WORKSHOPS

We run weekly creative writing workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. They help to develop skills, confidence and self-belief.

All weekly workshops are run by trained outsider artists and are free to attend for people that meet our criteria of people that have been sidelined from society.

We run theatre trips and masterclasses with writers and theatre professionals. There are two scratch performances in our theatre each year for new work and emerging writers.

We also run photography workshops, developing skills in analogue and digital photography.

No experience is necessary for all of our workshops.
If you are interested in joining our workshops, please email us at theoutsidersproj@gmail.com

LOCK-IN

The Lock-In is our monthly event for our outstanding outsider artists to try out their new work.

 We meet on the last Tuesday of every month to share new writing, spoken word, music and work in progress. We open this up to the public twice a year.

MENTORING

We run a radical programme of formal and informal mentoring sessions.

We organise regular one-to-one sessions and offer sustained high level mentoring to complete projects.

Mentors include theatre maker and director Jo Billingham, our writer-in-residence Si Mack, professional actors Patrick O’Kane and Pete Courtenay.

“I’ve happened upon extraordinary storytellers. There are pages in their lives that can rival the best pages of the classics. The person sees herself so clearly from above – from heaven, and from below – from the ground. Before her is the whole path – up and down – from angel to beast. Remembering is not a passionate or dispassionate retelling of a reality that is no more, but a new birth of the past, when time goes in reverse. Above all it is creativity. As they narrate, people create, they “write” their life.”

– Svetlana Alexievich

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