Gabbie Asher

Scriptwriting from Life

WL7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

Gabbie Asher started her career as a script editor in the BBC Films and Series departments, working on shows such as 'Grange Hill' and 'Casualty'. She was Head Story Writer on 'Eastenders' for two BAFTA award winning years. She has since script edited Channel 4's 'Coming Up, and worked for BBC Comedy training new writers and developing series such as 'Funland' for BBC2. Since switching to writing full time, Gabbie has written on popular shows such as 'Primeval' and had her own series broadcast on BBC3. Gabbie is currently developing several original scripts for companies including BBC Drama and ITV productions.

Kate Daniels

Jazz, Blues and Beyond

MA5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

Kate divides her life happily between her career as a consultant systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a jazz singer. She has worked as an organisational consultant and trainer in the corporate field, and has a background in theatre. As a jazz singer Kate writes and performs her own material and has sung and recorded with distinguished musicians such as John Etheridge, Tony Coe and Alec Dankworth.

Helena Drysdale

Writing from Life
(In Atsitsa)

WL3 Thu 21 Jun - Sun 1 Jul 12

Helena Drysdale’s books include Looking for George, shortlisted for the Esquire/Apple/ Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Award, and the PEN/ J.R. Ackerley Award for Autobiography. Her latest book is Strangerland, A Family at War (Picador 2007), and she is currently writing children’s fiction. She is an editor for the Writer’s Workshop, and tutors at the Arvon Foundation.
 

Michael Gahagan

Sketching & Painting

MA6  Sat 21 - Tue 31 Jul 2012

Michael Gahagan's art and his artwork are exhibited in a number of galleries, books and magazines. As a qualified coach he encourages individuals to enjoy and develop art at their own pace.

Ailon Freedman

Yoga

LC10  Sat 1 - Tues 11 Sep  2012

Ailon has explored a diverse range of yoga styles over the last 20 years.

Ken Eyerman

Yoga with Awareness

LC11 Tue 11- Fri 21 Sep 12

LC12 Fri 21 Sep- Mon 1 Oct 12

Ken Eyerman, author of Massage, has taught yoga and bodywork for 30 years and directs his own training programme. He was named as one of London’s Evening Standard’s top 3 masseurs.

Alison Goldie

The Funny Side Of lIfe

SC5 Wed 1 - Tue 31 May 2011

Alison has been teaching improvisation, drama and comedy for over 20 years. She is a founder of The Weird Sisters theatre company in which she co-created three award-winning shows which toured all over the world, and is a core member of the renowned impro troupe, Spontaneous Combustion. She has been a television and radio presenter for the BBC and is a stand-up comic and a director and deviser of plays, musicals and sketches for companies such as Vienna’s English Theatre and others. Since summer 2008, she has been touring her one-woman show, Lady in Bed, around the UK to great acclaim.

Laura Heininger

Flow Yoga

SC1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

Laura's own teaching style has developed through an appreciation for the diversity of yoga styles, having studied Scaravelli, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini and Restorative yoga.

Sarah Livingstone

Painting and Drawing

MA5 Wed 11- Sat 21 Jul 2012

Sarah Livingstone is an established painter and printmaker, and for the last 30 years has taught and exhibited extensively in the UK and France.  In addition she is a trained psychotherapist with a particular interest in mindfulness-based psychotherapies, and has published in the field.  As an art teacher, she has a passion for enabling beginners to discover drawing as a basic form of literacy and as a doorway to stillness, clarity and creativity.

Andrew Morton

The 'Impossible Art' of Writing Biography

WL5 Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 2012

Andrew Morton is one of the world's best known biographers and a leading authority on modern royalty and celebrity. His groundbreaking 1992 biography revealed the secret world of Diana, Princess of Wales. Written with her full, though then secret cooperation, the book changed the way the world looked at the British Royal family, prompting Tina Brown to declare in The Diana Chronicles: 'The journalist Morton most reminds me of is Bob Woodward.' Andrew Morton has gone on to write more bestselling biographies of Monica lewinsky, Madonna, The Beckhams, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie. Morton is the winner of numerous awards including Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, Investigative Reporter of the Years by What the Papers say and Scoop of the Year by the London Press Club.

Crysse Morrison

Your Writer's Voice
(In Atsitsa)

WL11 Tue 11 - Fri 21 Sep 2012

Crysse was inspired by a Skyros Writers’ Lab session to make a career change, and is now a full-time free-lance writer.  Her two novels were published by Hodder & Stoughton and she also writes short fiction, drama, and performance poetry, with a regular style column in Writing Magazine.  Crysse is an experienced creative writing tutor and has led courses throughout the world.

Logan Murray

Sketch Writing

WL1 Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 2012

Logan Murray has been in the comedy industry for over 25 years. He is an accomplished stand-up comedian (performing at every major comedy club and festival in Great Britain), television and radio writer, presenter and actor, as well as stage-director, author and tutor.
His London-based comedy courses are considered one of the best in the country and his book 'Be a Great Stand Up', currently tops the Amazon best selling list. He has taught over 1,600 people how to be funny. Many have gone on to become award-winning comedians.
Logan has directed the stage shows of award-winning comedians including ‘We Are Klang’ and Milton Jones.

