Voice skills: Reading and performing poetry
5 September 2008, Sydney

This intensive workshop is designed for poets who wish to improve their voice techniques in reading or performing poetry.

Presenter Jennifer Richards graduated from NIDA. She has taught voice and dialects at NIDA, VCA, Swinburne University, The Actor’s Space, the National Theatre Drama School and within the secondary school system. Theatre and film projects she has coached include Stella by Starlight, QED, McReele (Ensemble Theatre), Virus (Revolution Pictures), The Rover, The Bacchae (both NTDS) and Summer Shadows (NIDA). She also specialises in broadcast voice and was resident voice coach to the journalism department at RMIT in 2005-2006, as well as working with journalists in her private studio.

The workshop will enable you to:
• increase awareness of your own voice
• understand how body, breath, vocal sound and articulation interact to create an interesting voice and begin to use them effectively in reading your own work
• be able to make your work sound ‘alive’ in any context when being read or spoken
• present your poetry with confidence to any audience.

Please bring three examples for practice.

Date: Friday 5 September 2008, 9.30am-4.00pm
Venue: Level 1, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost: $82.50 ASA members, $172 non-members (includes 1-year ASA membership plus free seminar). Lunch and refreshments provided.

To register, download your registration form here.
 
Contact the ASA on 02 9318 0877, or email Kris Clarke for further details.

The ASA acknowledges the CAL Cultural Fund for its support of the ASA professional development program.