 |
 |
Dear all, Do you fancy sharpening your storytelling skills, picking up trail-writing tips and learning new ways to work with words? Our TextWorkshop training season continues with Trails TextWorkshop at the *Charles Dickens Museum *in London on Wednesday 12th November 2014. We also have TextWorkshop courses open for booking, starting on Tuesday 2nd December at *Battersea Arts Centre*. More details are below and on our website at *www.textworkshop.co.uk <http://www.textworkshop.co.uk>* and you can book from only £75. Previous delegates to our courses have said: *“Excellently delivered workshop, lots of fantastic advice, all presented in a fun and friendly way.”* *“Just what I needed.”* *“I will get more involved in writing interpretation now, as I feel much more confident.”* *“A brilliant day.”* *“It was spot on – exceeded my expectations.”* *“The real-world examples were really useful and funny to help make the point.”* *“It’s really useful to have inputs from editor and journalist – it was full of top tips.”* *“I thought every session was very useful. I’ll now have more conviction to follow through on the tone throughout a trail.”* *“Very clear and made the whole process of writing trails very coherent.”* Here are the details. On *Wednesday 12th November **at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, *Dea Birkett and I are running our very popular *Trails TextWorkshop. *The day is full of practical tips, examples and new ideas to take away. It includes the chance to look at what works and doesn’t work in a trail, experiment with diverse ways of writing trails and try out real-life trail text on-site. On *Tuesday 2nd December at Battersea Arts Centre*, Dea Birkett and I will be running our unique *TextWorkshop* course on writing great exhibition text. This course brings together expertise from the worlds of museums and journalism to give you a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of writing for panels and labels. In a day packed with tips, examples and exercises, you’ll feel challenged and motivated, and take away lots of new and practical ideas. This course runs again on18th February and 18th March 2015. These writing courses run from 10.30am to 4.30pm and cost from only £75. Find out more, and book online, at *www.textworkshop.co.uk <http://www.textworkshop.co.uk/>*. TextWorkshop is run by Rebecca Mileham, freelance interpretation consultant and author, and Dea Birkett, journalist, author and director of Kids in Museums. See what goes on at a TextWorkshop on the website at *www.textworkshop.co.uk <http://www.textworkshop.co.uk/>*, and do get in touch if you'd like to explore in-house training or consultancy. If you have any queries, just drop us a line, and we look forward to seeing you soon at a TextWorkshop! Rebecca and Dea. -- 01295 268328 | 07944 7244 26 -- rebecca.mileham.net www.textworkshop.co.uk -- my book projects: http://tinyurl.com/poweringupbook http://tinyurl.com/1001inventionsbook http://tinyurl.com/globalpollutionbook http://tinyurl.com/dashwoodschoolbook + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +