WORKSHOPS
“The workshops have been amazing. I wish I’d had these experiences years ago.”
Imogen sees spoken word as being an exciting and modern way to discover poetry, allowing an engaging and direct route to writing, listening and performing. Its benefits are numerous, with it acting as a means to build confidence, improve self-esteem and provide a vehicle for expression - helping people to find their voice and then express that voice articulately.
“Imogen’s workshop taught me that even if you don’t know what to write, you can write what you feel.”
“The workshop was great. Very inspiring. Imogen is great - thoughtful and original.”
Imogen is an extremely experienced workshop leader and has facilitated in a variety of social and community contexts: with young people, adults, novice and established writers, with the elderly, with people with a range of different learning needs and abilities, with children and adult refugees and asylum seekers, in schools, in libraries, with young carers, in theatres, in universities and colleges, with people from a range of creative disciplines, with mother groups, with children with behavioural needs, aspiring spoken word poets, with the Edinburgh Fringe, with Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, with festivals and as part of a mindfulness retreat.
“Wow... Imogen, you are magic!! The support & prompts given to me have caused the words to just come spilling out - I have new appreciation and hope.”
She is currently a Lead Reader with Open Book, Youth Development Officer with Wigtown Book Festival, Associate Artist with Toonspeak, and can be found on the Scottish Book Trust’s Live Literature database.
“What an inspiring poetry workshop led by the talented Imogen Stirling. Radical new futures feel a real possibility with writers like this.”
“The children are finding the workshops a very positive experience. It’s like a confirmation that they have a voice and that someone is listening to it.”
To contact Imogen about facilitating a workshop or event: