Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.

Dates: Tuesdays 28 May, 18 June, 2 July (6.30pm to 8pm) at RuptureXIBIT, Hampton Wick.

"Poetry improvisation is about trusting in your voice, opening up to others, and seeing where it takes you. In these workshops the focus will be on collaborative improvisation - bouncing our voices off one another and developing threads that sometimes twist together and sometimes spin off in their own directions.

Throughout the workshop, we'll will be working as a whole group and also in pairs and threes - no one will be expected to improvise solo. We'll explore different improvisation techniques, such as working with music and prompts, using breathing and voice exercises, and ways of structuring an improvisation. There'll also be space to share observations on the experience, our compositions, and how we might develop them.

The workshops will involve some lying on the floor and moving around. We won't be seated at tables as in a conventional poetry workshop. There might be some writing, and improvisation can be used as a writing tool, but we will primarily be working with our voices."

-Robin Vaughan-Williams on this workshop.

Cost: £14/12 concessions per workshop

About Robin: Robin Vaughan-Williams is a poet and producer and first started exploring poetry improvisation in 2008. He developed an improvised poetry performance with a group of emerging poets for Apples and Snakes in 2015 ('Grey Parrot Singing'), has collaborated with Quick Shifts dance improvisation collective in Leicester and Sheffield's jazz improvisors Charlie Collins and Derek Saw, and ran a poetry improv group in Nottingham with Mark Goodwin and Rich Goodson.

You can listen to some of the poetry improv soundscapes Robin has put together on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/robinrvw/sets/poetry-improv-favourites

Further info and to book here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroquality/1248327