Past Events & Workshops
The Darker Side of Twilight (Storytelling for Adults)
29 October 2011 (Sat)
7.45pm – 10.15pm
Basement Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Performances at 7.45-8.30 pm & 9.30-10.15 pm.
Join Kamini Ramachandran and Verena Tay of MoonShadow Stories as they give haunting storytelling performances of Asian horror stories at the ACM's Fright Night...
* Rating NC16 *
Unsuitable for children due to explicit horror content.
Parental discretion is strongly advised.
Soul Food: Food as Inspiration
A creative writing workshop by Verena Tay
Presented by BooksActually
Limited to 12 participants
10 January 2012 (Tue)
7.30pm – 9.30pm
BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street (Tiong Bahru)
Singaporeans love to eat. Whether you are a gourmand or a gourmet, the taste and smells of food excite each one of us. So why not use our chow to nourish our creative writing as well?
Drawing inspiration from our daily diet/favourite grub/disliked dishes, this workshop will help you generate new text that reveals what food means to us and that is infused with unexpected textures to grab the imagination of our readers.
Orgasm: The Art of Sensual Writing
A creative writing workshop by Verena Tay
Presented by BooksActually
Limited to 12 participants
14 January 2012 (Sat)
2.00pm – 6.00pm
BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street (Tiong Bahru)
Let us play with words. Let us wallow in vowels and luxuriate in consonants. Let us conjure the imagination…
Let us seduce our readers. Let us arouse their deepest desires and passion. Let us bring them to the heights of pleasure and make them beg for more…
Come one, come all… Enter into this realm and create new text that excites the senses…
Physical Action for Playwrights
A creative writing workshop by Verena Tay
Presented by The Arts House
Limited to 12 participants
28 January 2012 (Sat)
10.00am – 1.00pm
The Hall @ The Arts House
Playwrights, have you wondered how actors interpret the words you write? Conversely, are you writing such that actors can easily perform your words? Through this physical-based, hands-on workshop, theatre veteran Verena Tay shares two techniques that makes words come alive and that have informed her own writing—physical action (inspired by Laban) and actioning/transitive verb (inspired by Stanislavski).
Stagecraft for Playwrights
A creative writing workshop by Verena Tay
Presented by The Arts House
Limited to 12 participants
4, 11, 18,
February 2012
10.00am – 1.00pm
The Hall @ The Arts House
Calling up-and-coming playwrights with no/minimal experience in performance or stage production! This unique, hands-on workshop is geared just for you.
New playwrights often write without understanding how their script can be staged. This is because they may lack personal experience in directing and performing plays. In this workshop, participants provide at a short script (10 A4 pages max, 12 hard copies) that they have written. With the help of theatre veteran, Verena Tay, participants direct/act out each script and in the process learn stagecraft, workshop their script and get a better sense of how to craft a stageable play.
Natural Speech: The Art of Writing Dialogue
A creative writing workshop by Verena Tay
Presented by BooksActually
Limited to 12 participants
7, 14,
February 2012
7.30pm – 9.30pm
BooksActually, 9 Yong Siak Street (Tiong Bahru)
When writing stories or plays, writers are often stuck at how to show their characters interacting and speaking to each other in a way that the plot moves forward and the speech does not sound forced and artificial. In Natural Speech: The Art of Writing Dialogue, you will gain valuable, and practical, tips on how to craft naturalistic sounding dialogue that propels your story forward.