AN
INSPIRATION DAY FOR ARTISTS

Ailsa
Piper's full day workshop offers processes to challenge and heighten
the engagement with the creative process. Participants are given
practical techniques to sharpen their focus and their practice,
as well as a series of self-esteem supports specifically tailored
to the challenges of life as an arts practitioner.
This workshop has proved beneficial to performers, visual artists,
musicians and even business people.
It requires a genuine commitment by participants to enlarging
their sense of their own possibilities, and to making concrete
change.

Course
Dates:
Saturday 30th October
The
day runs from 10am to 4pm. All breaks are an integral part of
the work. There is NO downtime.

Cost:
$245.00

Requirements...
Participants
need to bring their own lunch, as they will not leave the workshop
during the lunch break.
Participants are asked to bring a piece of poetry or prose no
longer than three minutes.

Course
Director:
Ailsa Piper
is a writer, director, teacher and actor.
Her play "Small Mercies" was joint winner of the Patrick
White Playwrights Award in 2001, and she has extensive experience
in the development of new writing. She has been nominated for
Green Room Awards as both actor and director. Ailsa is director
of LuminoUS, a collaboration with designer Hugh Colman and lighting
designer Rachel Burke, in which they seek to investigate and
illuminate classic texts through detailed work with actors and
light. Ailsa has also written articles for journals, and
for The Age and Australian newspapers. She has wide experience
in the development of new writing for the theatre, having participated
in many readings, workshops, and forums as director, dramaturg
or actor. Ailsa has many years experience as a performance coach,
and leads workshops for experienced practitioners, focussing
on assisting artists to create with freedom, dignity and self-esteem.
She has taught at both WAAPA and VCA. She also mentors widely,
believing
passionately in generational exchange - in both directions! Ailsa
has performed in dozens of ABC radio dramas, narrations and book
readings. Favourites include Turgenev's "A Month in the
Country" and the sprawling "Tales from Sheep Country."
She was storyteller for the children's favourite "Let's
Join In" for 3 years.
She has narrated many educational programmes, including the childhood
learning series for the Education Dept of Victoria, and much
of ABC TV's Open Learning series. She also regularly narrates
documentary films. Ailsa continues to work extensively in documentary
film and commercial voice-over. She has also appeared in numerous
corporate presentations, and accepts work as a public speaker
and presenter when the situation appeals.

Location:
Brave Studios - 227 Brighton Rd, Elwood (corner of Coleridge
St)

Course
Preparation:
You
will need to bring a selection of scenes from theatre and film/tv
(no longer than 2 minutes each, 2 copies of each)

MAXIMUM
OF 12 STUDENTS - SO PLEASE CALL TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE on (03) 9531
9933 or email info@bravestudios.com

A MINIMUM
DEPOSIT OF $150 IS REQUIRED. $75 OF THIS DEPOSIT IS FULLY REFUNDABLE
UPON 5 WORKING DAYS NOTICE OF ANY CANCELLATION.