Our tailor-made Robert Louis Stevenson walking tour, took us through the closes and wynds of old Edinburgh and provided valuable background info on Stevenson's ambivalent attitude towards religion, his love of the city as a source of inspiration and the real live characters who imbued his work.
Prior to the performance of Regeneration students were lucky enough to have an audiences with the producer of the play who explained the whole rocks of "page to stage". The performance itself was well staged and engaged the packed house. The students were given and insight into the creative process of writing through the meeting of two WWI poets, the barbaric conditions under which soldiers had to fight and the treatment at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh which sought to "cure" soldiers' she'll-shock and return them to the front lines as soon as possible.
Thursday saw us heading iff to the People's Museum which focuses on the lives of ordinary Scots from the 17th century to the present day. The previous evening's theatre performance was linked into a poetry writing workshop led by renowned Jacqui Rowe. Students worked collaboatively to create initial drafts of poetry through the stimuli of objects and photos. The student response was energizing as we are hoping they will enter polished poems into a national War Poetry Competition - first prize being 500 pounds.
The evening found us in Ocean Terminal where we saw Guardians of the Galaxy much enjoyed by the students but only just "tolerated" by the teachers.
Prior to the performance of Regeneration students were lucky enough to have an audiences with the producer of the play who explained the whole rocks of "page to stage". The performance itself was well staged and engaged the packed house. The students were given and insight into the creative process of writing through the meeting of two WWI poets, the barbaric conditions under which soldiers had to fight and the treatment at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh which sought to "cure" soldiers' she'll-shock and return them to the front lines as soon as possible.
Thursday saw us heading iff to the People's Museum which focuses on the lives of ordinary Scots from the 17th century to the present day. The previous evening's theatre performance was linked into a poetry writing workshop led by renowned Jacqui Rowe. Students worked collaboatively to create initial drafts of poetry through the stimuli of objects and photos. The student response was energizing as we are hoping they will enter polished poems into a national War Poetry Competition - first prize being 500 pounds.
The evening found us in Ocean Terminal where we saw Guardians of the Galaxy much enjoyed by the students but only just "tolerated" by the teachers.
Tolerance. That much needed virtue Mr A and Ms L!
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