Writing Courses
Local author and tutor, Philip Kane, has two new writing courses starting shortly under the Adult Education banner. Enrolment has opened for the 2011/12 courses which will both be held at the Rochester Centre, Eastgate. Creative Writing for Beginners (course code R09100111A) starts on Tuesday 20th September, between 1.30 – 3pm.…
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The Bill Lewis Lectures
Visual artist and writer, Bill Lewis, will be giving two lectures next month, in the UCA Pop Up Gallery in Chatham’s Pentagon Centre. The first will be The Power of Myth on October 8th and will examine the work of Joseph Campbell and his theory of the “mono-myth”, of interest…
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In Conversation with … James Purefoy
So, after I’d finished with Jamie, I ambled casually over to James for my supposed three minutes, three questions – the answers to which you can find here, within a review of the event. However, no-one came to drag me away so I stayed where I was and asked him a…
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In Conversation with … Jamie Foreman.
I was lucky enough to have an access-all-areas pass on Saturday, for Nomad Open Air Cinema’s screening of Ironclad, the film depicting the 1215 siege of Rochester Castle by King John. Taking full advantage, as you’d expect, I chatted to the stars in attendance, James Purefoy and Jamie Foreman, who…
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Viola Films help for young film makers
The creative lovechild of exceptional Medway talent, Samuel Supple and producer Debra McGee, violaFilms will be running an intensive two day film school for young people aged 14-21 in February next year, based in the artists’ resource space in the Rochester Information Centre. With space for 10-12 students, the 48…
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She Writes at the Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable
A new bi-monthly event is taking place at Whitstable’s Horsebridge Centre, entitled ‘She Writes’ and presented by 17Percent, an organisation supporting and promoting female playwrights. Female playwrights are invited to submit micro plays of up to six minutes and featuring no more than four actors, to take part in a…
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Get Writing at the West Dean Festival
The West Dean Festival, incorporating the Craft Rally on 27th August, takes place between 26th – 29th August in Chichester. The Get Writing section currently features Judge The Poet, with a spot of Whose Line Is It Anyway? wordsmithing, and workshops entitled: New Ways of Watching Film. John Ashbrook, aka…
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The search is on for Magwitch!
Ever watched Brad Pitt, Sylvester Stallone, George Clooney or Matt Damon starring in one of their hit films and thought: I could do that? Well, here’s your chance!! Kent based company Viola Films, is searching for a lead actor to star in Magwitch, a new short film, shooting over four days…
Rochester Literature Festival 