Sam North

The Art of Writing Fiction
(In Atsitsa)

WL2 Mon 11 - Thu 21 Jun 2012

Sam North has written eight novels: The Old Country (2007), The Velvet Rooms (2006), The Unnumbered (2004) that was long-listed for the Man Booker prize, The Lie Of The Land 2000), The Automatic Man (1990) that won a Somerset Maugham Award and several others. He has also written a screenplay commissioned by Samuelson Productions - a supernatural thriller - and was the third writer on a thriller set in Australia for Working Title. He works as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Exeter, and lives on the edge of Dartmoor.

Mez Packer

Aspects of Novel Writing

WL6 Sat 21 - Tue 31 Jul 2012

Mez Packer studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University in the 80s then spent time in Europe singing jazz in bars and nightclubs. She travelled widely in Asia, the Far East and the Caribbean with her partner and young child before becoming a Broadcast Journalist with the BBC. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication and visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Coventry University. Her first novel, Among Thieves was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize  2010. Her second novel, The Game is Altered, will be published in February 2012.

Andrew Risner

Comedy Improvisation   

MA8 Sat 11 - Tue 21 Aug 2012

Have you ever watched “Whose Line is it anyway?” and thought how do they do that? Comedy improvisation is probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on.It is specifically designed for  people with little or no performing experience and the emphasis will be laughter and fun.It is a great confidence booster and collaborative way of playing with people.We all have the ability to improvise (remember when you were given a present as a child and just played with the box) We will be looking at constructing stories and scenes from suggestions and objects as well as forgetting about judgement and getting it right.

Monique Roffey

Life Writing

WL9 Tue 21 - Fri 31 Aug 2012

Monique Roffey’s novel The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was short-listed for the Orange Prize 2010. Her memoir is called With the Kisses of his Mouth. She teaches Creative Writing for Arvon, English PEN and the MA at Goldsmiths.

Martha Salonidou

Yoga

SC4  - SC9
Sun 1 Jul - Fri 31 Aug 2012

Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.

Ilene Sawka

Creative Communication

MA7 Wed 1 - Sat 11 Aug 2012

Ilene Sawka facilitates creativity workshops for top Swedish managers and politicians using an array of original forms and techniques. She is also a Qi Gong teacher.

Arthur Smith

Creating Comedy
(In Atstisa)

WL12 Fri 21 Sep - Mon 1 Oct 12

Arthur Smith is a comedian, writer and broadcaster; He has performed comedy all over the world and has written every form of comedy from stand up to one-liners to full-length plays and screenplays. His comedy is based on observation tinged with a strong flavour of the absurd, although he is an expert at telling one-liner jokes. He also ventures into extreme comedy, sometimes stripping off during his performances and, during his Edinburgh shows, taking the entire audience out of the theatre for a guided tour of the city. His play An Evening with Gary Lineker ran for several years in the West End. He appears regularly on Radio 4 but finds that he is best known for BBC’s Grumpy Old Men. His acclaimed autobiography My Name is Daphne Fairfax was published in 2009.

Amanda Smyth

A Life Full of Stories
(In Atstisa)

WL10  Sat 1 - Tue 11 Sep 2012

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was educated in England. Her short stories  and poetry have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, the TLS and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Amanda was awarded an Arts Council grant for her first novel, Black Rock, published by Serpent’s Tail. She was chosen for the Waterstones New Voices 2009, and short-listed for McKitterick Prize 2010. Black Rock, published as Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange in the USA, was selected for the Oprah Summer Read 2009 – one of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down. It was also short-listed for NAACP Award 2010, Outstanding Literary work, debut author. Foreign rights sold in France, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Russia. Amanda, currently long-listed for Prix Femina in France, has just won the the prestigious French award for first novel.

Marina Sossi

Hatha Yoga

SC3  Thu 21 Jun-Sun 1 Jul 12

Marina, a yoga teacher, is an accomplished theatre director, writer and performer who has worked internationally with theatres, galleries, festivals, prisons, health and mental health groups.

Shelley Weiner

The First Novel

WL8 Sat 11 - Tue 21 Aug 2012

Shelley Weiner is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who has, over the years, established a reputation as an inspirational creative writing tutor and nurturer of new talent. South African-born, she worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Among her published novels is A Sisters' Tale and The Joker. Shelley is a Special Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and has lectured on the writing programme at Birkbeck College and Anglia Ruskin University. She has also taught for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust and Durham University Summer School. Scores of new fiction writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her "First Novel" workshops in Camden Town, Wales and in her Highgate kitchen.

Atsitsa Facilitators

Atsitsa Courses & Activities

June & September 2012

Louisa Young

So, How D'you Get Your Ideas?

WL4  Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jul 2012

Louisa Young read history at Cambridge, and was for many years a freelance journalist, working mostly for the motorcycle press, for Marie Claire and for The Guardian. She has travelled widely and published eleven books, including nine novels, a biography and a cultural history of the human heart. She lives in London and Italy with her daughter and the composer Robert Lockhart. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, co-authors of the best-selling Lionboy trilogy, which is published in 36 languages.Her latest novel is My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, which is shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Wellcome Prize and the Galaxy Book of the Year Award, and winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year. Johnny Cash kissed her once.